Christophe Fumeaux of The University of Queensland

Biography:

Christophe Fumeaux received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 1997. He then 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 University of Queensland, as Chair Professor in Optical and Microwave Engineering.

Prof. 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, as well as 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.

C. J. Reddy of Altair

Biography:

Dr. C.J. Reddy is Vice President, Business Development-Electromagnetics for Americas at Altair Engineering, Inc. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Visiting Fellowship to work at Communications Research Center in Ottawa during 1991-1993 and was awarded the US National Research Council (NRC) Resident Research Associateship in 1993 to work at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He also worked as Research Professor at Hampton University from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Reddy was the President of Applied EM, Inc (2000-2017) where he led several Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects for the DoD and NASA. He was also the President of EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc (2002-2014) and led the marketing of the EM Simulation tool, Feko in North America. EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc was acquired by Altair in 2014.  Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACES (Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society) and a Fellow of AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association). Dr. Reddy is currently serving as the 2025 President-Elect of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Brian Walker of Copper Mountain Technologies

Biography:

Brian Walker is the Senior RF Engineer, SME at Copper Mountain Technologies. He helps customers resolve technical issues and develops new solutions for VNA applications in test and measurement. Previously, he was the Manager of RF design at Bird Electronics, where he directed a team of RF Designers and created new and innovative products. Prior to that, he worked for the Motorola Component Products Group and was responsible for the design of ceramic comb-line filters for communications devices. Brian is a Senior Member of the IEEE, graduated from the University of New Mexico, has 40 years of RF Design experience, and has authored 3 U.S. Patents. 

Zhen Peng of University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Biography:

Dr. Zhen Peng is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on computational, statistical, and applied electromagnetics. His work advances scalable modeling and design of complex electromagnetic systems, with applications in NextG wireless, heterogeneous integration, intra-system EMI/EMC, and physics-based computing for intelligent platforms. He has received multiple honors, including three IEEE Transactions Paper Awards, eight Conference Best Paper Awards, and the NSF CAREER and ACES Early Career Awards. He is a 2024–2026 IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer, Chair of the IEEE AP-S TC on Computational Electromagnetics, and Associate Editor for IEEE TAP, IEEE TMTT, and IEEE OJAP. His research vision integrates physics and machine intelligence to accelerate the development of autonomous and explainable electromagnetic systems for 6G and beyond.

Luis Gomez of Purdue University

Biography:

Luis Gomez is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, where he leads research in computational electromagnetics with a focus on advancing brain stimulation technologies. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2014 and 2015, respectively. He then completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University, where he contributed to the development of focal TMS coils. Dr. Gomez is a recipient of the NIH K99/R00 Brain Initiative Award and was recognized with the Journal of Neural Engineering Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2019.

Danilo Erricolo of University of Illinois Chicago

Biography:

Danilo Erricolo is a Professor and the Director of the Andrew Electromagnetics Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and the Director of International Programs in the College of Engineering at UIC. During the summer of 2009, he was an Air Force Faculty Fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH, USA.

He has authored or coauthored more than 340 publications including refereed journals, international conferences, and book chapters. His research interests are primarily in the areas of antenna design, electromagnetic propagation and scattering, high-frequency techniques, wireless communications, electromagnetic compatibility, the computation of special functions, and magnetic resonance imaging.

Branislav Notaros of Colorado State University

Biography:

Branislav M. Notaros is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Electromagnetics Laboratory, and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. His research contributions are in computational and applied electromagnetics. Prof. Notaros serves as Immediate Past President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), Immediate Past Chair of the USNC-URSI Commission B, and Track Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He served as General Chair of the IEEE APS/URSI 2022 Denver Conference. He was the recipient of the 1999 IEE Marconi Premium, 2005 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award, 2019 ACES Technical Achievement Award, 2014 Carnegie Foundation Colorado Professor of the Year Award, 2015 ASEE ECE Distinguished Educator Award, 2015 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and many other research and teaching awards. He is Fellow of IEEE and ACES.

Thomas Roth of Purdue University

Biography:

Thomas E. Roth is an Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the Radar Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Electromagnetics & Sensor Technologies department. He received all his degrees in electrical and computer engineering, with the B.S. degrees from Missouri University of Science and Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include multiscale and multiphysics computational electromagnetics modeling, particularly for improving the analysis and design of quantum information processing devices.