Dr. Avram Bar-Cohen is an internationally recognized leader in thermal management of microelectronics, the IEEE Electronic Packaging Society President for 2018-2019, and Life Fellow of IEEE, as well as Honorary Member of ASME. He currently serves as a Principal Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Corporation – Space and Airborne Systems, focusing on directed energy systems, hypersonic vehicles, diamond substrates, and advanced heterogeneous integration. He is a past recipient of the IEEE Electronic Packaging Field Award (2014) and the Luikov Medal from the International Heat and Mass Center in Turkey (2008). He edits the WSPC’s book series on Emerging Technologies and is the Editor-in-Chief for the WSPC Encyclopedia of Thermal Packaging. 

Richard D. Gitlin is a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar, Distinguished University Professor, and the Agere Systems Chaired Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He has 50 years of leadership in the communications industry and in academia and he has a record of significant research contributions that have been sustained and prolific over several decades.

Dr. Gitlin is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of the IEEE, a Bell Laboratories Fellow, a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a member of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (2017). He is also a co-recipient of the 2005 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award and the IEEE S.O. Rice prize (1995), co-authored a communications text, published more than 170 papers, including 3 prize-winning papers, and holds 65 patents.

After receiving his doctorate at Columbia University in 1969, he joined Bell Laboratories, where he worked for 32-years performing and leading pioneering research and development in digital communications, broadband networking, and wireless systems including: co-invention of DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), multicode CDMA (3/4G wireless), and pioneering the use of smart antennas (“MIMO”) for wireless systems At his retirement, Dr. Gitlin was Senior VP for Communications and Networking Research at Bell Labs, a multi-national research organization with over 500 professionals. After retiring from Lucent, he was visiting professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, and later he was Chief Technology Officer of Hammerhead Systems, a venture funded networking company in Silicon Valley. He joined USF in 2008 where his research is on wireless cyberphysical systems that advance minimally invasive surgery and cardiology and on addressing fundamental technical challenges in 5G/6G wireless systems.

Yoram Palti, MD, PhD, is a professor emeritus of Physiology & Biophysics & Biomedical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Palti holds an M.Sc. and MD degrees from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Palti served as Assoc. Prof. of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, 1969 – 1971, Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1976 – 2005, and Director, Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Technion, 1982 – 1993.

In 2000 Palti founded Novocure Ltd, served as its director till 2018 and is serving as its Chief Technology Officer since the company was founded. Within this framework Palti is the inventor and developer of the novel cancer treatment modality - Tumor Treating Fields, TTFields. In 2011 the FDA approved TTFields as treatment for Recurrent brain Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). In Oct 2015 the FDA approved TTFields as treatment for Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma and in July 2019, for lung Mesothelioma. Currently Novocure is carrying out advanced clinical trials brain metastases, non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and liver cancer.

Palti is the author of numerous scientific papers and issued patents in the medical as well as other fields that served as a basis for unique start-ups.

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU-Tandon) and is a professor of computer science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is also a professor of radiology at the NYU School of Medicine.

Rappaport is the founding director of NYU WIRELESS, the world's first academic research center to combine engineering, computer science, and medicine. Earlier, he founded two of the world's largest academic wireless research centers: The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, and the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), now known as Wireless@ at Virginia Tech, in 1990.

Rappaport is a pioneer in radio wave propagation for cellular and personal communications, wireless communication system design, and broadband wireless communications circuits and systems at millimeter wave frequencies. His research has influenced many international wireless-standards bodies, and he and his students invented the technology of site-specific radio frequency (RF) channel modeling and design for wireless network deployment - a technology now used routinely throughout wireless communications.

Rappaport has served on the Technological Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission, assisted the governor and CIO of Virginia in formulating rural broadband initiatives for Internet access, and conducted research for NSF, Department of Defense, and dozens of global telecommunications companies. He has over 100 U.S. or international patents issued or pending and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited 18 books, including the world's best-selling books on wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, and smart antennas.

In 1989, he founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS software radio manufacturer that he sold in 1993 to Allen Telecom which later became CommScope, Inc. (taken private in 2011 by Carlyle Group and now owned by Keysight). In 1995, he founded Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., a pioneering creator of site-specific radio propagation software for wireless network design and management that he sold in 2005 to Motorola.

Rappaport received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and is a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of his alma mater.

Dr. Rappaport can be reached by contacting NYU WIRELESS Administrator Pat Donohue at pat.donohue@nyu.edu, or his assistant Leslie Cerve at cerve@cs.nyu.edu.

Gerhard P. Fettweis coordinates the 5G Lab Germany, and 2 German Science Foundation (DFG) centers at TU Dresden, namely cfaed and HAEC. In Dresden, his team has spun out 16 start-ups, and set up funded projects in volume of close to 500 million euros.

Fettweis is an IEEE Fellow, member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (acatech), and received multiple IEEE recognitions as well has the VDE ring of honor. He is also co-chair of the IEEE 5G Initiative, and has helped organize IEEE conferences, most notably as TPC Chair of ICC 2009 and TTM 2012. And, he was General Chair of VTC Spring 2013 and DATE 2014.

Fettweis earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr's supervision from RWTH Aachen in 1990. After one year at IBM Research in San Jose, CA, he moved to TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA. Since 1994, Fettweis has been Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany, with 20 companies from Asia/Europe/US sponsoring his research on wireless transmission and chip design.

Massimo Claudio Comparini,  Thales Alenia Space Deputy CEO and Senior Executive VP Observation, Exploration and Navigation, CEO of TAS Italy.

Massimo holds a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering, Remote Sensing and Radar Systems, University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), and a Degree in Strategy from Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, CA (USA). He started his career in 1983 at Selenia Spazio (later Alenia Spazio), holding various management positions, up to the role of Chief Technology Officer. In 2013 he was appointed Chief Technical Officer of Telespazio. In 2016 he became the CEO of e-Geos, a JV company between Italian Space Agency and Telespazio, established international leader in the Earth Observation and Geo-Spatial Information and Director Line of Business Geo Information at Telespazio. He was Chairman of the Board of GAF (Germany) and EarthLab Luxembourg still in the geo spatial business domain.

In his long career in space he holds a number of academic chairs in technical, economics and innovation management disciplines. Member of various academic and scientific boards. He has been honored by the President of Italian Republic of the star at the merit of labor and Commander to the honor of Italian Republic.

Yael Hanein is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, VP of scientific affairs at Nano Retina and CTO and founder at X-trodes.  

She received a B.Sc. degree in physics from Tel Aviv University, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2003, she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the electrical engineering department and a research associate position in the Physics Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She then joined the faculty of Tel Aviv University.     

Her research field is neuro-engineering, focusing on developing wearable electronics and bionic vision. 

Dr Mark E Davis has over 50 years’ experience in Radar technology and systems development. He has held senior management positions in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory, and General Electric Aerospace.

Dr Davis is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. And, he has held positions as IEEE Aerospace Electronics Systems Society President Elect and  member of the AESS Board of Governors. He is the recipient of the 2011 AESS Warren D White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering, and the 2018 IEEE Dennis J. Pickard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications

Goutam Chattopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, a Visiting Professor at the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, a BEL Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2000. He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA) and IETE (India) and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturerץ

His research interests include microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz receiver systems and radars, and development of space instruments for the search for life beyond Earth.

He has more than 350 publications in international journals and conferences and holds more than twenty patents. He also received more than 35 NASA technical achievement and new technology invention awards. He received the IEEE Region-6 Engineer of the Year Award in 2018, Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), India in 2017. He was the recipient of the best journal paper award in 2020 and 2013 by IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, best paper award for antenna design and applications at the European Antennas and Propagation conference (EuCAP) in 2017, and IETE Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award in 2014.

As the Director Radar Technologies at Staal Group B.V. in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Natalia Antonyuk (Hoog) is responsible for all aspects of technology and engineering for the radar sensors including design and implementation as well as evaluation and modeling complex systems like microwave sensing engineering, ASIC packaging, radar MMICs, antenna – based sensors which involves characterization of the microwave dielectric constant (permittivity) of natural media and associated linkages to microwave sensing signatures.

