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2024 Raj Mittra Travel Grant awarded

The 2024 Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) has been established to partially support travel by one Ph.D. level scientist to attend the joint 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, which will be held from July 14–19, 2024 in Florence, Italy.

Dr. Vahid Nayyeri

This year for the IEEE AP-S/URSI 2024 in Florence, RMTG Committee is pleased to announce Dr. Vahid Nayyeri as the RMTG Awardee!!

Vahid Nayyeri (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1983. He received the B.Sc. degree from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from IUST in 2013, all in electrical engineering.

From 2007 to 2013, he was a Research Assistant at IUST and then a Visiting Scholar at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada.

In 2013, he joined the faculty of IUST, where he is currently an Associate Professor, the Director of the "Advanced Radio Circuits and Systems Laboratory", and the Head of the "Department of Satellite Technology".

In 2019, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo. He has authored and co-authored one book (in Persian), one book chapter, and over 120 technical papers. His research interests include microwave active and passive circuits, as well as applied and computational electromagnetics.

Dr. Nayyeri received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the IEEE Iran Section in 2014.

He serves on the IEEE Iran Section as a member of the Board of Directors and the Chair of the Membership Development Committee. Dr. Nayyeri was the TPC Chair and a member of several national and international conferences. He was a Guest Editor for two special issues of the journal Sensors in 2019 and 2020.

Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and the IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation.