Yahia of Royal Military College of Canada

Many aspects of our lives are becoming fundamentally dependent on wireless technology in a manner that they were not before. This trend is exemplified by the massive investment in endeavours, such as 5G,6G technologies. Many in IEEE believe 5G and 6G will become the cornerstone of future wireless networks, enabling fundamentally new applications. These include the internet of things (IOT), with its anticipated billions of devices laden with embedded sensors and other emerging applications in civilian and military. A common denominator in many of the current and new applications is the antenna systems, which form the “eyes and ears” of many sensors. New developments for advancing the state of the art in antenna technology and associated microwave and millimeter wave circuits to meet future challenges will be needed. 

This talk will address some current and new emerging directions of research in antenna systems. This will include new fundamental approaches for antenna analysis, new methods for analyzing the structure of the antenna near fields and electromagnetic energy around antenna systems, and possible implications on future antenna systems design in what is expected to be an increasingly crowded electromagnetic environment. Newly introduced concepts on using surface waves in designing new antennas and novel microwave circuits as well as using dielectrics in antennas will also be described. A brief introduction of the new opportunities and initiatives recently introduced by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the befits of its members worldwide will be emphasized.

Biography:

Yahia M.M. Antar (S’73–M’76–SM’85–LF’00). He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from Alexandria University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, MB, Canada, all in electrical engineering. He worked at the Communications Research Centre and the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa before joining the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC), Kingston where he has held the position of Professor since 1990. He has authored or coauthored over 300 journal papers, several books and chapters in books, over 450 refereed conference papers, holds several patents, has chaired several national and international conferences, and has given plenary talks at many conferences. He has supervised and co-supervised over 100 Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses at the RMC and at Queen’s University, several of them have received the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal Award, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis of the Division of Applied Science, as well as many Best Paper Awards in journals and at major international symposia. He served as the Chair of CNC, URSI (1999–2008), Commission B (1993–1999), and has held a cross appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston since 1990.

Dr. Antar is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, and an URSI Fellow. He has served as Associate Editor of many IEEE and IET Journals and as an IEEE-APS Distinguished Lecturer. In May 2002, he was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electromagnetic Engineering, which has been renewed in 2009 and again in 2016. In 2003, he was awarded the RMCC “Excellence in Research” Prize, and the RMCC Class of 1965 Teaching Excellence Award in 2012. He was elected to the URSI Board as Vice President in August 2008 and in 2014, and to the IEEE AP AdCom in 2009. He was appointed to the Canadian Defense Science Advisory Board (DSAB) in January 2011. In October 2012, he received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Governor General of Canada in recognition for his contribution to Canada. He is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Canada RA Fessenden Silver Medal, and the 2015 IEEE Canada J. M. Ham outstanding Engineering Education Award. In May 2015, he received the RMC Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research. He is the recipient of the IEEE-AP-S Chen-To-Tai Distinguished Educator Award for 2017.In 2020 he was elected as President –Elect of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and served as President in 2021.

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