AP-S Chronology 2017 - 2022
2017
Officers
President: Ahmed A. Kishk
Administrative Committee
Administrative Committee meetings
Symposium
The 2017 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting was held July 9–14 in San Diego, California. General Chair – Dan Sievenpiper, General Co-Chair – Gabriel Rebeiz, Technical Program Chairs – Vitaliy Lomakin and Filippo Capolino.
IEEE 2017 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2017 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2017 Best Paper Awards
Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award – M. Tamagnone and J. Mosig, "Theoretical Limits on the Efficiency of Reconfigurable and Non-Reciprocal Graphene Antennas," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters Vol. 15, 1579, 2016
R. W. P. King Paper Award – L. Liang and S. Victor Hum, "Design of a UWB Reflectarray as an Impedance Surface Using Bessel Filters," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 64, no. 10, 4242-4255, 2016
Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award – D. J. Bisharat, S. Liao, and Q. Xue, “High Gain and Low Cost Differentially Fed Circularly Polarized Planar Aperture Antenna for Broadband Millimeter-Wave Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 64, no.1, 33-42, 2016
Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award – N. Chahat, R. E. Hodges, J. Sauder, M. Thomson, E. Peral and Y. Rahmat-Samii, “CubeSat Deployable Ka-Band Mesh Reflector Antenna Development for Earth Science Missions,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no. 6, 2083-2093, 2016
Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award – A. Thain, J. P. Estienne, J. Robert, A. Herve, A. Piche, G. Peres, B. Pasquier, A. Jaber, L. Evain, F. Harly, B. Gutierres, H. Lenquette, B. Sinigaglia, and B. Spitz, "Stealth Buildings at Airbus Group Innovations: Low-cost solutions to radio perturbations," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine issue 58, no. 1, pp. 16-27, February 2016
2018
Officers
President: Weng Cho Chew
Administrative Committee
Administrative Committee meetings
Symposium
The 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting was held 8-13 July in Boston, Massachusetts. General Chair – Steven Best, Co-Chairs – Michael Shields, Technical Program Chairs – Alan Fenn and Wajih Elsallal.
IEEE 2018 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2018 Awards
Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to Lot Shafai “For contributions to singular electromagnetics, Moment Methods, reflector feeds and virtual arrays, wideband antennas, gain enhancement in miniaturized antennas and dielectric film circuits and antennas.”
Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award – presented to Stuart A. Long “For his commitment to electromagnetics education through teaching, research, and the development of programs to attract students into electromagnetics and engineering.”
John Kraus Antenna Award – presented to W. D. Burnside and I. J. Gupta “For the design and development of compact test range reflectors with blended rolled edges”
Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award – presented to Soo Yong Lim “For modernizing the teaching of electromagnetics and for innovating its relevant curriculum design”
Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to Diane Titz “For her contribution to the development of antenna solutions and integration at millimeter wave frequencies through innovative technologies and contributing to the access of young women to careers in STEM”
Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics – presented to Qing Huo Liu “For pioneering contributions to spectral and multiscale methods in computational electromagnetics, and to inverse scattering and imaging of complex media”
Antennas and Propagation Society 2018 Best Paper Awards
Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award – Byungje Lee and Yonghyun Yoon for the paper “Low-Profile, Low-Cost, Broadband Millimeter-Wave Antenna Array for High-Data-Rate WPAN Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 16, pp. 1957-1960, 2017
R. W. P. King Paper Award – Matan Leibovich and Ehud Heyman for the paper “Beam Summation Theory for Waves in Fluctuating Media. Part I: The Beam Frame and the Beam-Domain Scattering Matrix,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 65, No. 10, pp. 5431-5442, October 2017.
Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award – Ding Nie and Bertrand M. Hochwald for the paper “Bandwidth Analysis of Multiport Radio Frequency Systems—Part I,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 1081-1092, March 2017.
Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award – Han Guo, Yang Liu, Jun Hu, and Eric Michielssen for the paper “A Butterfly-Based Direct Integral-Equation Solver Using Hierarchical LU Factorization for Analyzing Scattering From Electrically Large Conducting Objects,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 65, no. 9 (2017): pages 4742-4750, September 2017.
Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award – Chengjun Zou, Withawat Withayachumnankul, Madhu Bhaskaran, Sharath Sriram, and Christophe Fumeaux for the paper “Dielectric Resonator Nanoantennas: A Review of the Theoretical Background, Design Examples, Prospects, and Challenges,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 30-42, December 2017.
