Ahmed H. Abdelrahman received B.S. and M.S. degrees from The
Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and
Communications, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2001 and
2010, respectively, and he received a Ph.D. degree in engineering
sciences from The Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Mississippi, University, MS, USA, in 2014. Dr. Abdelrahman is
currently a research associate with the Antenna Research Group
(ARG), in The Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy
Engineering, at The University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO,
USA. He also worked as a postdoctoral research associate for almost
two years in The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Additionally, he
possesses over eight years of experience in Satellite
Communications industry. He worked as a RF design engineer and a
Communication System Engineer in building the low earth orbit
satellite Egyptsat-1. His research interests include
transmitarray/reflectarray antennas, mobile antennas,
reconfigurable antennas, simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR)
antennas, satellite communications, and thermoacoustic and
millimeter-wave imaging.
Dr. Abdelrahman was the recipient of the several prestigious
awards, including the Third-Place Winner Student Paper Competition
Award at the 2013 ACES Annual Conference, and the Honorable Mention
Student Paper Competition at the 2014 IEEE AP-S International
Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.
Fan Yang received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree
from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in
2002.
From 1994-1999, he was a research assistant with the State Key
Laboratory of Microwave and Digital Communications, Tsinghua
University. From 1999-2002, he was a graduate student researcher
with the Antenna Laboratory, UCLA. From 2002-2004, he was a
post-doctoral research engineer and instructor with the Electrical
Engineering Department, UCLA. In 2004, he joined the Electrical
Engineering Department at The University of Mississippi as an
assistant professor, and was promoted to a tenured associate
professor. In 2011, he joined the Electronic Engineering Department
at Tsinghua University as a professor, and has served as the
Director of the Microwave and Antenna Institute since then.
Prof. Yang's research interests include antennas, surface
electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, and applied
electromagnetic systems. He has published over 200 journal articles
and conference papers, six book chapters, and three books entitled
Scattering Analysis of Periodic Structures Using Finite-Difference
Time-Domain Method (Morgan & Claypool, 2012), Electromagnetic Band
Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering (Cambridge Univ. Press,
2009), and Electromagnetics and Antenna Optimization Using
Taguchi's Method (Morgan & Claypool, 2007).
Prof. Yang served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions
on Antennas and Propagation (2010-2013) and an associate
editor-in-chief of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society
(ACES) Journal (2008-2014). He was the Technical Program Committee
(TPC) Chair of 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and
Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. Dr. Yang has been
the recipient of several prestigious awards and recognitions,
including the Young Scientist Award of the 2005 URSI General
Assembly and of the 2007 International Symposium on Electromagnetic
Theory, the 2008 Junior Faculty Research Award of the University of
Mississippi, the 2009 inaugural IEEE Donald G. Dudley Jr.
Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the 2011 Recipient of Global
Experts Program of China.
Atef Z. Elsherbeni received an honor B.Sc. degree in electronics
and communications, an honor B.Sc. degree in applied physics, and a
M. Eng. degree in electrical engineering, all from Cairo
University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1976, 1979, and 1982, respectively,
and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Manitoba
University, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1987. He started his
engineering career as a part time Software and System Design
Engineer from March 1980 to December 1982 at the Automated Data
System Center, Cairo, Egypt. From January to August 1987, he was a
post doctoral fellow at Manitoba University. Dr. Elsherbeni joined
the faculty at the University of Mississippi in August 1987 as an
assistant professor of electrical engineering. He advanced to the
rank of associate professor in July 1991, and to the rank of
professor in July 1997. He was appointed as Associate Dean of
Engineering for Research and Graduate Programs from July 2009 to
July 2013 at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Elsherbeni joined
the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at
Colorado School of Mines in August 2013 as the Dobelman
Distinguished Chair Professor. He currently is the Electrical
Engineering Division Director. He spent a sabbatical term in 1996
at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California
at Los Angeles (UCLA) and was a visiting Professor at Magdeburg
University during the summer of 2005 and at Tampere University of
Technology in Finland during the summer of 2007. In 2009, he was
selected as Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of
Finland and TEKES.
Over the years, Dr. Elsherbeni participated in acquiring millions
of dollars to support his research group activities dealing with
scattering and diffraction of EM waves by dielectric and metal
objects, finite difference time domain analysis of antennas and
microwave devices, field visualization and software development for
EM education, interactions of electromagnetic waves with human
body, RFID and sensor Integrated FRID systems, reflector and
printed antennas and antenna arrays for radars, UAV, and personal
communication systems, antennas for wideband applications, and
measurements of antenna characteristics and material properties. He
is the co-author of the books Antenna Analysis and Design Using
FEKO Electromagnetic Simulation Software, ACES Series on
Computational Electromagnetics and Engineering, SciTech 2014,
Double-Grid Finite-Difference Frequency-Domain (DG-FDFD) Method for
Scattering from Chiral Objects, Morgan & Claypool, 2013, Scattering
Analysis of Periodic Structures Using Finite-Difference Time-Domain
Method, Morgan & Claypool, 2012, Multiresolution Frequency Domain
Technique for Electromagnetics, Morgan & Claypool, 2012, The Finite
Difference Time Domain Method for Electromagnetics with Matlab
Simulations, Scitech, 2009 1st ed., and 2016 2nd ed. by IET,
Antenna Design and Visualization Using Matlab, Scitech, 2006,
MATLAB Simulations for Radar Systems Design, CRC Press, 2003,
Electromagnetic Scattering Using the Iterative Multiregion
Technique, Morgan & Claypool, 2007, Electromagnetics and Antenna
Optimization using Taguchi's Method, Morgan & Claypool, 2007,
Scattering Analysis of Periodic Structures Using Finite-Difference
Time-Domain Method, Morgan & Claypool, 2012, Multiresolution
Frequency Domain Technique for Electromagnetics, Morgan & Claypool,
2012, and the main author of the chapters Handheld Antennas and The
Finite Difference Time Domain Technique for Microstrip Antennas in
Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communications, CRC Press,
2001.
Dr. Elsherbeni is a Fellow member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a fellow member of e Applied
Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES). He is the
Editor-in-Chief of the ACES Journal, and a past Associate Editor of
the Radio Science Journal. He was the Chair of the Engineering and
Physics Division of the Mississippi Academy of Science and was the
Chair of the Educational Activity Committee for the IEEE Region 3
Section. He held the president position of ACES Society from
2013-2015.
Payam Nayeri received a B.Sc. in applied physics from Shahid
Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2004, an M.Sc. in electrical
engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran,
Iran, in 2007, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The
University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA, in 2012.
From 2008-2013, Dr. Nayeri was with the Center for Applied
Electromagnetic Systems Research (CAESR) at The University of
Mississippi. Prior to this, he was a visiting researcher at the
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. From August 2012 to
December 2013 he was a postdoctoral research associate and
instructor with the Electrical Engineering Department, The
University of Mississippi. From January 2014 to June 2015, he was a
post-doctoral fellow with the Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA.
Dr. Nayeri joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department at Colorado School of Mines as an assistant professor in
July 2015. His current research is in the areas of multifunctional
and adaptive microwave circuits, wireless energy harvesting, active
and wideband antenna arrays, and adaptive beamforming. Dr. Nayeri
is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi, and has authored
over 60 journal articles and conference papers. He has been the
recipient of several prestigious awards, including the IEEE
Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award in 2010,
the University of Mississippi Graduate Achievement Award in
Electrical Engineering in 2011, and the Best Student Paper Award of
the 29th International Review of Progress in ACES.
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