With a Ph.D. degree in RF sensing technology from the University of Twente she has (co-) authored scholarly articles, conference papers, and 7 patents. In 2013 her research work at Wetsus - European center of excellence for sustainable water technology was awarded the Marcel Mulder prize.

Constantine A. Balanis (S'62 - M'68 - SM'74 - F'86 – LF'04) received the BSEE degree from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, in 1964, the MEE degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 1966, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, in l969. From 1964-1970 he was with NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA, and from 1970-1983 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.  Since 1983 he has been with the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, where he is Regents' Professor.  His research interests are in computational electromagnetics, metasurfaces, RCS reduction, low-profile and leaky-wave antennas.  He received in 2004 an Honorary Doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the 2017 IEEE Rudolf Henning Distinguished Mentoring Award, the 2014 James R. James, Lifetime Achievement Award, LAPC, Loughborough, UK, the 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, the 2012 Distinguished Achievement Alumnus Award (College of Engineering, The Ohio State University), the 2005 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, the 2000 IEEE Millennium Award, the 1996 Graduate Mentor Award of Arizona State University, the 1992 Special Professionalism Award of the IEEE Phoenix Section, the 1989 Individual Achievement Award of the IEEE Region 6, and the 1987-1988 Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, School of Engineering, Arizona State University.

            Dr. Balanis is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.  He has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (1974-1977) and the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1981-1984); as Editor of the Newsletter for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (1982-1983); as Second Vice-President (1984) and member of the Administrative Committee (1984-85) of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society; and Distinguished Lecturer (2003-2005), Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program (1988-1991), member of the AdCom (1992-95, 1997-1999) and Chair of the Awards and Fellows Committee (2009-2011) all of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.  He is the author of Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design (Wiley, 2005, 1997, 1982), Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics (Wiley, 2012, 1989) and Introduction to Smart Antennas (Morgan and Claypool, 2007), and editor of Modern Antenna Handbook (Wiley, 2008) and for the Morgan & Claypool Publishers,  series on Antennas and Propagation series, and series on Computational Electromagnetics.

Matteo Bassi was born in Padova, Italy, in 1985. He received the B.S., M.S. (Summa cum Laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2007, 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2008 and 2009 he won a full scholarship and was an EAP student at the University of California, San Diego. During his Ph.D., he co-developed and realized the first CMOS integrated high-resolution radar transceiver front-end for breast cancer detection. Thanks to this work, he was recipient of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications 2012.

In 2012 he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Analog Integrated Circuits Laboratory, University of Pavia, Italy, where he worked on power amplifiers in sub-nanometer technologies and high-speed mm-wave communication systems. In 2013 he joined the same group as a Post-Doc, and in December 2013 he became Assistant Professor at the same university. His main research interests were in the field of RF/mm-waves integrated circuits and high-speed serial interfaces for multi-level signaling.

In 2017, he joined Infineon Technologies AG, Villach, Austria, where he is now leading a team focused on the development of high-performance RF and mm-wave IPs.

Dr. Bassi holds more than 40 IEEE publications, and since 2018 he is serving as a member of the Technical Program Committee of ISSCC, wireless sub-committee.

Andrea Bevilacqua (S'02, M'04, SM'14)  received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from  the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, in 2000, and 2004,  respectively. From 2005 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the  Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, where he  is now an Associate Professor. His  current research interests include the design of analog and RF/microwave integrated circuits and the analysis of wireless communication systems, radars, and dcdc converters. He is author or coauthor of more than 90 technical  papers, and he holds 5 patents. 

Dr. Bevilacqua is a member of the ITPC of IEEE ISSCC. He has been  serving in the TPC of IEEE ESSCIRC since 2007, and was TPC Co-Chair of  IEEE ESSCIRC 2014. He was a member of the TPC of IEEE ICUWB from 2008  to 2010. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of  Circuits and Systems II from 2011 to 2013 and was nominated Best Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems II for 2012 to 2013. He served as a Guest Editor for the special issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits dedicated to ESSCIRC 2017.  

Rick S. Blum received a B.S.E.E from Penn State in 1984 and an M.S./Ph.D in EE from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987/1991. From 1984 to 1991 he was with GE Aerospace. Since 1991, he has been at Lehigh University. His research interests include signal processing/machine learning for cyber security, smart grid, communications, radar and sensor fusion / processing / networking.  Dr. Blum is a Fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Third Millennium Medal winner, an ONR Young Investigator, AE for many journals/special issues, a member of Eta Kappa Nu/Sigma Xi, and holds several patents.

In March 2010 Professor Prof. Wolfgang Bösch has joined Graz University of Technology in Austria to establish a new Institute for Microwave and Photonic Engineering. Today the Institute holds five research groups with a scientific staff of 35 and a turnover of €1.2m per year. Prior he has been the CTO of the Advanced Digital Institute in the UK, a not for profit organisation to promote research activities. Earlier he served as the Director of Business and Technology Integration for RFMD UK and for almost 10 years he has been with Filtronic plc as CTO of Filtronic Integrated Products and the Director of the Global Technology Group. Before joining Filtronic, he has held positions at the European Space Agency (ESA) working on amplifier linearization techniques, MPRTeltech in Canada working on MMIC technology projects and the Corporate R&D group of M/A-COM in Boston, USA where he worked on advanced topologies for high efficiency power amplifiers. For four years he was with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (now Airbus) in Germany working on T/R Modules for airborne radar.  Professor Bösch received his engineering degrees from the Technical University of Vienna and Graz in Austria. He finalised his MBA with distinction at Bradford University School of Management in 2004. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IET. He published more than 100 papers and holds 4 patents. He was a Non-Executive Director of Diamond Microwave Devices (DMD) and the Advanced Digital Institute (ADI). He is a Non-Executive Director of VIPER-RF company in the UK and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering at Graz University of Technology incorporating fifteen Institutes.

Charles F. Campbell received B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in 1988, 1991 and 1993 respectively. From 1993 to 1998 he was with Texas Instruments involved with microwave module design and MMIC development. Since 1998 he has been with various divisions of TriQuint Semiconductor where he has held positions of Design Team leader, Design Engineering Director and Design Engineering Fellow. He is currently an Engineering Senior Fellow with the Infrastructure and Defense Products Division of Qorvo. A Fellow of the IEEE, he was general chair for the 2015 Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium, has served on the Editorial Board for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, the IMS TPRC and was a 2016-2018 IEEE Distinguished Microwave lecturer. He has authored or co-authored over 60 journal and conference papers, and authored an on-line book chapter on MMIC power amplifier design.

Dr. Larry Dunleavy is a Professor within USF’s Department of Electrical Engineering, where has been since 1990. In 2001, he co-founded Modelithics, Inc. in 2001, to provide improved modeling solutions and high-quality microwave measurement services for RF and microwave designers. Prior to this, he worked for Hughes Aircraft and E-Systems companies. Dr. Dunleavy received the B.S.E.E. degree from Michigan Technological University in 1982 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in 1984 and 1988, respectively, from the University of Michigan.  He was a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow. Dr. Dunleavy is a Senior Member of IEEE, and is active in the IEEE MTT Society and the Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG). Drs. Dunleavy also served as the General Chair and Co-chair of the 2014 IEEE MTT-S IMS held in Tampa Florida.

Yonina Eldar is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rechovot, Israel. She was previously a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where she held the Edwards Chair in Engineering. She is also a Visiting Professor at MIT, a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Duke University and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford. She received the B.Sc. degree in physics and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering both from Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1995 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2002. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an IEEE Fellow and a EURASIP Fellow. She has received many awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2013), the IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award (2014) and the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2016). She was a Horev Fellow of the Leaders in Science and Technology program at the Technion and an Alon Fellow. She received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, the Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research (twice), the Hershel Rich Innovation Award (three times), the Award for Women with Distinguished Contributions, the Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship, the Career Development Chair at the Technion, the Muriel & David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Technion’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (two times). She received several best paper awards and best demo awards together with her research students and colleagues, was selected as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel, and was a member of the Israel Committee for Higher Education. She is the Editor in Chief of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing and a member of several IEEE Technical Committees and Award Committees.

