WAMS 2025 pre-conference workshop on "Recent Trends in Antenna Technologies"
WAMS 2025 pre-conference workshop on "Recent Trends in Antenna Technologies"
The IEEE AP-S and MTT-S joint student branch chapter of IIITDM Kancheepuram, in association with the IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer Program and Wireless, Antenna & Microwave Symposium (WAMS) Society, is organizing the WAMS 2025 preconference workshop on "Recent Trends in Antenna Technologies" on June 04, 2025, from 09.00 AM to 05.30 PM.
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- Date: 04 Jun 2025
- Time: 03:30 AM UTC to 12:00 PM UTC
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE AP-Society Distinguished Lecturer Program and WAMS Society
- Starts 14 April 2025 11:30 AM UTC
- Ends 25 May 2025 11:50 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Prof. Christophe Fumeaux of The University of Queensland
Wearable Antennas in all Shapes and Sizes
Biography:
Prof. Christophe Fumeaux received his Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1997. From 1998 to 2008, he held various positions at the University of Central Florida, the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology, and ETH Zurich. From 2008 to 2023, he was a Professor with The University of Adelaide. In 2023, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland, as Chair Professor in Optical and Microwave Engineering. His main research interests concern applied electromagnetics, antenna engineering, and the application of RF design principles across the electromagnetic spectrum. Prof. Christophe Fumeaux was the recipient of the ETH Medal for his doctoral dissertation. He was the recipient of the 2018 Edward E. Altshuler Prize, the 2014 IEEE Sensors Journal and the 2004 ACES Journal best paper awards. He was the recipient of the University of Adelaide 2018 Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in PhD Supervision. From 2017 to early 2023, he served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the 2025 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
Prof. Prabhakar H. Pathak of The Ohio State University, USA
Biography:
Prof. Prabhakar H. Pathak received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, in the Dept. of ECE where he later joined the faculty and became a Professor. Currently, he is Prof. Emeritus at OSU. He also served as an Adjunct Prof. at the Univ. of South Florida. He is regarded as a co-developer of the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction. His interests are in the development of Ray, Wave, and Beam optical methods in frequency and time domains, for solving electrically large Electromagnetic antenna and scattering problems of engineering interest. He has also developed some Hybrid methods, which combine the best features of any of the above methods with numerical methods, to solve EM problems which cannot otherwise be solved in a tractable fashion by any of the methods when used alone. His work is applicable to the prediction of EM radiation and coupling associated with small antennas, or large phased array antennas, placed on or near large structures. He has presented many invited lectures and short courses in the USA and abroad. He has also published 7 book chapters and several journal and conference papers. He also published a book on EM waves entitled: Electromagnetic Radiation, Scattering, and Diffraction. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions AP; IEEE AP distinguished lecturer during 1991-1993; chair of the IEEE AP DL program (1995-2005); member of IEEE AP-S AdCom (2010). He received the 1995 IEEE AP Schelkunoff best paper award, the 1996 George Sinclair Award from the OSU ElectroScience Lab, the 2009 ISAP best paper award, the IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal from AP-S, and the 2013 IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and member of URSI Commission B.
Dr. Sudhakar Rao of Raos Consultants, LLC, USA
Biography:
Dr. Sudhakar Rao is a globally renowned antenna engineer with a Ph.D. from IIT Madras and over five decades of experience in aerospace and satellite antenna systems and payloads. He has worked with leading organizations including ECIL, DRDO, Spar Aerospace (Canada), Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and currently Northrop Grumman. He holds 64 U.S. patents and has authored over 250 technical papers, along with co-editing the Handbook of Reflector Antennas and Feed Systems. An IEEE Fellow since 2006, Dr. Rao has received numerous prestigious awards, including the IEEE Judith Resnik Technical Field Award in 2009 for his pioneering contributions to aerospace engineering.
Prof. Satish Sharma of San Diego State University
Design and development of flat panel phased array antennas for wireless and satellite communications
Biography:
Prof. Satish Sharma, who is a Fellow of IEEE, received his B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur, in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from IIT BHU, Varanasi, in 1997. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba, Canada, from 1999 to 2001, and then worked as a Senior Antenna Engineer at InfoMagnetics Technologies Corporation from 2001 to 2006, concurrently serving as a Research Associate at the University of Manitoba. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Diego State University as an Assistant Professor, where he is now a Full Professor and Director of the Antenna and Microwave Laboratory. Dr. Sharma has authored or coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed research articles and holds two U.S. patents and one Canadian patent. He has co-edited the three-volume Handbook of Reflector Antennas and Feed Systems and co-authored the book Multifunctional Antennas and Arrays for Wireless Communication Systems. His research interests include millimeter-wave, MIMO, 5G, IoT, broadband, reconfigurable, and frequency-agile antennas, among others. He received several prestigious awards, including the IEEE AP-S Harold A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the URSI Young Scientist Award. Dr. Sharma has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and currently serves on the editorial board of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He has chaired multiple student paper contests and contributes to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s educational initiatives. He is a Full Member of the U.S. National Committee for URSI Commission B, a Senior Member of URSI, and currently serves as Chair of Technical Activities for USNC/URSI Commission B.