2019
Officers
President: Koichi Ito
Administrative Committee
Administrative Committee meetings
Symposium
The 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting was held 7-12 July in Atlanta, Georgia. General Chair – John Papapolymerou, General Co-Chair – Manos Tentzeris, Technical Program Chairs – Shanker Balasubramaniam and Andrew Peterson.
IEEE 2019 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2019 Awards
Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to George Eleftheriades “For pioneering contributions to metamaterials and metasurfaces, and their applications to antennas and subdiffraction imaging.”
Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award – presented to Douglas H Werner “For exemplary achievements in higher education as an inspiring teacher and mentor, and for innovative contributions to advancing knowledge in electromagnetics.”
John Kraus Antenna Award – presented to Daniel Sievenpiper “For the creation and development of artificial impedance surfaces used in antenna design and scattering control.”
Donald G. Dudley, Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award – presented to Eng Leong Tan “For excellence in teaching, student mentoring, and the development of mobile technologies and computational methods for electromagnetics education.”
Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to Eva Antonino Daviu “For her contribution to the systematic design of antenna systems for practical applications using characteristic modes and promoting access of women to engineering.”
Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics – presented to Chi Hou Chan “For fundamental contributions to fast solutions of integral equations using FFT with applications to scattering, antennas and interconnect structures in homogeneous and layered medium.”
Antennas and Propagation Society 2019 Best Paper Awards
Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award – Casimir Ehrenborg and Mats Gustafsson, "Fundamental bounds on MIMO antennas," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 17, no. 1 (2018): 21-24.
R. W. P. King Paper Award – Brandon W. Dowd and Rodolfo E. Diaz. "FDTD simulation of very large domains applied to radar propagation over the ocean." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 66, no. 10 (2018): 5333-5348.
Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award – Kenneth W. Brown, "Far-Field Antenna Pattern Measurement Using Near-Field Thermal Imaging." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 66, no. 3 (2018): 1488-1496.
Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award – Francisco S. Cuesta, Ihar A. Faniayeu, Viktar S. Asadchy, and Sergei A. Tretyakov,"Planar broadband Huygens' metasurfaces for wave manipulations." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 66, no. 12 (2018): 7117-7127.
Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award – Rick W. Kindt and John T. Logan. "Benchmarking Ultrawideband Phased Antenna Arrays: Striving for Clearer and More Informative Reporting Practices." IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 60, no. 3 (2018): 34-47.
2020
Officers
President: Mahta Moghaddam
Administrative Committee
Administrative Committee meetings
Symposium
The 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting was held 5-10 July in Montréal, Québec. General Chair – Ahmed Kishk, General Co-Chairs – Lot Shafai, David G. Michelson and Yahia M. M. Antar, Technical Program Chairs – George V. Eleftheriades, Ke Wu, Ashwin K. Iyer and Marco Antoniades.
IEEE 2020 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2020 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2020 Best Paper Awards
Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award – Nikolai Simonov, Seong-Ho Son, Min-Ho Ka, “Method for Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from the Human Body Based on Truncated Norton Surface Wave Approximation,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 18, no. 8 (2019): 1631-1635.
R. W. P. King Paper Award – David R. Hendry and Amin M. Abbosh. "Coupled-Resonator Theory of Isolation in Multi-Mode Antennas." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 67, no. 9 (2019): 5801-5811.
Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award – Matthew Jared Horst Mohammad Tayeb Ghasr, and R. Zoughi, “Compact Microwave Camera Based on Chaotic Excitation Synthetic Aperture Radar (CESAR)” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 67, no. 6, (2019):4148-4161.
Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award – David S. Abraham and Dennis D. Giannacopoulos, “A Convolution-Free Mixed Finite-Element Time-Domain Method for General Nonlinear Dispersive Media,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 1, (2019): 324-334.
Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award – Jian-Ming Jin, and Su Yan. "Multiphysics modeling in electromagnetics: Technical challenges and potential solutions." IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 61, no. 2 (2019): 14-26.
2021
Officers
President: Yahia Antar
Administrative Committee
Administrative Committee meetings
Symposium
The 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI) was held 4-10 December in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. General Chair – Zhi Ning Chen, General Co-Chairs – Zhongxiang Shen and Xianming Qing, Technical Program Chairs – Eng Leong Tan and Xudong Chen.
