Simone Bastioli of RSMicro

The innovative concept of nonresonating modes and how this has been recently exploited to extend the performance and capabilities of the state-of-art of microwave filter technology will be presented in this talk. Although the concept is presented by mostly focusing on filters, as these are the components where this new technique has found large application over the past few years, all general features are explained and illustrated in detail thus potentially paving the way for new applications involving other passive microwave components

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Dr. Bastioli is a current IEEE Young Professional (YP), and he was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Microwave Prize for the invention of TM dual-mode cavities and nonresonating modes. He is the vice chair of the MTT-8 Filters and Passive Components Technical Committee, and he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave Magazine. In 2008, he was awarded with the Best Student Paper Award (First Place) at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) held in Atlanta, GA, USA, and with the Young Engineers Prize at the European Microwave Conference held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Hal Sobol Travel Grant presented at the IEEE MTT-S IMS held in Boston, MA, USA. He was also awarded the Young Scientist Distinction by the Polish Academy of Science at the 2014 MIKON International Conference held in Gdansk, Poland. His work resulted in several publications in international journals and conferences, as well as several patent applications.

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Dr. Shiban Kishen Koul of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas - Center for Applied Research in Electronics

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Shiban K Koul is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is also the Chairman of Astra Microwave Products Limited, Hyderabad, a major company involved in the Development of RF and Microwave systems in India. His current research interests include: RF MEMS, Device modeling, Microwave and Millimeter wave IC design and Reconfigurable microwave circuits including antennas.

Dr. Koul has been a member of the IEEE for the past 30 years. He has served as the Chairman of IEEE ED/MTT Chapter, India Council in (1988, 89, 1992, 93, 94, 95). He has also been a member of the executive committee of the IEEE Delhi Section and IEEE ED/MTT Chapter, India Council. He was the past chairman of the Fellow and awards nomination committee of IEEE Delhi Section. Currently, he is the Chairman of Delhi section and also chairman of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapter under Delhi section. He is currently a serving ADCOM member and a Member of IEEE MTT society’s Technical committees on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuits (MTT-6) and RF MEMs (MTT-21), Member of India Initiative team of IEEE MTT-S, Membership Services Regional Co-coordinator India, Vice Chair MGA and MTT-S Speaker bureau lecturer.

Dr. Koul is the author/co-author of 199 Research Papers and 7 state-of-the art books and holds 6 patents and 6 copyrights. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA (IEEE), Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).

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