Mojgan Daneshmand Grant Recipients

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) established a new award to increase women’s visibility at the annual IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. The grant is named after our late colleague Prof. Mojgan Daneshmand, whose research achievements and commitments to the Antennas and Propagation Society are a model to promote women.

2024 Recipients

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) is happy to announce a new award to increase women’s visibility at the annual IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting.

Hajar Abedi University of Waterloo

Azadeh Ahmadihaji Ecole supérieure de technologie Montréal

Elisa Augello University of Waterloo

Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Secil F. Dogan The Ohio State University

Rotem Gal-Katzir University of Tel-Aviv

Martina Gugliermino Politecnico di Torino

Hira Hameed University of Glasgow

Myoungsun Kim Pohang University of Science and Technology

Tianrui Qiao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Suchitra Tiwari Indian Institute of Technology Jammu

Jiexi Yin Karlsruhe Institue of Technology

2023 Recipients

AP-S awarded the 2023 Mojgan Daneshmand Grant of $1,500 to these 12 members, enabling them to participate in person at the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. The event will take place 23-28 July 2023 in Portland, Oregon, USA. In addition to the grant, the registration fee and banquet ticket are covered. The selection committee was led by Prof. Claire Migliaccio, Chair of AP-S DEI Committee.

Andrea Alejandra
Ávila Saavedra
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso

Audrey L Evans
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Elizaveta Motovilova
Weill Cornell Medicine

Gaurangi Gupta
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology

Mai Osama Sallam
Nile University

Martina Teresa Bevacqua
Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria,
Department DIIES

Zahra Manzoor
Purdue University West Lafayette,
IN,
USA

Parisa Lofti
Antenna engineer at PCTEL

Prajakta Sathe
Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E&ECE),
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Rocio Rodriguez Cano
Aalborg University/ Penn State

Siti Nailah Mastura Zainarry
University of Adelaide

Tang Shiwen
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering,
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2022 Recipients

AP-S chose these 12 members to receive the 2022 Mojgan Daneshmand Grant. They participated in person at the 2022 AP-S/URSI symposium that took place 10-15 July 2022 in Denver, Colorado, USA. The selection committee was led by Prof. Claire Migliaccio, Chair of AP-S DEI Committee.