Prof. Frank Ellinger graduated at the University of Ulm. From ETH Zürich he received an MBA, PhD and habilitation degree. He heads the Chair for Circuit Design and Network Theory at Technische Universität Dresden since 2006. He coordinated e.g. the BMBF cluster project FAST with more than 90 partners, the DFG Priority Program FFlexCom and the EU projects DIMENSION, ADDAPT, FLEXIBILITY. Frank Ellinger has been with the IBM/ETHZ Competence Center for Advanced Silicon Electronics hosted at IBM Research in Rüschlikon. Frank Ellinger published more than 450 scientific papers, has received several awards such as the Vodafone Innovation Award, the Alcatel Lucent Science Award and an IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award, and was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Markus Gardill (S'11-M'15) was born in Bamberg, Germany in 1985.
He received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in systems of information and multimedia technology/electrical engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 2010 and 2015, respectively.

In 2010, he joined the Institute for Electronics Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg as a research assistant and teaching fellow.
From 2014 to 2015 he was head of the team Radio Communication Technology.
In late 2015 he joined the Robert Bosch GmbH as an R&D engineer for optical and imaging metrology systems and leading the cluster of non-destructive testing for the international production network.
In 2016 he joined the automotive radar business segment of InnoSenT GmbH, where he is currently head of the team radar signal processing & tracking.

He is member serves as Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML) of the MTT Society for the DML term 2018-2020 with a presentation focussing automotive radar systems.

Roberto D. Graglia is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His areas of interest comprise numerical methods for high- and low-frequency electromagnetics, theoretical and computational aspects of scattering and interactions with complex media, waveguides, antennas, electromagnetic compatibility, and low-frequency phenomena. He has organized and offered several short courses in these areas. He is a co-author of the 2016 text ``Higher-order Techniques in Computational Electromagnetics.’’

Dr. Graglia has been a Member of the editorial board of ELECTROMAGNETICS since 1997. He is a past associate editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY, and of the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS. He was the Guest Editor of a special issue on Advanced Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in March 1997. He has been Invited Convener at URSI General Assemblies for special sessions on Field and Waves (1996), Electromagnetic Metrology (1999), and Computational Electromagnetics (1999). He served the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) for the triennial International Symposia on Electromagnetic Theory as organizer of the Special Session on Electromagnetic Compatibility in 1998 and was the co-organizer of the special session on Numerical Methods in 2004. Since 1999, he has been the General Chairperson of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), and, since 2011, he has been the General Chairperson of the IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in  Wireless Communications (IEEE-APWC).

Prof. Graglia was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998 for his contributions in the application of numerical techniques in the studies of electromagnetic structures, and has been an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2012). He was the 2015 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Erich N. Grossman (M ’88, SM ’06) received the A.B. degree in physics from Harvard College in 1980, and the Ph.D., also in physics, from the California Institute of Technology in 1987. His thesis work involved development of an ultra-low noise, heterodyne receiver for 2 THz astronomy. From 1988 to 1989, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, and in 1989, he joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, where he is now a physicist in the Physical Measurement Laboratory . His work at NIST focuses on infrared and submillimeter system development. Notable accomplishments include the development and demonstration of the world's highest frequency, high efficiency lithographic antennas, the world's highest frequency Josephson junctions, (awarded a Dept. of Commerce Gold Medal in 1993), and conception and early development of the SQUID multiplexer, first enabling large monolithic arrays of superconducting detectors.

More recently, he has developed several 0.1-1 THz cameras for security applications. In2010, he received the Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award.

Amelie Hagelauer received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in mechatronics and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 2007 and 2013, respectively. She joined the Institute for Electronics Engineering in November 2007, where she was working on thin film BAW filters towards her PhD. Since 2013 she is focusing on SAW/BAW and RF MEMS components, as well as integrated circuits for frontends up to 180 GHz. Dr. Hagelauer has been the Chair of MTT-2 Microwave Acoustics since 2015. Since 2016 she is leading a Research Group on Electronic Circuits. She is continuously contributing to the development of RF Acoustics community by organizing workshops and student design competitions. She has been acting as a Guest Editor for a special issue of the IEEE MTT Transactions on the topic “RF Frontends for Mobile Radio” as well as for a special issue in the MDPI Journal Sensors on the topic “Surface Acoustic Wave and Bulk Acoustic Wave Sensors”.

Yejun He is a full professor with the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, China, where he is the Director of Guangdong Engineering Research Center of Base Station Antennas and Propagation, and the Director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Antennas and Propagation, Shenzhen. Prof. He received the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2005. He is a Fellow of IET, and a Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society-Shenzhen Chapter. He has authored or coauthored more than 140 research papers and books (chapters) and holds 20 patents. His research interests include wireless mobile communication, antennas and radio frequency.

Sherry Hess has 15+ years of electronic design automation (EDA) software experience in the RF/microwave industry. Prior employers included Inte, Ansoft (now Ansys), and AWR Corporation (now National Instruments).

In addition to her current VP responsibilities, Sherry holds key roles within the IEEE MTT-S organization, serving as an AdCom officer and vice-chair of Women in Microwaves (WIM).  Her IEEE activities have evolved into becoming an international voice for WIM. She participates regularly on panels worldwide, organizes and promotes various networking events, and contributes guest editorials and blogs advocating for WIM.

Sherry holds both a BSEE and an MBA from CMU in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Vadim Issakov received the M.Sc. degree in microwave engineering from TU Munich in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 2010. In March 2010, he joined Infineon, Neubiberg, Germany. He worked with IMEC and Intel Corporation, before he came back to Infineon in August 2015 as the mm-wave Design Lead and the Principal Engineer leading a research group working on pre-development of mm-wave radar and communication products. From September 2019 to March 2021 he was with the University of Magdeburg, Germany, holding the Chair of electronics. Since April 2021 he joined Braunschweig University of Technology, as Full Professor, Head of Institute for CMOS Design.

He has authored or coauthored more than 90 articles in international journals and conference proceedings, 11 patents, and has published a book on mm-wave circuits for radar applications. His work has been recognized by the IEEE MTT Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2019.

Yogendra Joshi is Professor and John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair at the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  His research interests are in multi-scale thermal management.  He is the author or co-author of nearly four hundred publications in this area, including nearly two hundred journal articles. He received his B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) in 1979, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.  He has served as the Principal Investigator for multiple Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programs, and Office of Naval Research Consortium for Resource-Secure Outposts (CORSO).  He has held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Xi'an Jiaotong University.  He is an elected Fellow of the ASME, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and IEEE. He was a co-recipient of ASME Curriculum Innovation Award (1999), Inventor Recognition Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (2001), the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division Outstanding Contribution Award in Thermal Management (2006), ASME J. of Electronics Packaging Best Paper of the Year Award (2008), IBM Faculty Award (2008), IEEE SemiTherm Significant Contributor Award (2009), IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award (2011), ASME InterPack Achievement Award (2011), ITherm Achievement Award (2012), ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2013), and AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award (2018).

Ingmar Kallfass received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Stuttgart in 2000, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from University of Ulm in 2005. In 2001, he worked as a visiting researcher at the National University of Ireland, Dublin. In 2002, he joined the department of Electron Devices and Circuits of University of Ulm as a teaching and research assistant. In 2005, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics. From 2009 to 2012, he was a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Since 2013, he holds the chair for Robust Power Semiconductor Systems at the University of Stuttgart, where his major fields of research are compound semiconductor based circuits and systems for power and microwave electronics.

Dr. Allen Katz is a professor of Electrical/Computer Engineering at The College of New Jersey.  He is the founder and President of Linearizer Technology, Inc, which now includes Linear Photonics, LLC and Linear Space Technology, LLC.  He received his doctorate and baccalaureate degrees in electrical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a masters degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University.  Prof. Katz holds 17 patents and has written more than 100 technical publications.  He received the IEEE’s Microwave Society’s (MTT-S) Application Award in 2015 for his work in linearization, the IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award in 2010 and the William Randolph Lovelace II Award for outstanding contributions to space science and technology from the American Astronautical Society in 2002.  He has also served as a MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer.  Dr. Katz is a Fellow of the IEEE and has served the MTT-S in numerous capacities. He is chair of the joint AP/ED/MTT chapter in the IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section and was the Technical Program Committee co-chair for the IMS2018 in Philadelphia.

