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Mario Phaneuf
PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Contact information

2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario L1G 0C5
Office: ERC 3064

905.721.8668 ext. 3086
905.721.3370 (fax)

MarioLucien.Phaneuf@ontariotechu.ca

Research topics

  • Applied Electromagnetics
  • Metasurfaces
  • Reconfigurable Metasurfaces
  • Antennas
  • Optimization
  • Computational Electromagnetics

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, 2026
MSc, Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, 2020
BSc, Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, 2017

Research and expertise

Publications and presentations

  • Selected publications and presentations
    J1. M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Reconciling the Apparent Contradiction of Strongly Dispersive Magneto-Electric Coupling," TechRxiv, 2025.
    J2. C. Niu, M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Experimental Evaluation of a Deep Learning Approach to Transmissive Metasurface Design for Mask-Based Power Pattern Synthesis," in IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, vol. 10, pp. 370-378, 2025.
    J3. M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Classification and Analysis of IE-Based Zero-Thickness Metasurface Forward Solvers," in IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 1750-1762, Dec. 2025.
    J4. M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Mapping Local Cascaded Metasurface Pairs to Single Non-Local Metasurfaces," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 354-358, Feb. 2025.
    J5. M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Inverse Equivalent-Source Techniques for Lossless and Passive Metasurfaces with Non-Canonical Shapes and Geometries," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 2160-2164, July 2024.
    J6. C. Niu, M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Transmissive Metasurface Synthesis from Far-Field Masks Using Unsupervised Learning," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 2371-2375, Aug. 2024.
    J7. C. Niu, M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "A Diffusion Model for Multi-Layered Metasurface Unit Cell Synthesis," in IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 4, pp. 654-666, 2023.
    J8. C. Niu, M. Phaneuf, T. Qiu and P. Mojabi, "A Deep Learning-Based Approach to Design Metasurfaces From Desired Far-Field Specifications," in IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 4, pp. 641-653, 2023.
    J9. T. Qiu, M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Inverse Metasurface Design from 3D Desired Power Patterns on Two Cuts," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1838-1842, Aug. 2023.
    J10. M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "On the Use of Reconfigurable Space-Time Metasurface Enclosures for Microwave Imaging," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 2196-2200, Nov. 2022.
    J11. M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "On the Formulation and Implementation of the Love’s Constraint for the Source Reconstruction Method," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 3613-3627, May 2022.
    C1. (URSI Young Scientist Award) M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "Macroscopic Design of Power-Efficient Non-Local Metasurfaces for Analog Computations," 2026 XXXVIth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), Krakow, Poland, 2026, pp.1-4.
    C2. M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "The Three-Dimensional Implicit IE-GSTC Metasurface Forward Solver," 20th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Dublin, Ireland, 2026, pp.1-5.
    C3. (URSI Young Scientist Award) M. Phaneuf, M. Kelly and P. Mojabi, "Experimental Evaluation of Forward and Inverse Solvers for Metasurface Design," 2023 XXXVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), Sapporo, Japan, 2023, pp.1-4.
    C4. (URSI Young Scientist Award) M. Phaneuf and P. Mojabi, "An Implicit IE-GSTC Metasurface Forward Solver," 2023 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS), Vancouver, Canada, 2023, pp. 287-290.