Clayton Blosser earned his bachelor's (2020) and master's (2022) degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Oklahoma-Norman, where he is an EE PhD candidate expected to graduate in August 2025. His dissertation topic is non-linear time-invariant (LTI) assumptions on designing electromagnetic structures. Supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's EQuAL-P program, he is investigating a new class of antenna and circumventing fundamental limits on the performance of electrically small antennas. This limit has been the millstone around the neck of communications and sensing systems since World War II, and Blosser has successfully designed parametrically amplified antennas/receivers for the program, which his advisor describes as “a simply amazing feat.” He has secured a postdoctoral National Research Council Research Associateship at the Air Force Research Laboratory, where he will continue his study of non-LTI structures and efficient methods to design them. As a Native American, he is concerned about the lack of affordable cellular and internet services in lower socio-economic regions and rural areas like reservations and farming communities — limiting work and education possibilities and even the ability to contact emergency services. He aims to advance radiofrequency communication technology to alleviate these issues. He is a proponent of kinesthetic learning, and as a future professor, he believes that flipping classrooms is smart use of modern technology to reach the most students possible while also addressing the increased usage of large language models and homework help sites.

Research Interests

Applied electromagnetics for RF/microwave applications