5.02.1952
Born in Parsberg / Oberpfalz, Bavaria

1971-1978
Studied physics at the Technical University of Munich

1978
Received diploma degree in physics from the Technical University of Munich

1978-1984
Scientific assistant at the Technical University of Munich

1984
Received Dr. rer. nat. degree from the Technical University of Munich

Joint Siemens Semiconductors (which became Infineon Technologies AG in 1999)

1984-1989
Development engineer for high frequency- and analog / mixed signal bipolar processes at Infineon

1990-1996
Head of bipolar- und bicmos-technology development

1997-2003
Department head for technology development within the Wireless Communications division

2004-2017
Responsible for automotive radar technology development

Overall project leader of large national and international funding projects (KOKON, ROCC, DOT5, DOT7,…)

2005-2017
Senior Principal „RF Technology“

Since 9/2017
Retired; Consultant for “Semiconductors and Sensors for Safe Driving”

Radek Lapkiewicz received his M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Warsaw and Ph. D. degree from the University of Vienna in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

Since 2015 he is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, where he heads the Quantum Optics Lab (http://quantumoptics.fuw.edu.pl)  at the Faculty of Physics. He works on applications of quantum optical effects to imaging.

His current research interests include spatially resolved photon counting techniques and their applications to quantum imaging, in particular, quantitative phase imaging and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

Iñigo Liberal received the Engineer's (2009), M.Sc. (2010) and Ph. D. (2013), magna cum laude, degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Spain. He was a visiting student at Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands), and a visiting researcher at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland), the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA) and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA).

He currently is a “Jovenes Investigadores” fellow the Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Spain. His current research interests include quantum optics, nanophotonics, metamaterials and antenna theory. He was the recipient of the best photonics paper award in Metamaterials’2018 in Espoo, Finland, the best theory paper award in Metamaterials’2017 in Marseille, France, and a Young Scientist Award in EMTS’2016.

Andrea Massa (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Electromagnetic Academy Fellow) he has been a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields @ University of Trento since 2005. 

At present, Prof. Massa is the director of the network of federated laboratories "ELEDIA Research Center" located in Brunei, China, Czech, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Perש, Tunisia with more than 150 researchers. Moreover, he is Professor @ CentraleSupיlec (Paris - France), Guest Professor @ UESCT (Chengdu - China), and Visiting Professor @ Tsinghua (Beijing - China). 

He has been holder of a Senior DIGITEO Chair @ L2S-CentraleSupיlec and CEA LIST in Saclay (France), UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Madrid - Spain), Adjunct Professor @ Penn State University (USA), Visiting Professor @ Missouri University of Science and Technology (USA), the Nagasaki University (Japan), the University of Paris Sud (France), the Kumamoto University (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). 
Prof. Massa is member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications” and of the European School of Antennas (ESoA). It has been appointed IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2018) and served as Associate Editor of the "IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation" (2011-2014). 

His research activities are mainly concerned with inverse problems, antenna analysis/synthesis, radar systems and signal processing, cross-layer optimization and planning of wireless/RF systems, system-by-design and material-by-design (metamaterials and reconfigurable-materials), and theory/applications of optimization techniques to engineering problems (coms, medicine, and biology).

Prof. Massa published more than 350 scientific publications on international journals and more than 500 in international conferences (>200 invited). He has organized more than 100 scientific sessions in international conferences and has participated to several technological projects in the EU framework (>20 EU Projects), at the national and local level with national agencies (>300 Projects/Grants).

Kumar Vijay Mishra received his B.Tech. degree, summa cum laude (Gold medal, honors), in electronics and communications engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India, in 2003, his M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering and M.S. degree in mathematics from The University of Iowa, Iowa City, in 2015 while working on NASA Global Precipitation Mission Ground Validation program weather radars. He has been a research scientist at eLectronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India (2003-2007); visiting researcher at The University of Iowa (2015-2019); and postdoctoral fellow at Technion, Israel (2015-2017). He is the recipient of Royal Meteorological Society Quarterly Journal Editor’s Prize (2017), the Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015 and 2016), the Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016), and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Lab Scientist of the Year Award (2006). Currently, he is the technical advisor to the automotive radar start-up Hertzwell, Singapore; an honorary research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust, University of Luxembourg; and the Harry Diamond Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, supported by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. His research interests include radar theory and hardware design, remote sensing, signal processing, deep learning, and electromagnetics. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dmitri Mogilevtsev obtained his Ph.D. (1995) and Dr. Sci. (2008) in quantum optics from Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (IPNASB). Since 2017, he is deputy head of the Center of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of IPNASB, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. His current research interests include quantum tomography and imaging, nanophotonics, and quantum optics.

Ivan Ndip has been with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, IZM, Berlin since 2000. He leads the Department of RF & Smart Sensor Systems at IZM, where he directs R&D activities in five research groups, and manages the department. Ivan and his team currently work on the development of reconfigurable 5G mmWave systems, RF & high-speed modules, high resolution radar sensors as well as on ultra-low power wireless sensor nodes. Ivan studied Electrical Engineering at TU Berlin. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree, and the Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) with the highest distinction (summa cum laude), in Electrical Engineering from TU Berlin in 2002 and 2006, respectively. In 2017, he completed the Habilitation, and received the Dr.-Ing. habil. degree (a higher doctorate) in Electrical Engineering from the Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany.

Ivan has authored and coauthored more than 175 publications in referred international journals and conference proceedings, and is a recipient of numerous Best Paper Awards.

 

Alexander I. Nosich was born in 1953 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He received the M.S., Ph.D., and D.Sc. (higher doctorate) degrees in radio physics from the Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, in 1975, 1979, and 1990, respectively. Since 1979, he has been with the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Kharkiv, where he is currently Professor and Principal Scientist heading the Laboratory of Micro and Nano Optics. In 2004, Prof. Nosich was elected IEEE Fellow, for contributions of computational electromagnetics to the theory of antennas and open waveguides. In 2015 he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Rennes 1, France. In 2017, he was recipient of the Galileo Galilei Medal of the International Commission for Optics. His research interests include computational electromagnetics and photonics, methods of integral equations, analytical regularization, propagation, radiation, and scattering of waves in open configurations, electromagnetic modeling of micro and nano lasers on threshold, and the history of microwaves.

Giacomo Oliveri received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering and the PhD degree in Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento) and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. Moreover, he is Adjunct Professor at CentraleSupélec and member of the Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S)@CentraleSupélec Gif-sur-Yvette (France). He has been a visiting researcher at L2S in 2012, 2013, and 2015, and he has been an Invited Associate Professor at the University of Paris Sud, France, in 2014.

He is author/co-author of over 330 peer reviewed papers on international journals and conferences. His research work is mainly focused on electromagnetic direct and inverse problems, system-by-design and metamaterials, and antenna array synthesis. Prof. Oliveri serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, of the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, and of the Microwave Processing journal. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and the Chair of the IEEE AP/ED/MTT North Italy Chapter.

Mario Pauli (S’04, M’10, SM´19) received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.E.E.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2003 and the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.E.E.) from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2011. In 2002, he spent four months at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, working on time and frequency domain measurement systems for the characterization of the 60 GHz indoor radio channel.

From 2004 to 2011 he has been with the Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE), University of Karlsruhe, as a Research Assistant. Since 2011 he is with the Institute of Radio Frequency Engineering and Electronics (IHE) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as a Senior Researcher and Lecturer.

He served as a Lecturer for radar and smart antennas of the Carl Cranz Series for Scientific Education. He is currently a co-founder and the Managing Director of PKTEC GmbH and a co-founder of Wellenzahl Radar- und Sensortechnik GmbH & Co. KG.

His current research interests include radar and sensor systems, RCS measurements, antennas, millimeter-wave packaging.

Zoya Popovic (S’86–M’90–SM’99–F’02) is a Distinguished Professor and the Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She obtained her Dipl.Ing. degree at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and her Ph.D. at Caltech. She was a Visiting Professor with the Technical University of Munich in 2001/3, ISAE in Toulouse, France in 2014, and is Chair of Excellence at Carlos III University in Madrid in 2018/19. She has graduated 58 PhDs and currently advises 14 doctoral students. Her research interests are in high-efficiency power amplifiers and transmitters, microwave and millimeter-wave high-performance circuits for communications and radar, medical applications of microwaves, millimeter-wave and THz quasi-optical techniques and wireless powering. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of two IEEE MTT Microwave Prizes for best journal papers, the White House NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow award, the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal, the ASEE/HP Terman Medal and the German Humboldt Research Award. She was elected as foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2006. She was named IEEE MTT Distinguished Educator in 2013 and the University of Colorado Distinguished Research Lecturer in 2015. 

Sembiam R. Rengarajan (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1980. Since then he has been with California State University, Northridge (CSUN), CA, presently serving as a Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, He has held visiting appointments at UCLA, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the Technical University of Denmark. His research interests include application of electromagnetics to antennas, scattering, and passive microwave and millimeter wave components. He has published more than 250 journal articles and conference papers. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2000-03) and as the Chair of the Education Committee of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). He received the Preeminent Scholarly Publication Award from CSUN in 2005, CSUN Research Fellow Award in 2010, a Distinguished Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers' Council of California in 1995, and 20 awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for his innovative research and technical contributions to Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 2011 he was appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE APS. Presently he serves as the Chair of USNC-URSI. Dr. Rengarajan is the local organizing Committee Chair of the URSI Commission B International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory to be held in San Diego, CA in May 2019.

Dr. Vishal Riché received the M.S. degree in signal and circuit from the University of western Brittany, France, in 2009. In 2013, he received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunication from the University of Rennes 1, France, working on radar system dedicated to specific SAR applications (remote sensing, MIMO configuration).

In 2013, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute FHR, as a researcher for the application of nonconventional waveform for radar application (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing waveform and discrete frequency coded waveform). 

Since 2016, he joined the industry department of InnoSent GmbH where he is currently a radar system engineer. He currently works on the development of radars for industrial applications with a specialization on MIMO radar.

Paolo Rocca (IEEE Senior Member) received the MS degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Trento in 2005 (summa cum laude) and the PhD Degree in Information and Communication Technologies from the same University in 2008. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento) and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. In April 2017, Prof. Rocca received the National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor.

Prof. Rocca is the author/co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed papers on international journals and conferences. He has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the Pennsylvania State University (U.S.A.), at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (Italy), and a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S@ Supèlec, France) in 2012 and 2013. Moreover, he has been an Invited Professor at the University of Paris Sud (France) in 2015 and at the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 2017. Prof. Rocca has been awarded from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Italy Section with the best PhD thesis award IEEE-GRS Central Italy Chapter. His main interests are in the framework of artificial intelligence (optimization and machine learning) techniques as applied to electromagnetics, antenna array synthesis and design, and electromagnetic inverse scattering. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters in the period 2011-2016.

Andrej Rumiantsev received the Diploma-Engineer degree (with highest honors) in Telecommunication systems from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio Electronics (BSUIR), Minsk, Belarus, and the Dr.-Ing. Degree (with summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus, Germany, in 1994 and 2014, respectively.

He joint SUSS MicroTec Test Systems (from January 2010 Cascade Microtech) in 2001 were he held various engineering product management and marketing positions. He significantly contributed to the development of the RF wafer probe, the |Z| Probe, wafer-level calibration standards, calibration software and probe systems. From 2010 to 2013 he was Product Marketing Manager of Device Characterization for Modeling and Process Development at Cascade Microtech and responsible for Elite300 system product line. In March 2013, he joined Ulrich L. Rohde Chair for RF and Microwave Techniques at Brandenburg University of Technologies (BTU), Cottbus, Germany. Dr. Rumiantsev is currently with MPI Corporation, holding a position of Director of RF Technologies of the Advanced Semiconductor Test Division. His research interests include RF calibration and wafer-level measurement techniques for advanced semiconductor devices.

Dr. Rumiantsev is a member of the IEEE MTT-11 Microwave Measurements Committee and the ExCom member of Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG). He is the past ExCom member and Chair of the Modeling and Simulation Sub-Committee of IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), TPC member of BCICTS, past Technical Program Chair of ARFTG-92nd and ARFTG-93rd and the General Chair of ARFTG-94th. He holds multiple patents in the area of wafer-level RF calibration and measurements techniques. Dr. Rumiantsev received the ARFTG-71th Best Interactive Forum Paper Award. His doctoral thesis was awarded as “Best Dissertation of 2014 at Brandenburg University of Technologies”.

Jeffrey H. Shapiro received the S.B., S.M., E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1970, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1970 until 1973 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Sciences and Applied Physics at Case Western Reserve University. Since 1973 he has been on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is now the Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Shapiro's research interests center on the application of communication theory to optical systems. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society, the Institute of Physics, and SPIE, and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

In 2008 he was co-recipient of the Quantum Electronics Award from the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, and he received the Quantum Communication Award for Theoretical Research from Tamagawa University.

Hjalti Sigmarsson (S’01, M’10, SM’18) received the Bachelor of Science in electrical and computer engineering degree from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland in 2003, and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, in 2005 and 2010, respectively.

He is currently with the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, where he is an associate professor. His current research is focused on reconfigurable RF and microwave hardware for agile communications, measurement, and radar systems. Furthermore, his research interests include spectral management schemes for cognitive radio architectures, advanced packaging utilizing heterogeneous integration techniques, and additive manufacturing of electromagnetic components.

Dr. Sigmarsson is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS), Eta Kappa Nu, and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS). He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award of the IMAPS 2008 41st International Symposium on Microelectronics. In 2015 he was awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) to support his research on reconfigurable high-frequency components using phase-change materials. Dr. Sigmarsson was named the recipient of the Gerald Tuma Presidential Professorship in 2018 for meeting the highest standards of excellence in scholarship and teaching.

Dr. Mark S. Spector is a Program Officer in the Advanced Naval Platforms Division at the Office of Naval Research where he manages programs in thermal science, metamaterials, and energy conversion. In addition, he sits on the Steering Committee of the Department of Defense Energy and Power Community of Interest and the NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Power and Propulsion Systems Technical Committee.  Previously, he worked as a Research Physicist in the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the Naval Research Laboratory.  He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his A.B. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Nino Srour is the current Chief for the Networked Sensing & Fusion Branch at ARL, and is responsible for the basic, and applied research and development for Data and Information Fusion and Networked Sensing programs in the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD) at the US Army Research Laboratory. Mr. Srour has over 30 years of expertise in areas related to battlefield target detection, tracking, classification and identification. He currently supervises 11 engineers and has published numerous reports, patents and proceedings on the topic of acoustic target tracking, sensor fusion and Unattended Ground Sensors.  Mr. Srour has served as Acting Associate Director for Science and Technology within the SEDD, and as Acting Chief for the Image Processing Branch for the Signal & Image Processing Division for SEDD, each for a period of 1 year. He is currently the Chairman for The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) Panel on Integration and Interoperability and former Chair of the Military Sensing Symposium for Battlefield Acoustic and Seismic Sensing.  Mr. Srour is the recipient of multiple ARL Leadership and Partnering awards, the 2005 Federal Executive Board (FEB) Bronze award for Diversity, the US Army Greatest Invention of the Year Award for 2004 & 2006, the 1999 US Army Research and Development Achievement Award for Technical Excellence, the 2009 NATO Research Technology Organization (RTO) Significant Achievement Award, the 2012 Technical Cooperation Achievement Award and is a Military Sensing Symposium (MSS) Fellow. He graduated with an M.S. degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland (1989), and with a B.S. degree in Aerospace engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York (1983).

