Dr. Sima Noghanian

IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecture

Biography:

Sima Noghanian is currently a Distinguished Hardware Engineer at CommScope Ruckus Networks. She is also an Antenna/RF consultant with Neuspera Medical Inc. Dr. Noghanian received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba in 2001 and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, which she took at the University of Waterloo in 2002. She was an Assistant Professor at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2002 and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada (2003 – 2008). She was an Assistant/Associate Professor and the Director of the Applied Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota, USA (2008 – 2018). She served as the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of North Dakota (2014 – 2016). She was a visiting professor at San Diego State University (2018). She was an Electromagnetic Application Engineer with PADT Inc. (2019-2020) and a Principal Antenna Design Engineering at Wafer LLC (2020 – 2021).
Dr. Noghanian is a senior member of IEEE, a fellow of ACES, and a senior member of URSI Commissions B and K. Dr. Noghanian currently serves as the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation (OJAP), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, Elsevier International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Journal, and Frontiers in Antennas and Propagation. She was an associate editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2016 – 2022). She is a member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society AdCom (2023 – 2025). She served on the Fields Award Committee and New Technology Directions Committee (2021 – 2023). She is the USNC-URSI Commission K Chair (2024 – 2026).
Her research interests include antenna design and modeling, wearable and implanted antennas, 3D printed antennas, wireless power transfer, microwave imaging, and wireless channel modeling. She is the author of Microwave Tomography Book and has over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.