Roles

The roles of the AP-S TC on Health & Medicine are to advance the application of electromagnetic techniques and technologies in healthcare and medical sciences. This includes fostering innovation in imaging and sensing systems, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers, medical professionals, and researchers, and addressing societal challenges through technology-driven healthcare solutions. The TC aims to identify emerging trends and gaps in the application of electromagnetics in medicine, provide a platform for knowledge exchange, and support the development of standards and guidelines for medical electromagnetic devices and systems. Special emphasis is placed on supporting sustainable, affordable, and accessible healthcare solutions globally.

Scope

1. Electromagnetic imaging for diagnostics.
2. Non-invasive sensing and monitoring.
3. Wearable and implantable antennas/devices.
4. Wireless Bioelectronics.
5. Microwave and millimeter-wave health technologies.
6. Electromagnetic solutions for therapy.
7. RF and photonic integration for sensing.
8. Bioelectromagnetic interactions.
9. Emerging technologies in health data communication and processing.
10. Telemedicine and remote healthcare.
11. Safety and compatibility in medical systems.

Events

• July: TC-11 is co-organizing a Special Session “Emerging Technologies for Biomedical Applications at the 2025 IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in Ottawa, Canada.
  Session Co-Chair(s): Dr. Sema Dumanli.
• December: TC-11 is co-organizing a Special Session “Advances in Antennas and Sensors for Health and Medical Applications” at the IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON 2025), Kochi, Kerala, India.
  Session Organizer: Dr. Sima Noghanian.

Members – TC on Imaging, Sensing, Medicine, Health, Services

Qammer H. Abbasi

_{University of Glasgow, Scotland}

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_Chair

Akram Alomainy

_{Queen Mary University of London, England}

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_Vice-Chair

Asimina Kiourti

_{OSU, USA}

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Denys Nikolayev

_{CNRS, France}

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Erdem Topsakal

_{VCU, USA}

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Wenxuan Tang

_{Southeastern university, China}

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John Ho

_{NUS, Singapore}

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Ifana Mahbub

_{The University of Texas at Dallas, USA}

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Maxim Zhadobov

_{IETR/CNRS, France}

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Sema Dumanli

_{Bogazici University, Turkey}

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Hendrik Rogier

_{UGent-imec, Belgium}

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Biographies

Qammer H. Abbasi (SMIEEE, FRET, FRSA, FEAI, FIET, FRSE), Professor of Applied Electromagnetics & Sensing with the James Watt School (JWS) of Engineering, Theme lead for Connecting People priority at JWS, Director for Communication Sensing and Imaging (CSI) Hub, UK Government’s Policy Advisor in Department for Science Innovation & Technology and The Scottish Science Advisory Council Member. He has grant portfolio of £13M+ and contributed to more than 500+ leading international technical journal (including nature portfolio) and peer reviewed conference papers, 11 books and received several recognitions for his research including UK exceptional talent endorsement by Royal Academy of Engineering, Sensor 2021 Young Scientist Award, University level Teaching excellence award in addition to coverage by various media houses globally, BBC news, Scotland TV, Fiercewireless, the Engineers and many other media houses. Prof. Abbasi is an IEEE senior member and is chair of IEEE APS/MTT UK, Ireland and Scotland joint chapter. He is an Associate editor for IEEE Sensors, IEEE open journal of Antenna and Propagation, IEEE JBHI and scientific reports. He is IEEE APS distinguished lecturer (2024-26), Chair of IEEE APS Young professional committee, committee member for IEEE 1906.1.1 standard on nano communication, IEEE APS/SC WG P145, IET Antenna & Propagation and healthcare network. He is/was Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, industrial Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2022-23), Fellow of Institution of Engineering & Technology, Fellow of European Alliance of innovation and Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Professor Akram Alomainy is an internationally recognised researcher, educator, and leader in antennas, electromagnetics, and wireless systems. He is Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Lead of the Centre for Electronics, and Head of the Antennas and Electromagnetics Research Group. Professor Alomainy’s pioneering research spans wearable and body-centric wireless communications, 5G/6G systems, advanced sensing, and applications for healthcare, security, and space. His interdisciplinary collaborations bridge engineering, medicine, and industry, producing transformative technologies with global impact. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications, attracting more than 14,000 citations with an H-index of 56, and has secured over £12 million in research funding from UKRI, industry partners, and international agencies. A passionate advocate for research culture, innovation, and equality, diversity and inclusion, Professor Alomainy champions a supportive environment for postgraduate researchers and early-career academics. He has led numerous high-profile projects, delivered keynote talks at international conferences, and engaged widely with media to promote the societal benefits of engineering. His contributions have been recognised with multiple awards for research excellence, teaching innovation, and public engagement. These include the Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award, Qatar Foundation Research Representation Award, QMUL Research (2021) and Teaching (2019) excellence awards. Dedicated to inspiring the next generation, he continues to mentor emerging talent while driving forward cutting-edge research that shapes the future of communication and sensing technologies.