Almudena Suárez is a full professor at University of Cantabria (Spain) and head of the research group Microwave Engineering and Radiocommunication Systems. She is a Fellow member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, New Jersey, USA). She was also an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer during the period 2006-2008. She has published more than 80 papers in IEEE journals, with 57 in IEEE T-MTT. She has authored the book 'Analysis and design of autonomous microwave circuits' (IEEE-Wiley, 2009) and co-authored the book 'Stability Analysis of nonlinear microwave circuits' (Artech House, 2003). She is a member of the technical committees of IEEE International Microwave Symposium and European Microwave Week. She is a member of the Board of Directors of European Microwave Association. She has been the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies of Cambridge Journals. She was the coordinator of the Communications and Electronic Technology Area for the Spanish National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP) between 2009 and 2013.

Horst Theuss received his Ph.D degree in Physics from the University of Stuttgart/Germany in 1993. As a material scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart he focused on magnetic properties of superconductors and amorphous metals. His scientific work was awarded the Otto-Hahn-Medal for young scientists by the Max Planck Society. 

Within a one-year scholarship at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, Dr. Theuss evaluated magnetic properties of thin exchange-coupled multilayer structures. In 1996, this was followed by an engagement at Vacuumschmelze GmbH, Hanau/Germany as a product marketing manager for alloys with special magnetic properties.

He joined Infineon in 2000 and has worked on assembly and interconnect technologies since. Focus topics are packaging of discrete semiconductors, multi-chip systems and wafer level packaging. As a Lead Principal he is today responsible for predevelopments in the field of packaging for Sensors and MEMS.

Mei Song Tong received the B.S. and M.S. Degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, all in electrical engineering. He is currently the Distinguished Professor and Head of Department of Electronic Science and Technology, and Vice Dean of College of Microelectronics, Tongji University, Shanghai,
China. He has also held an adjunct professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA, and an honorary professorship at the University of Hong Kong, China. He has published more than 400 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and co-authored six books or book chapters. His research interests include electromagnetic field theory, antenna theory and design, simulation and design of RF/microwave circuits and devices, interconnect and packaging analysis, inverse electromagnetic scattering for imaging, and computational electromagnetics.

Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 1960 and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1967. He holds the positions of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published extensively on electromagnetism, microwaves, antennas, scattering, novel electronic materials, optics, and applied mathematics. He was President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2001), Chair of the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (2006-08), Vice-President of URSI (2011-14; re-elected for 2017-20), Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (1995-98) and of Electromagnetics (1983-89) and Founding Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL). In November 2009, the IEEE Board of Directors instituted the “AWPL Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Best Paper Award”, to be given annually by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society to the author of the best letter published during the previous year in the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

   Dr. Uslenghi is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi Honorary Societies, a member of USNC-URSI Commissions B, D, E and K, a Distinguished Alumnus of the Politecnico di Torino, a Fellow of the EMP and of URSI, a Life Fellow of IEEE, a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award. He was inducted into the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino in 2003, and was named University of Illinois Scholar in 2006 and Distinguished Professor in 2009.

Dr. Walling received the B.S. degree from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is currently an associate professor in the ECE Department at University of Utah, where he has been since 2012. His group performs research on wireless transceivers and sensor circuits for high speed communications and the Internet-of-Things. He has authored >70 peer-reviewed and refereed journal and conference papers and holds four patents with six pending.
He is Head of RF Transceivers at MCCI, and is an Adjunct Professor at University of Utah. He serves on the program committee for IEEE RFIC and IEEE NEWCAS. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award at University of Utah in 2015, the HKN Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012 at Rutgers University, the Best Paper Award at Mobicom 2012, the Yang Award for outstanding graduate research from the EE Department at University of Washington in 2008, an Intel Predoctoral Fellowship in 2007-2008, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2006.

Dr. Hua Wang (M’05‒SM’15) is the Demetrius T. Paris associate professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology and the director of Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) lab. Prior to that, he worked at Intel Corporation and Skyworks Solutions on mm-wave integrated circuits and RF front-end modules. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

Dr. Wang’s active research is in innovating mixed-signal, RF, and mm-wave integrated circuits and hybrid systems for wireless communication, radar, imaging, and bioelectronics applications.

He received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015, the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2017, the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award in 2016, the Georgia Tech ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2015, and the Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015. His GEMS research group has won multiple best paper awards, including the IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Awards (1st Place in 2014, 2nd Place in 2016, and 2nd Place in 2018), the IEEE CICC Outstanding Student Paper Awards (2nd Place in 2015 and 2nd Place in 2018), the IEEE CICC Best Conference Paper Award (2017), the 2016 IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award, the IEEE SENSORS Best Live Demo Award (2nd Place in 2016), as well as multiple best paper award finalists at IEEE conferences.

Dr. Wang is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL) and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). He is a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member for IEEE ISSCC, RFIC, CICC, and BCICTS conferences, and is a Steering Committee Member for IEEE RFIC and CICC.  He serves as the Chair of the Atlanta’s IEEE CAS/SSCS joint chapter that won the IEEE SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award in 2014.

Dr. Mark E. Weber is a Senior Research Physicist at the NOAA OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory.  His principal assignment involves technology risk reduction, acquisition strategy development and advanced concept exploration for NOAA's Meteorological Phased Array Radar program.   In addition Dr. Weber is facilitating efforts at NSSL and the University of Oklahoma to enhance airspace access for small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), thereby enabling their use for routine and effective in situ measurements of atmospheric parameters.

Prior to joining NSSL, Mark was Assistant Head of the Homeland Protection and Air Traffic Control Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory.  In this role, he was responsible for leadership of the Laboratory's Air Traffic Control mission area with emphasis on support to the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System initiative. The Laboratory's ATC activities include major programs in surveillance, weather, safety modeling, collision avoidance, automation and decision support.

Dr. Weber has also worked at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.  He holds a BA degree in physics from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD degree from Rice University's Space Physics and Astronomy Department. 

Marc K. Weinstein has been an intellectual property attorney for over 20 years.  His practice focuses on post-grant proceedings, litigation, and IP counseling, but he also has significant experience with patent preparation and prosecution. Mr. Weinstein has handled all aspects of post-grant proceedings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) including inter partes reviews, inter partes reexaminations, and ex parte reexaminations. He has represented clientsacross a variety of technological areas including mobile devices, wireless and network communications, GPS and navigation, imaging and displays, and computer software. In addition, he has worked on numerous patent disputes both at the U.S. District Court and before the International Trade Commission.He also has extensive experience with international intellectual property issues including living and working in Tokyo, Japan for over 10 years.  Mr. Weinstein graduated with a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Paolo Rocca (IEEE Senior Member since 2013) received the MS degree in Telecommunications Engineering (summa cum laude) in 2005 and the PhD Degree in Information and Communication Technologies in 2008 from the University of Trento, Italy. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento), Huashan Scholar Chair Professor at the Xidian University, Xi'an, China, and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. Prof. Rocca received the National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor in Italy and France in April 2017 and January 2020, respectively.

Prof. Rocca is author/co-author of 1 book chapter, 140 journal articles, and more than 270 conference papers. Prof. Rocca has been awarded from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Italy Section with the best PhD thesis award IEEE-GRS Central Italy Chapter. His main interests are in the framework of artificial intelligence techniques as applied to electromagnetics, antenna array synthesis and analysis, and electromagnetic inverse scattering. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2011-2016), the Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (2019-2020) and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (since 2020), and of Engineering (since 2020). He was Guest Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters for the 2020 Special Cluster on "Space-Time Modulated Antennas and Materials".

Ludger Klinkenbusch received the Diploma in electrical engineering, the Dr.-Ing. (with distinction), and the Venia Legendi (Habilitation) in the theory of electromagnetic fields, all from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) in 1986, 1991, and 1996, respectively. Since 1998, he has been with Kiel University, Germany, as Professor of Computational Electromagnetics and Director of the Institute of Electrical and Information Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering.

His research interests include theoretical aspects of scalar and electromagnetic fields, corresponding analytical and numerical methods, and their application in scattering and diffraction, bio-magnetic fields and EMC-related problems. He has also been active as a consultant for industry, e.g., in developing methods and software for antenna near-field measurements.