Dr. Nacer Chahat of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Engineering CubeSat Success: Deployable Antennas for Earth and Deep Space Applications
Biography:
Dr. Nacer Chahat is a Senior Antenna and Microwave and Systems Engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. He received a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from the ESIR, Rennes, France, in 2009; a Master’s degree in telecommunication and a Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from the IETR, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He has authored and co authored more than 100 technical journal articles and conference papers, has written four book chapters, and also holds several patents. He also wrote the textbook entitled “CubeSat Antenna Designs” published by Wiley, describing all of his innovative work on CubeSat antennas developed at JPL. He has developed key antenna technologies enabling new types of missions for Deep Space Exploration. He is co-inventor of the iconic deployable reflectarray used on the Mars Cube One (MarCO) mission, the world’s first interplanetary CubeSat. He also co-invented the award-winning Raincube mesh reflector antenna used on the first active radar on a CubeSat. He also invented the Europa Lander antenna enabling direct communication from the surface of Europa, capable of surviving the harsh environment of the icy moon of Jupiter. Dr. Nacer Chahat was the recipient of the 2011 CST University Publication Award, the 2011 Best Paper Award from the Bioelectromagnetics Society, and the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award in 2012. He was awarded by Foundation of Rennes 1, Best Ph.D. of University of Rennes. In 2013, he received the Best Ph.D. thesis in France in electrical engineering, awarded by club EEA. In 2013, he was awarded the Airbus Group Foundation’s Best Thesis Prize in France. In 2020, he received the IEEE Outstanding Engineer of the Year from IEEE Region 6. In 2021, he was awarded the IETE Dr. Sudhakar Rao Award by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). In 2021, he became Fellow of IEEE for his contribution to spacecraft antennas for interplanetary exploration. He is also Life Fellow of the Wireless, Antenna & Microwave Society (WAMS). In 2023, he became AIAA Associate Fellow. He received NASA's Exceptional Public Achievement Medal in 2024. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Biden and the White House in 2025.
Prof. Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim of Feng Chia University
Restoration Strategies for the Radiation Pattern of a 5G mmWave 1×4 Antenna Array Embedded in a Smartphone
Biography:
Prof. Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim received B.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, in 1998, and Ph.D. degree in the radio system group from the University of Leicester in 2003. Since July 2003, he has been with the Feng Chia University, Taiwan, where he is currently a Chair Professor since February 2025. His research interests mainly include small antenna designs and RFID applications, focusing on 5G sub-6GHz/mmWave antenna, RFID antenna, antenna array, and laptop antenna. He has published over 220 SCI journal papers based on the above mentioned research. Prof. Sim is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, a Life Fellow of the WAMS-Society, and a Life Member of the IAET. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Access during 2015-2022, and has served as the AE of IEEE AWPL during 2017-2023. He is now serving as the AE of IEEE Journal of RFID, IEEE Open Journal of Antenna and Propagation, and International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering. He has served as a member of the organising committees of many conferences, such as General Chair/Co-Chair and TPC Chair/Member, etc. He was recently invited to serve as the Speaker in many conferences. He has served as the Chapter Chair of the IEEE AP-Society, Taipei Chapter and the founding Chapter Chair of the IEEE Council of RFID, Taipei Chapter . He received the IEEE APS Outstanding Reviewer Award for eight consecutive years between 2014 and 2021. He also received the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from the IEEE Antennas, Wireless and Propagation Letters in July 2018. Prof. Sim was appointed as the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AP-Society.
Dr. Eng Leong Tan of NTU Singapore
Explicit, Implicit and Fundamental Schemes for FDTD Methods in Electromagnetics Computation and Education
Biography:
Dr. Tan who is a Senior Member, IEEE since 2006 received his B.E. (Electrical) with First Class Honours from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from NTU Singapore. From 1999 to 2002, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, and since 2002, he has been with the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at NTU. His research interests include computational electromagnetics, multi-physics modelling, and RF/microwave circuit and antenna design. He has published over 130 journal papers and presented more than 90 conference papers. His work, alongside his students, has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Award, First Prizes in the 2014 IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest, the IEEE MTT-S Student Design Contest, and the 2013 IEEE AP-S Antenna Design Contest. He is also a recipient of the prestigious IEEE AP-S Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award for his excellence in teaching, mentoring, and advancing electromagnetics education through mobile and computational methods. Dr. Tan has actively contributed to the global research community, serving as General Chair of PIERS 2017 Singapore, TPC Chair of ICCEM 2020, APCAP 2015 and 2018, and IEEE APS/URSI 2021. He is a Fellow of both the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology and the Electromagnetics Academy, recognised for his outstanding contributions to computational electromagnetics and education. Most recently, he has been appointed as an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2025–2027.
Mr. Sourabh Joshi of MathWorks
Antenna & RF Front End Design for Frequency Scanning Array
Biography:
Mr. Sourabh Joshi completed his B.Tech from JNTU, Hyderabad in 2011, followed by an M.Tech in RF and Microwave Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2013. He began his career at VEM Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as an RF Engineer, where he was involved in the design of phased array antennas, transmitters, receivers, TR modules, and mixed-signal PCBs. In 2020, he joined MathWorks as an RF/EM Developer, contributing significantly to the development of RF PCB and Antenna Toolbox catalogues, and working actively on the integration of RF, RF PCB, and Antenna Toolboxes. He currently serves as the Engineering Manager for the RF and RF PCB team at MathWorks, based in Hyderabad.
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