Stuart A. Long completed his secondary education in Snyder, Texas. He was granted the B.A. (magna cum laude) and M.E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and the Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University. He was previously employed at General Dynamics and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories before joining the faculty at the University of Houston 50 years ago. There he has served as Chairman of the Department, Associate Dean of the College, Interim Dean of the Honors College, and Interim Vice President for Research. He presently is the Moores Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Research and the Honors College.

His research interests are in the broad area of applied electromagnetics and more specifically in microstrip and dielectric resonator antennas. Dr. Long also leads programs to bring girls to campus during the summer, allow high school teachers to be involved in research, involve undergraduates in research activities, place PhD students into local high school science classes, form communities for female engineering students, and aid in the retention of currently enrolled students.

Dr. Long served AP-S as AdCom member, President, General Chair of the 1983 Symposium in Houston, and Meetings Coordinator for 30 years. He also served on the IEEE Technical Activities Board, Publications Activities Board, Spectrum Editorial Board, IEEE Fellow Committee, and Audit Committee, and was elected to the Board of Directors of the IEEE as Director of Division IV

At the University of Houston, Dr. Long was the recipient of the University Teaching Excellence Award, the Engineering Alumni Faculty Award, the University of Houston Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award, IEEE Region 5 Educator of the Year award, and received the top career award given by the College. He was named as the first recipient of the University of Houston Career Teaching Excellence Award, and received the Esther Farfel Award, the highest faculty award given at the University of Houston.

Dr. Long is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Commission B of URSI, and is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and served as an AP-S Distinguished Lecturer. He previously was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Outstanding Service Award, the IEEE John Kraus Antenna Award, and the IEEE ChenTo Tai Distinguished Educator Award.

Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Kamsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with affiliations in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Bioengineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. He received his BS degree from the University of Tehran, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech. His current research activities span a broad range of areas including optics, metamaterials, electrodynamics, microwaves, photonics, nanooptics, graphene photonics, imaging and sensing inspired by eyes of animal species, microwave and optical antennas, and physics and engineering of fields and waves.

He has received several awards for his research including the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering from the Franklin Institute, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected to Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) as a foreign member, the 2023 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (UK), the 2020 Max Born Award from the OPTICA (formerly Optical Society), the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the 2018 IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology, the 2022 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture at MIT, the 2015 SPIE Gold Medal, the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the 2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the Canadian Academy of Engineering as an International Fellow, the Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the IEEE Electromagnetics Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Award from DoD, the Wheatstone Lecture in King’s College London, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, 2006 Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

He is a Fellow of nine international scientific and technical organizations, i.e., IEEE, OPTICA, American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), URSI, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Institute of Physics (IOP-UK) and US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He has received the honorary doctoral degrees from the Aalto University in Finland in 2016, the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2016, and Ukraine’s National Technical University Kharkov Polytechnic Institute in 2017.

Yang Hao received the Ph.D. degree in computational electromagnetics from the Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, U.K., in 1998.

He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K

He is currently a QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at Queen Mary University of London, U.K. His work has been recognised through his books “Antennas and Radio Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications” and “FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications,” (Artech House, USA) and highly cited papers published in leading journals. These research results have been taken up by industry in the U.K., and overseas.

He has supervised more than 70 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral, who are now employed by the industry and universities worldwide, some of whom have set up their own spinout companies.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letter and he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IEEE, IET and ERA Foundation.

Prof. Hao won many accolades, including the prestigious AF Harvey Research Prize in 2015, the BAE Chairman’s Silver Award in 2014, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2013. In 2024, he won the EurAAP Antenna Award and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society.

Thomas E. Roth is an Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received all his degrees in electrical and computer engineering, with the B.S. degrees from Missouri University of Science and Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the Radar Electromagnetics & Sensor Technologies department where he was named a 2019 Up & Coming Innovator for his technical and programmatic leadership in the design of radar antennas and highly-reconfigurable reflectarray antennas. He is the recipient of Young Scientist Awards at the 2023 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium and the URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory 2023 (1st place), a recipient of the 2023 IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Award on Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics, as well as the 2023 Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award at Purdue University. His research focuses on multiscale and multiphysics computational electromagnetics techniques, particularly for analyzing and designing emerging classical electromagnetic technologies and quantum information processing devices.

Leyre Azpilicueta (Senior Member, IEEE) received her Telecommunications Engineering Degree (2009), her Master’s Degree of Communications (2011) and her Ph.D. Degree in Telecommunication Technologies (2015), at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), in Spain. In 2010 she worked in the R&D department of RFID Osés as radio engineer. From 2015 to 2022, she was an Associate Professor and Researcher at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico. Currently, she is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow (Researcher & Professor) at UPNA, in Spain. She has over 250 contributions in relevant journals and conference publications. Her research interests are on radio propagation, mobile radio systems, wireless sensor networks, ray tracing, and channel modeling. She was the IEEE Communications Society Monterrey Chapter Chair (2020-2022), and Faculty Advisor of the IEEE-HKN Lambda-Rho Chapter (2020-2022). She is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc RCC Special Interest Group on Propagation Channels for 5G and Beyond. She is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Letters Journal (2020-present), IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (2022-present), Computer Communications Journal (2021-present) and International Journal of Electronics and Communications (2018-date). She has co-authored the textbook Radio Wave propagation in Vehicular Environments (2020), from The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