Dr. Klinkenbusch is a Fellow of IEEE for contributions to spherical-multipole analysis in electromagnetics, and a member of German VDE. He currently serves as President of the U.R.S.I. Member Committee in the Federal Republic of Germany and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Antennas and Propagation. He co-organized the 2010 URSI Commission B International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory in Berlin (Germany).  He is the winner of the ’2004 URSI Commission B International Electromagnetics Prize’ paper competition with a contribution entitled ’Electromagnetic scattering by a plane angular sector.’

Dr. Francois Rivet is Associate Professor at the EE department of Bordeaux Institute of Technology and IMS laboratory, in Bordeaux, France. His research activities are the design of integrated circuits
and systems for wireless communications. Since 2014, he leads the research team "Circuits and Systems". He has contributed to the design of disruptive communication circuits developing a Design by Mathematics methodology. He published 100 technical papers and holds 17 patents. He
participates in several technical and / or steering committees (IEEE RFIC, IEEE ESSCIRC-ESSDERC, IEEE ICECS, IEEE SBCCI, IEEE ASICON, ...).

POLI Lorenzo received the M.S. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2008, and the PhD degree from the International Doctoral School in Information and Communication Technology in 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at the University of Trento, Italy, and a Senior Researcher of the ELEDIA Research Center.

Dr. Poli is author/co-author of more than 60 journals and 90 conference papers. He is a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society since 2010, when he was a recipient of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S@Supèlec, France) in 2015 and a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris Sud (France) in 2016. Dr. Poli serves as a reviewer for several international journals including IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, and IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation. His research activities are focused on the solution of antenna design and unconventional array synthesis problems as well as electromagnetic inverse scattering problems.

Andrea Massa (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Electromagnetic Academy Fellow) he has been a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields @ University of Trento since 2005.

At present, Prof. Massa is the director of the network of federated laboratories "ELEDIA Research Center" located in Brunei, China, Czech, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Perù, Tunisia with more than 150 researchers. Moreover, he is holder of a Chang-Jiang Chair Professorship @ UESTC (Chengdu – China), Professor @ CentraleSupélec (Paris - France), and Visiting Professor @ Tsinghua (Beijing - China). He has been holder of a Senior DIGITEO Chair at L2S-CentraleSupélec and CEA LIST in Saclay (France), UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), Adjunct Professor at Penn State University (USA), Guest Professor @ UESTC (China), and Visiting Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (USA), the Nagasaki University (Japan), the University of Paris Sud (France), the Kumamoto University (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). He has been appointed IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2018) and served as Associate Editor of the "IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation" (2011-2014).

His research activities are mainly concerned with inverse problems, antenna analysis/synthesis, radar systems and signal processing, cross-layer optimization and planning of wireless/RF systems, system-by-design and material-by-design (metamaterials and reconfigurable-materials), and theory/applications of optimization techniques to engineering problems (coms, medicine, and biology).

Prof. Massa published more than 700 scientific publications among which more than 350 on international journals (> 12.000 citations – h-index = 55 [Scopus]; > 9.500 citations – h-index = 48 [ISI-WoS]; > 20.000 citations – h-index = 80 [Google Scholar]) and more than 500 in international conferences where he presented more than 200 invited contributions (> 35 invited keynote speaker) (www.eledia.org/publications). He has organized more than 100 scientific sessions in international conferences and has participated to several technological projects in the European framework (>20 EU Projects) as well as at the national and local level with national agencies (>300 Projects/Grants).

 

B. Shanker received his B'Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1989, M.S. and Ph.D in 1992 and 1993, respectively, from the Pennsylvania State University. From 1993 to 1996 he was a research associate in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Iowa State University where he worked on the Molecular Theory of Optical Activity. From 1996 to 1999 he was with the Center for Computational Electromagnetics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Visiting Assistant Professor, and from 1999-2002 with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor. Currently, he is a University Distinguished Professor (an honor accorded to about 2% of MSU faculty members) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy. From 2015-2018,  he was appointed Associate Chair of the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, a new department at MSU and was a key player in building this Department.  Earlier he served as the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2012-2015, and currently is the Associate Chair for Research in ECE. He has authored/co-authored around

450 journal and conference papers and presented a number of invited talks. His research interests include all aspects of computational electromagnetics (frequency and time domain integral equation based methods, multi-scale fast multipole methods, fast transient methods, higher order finite element and integral equation methods), propagation in complex media, mesoscale electromagnetics, and particle and molecular dynamics as applied to multiphysics and multiscale problems. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

(AWPL) and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, is the Topical Editor for Journal of Optical Society of America: A, and is a full member of the USNC-URSI Commission B. He is Fellow of IEEE, elected for his contributions in computational electromagnetics. He has also been awarded the Withrow Distinguished Junior scholar (in 2003), Withrow Distinguished Senior scholar (in 2010), the Withrow teaching award (in 2007), and the Beal Outstanding Faculty award (2014).

Christine Letrou is a professor at Télécom SudParis, a member of Institut Mines Télécom and founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
Her main research interests are in fast algorithms for electromagnetics, especially fast high frequency methods such as multilevel Physical Optics or Gaussian beam methods. She has been involved in millimetric and submillimetric quasi-optical device analysis and design, and she is currently contributing to research projects involving propagation or antenna modeling for wireless applications or radar.

Andrii Chumak studied physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and received his PhD in 2009 in the group of Gennadii Melkov. After the PostDoc at the group of Burkard Hillebrands of the University of Kaiserslautern, he continued in the same group as a Principal Investigator and Head of ERC Junior Research Group. Andrii Chumak became a Full Professor and Head of Nanomagnetism and Magnonics Group at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna in 2019. His scientific interests include magnetization dynamics and magnonics, nonlinear wave physics, spin-orbit spintronics, unconventional computing and quantum magnonics.

Dr. Habil., Prof. V.I. Belotelov got his Master (2001) and PhD (2004) degrees at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He made habilitation in 2013. Currently he is a principal investigator at Russian Quantum Center and Moscow State University.

Vladimir Belotelov is well known for his research in the field of nanophotonics, magneto-optics, plasmonics and ultrafast magnetism. He is the author of more than 300 publications, of which more than 100 are published articles in representative peer-reviewed scientific journals (Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Optica, Scientific Reports, etc.), chapters in four scientific books, and more than 50 invited papers at scientific conferences. V.I. Belotelov has extensive experience working abroad at universities and research institutes in Germany, Australia, Italy, France and India.

The obtained results in the field of magnetoplasmonics and ultrafast magnetism are both fundamentally important and of great practical importance, since they can radically change the concept of designing optical components of various devices and thus lead to a revolution in information and telecommunication and sensor technologies.

Constantin (Konstantin) R. Simovski has worked in both industry and academy in several countries. He defended his PhD thesis in 1986 in the Polytechnic University of Leningrad (USSR) and the Habilitation thesis in 2000 in the same university -- presently, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. In 2001 he became a full professor of ITMO University at St. Petersburg (Russia). Since 2008, he has been with Helsinki University of Technology -- presently Aalto University (Finland).  Full professor of Aalto University since 2012. Recent research areas: impact of plasmon resonances for fluorescence and spontaneous Raman scattering, light-trapping in thin-film solar cells, radiative heat transfer in nanostructures and thermophotovoltiac generators, homogenization and electromagnetic characterization of metamaterials/metasurfaces, radiofrequency coils for ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging, new physical approaches in wireless power transfer, label-free subwavelength imaging in far fields.

Corentin Coulais investigates designer soft materials, with a particular emphasis on how mechanical metamaterials can programmed to achieve advanced mechanical tasks. Coulais explores the structure-property relationship in metamaterials with highly nonlinear degrees of freedom, by combining additive manufacturing, precision-desktop experiments, numerical methods and theory inspired from condensed matter. Recent highlights include robotic materials, which combine the notions of emergence and symmetries inherent to condensed matter with the capabilities of robotics. This has led to early experimental observations of non-Hermitian wave phenomena such as unidirectional amplification and non-Hermitian topology. More information on his group can be found at coulaislab.com.

