Branislav Notaros of Colorado State University

Biography:

Branislav M. Notaros is a Professor of ECE, Director of Electromagnetics Laboratory, and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. Previously, he held assistant/associate-professor positions at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and University of Belgrade. His research contributions are in computational electromagnetics (CEM), higher order methods, all sorts of CEM methodologies, techniques, implementations, and applications, adaptive refinement, uncertainty quantification, in-situ and remote sensing of precipitation, MRI-RF antennas/coils, EM/antennas/systems for biomedical applications, and electromagnetics education. His research has been supported by about 20 major NSF, DoD, NASA, and NIH grants. His publications include nearly 300 book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers, and textbooks “Electromagnetics” (2010) and “MATLAB-Based Electromagnetics” (2013) with Pearson Prentice Hall and “Conceptual Electromagnetics” (2017) with CRC Press.  

Prof. Notaros is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He serves as General Chair of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting and served as General Chair of the 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium. He is Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He serves as President of ACES, Chair of the US National Committee Commission B of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Administrative Committee. He was the recipient of the 2005 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, 1999 IEE Marconi Premium, 2019 ACES Technical Achievement Award, 1999 URSI Young Scientist Award, 2005 UMass Dartmouth Scholar of the Year Award, 2012 CSU System Board of Governors Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2014 and 2018 CSU Provost’s N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation, 2012 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, 2014 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Colorado Professor of the Year Award, 2015 American Society for Engineering Education ECE Distinguished Educator Award, and 2015 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Zhi Ning Chen of National University Singapore

Biography:

Zhi Ning Chen is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. His current research interest includes electromagnetic metamaterials and antenna engineering. He has published 680+ papers and five books.

Professor Zhi Ning Chen received his BEng, MEng, and PhD degrees all in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Communications Engineering, China and his second PhD degree from University of Tsukuba, Japan, respectively. He evaluated to Fellow of IEEE in 2007 and Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore in 2019.

During 1988-2016, Professor Chen conducted his research and teaching at Institute of Communications Engineering, Southeast University, City University of Hong Kong, Tsukuba University, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and Institute for Infocomm Research. Concurrently, he has served industrial companies and institutions as Chief Scientist, Chief Antenna Expert, Visiting Professors, and Consultant.

Professor Chen has involved in organizing many international events as general chairs and chairs of technical programme committee/international advisory committee. He is the founding general chairs of Marina Forum, International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), International Symposium on InfoComm & Media Technology in Bio-Medical & Healthcare Applications (IS 3T-in-3A), Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP) as well as International Microwave Forum (IMWF). So far, he has delivered more than 180 keynotes and invited talks at international events.

Stefano Maci of University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Biography:

Stefano Maci (F’04) received the Laurea degree (cum laude) from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1987.,Since 1997, he has been a Professor with the University of Siena, Siena, Italy. His research interests include high-frequency and beam representation methods, computational electromagnetics, large phased arrays, planar antennas, reflector antennas and feeds, metamaterials, and metasurfaces. His research activity is documented in 150 papers published in international journals, among which 100 are in IEEE journals, 10 book chapters, and about 400 papers in international proceedings. These papers have received around 5700 citations.,Prof. Maci was a recipient of the EurAAP Award in 2014, the IEEE Shelkunoff Transaction Prize in 2015, and the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award in 2016. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Technical Advisory Board of 11 international conferences and the Review Board of 6 International Journals. He has organized 25 special sessions in international conferences and held 10 short courses in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Symposia about metamaterials, antennas, and computational electromagnetics. In 2004, he was the founder of the European School of Antennas (ESoA), a post graduate school that presently comprises 30 courses on antennas, propagation, electromagnetic theory, and computational electromagnetics, with 150 teachers from 15 countries. From 2004 to 2007, he was WP Leader of the Antenna Center of Excellence (ACE, FP6-EU), and from 2007 to 2010 he was the International Coordinator of a 24-institution consortium of a Marie Curie Action (FP6). Since 2010, he has been the Principal Investigator of 6 cooperative projects financed by the European Space Agency. He has been Director of the University of Siena’s Ph.D. program in information engineering and mathematics from 2008 to 2015, and a member of the National Italian Committee for Qualification to Professor from 2013 to 2015. He is the Director of the consortium FORESEEN, presently involving 48 European institutions, and principal investigator of the Future Emerging Technology project “Nanoarchitectronics” of the 8th EU Framework program. He was co-founder of 2 spin-off companies. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AP-S. He was a former member of the AdCom of the IEEE AP-S, Board of Directors of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), and Antennas and Propagation Executive Board of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, UK). He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and Chair of the Award Committee of IEEE AP-S.

Michael Wu of National Taiwan University

Biography:

Dr. Chung-Tse Michael Wu's research interests include applied electromagnetics, antennas, passive and active microwave and millimeter-wave components, MMIC, RF systems, and metamaterials. He earned his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2006, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan. In 2017, he joined Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2022.

Dr. Wu is a member of the Technical Committee for IEEE MTT-28 and MTT-4. He has received several prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the WSU College of Engineering Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2016, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) in 2019, and the DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award in 2021. In 2022, he was also honored with the Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence at Rutgers University. He is the Vice Chair for the joint AP/ED/MTT chapter of the IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, and IEEE Access.

Haihan Sun of University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography:

Hai-Han Sun received her bachelor’s degree in electronic information engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2015, and the Ph. D. degree in engineering from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, in 2019. From 2019 to 2023, she was a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include ground-penetrating radar, base station antenna, electromagnetic sensing, and non-destructive testing.

Oscar Quevedo-Teruel of KTH

Biography:

Oscar Quevedo-Teruel received his Telecommunication Engineering and Ph.D. Degrees from Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain in 2005 and 2010. From 2010-2011, Dr. Quevedo-Teruel joined the Department of Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid as a research fellow and went on to continue his postdoctoral research at Queen Mary University of London from 2011-2013.

In 2014, he joined the Division for Electromagnetic Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden where he is a Full Professor, Responsible of the Antenna Laboratory, and Director of the Master Programme in Electromagnetics Fusion and Space Engineering. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation since 2018, a member of the Editoral Board of Nature Scientific Reports since 2021, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Reviews of Electromagnetics since January 2021. He was the EurAAP delegate for Sweden, Norway, and Iceland from 2018-2020 and he has been a member of the EurAAP Board of Directors since January 2021. He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the period of 2019-2021 and Chair of the IEEE APS Educational Initiatives Programme since 2020.

He has made scientific contributions to higher symmetries, transformation optics, lens antennas, metasurfaces, leaky wave antennas, multi-mode microstrip patch antennas, and high impedance surfaces. He is the co-author of 105 papers in international journals and 160 at international conferences, and has received approval on 3 patents.