She has received numerous awards over the past few years, including the 2014 IEEE APS Doctoral Research Award, the Young Professors and Researchers Santander Universities 2014 Mobility Award, the Best PhD in 2016 awarded from Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (COIT), the 2018 IEEE N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications Award, the IEEE APS Raj Mittra Travel Grant 2020, the Distinguished Professor Award 2020 and 2021, and the IEEE APS Mojgan Daneshmand Grant 2021. She also co-authored papers that received Best Paper Awards at conferences, including ECSA 2014, the IISA 2015, ISSI 2019, and EAI IndustrialIoT 2020.

Douglas H. Werner received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the M.A. degree in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively.

He holds the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professorship in the Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering. He is the director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab as well as a faculty member of the Materials Research Institute at Penn State.

He holds 20 patents, has published over 1000 technical papers and proceedings articles, 8 books and 30 book chapters. He is a Fellow of nine professional societies including IEEE, IET, NAI, OPTICA, SPIE, ACES, AAIA, AAAS, and the PIER Electromagnetics Academy. He also serves as the Editor for the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory & Applications.

Prof. Werner has received numerous awards and recognitions including the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award and the Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award in 2011 and 2014 respectively. He also received the 2015 ACES Technical Achievement Award, the 2019 ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2019 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award and the 2023 John Kraus Antenna Award.

Piergiorgio L. E. (George) Uslenghi is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the University of Illinois Chicago.

He has published extensively on electromagnetics, optics, acoustics, microwaves, scattering theory, complex electronic materials, and applied mathematics.

He is a Member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi Honorary Societies, a Fellow of URSI, a Life Fellow of IEEE, a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, a Honorary Member of USNC-URSI, a Member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin, a Past President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), a University of Illinois Scholar, and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Polytechnic of Turin.

He has been EIC of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and the Founding Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and of the URSI Radio Science Letters.

Dr. Sudhakar Rao is the President & CEO of RaoS Consultants LLC providing technical consultancy to various companies in USA, Canada, Europe, and India. Dr. Rao retired from Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSS) in 2022 where he worked as the Senior Technical Fellow and provided leadership to all divisions of Northrop Grumman in the areas of antennas and payloads for space, air, and ground communication programs. Over the 48 years of his professional career, he worked at NGSS, Lockheed Martin, Boeing Satellite Systems, Spar Aerospace Ltd (now MDA), LRDE Bangalore & ECIL Hyderabad and led the development of advanced antenna systems for 90 satellite and 10 vehicular & ground programs. Dr. Rao received B. Tech from REC Warangal, M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur, Ph. D from IIT Madras and did post-doctoral fellowship from Univ. of Trondheim, Norway and University of Manitoba, Canada. His work on the development of radiation templates for complex satellite antenna patterns for interference analysis was adopted by the ITU/CCIR in 1992 as the world-wide standard for satellite manufacturers and operators. Dr. Rao authored over 250 technical papers and was awarded 58 patents (52 US & 6 European) and 5 trade secrets. His fundamental work on the design of multiple beam antennas in 1999 has been used by satellite industry world-wide. He authored and co-edited three textbook volumes on “Handbook of Reflector Antennas and Feed Systems” that were published in June 2013 by Artech House.

Dr. Rao is an IEEE Life Fellow, a Fellow of IETE, and a Life Fellow of WAMS Society. He received several awards including the IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award in 2006, Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year in 2008, Asian American Engineer of the year award in 2008, IEEE Judith Resnik Technical Field Award in 2009 for pioneering work in aerospace engineering, Boeing’s Special Invention awards in 2001 & 2002, Lockheed Martin’s President Award in 2005, 2007 & 2008, 2009, IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award for 2017 and the 2017 Northrop Grumman’s President Award. He received the Distinguished Alumni Professional Achievement Award from NIT Warangal in 2016, IETE’s Prof. S.N. Mitra Memorial Award in 2016, and the 2020 IETE’s Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award. Dr. Rao served as the Distinguished Lecturer and as an AdCom member for the IEEE APS. He was the founding chair for the IEEE APS “Industry Initiatives Committee” during 2011-2015, IEEE APS Fellow Evaluation Committee member during 2015-2017, founding editor of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine’s “Antenna Applications Corner”, Associate Editor for the IEEE TAP, and Associate Editor of IEEE AWPL. He is the founding executive committee member of the Wireless, Antenna, & Microwave Symposium (WAMS) conferences in India. Dr. Rao served as the IEEE Fellow Committee member for 2020 & 2021, 2023 and is now for 2024. He instituted IETE – Dr. Sudhakar Rao Award in 2020 to recognize and honor outstanding antenna engineers and established best outgoing male & female student awards at Raghu Engineering College, Visakhapatnam. Dr. Rao is the Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIIT DM Kancheepuram, India and is also serving as the member of School Research Board of Vignan University, Guntur, India. He received the lifetime achievement award in 2024 from the IEEE Vizag Bay Section for his contributions to antenna industry and his services to WAMS.