Dr Victor Pacheco Peña received his MRes and PhD in Communications Technologies from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Pamplona, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He has been a visiting researcher at the Imperial College London (UK) and University of Pennsylvania (USA) in 2014 and 2015, respectively. From 2013-2016 he was a predoctoral researcher at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) where he was funded as PI by a University Teacher Training Aid (FPU Fellowship) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. From 2016-2018 he was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He currently holds a prestigious Newcastle University Research Fellowship and has been working within the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University UK since 2018. He currently leads the Metamaterials and Plasmonics Laboratory at the same institution. He has published more than 45 manuscripts in high impact journals, one book and a book chapter, and more than 65 abstracts in international conferences. His current research interests include metamaterials and metasurfaces from microwaves to the optical regime, plasmonics, temporal and spatiotemporal metamaterials, artificial intelligence and computing with waves, among others. Dr Pacheco Peña has been PI of research projects grants ($1.1Million USD) and has participated in international grants ($0.7Million USD). He has been awarded as "Young Scientist" by the URSI GASS 2020 in Rome, Italy, "Young Scientist of the Year" by the Spanish URSI during the XXXI Spanish Conference URSI 2016 and has received a CST University Publication Award for the best international journal publication using CST Microwave Studio® in 2016.

Dr. Haberman is an Assistant Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin with a joint appointment at the Applied Research Laboratories UT Austin. He received his Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 and 2001, respectively, and received a Diplôme de Doctorat in Engineering Mechanics from the Université de Lorraine in Metz, France in 2006. His undergraduate work in Mechanical Engineering was done at the University of Idaho, where he received a B.S. in 2000. Dr. Haberman's research interests are centered on elastic and acoustic wave propagation in complex media, acoustic metamaterials, new acoustic transduction materials, ultrasonic nondestructive testing, and vibro-acoustic transducers. He has worked extensively on the modeling and characterization of composite materials and the multi-objective design of acoustical materials. His current research focuses on modeling, design, and testing of composite materials, metamaterials, and structures for applications areas that include the absorption and isolation of acoustical, vibrational, and impulsive energy using negative stiffness structures, Willis (bianisotropic) materials, and non-reciprocal acoustic and elastic wave phenomena.

Massimo Ruzzene is the Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holds a joint appointment in the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department of CU Boulder. M. Ruzzene currently serves as the Associate Dean for Research of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He joined CU in the summer of 2019, after serving as the Pratt and Whitney Professor in the Schools of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. M. Ruzzene received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 1999. He is author of 2 books, more than 180 journal papers and 250 conference papers. He has participated as a PI or co-PI in various research projects funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NASA, the US Army, US Navy, DARPA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as companies such as Boeing, Eurocopter, Raytheon, Corning and TRW. Most of his current and past research work has focused on solid mechanics, structural dynamics and wave propagation with application to structural health monitoring, metamaterials, and vibration and noise control. M. Ruzzene is a Fellow of ASME and SES, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of AHS, and ASA. He served as Program Director for the Dynamics, Control and System Diagnostics Program of CMMI at the National Science Foundation between 2014 and 2016.

Vincenzo Vitelli has been a Professor in the Physics Department and the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago since 2017. Previously he was a Professor in the Institute Lorentz for theoretical physics in Leiden University where he held the Chair of Condensed Matter Theory since 2015. Vitelli obtained a B.S. in theoretical physics from Imperial College London in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2006 working under the supervision of David Nelson. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Upenn from 2006 till 2009. He was awarded the H. Callan Prize in 2007, he received a Feinberg Foundation Fellowship (Weizmann Institute) in 2009 and was an invited Professor at ESPCI (Juliot Curie Chair) and Ecole Normale, Paris in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In 2018 he became a fellow of the American Physical Society (GSOFT) for theoretical contributions to topological mechanics.

Anton is an Assistant Professor in theoretical physics at the University of Bath, UK. He completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania (US) and has previously worked at the Georgia Institute of Technology (US), the University of Chicago (US), and Leiden University (NL). His research interests include modelling the mechanics of soft materials, designing new states of matter, flow and patterns in active materials, and topological soft matter. In addition to modelling naturally occurring materials, he also researches the design of mechanical metamaterials using patterns on scales from nanometres to the macroscopic.

Mikhail Shalaginov is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He is a member of the Photonic Materials group led by Prof. Juejun Hu. Mikhail’s latest research is centered on the development of high-performance reconfigurable metasurface-based devices operating in mid-infrared. He recently demonstrated a varifocal high-performance metalens and a single-layer, aberration-free metalens with an ultra-wide field of view. Before joining MIT, he pursued his Ph.D. at Purdue University in the Nanophotonics & Metamaterials group of Prof. Vladimir Shalaev. Mikhail’s doctoral research was devoted to developing metamaterials and plasmonic structures for enhancing emission properties of diamond color centers. His work has garnered multiple honors such as the Purdue Outstanding Research Award, best presentation prizes, and international press.

Dr. Yan-Feng Wang received his BS in Engineering Mechanics from the Southwest Jiaotong University, and PhD in Solid Mechanics from Beijing Jiaotong University (Selected as a PhD candidate directly without Master Thesis defense in 2010). He served as Research Assistant in Institute of FEMTO-ST, Besancon, France from 2015 to 2016, Lecturer and Associate Professor in School of Civil Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University from 2016 to 2019, and is currently the Associate Professor (tenure) in School of Mechanical Engineering at Tianjin University. Dr. Wang has published over 40 refereed English journal publications, obtained 5 invention patents authorized in China and presented over 20 oral reports at international meetings and conferences. In 2017, he received Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program from China Association for Science and Technology.
Dr. Wang's research is in the area of Wave Mechanics. His research interests include phononic crystals, acoustic metamaterials, acoustic metasurface, viscoelastic waves, reconfigurable design of acoustic/elastic devices, et al. 

Romain Fleury is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Institute of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and currently leads the EPFL Laboratory of Wave Engineering. He received the M.S. degree in micro and nanotechnology from the University of Lille, Lille, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2015. In 2016, he was a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at ESPCI Paris-Tech, and CNRS Langevin Institute, Paris, France. His research interests include a wide variety of topics in the field of wave physics and engineering, including periodic structures, active and time-modulated metamaterials, nonreciprocal wave propagation, classical topological insulators, nonlinear effects, and parity-time symmetry.

Vitaliy Lomakin received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Kharkov National University (Ukraine) in 1996 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University (Israel) in 2003. From 1997 to 2002, he was a Teaching Assistant and Instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In 2005, he joined the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include the development of efficient computational techniques and analytical models for studying multiphysics problems, including Electromagnetics, Micromagnetics, and first principle simulations as well as using these techniques for the study of nanoscale materials and devices.

Considered one of the most influential and productive information theorists of today, the fundamental and cutting-edge contributions of Shlomo Shamai have been central to continued progress in wireless communications systems by addressing areas such as channel capacity, secure transmission, and the building blocks for next-generation wireless systems. Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technology multiplies the capacity of wireless communications networks, and Shamai has provided the most conclusive results on MIMO broadcast channels as an enabler of capacity expansion. He demonstrated that Costa (dirty paper) coding is the fundamental method for capacity-optimal signaling. His work has inspired much follow-up research toward the goal of achieving full capacity in MIMO broadcast channels. Shamai is among the first who introduced large random matrix concepts into information theory, which has had important implications for analyzing the performance of multiuser detection algorithms and quantifying the theoretical limits of multiantenna communication. Shamai and his collaborators provided inspiring and fundamental analytic connections between information and estimation in a Gaussian regime. His outage capacity concept has spanned beyond information theory as a useful tool to study the impact of antenna design on channel capacity. Shamai was instrumental in developing an understanding of efficient communications of fading channels, where severe interference from obstacles and propagation can degrade signal quality. He was among the first to study cellular communications in the fading regime and also presented the concept of block-fading channels. This concept has become a standard model allowing for progress in understanding fading channels.

Shamai’s recent work has addressed a rich variety of aspects in cooperative cellular communication models, physical-layer security in wireless networks, including developing basic security results for MIMO systems, and characterizing the ability of fading broadcast channels to support variable-rate secured data transmission. He is also contributing to the foundations for cloud-based radio networks and next-generation (5G and beyond) wireless network architectures.

An IEEE Fellow and recipient of the 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award, Shamai is a Distinguished Professor, The Andrew & Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.