- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
- O'Donnell Foundation Chair II
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Joint Faculty in: Materials Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-6556
- Email: katehi@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 205C
- Website: Personal Webpage
- Linkedin: LinkedIn Profile
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, The University of California, Los Angeles – 1984
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, The University of California, Los Angeles – 1981
- B.S., Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens – 1977
Research Interests
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- Development and characterization (theoretical and experimental) of microwave, millimeter printed circuits
- Computer-aided design of VLSI interconnects
- Development and characterization of micro-machined circuits for microwave, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave applications including MEMS switches, high-Q evanescent mode filters and MEMS devices for circuit re-configurability
- Development of low-loss lines for sub-millimeter-wave and terahertz frequency applications
- Theoretical and experimental study of uniplanar circuits for hybrid-monolithic and monolithic oscillator, amplifier and mixer applications
- Theoretical and experimental characterization of photonic band-gap materials
Awards & Honors
- The National Academy of Engineering Ramo Simon Founder’s Award, October 2015
- Honorary Degree, The American College of Greece, June 2014
- Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Feb. 2013
- California STEM Learning Network (CSLNet), Leading Women in STEM Award, Oct. 2012
- Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
- Greek America’s Best and Brightest Stars (GABBY) Education and Academia Award, June 2011
- Rudy E. Henning Distinguished Mentoring Award, IEEE, April 2011
Selected Publications
- Micromachined devices for wireless communications CTC Nguyen, LPB Katehi, GM Rebeiz - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1998
- MRTD: New time-domain schemes based on multiresolution analysis M Krumpholz, LPB Katehi - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 1996
- Design of reconfigurable slot antennas D Peroulis, K Sarabandi, LPB Katehi - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2005
- Electromechanical considerations in developing low-voltage RF MEMS switches D Peroulis, SP Pacheco, K Sarabandi, LPB Katehi - IEEE Transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 2003
- Micromachined patch antennas I Papapolymerou, RF Drayton, LPB Katehi - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 1998
- Design of low actuation voltage RF MEMS switch SP Pacheco, LPB Katehi, CTC Nguyen - 2000 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 2000
- High performance microshield line components TM Weller, LPB Katehi, GM Rebeiz - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 1995
- Micromechanical electrostatic K-band switches S Pacheco, CT Nguyen, LPB Katehi - 1998 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 1998
- Tunable lumped components with applications to reconfigurable MEMS filters D Peroulis, S Pacheco, K Sarabandi, LPB Katehi - 2001 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 2001
- High- Q Tunable Microwave Cavity Resonators and Filters Using SOI-Based RF MEMS Tuners X Liu, LPB Katehi, WJ Chappell, D Peroulis - Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2010
- A micromachined high-Q X-band resonator J Papapolymerou, JC Cheng, J East, LPB Katehi - IEEE Microwave and guided wave letters, 1997
- CPW-fed active slot antennas BK Kormanyos, W Harokopus, LPB Katehi, GM Rebeiz - IEEE transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 1994