IEEE 2021 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2021 Awards
Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to David Pozar “For significant contributions to the electromagnetic analysis, development, and design of microstrip phased arrays and reflectarrays, and for educational leadership and service to the electromagnetics community.”
Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award – presented to Cynthia Furse “For motivating, challenging, educating and inspiring the next generation of EM engineers through innovative teaching, hands on experiences, current research and lively participation.”
John Kraus Antenna Award – presented to Yueping Zhang and Duixian Liu “For pioneering and significant contributions to the development of antenna-in-package (AiP) technology.”
Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to Jamesina Simpson “For advancing and applying global and local FDTD models of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide and for establishing programs to help mentor and encourage engineering students.”
Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics – presented to Eric Michielssen “In recognition of being an outstanding computational scientist, as well as a mentor and role model for the next generation of faculty members.”
Antennas and Propagation Society 2021 Best Paper Awards
Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award – Sharma, Shashwat, and Piero Triverio, "SLIM: A well-conditioned single-source boundary element method for modeling lossy conductors in layered media," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 19, no. 12 (2020): 2072-2076.
R. W. P. King Paper Award – Virk, Usman Tahir, and Katsuyuki Haneda, "Modeling human blockage at 5G millimeter-wave frequencies." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 68, no. 3 (2019): 2256-2266.
Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award – Ma, Ruyu, and Nader Behdad, "Broadband, Small-Aperture Direction-Finding Array With Azimuth and Elevation Estimation Capability," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 68, no. 4 (2019): 3163-3175.
Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award – Yaghjian, Arthur D, "Stellar speckle and correlation functions derived from classical wave expansions for spherical antennas," arXiv e-prints (2019), arXiv-1910.
Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award – Hanson, George W. "Aspects of quantum electrodynamics compared to the classical case: Similarity and disparity of quantum and classical electromagnetics," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 62, no. 4 (2020): 16-26.
2022
Officers
President: Gianluca Lazzi
Administrative Committee
(Three-Year Term, 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2025) – Sima Noghanian, C.J. Reddy, Camila Albuquerque, Zhi Ning Chen
Administrative Committee meetings
Symposium
The 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting was held 10-15 July in Denver, Colorado. General Chair – Branislav Notaros, General Co-Chair – Dejan Filipovic, Technical Program Chair – Andrew Peterson.
IEEE 2022 Awards
Antennas and Propagation Society 2022 Awards
Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia “For pioneering research on electromagnetic propagation in complex and nanoengineered materials.”Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award – presented to Dr. Zhenghe Feng “For being an inspiring educator, mentor, and contributor to the development of smart antennas and mobile communications.”
John Kraus Antenna Award – presented to Dr. Ke Wu “For pioneering research in and seminal contributions to the development of substrate integrated antenna and array technologies and applications.”
Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award – presented to Dr. Sema Dumanli Oktar “For excellence in promoting research in antennas and propagation among undergraduate students and great contributions to the guidance of early career researchers.”
Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award – presented to Dr. Yong-Mei Pan “For contributions to the dielectric resonator antennas and filtering antennas.”
Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics – presented to Dr. Yahya Rahmat-Samii “For fundamental contributions to the spectral theory of diffraction; hybrid method of moments and physical optics; and nature-inspired optimization techniques in diverse electromagnetics engineering applications”
Antennas and Propagation Society 2022 Best Paper Awards
Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award – Ines Dorsch, Dominik Schwarz, and Christian Waldschmidt, "A Switchable Biomimetic Antenna Array," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 20, no. 12 (2021): 2422-2426.
R. W. P. King Paper Award – Utkarsh R. Patel and Eric Michielssen, "Wigner–Smith Time Delay Matrix for Electromagnetics: Computational Aspects for Radiation and Scattering Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 69, no. 7 (2020): 3995-4010.
Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award – Robert Lehmensiek and Dirk I.L. de Villiers, "An Optimal 18 m Shaped Offset Gregorian Reflector for the ngVLA Radio Telescope," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 69, no. 12 (2021): 8282-8290.
Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award – Piero Angeletti and Juan Lizarraga Cubillo, "Traffic Balancing Multibeam Antennas for Communication Satellites," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 69, no. 12 (2021): 8291-8303.
Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award – Branislav M. Notaroš, "Meteorological Electromagnetics: Optical and Radar Measurements, Modeling, and Characterization of Snowflakes and Snow," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 63, no. 2 (2021): 14-27.