Dr. Yihong Qi is an engineer, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He founded Pontosense Inc., Mercku Inc., LinkE Inc., and General Test Systems. Additionally, he serves as an adjunct professor at the EMC Laboratory, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, and Western University, Canada. From 1995 to 2010, he worked at Research in Motion (Blackberry) in Waterloo, ON, Canada, where he was the Director of Advanced Electromagnetic Research.

Dr. Qi holds over 500 granted and pending patents and has authored more than 150 scientific papers. His multiband smart antenna technology, which positions the antenna at the bottom of mobile terminals, significantly reduces radio-wave radiation to the human head. This innovation has protected billions of smartphone users from potential electromagnetic hazards and addressed hearing aid compatibility issues, benefiting over 20 million users who rely on hearing aids. His antenna design has become a mainstream solution for smartphones. Furthermore, his Radiated Two Stage MIMO throughput OTA measurement standards-related inventions have streamlined the certification process and reduced costs for 5G, intelligent connected vehicles, and the Internet of Things. He also invented the O-shaped board-to-board spring connector, which is widely used in the electronics industry with over 50 billion units produced. His high-speed connector invention showcases leading performance for nextgeneration high-speed interconnects. His wireless intelligent sensing innovation is the first mmWave wireless sensor used for child presence detection and driver monitoring in the automotive industry, and it is also applied in elderly care, health, and medical fields, earning multiple international awards

Dr. Qi is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society and the IEEE EMC Society. He has received the IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award and his inventions have garnered multiple accolades, including three CES Innovation Awards, the CES Network Product of the Year Award, the CES Wellness Product of the Year Award, and three Red Dot Awards among other awards. He contributes to the 3GPP and CTIA international standards. Dr. Qi is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Inventors.

Prof. Dr. G. S. Mani is currently Chair of IEEE Pune JCAME (joint Chapter AP/MTT/EMC). He is a Former chair of IEEE, Pune section, and Former Dean and Director at Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), DRDO, Pune, India.

He is a member of the AP-S COPE and is involved in programs like EU-REKA which aims to raise the national literacy bar at high school level cutting across urban and rural boundaries.

He is a recipient of the 2023 IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Humanitarian Technical Field Project Award.

Stefano MACI (F’04) earned his Laurea Degree cum Laude from the University of Florence in 1987 and since 97 he held the position of Professor at the University of Siena. Currently, he leads a group of 15 researchers at his university.

In 2004 He founded the European School of Antennas (ESoA) in 2004, a postgraduate school that currently offers 34 courses on Antennas, Propagation, Electromagnetic Theory, and Computational Electromagnetics. With 150 teachers from 15 countries, he has been the Director of ESoA since its inception.

Professor Maci’s research interests encompass high-frequency methods, computational electromagnetics, large, phased arrays, planar antennas, reflector antennas and feeds, metamaterials, and metasurfaces.

Professor Maci is Fellow of IEEE; he received the EurAAP Award in 2014, the IEEE Schelkunoff Transaction Prize in 2016, the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator award in 2016, and the URSI Dellinger Gold Medal in 2020.

He has been a former associate editor of IEEE AP-Transaction, former Chair of the Award Committee of IEEE AP-S, former member of the Board of Directors of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) and former Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AP-S and EuRAAP. He served as the President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the year 2023 and as the Chair of the Field Award Committee of IEEE AP-S in 2024.

In the last decade, he has served as a member of the Technical Advisory Board for 10 international conferences and he has been invited 40 times as a keynote speaker in international conferences. He has been TPC Chair of the METAMATERIAL 2020 conference and general Chairperson of European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in EuCAP 2023.

Since 2010, he has been the principal investigator of 40 research projects, 15 of them financed by the European Space Agency and 6 of them by the European Union. He co-founded two Spin-off Companies.

His research activity is reflected in his publication record comprising 200 papers in international journals, 14 book chapters, and about 600 papers in proceedings of international conferences.

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Young Professional of the Year Award is to recognize one Young Professional (YP) member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for significant service to AP Society during the one-year term as IEEE AP-S Young Ambassador.

This year AP-S is pleased to announce Dr.Gangil Byun of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea as the 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Young Professional of the Year Awardee!! Dr. Gangil Byun received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2015.

Following his graduation, Dr. Byun joined Hongik University as a Research Professor where he conducted active research for two years. In February 2018, he joined the faculty of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE). Since 2022, he has also assumed the role of Director of the Core RF/Power Component Research Center for Low-Orbit Next-Generation Satellites (LONGS).

Dr. Byun’s primary research focuses on millimeter-wave antennas and metasurfaces with a strong emphasis on advancing adaptive beamforming techniques for diverse applications, including 5G/6G communication, satellite technology, defense systems, and radars. Dr. Byun’s distinguished contributions have been pivotal in advancing overall beamforming performance, achieved through a unique integration of antenna engineering and signal processing insights. His current research pursuits extend to display-integrated antennas, antenna-in-package (AiP), and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to derive innovations for future wireless communication systems.