(Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rome Tre, Rome, Italy, in 2001, 2003, and 2007, respectively.,He is the Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) with Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA. He is also the Einstein Professor of physics with the CUNY Graduate Center, a Professor of electrical engineering with the City College of New York, New York, an Adjunct Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. From 2002 to 2008, he was periodically working at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, PA, USA, where he developed significant parts of his Ph.D. and postgraduate research. After spending one year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UPenn, in 2009, he joined the Faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until 2018.

He is the coauthor of an edited book on Optical Antennas, over 500 journal articles and over 35 book chapters. He has been a Highly Cited Researcher from Web of Science since 2017. His current research interests span over metamaterials and plasmonics, electromangetics, optics and nanophotonics, acoustics, scattering, nanocircuits and nanostructures, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas, and RF antennas and circuits.,Dr. Alù is a full member of URSI and a fellow of NAI, OSA, AAAS, SPIE, and APS. Over the last few years, he has received several research awards, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in 2019, the ICO Prize in Optics 2016, the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering in 2016, the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award in 2015, the IEEE MTT Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2014, the OSA Adolph Lomb Medal in 2013, and the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal in 2011. He was the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE AP-S symposium in 2016, and the program chair, and the general co-chair for several Metamaterials conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters and serves on the Editorial Board of Physical Review B, Advanced Optical Materials, EPJ Applied Metamaterials, and ISTE Metamaterials. He has guest edited special issues for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, the Proceedings of IEEE, the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Nanophotonics, the Journal of Optics, the Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications, Optics Communications, Metamaterials, and Sensors on a variety of topics involving metamaterials, plasmonics, optics, and electromagnetic theory. He has been a Simons Investigator of physics since 2016. He has been serving as the President of the Metamorphose Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials, a member of the Administrative Committee for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, an OSA Traveling Lecturer since 2010, an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer since 2014, and the IEEE Joint AP-S and MTT-S Chapter for Central Texas.

(S'89–M'91–SM'96) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the B.A. degree in physics in 1983, both (summa cum laude), the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, in 1991, all from Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. From 1991 to 1992, he was on the Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion. From 1992 to 1994, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1994, he joined Israel Aircraft Industries as a research engineer and became a manager of the Electromagnetics Department in 1997. Since 1999, he is with the Physical Electronics Department of the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His interests are in electromagnetic theory, wave scattering, imaging, and design of antennas and optical devices. He has published over 55 journal articles and presented more than 100 conference papers on electromagnetics and acoustics.

(M’82–SM’90–F’00) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Academy, CO, USA, the M.S. degree in engineering management from Western New England College, Springfield, MA, USA, in 1981, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1987.

Currently, he is a Professor and Department Head of EECS, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA. Previously, he was an RF Staff Consultant with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Senior Scientist, and Department Head with the Applied Research Laboratory of Pennsylvania State University, Professor and Department Head of ECE with Utah State, Professor and Chair of EE with the University of Nevada Reno, and Professor of EE with the USAF Academy. He was a Project Engineer for OTH-B radar and a Research Antenna Engineer for Rome Air Development Center early in his career. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force in 1997. He is the coauthor of the books Practical Genetic Algorithms (2nd edn, Wiley, 2004), Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics (Wiley, 2007), and Introduction to Adaptive Antennas (SciTech, 2010), as well as the author of Antenna Arrays a Computation Approach (Wiley, 2010), and Timed Arrays (Wiley, 2015). Dr. Haupt is a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He was the Federal Engineer of the Year in 1993. He serves as Chair of the IEEE AP-S Fellows Committee.

(M’83–SM’15–F’18) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1982, 1983, and 1989, respectively.,From 1992 to 1994, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Institute for High Frequency Technology, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 1999, he joined the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, Hanscom, MA, USA, where he developed phased array antenna technologies, including wideband scanning arrays, multifrequency antennas, conformal arrays, and digital beamforming arrays. He leads the RF Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA, which develops and demonstrates innovative RF technologies as solutions to emerging national security needs in radar, electronic warfare, and communications.,Dr. Herd served on the Administrative Committee for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the Steering Committee for multiple international symposia. He is the General Chairman of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, in Boston, MA, USA.

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Research interests: Modeling and Analysis of Mechatronic System / Movement Control / 3D Printing

is graduated from Xidian University in China, and his research direction is multidisciplinary optimization, high precision signal control system and vibration suppression technology. His current research interests are in bionic science and bionic intelligence.

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received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and 2007, respectively. After graduation, he worked as a senior research scientist at Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. Since 2014, he joined the department of electronic engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include fast algorithms in computational electromagnetics and their applications in antenna modeling, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, inverse problems, and etc. He has published more than 20 journal and 70 conference papers. He was also among the recipient of China National 1000 Plan in 2014, and 2017 IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Award.

received the Physics degree in 2012, the MSc in Engineering Mathematics in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation in Engineering and Applied Science in 2018 by the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He was visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University Federico II of Naples, Italy, in 2015. He is currently a Xunta de Galicia International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher in ELEDIA Research Center at University of Trento. His main research interests are focused on numerical methods in solving electromagnetic problems and antenna array pattern synthesis.

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(S’96–M’03–SM’08) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, USA, in 2002. From 1994 to 1999, he was a Research Assistant with the State Key Laboratory of Microwave and Digital Communications, Tsinghua University. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Graduate Student Researcher with the Antenna Laboratory, UCLA. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Engineer and an Instructor with the Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA. In 2004, he joined the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA, as an Assistant Professor, and then became an Associate Professor. Since 2010, he has been a Professor with Tsinghua University, and then the Director of the Microwave and Antenna Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 200 journal articles and conference papers, five 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 University Press, 2009), and Electromagnetics and Antenna Optimization Using Taguchi’s Method (Morgan & Claypool, 2007).

His current research interests include antenna theory, electromagnetic band gap structures and their applications, computational electromagnetics, and applied electromagnetic systems. Dr. Yang was a recipient of the several prestigious awards and recognitions, including the 2004 Certificate for Exceptional Accomplishment in Research and Professional Development Award of UCLA, 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, and the 2009 inaugural IEEE Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the 2011 Global Experts Program of China. He was the TPC Chair of the 2014 IEEE AP-S International Symposium. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION and the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal. He is also a frequent reviewer for over 20 scientific journals and book publishers. He has chaired numerous technical sessions in various international symposia.

was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1967. He received the B.S. degree in electronic science and technology from East China Normal University, Shanghai, the M.S. degree in electromagnetics and microwave technology and the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, in 1989, 1992 and 1998, respectively. From 1994 to 1998, he was a Lecturer at the Institute of High Energy Electronics, UESTC. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Research Scientist with Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include antennas, antennas arrays, optimization techniques, and computational electromagnetics.