Nicholas Kirsch

Nicholas J. Kirsch is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in May 2003. Nicholas received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications in June 2006 and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering in June 2009 from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 2001 and 2002, Nicholas worked for W.L. Gore & Associates on fiber optic link modules and long-wavelength lasers. In graduate school, he worked with the Drexel Wireless Systems Laboratory and the Applied Communication and Information Networking group in Camden, NJ. His research interests include next generation communications systems, wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio, software defined radios, transparent antennas, and spectrum sensing technologies. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, University of New Hampshire, and Industry. Nicholas is currently the Vice President of Finance for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
Nicholas is a member of IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and AAAS.
Courses Taught
- ECE 603: Electromagnetic Fields&Waves I
- ECE 757: Fundmtls Communication Systems
- ECE 757/857: Fundmtls Communication Systems
- ECE 857: Fundmtls Communication Systems
- ECE 920: Wireless Communication Systems
- ECE 992: Adv Topics Electrical Engineer
- ECE 999: Doctoral Research
Selected Publications
Al-Badrawi, M. H., Liang, Y., Seger, K. D., Foster, C. M., & Kirsch, N. J. (2022). Caller ID for Risso's and Pacific White-sided dolphins. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-022-08184-2
Kandelusy, O. M., & Kirsch, N. J. (2021). Cognitive Buffer-Aided Mixed RF/FSO Backhauling Network With Switch-Based Rate Adaptation. IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, 25(8), 2644-2648. doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3082842
Kandelusy, O. M., & Kirsch, N. J. (2021). Cognitive Multi-User Multi-Relay Network: A Decentralized Scheduling Technique. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, 7(2), 609-623. doi:10.1109/TCCN.2020.3020299
Kandelusy, O. M., & Kirsch, N. J. (2020). Buffer-Aided Relaying With Direct Link Transmission and Spectrum Sharing. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, 6(2), 631-644. doi:10.1109/TCCN.2019.2956140
Smith, J. R., Al-Badrawi, M. H., & Kirsch, N. J. (2019). An Optimized De-Noising Scheme Based on the Null Hypothesis of Intrinsic Mode Functions. IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, 26(8), 1232-1236. doi:10.1109/LSP.2019.2925316
Escobar, E. R., Kirsch, N. J., Kontopidis, G., & Turner, B. (2015). 5.5 GHz optically transparent mesh wire microstrip patch antenna. ELECTRONICS LETTERS, 51(16), 1220-1221. doi:10.1049/el.2015.1594
Kirsch, N. J., Vacirca, N. A., Kurzweg, T. P., Fontecchio, A. K., Dandekar, K. R., & IEEE. (2010). Performance of Transparent Conductive Polymer Antennas in a MIMO Ad-hoc Network. In 2010 IEEE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS AND MOBILE COMPUTING, NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS (WIMOB) (pp. 9-14). doi:10.1109/WIMOB.2010.5644868
Kirsch, N. J., Vacirca, N. A., Plowman, E. E., Kurzweg, T. P., Fontecchio, A. K., Dandekar, K. R., & IEEE. (2009). Optically Transparent Conductive Polymer RFID Meandering Dipole Antenna. In IEEE RFID: 2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RFID (pp. 270-274). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Piazza, D., Kirsch, N. J., Forenza, A., Jr, H. R. W., & Dandekar, K. R. (2008). Design and evaluation of a reconfigurable antenna array for MIMO systems. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, 56(3), 869-881. doi:10.1109/TAP.2008.916908
Tansu, N., Kirsch, N. J., & Mawst, L. J. (2002). Low-threshold-current-density 1300-nm dilute-nitride quantum well lasers. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 81(14), 2523-2525. doi:10.1063/1.1511290
Most Cited Publications