Asimina Kiourti is an Innovation Scholar Endowed Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, where she first joined as a faculty member in 2016. From 2013 to 2016 she served as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and then a Senior Research Associate at Ohio State’s ElectroScience Laboratory. Prior to that, she received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2013) and the M.Sc. degree from University College London, UK (2009). Her research interests lie in bio-electromagnetics, wearable and implantable antennas, and sensors for body area applications. Her publication record includes 1 book, 12 book chapters, 10 awarded patents, over 85 journal papers, and over 150 conference papers and abstracts. Her work has been funded by NSF, NIH, NASA, DoD, and more, and has been recognized with over 40 scholarly recognitions, including the 2023 IEEE Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award, 2022 Ohio State Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award, 2021 NSF CAREER award, and 2021 ’40 Under 40′ recognition by Columbus Business First. Her mentees have received another 50 awards at an international, national, and local level. Her research contributions have been featured by TechCrunch, the Times of India, and Australia Network News, among others. Prof. Kiourti is a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine “Bioelectromagnetics” column. She also serves in several elected and appointed roles in IEEE, USNC-URSI, and ACES.

Denys Nikolayev received his M.Sc. in applied electromagnetics (summa cum laude) from Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, and dual Ph.D.s from CNRS/IETR (France) and the University of West Bohemia (Czechia). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at imec/Ghent University and a Scientist at EPFL before joining CNRS as a Senior Scientist. His expertise covers wireless powering, RF circuits, metasurfaces, and wave control in complex media for implantable, ingestible, and wearable bioelectronics. He has received the ERC Starting Grant (2024), the ANR–NRF PRCI Fellowship, and the Fondation Rennes 1 Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Since 2022, he has been an elected member of Section 10 of the French National Committee for Scientific Research.

Erdem Topsakal is Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Enrollment Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. His area of research has a focus on medical applications for applied electromagnetics, and includes microwave early cancer detection and monitoring, microwave hyperthermia and ablation, wireless medical telemetry and e-health, medical applications of microfluidics, novel microwave antennas and arrays, research thrusts in military simulation software, antenna and radar design, and applications of computational electromagnetics.

Topsakal has held positions such as chair of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences and chair of the U.S. National Committee International Union for Radio Science Commission K. He has received research grant funding totaling more than $9 million and has given more than 20 invited talks at institutions around the world.

Topsakal received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., all in electrical and communications engineering, from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul. He completed Harvard University’s management development program in 2016.

Wenxuan Tang received her BSc and MSc degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and her PhD in electromagnetics from Queen Mary University of London. In 2012, she joined the School of Information Science and Engineering in Southeast University, where she is currently a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves. She is a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), and a committee member of the CIE Radio Propagation Society. She is currently the associate editor of Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and EPJ Applied Metamaterials. She has co-authored 100+ papers and one book. Her research interest focuses on the metamaterials and their applications at microwave frequencies.

John S. Ho is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University where he developed wireless power transfer technology now in clinical use. He is a recipient of the NRF Fellowship and the Young Scientist Award, and has appeared on the MIT TR35 Innovator Under 35 Asia and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia lists. He is currently on leave from NUS at Meta Reality Labs in California working on sensor systems and algorithms to digitally capture human behavior.

Dr. Ifana Mahbub is an Associate Professor and the Texas Instruments Early Career Chair Awardee in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she leads the Integrated Biomedical, RF Circuits and Systems Laboratory (iBioRFCASL). Her research spans wireless power transfer for implantable and wearable biomedical devices, IoT systems, UAVs, and long-range power beaming using microwave and millimeter-wave technologies. She is particularly focused on developing scalable, efficient, and safe wireless energy delivery systems that enable untethered operation in dynamic or infrastructure-limited environments.

Dr. Mahbub received her B.Sc. degree (2012) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and her Ph.D. degree (2017) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the recipient of several prestigious honors, including the NSF CAREER Award (2020), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2021), and the DARPA Director’s Fellowship (2023).

She currently serves as Vice-Chair for the USNC-URSI Commission K and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. She is also a full member of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 25 (Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion) and the IEEE APS Technical Committee on Health and Medicine.

Maxim Zhadobov is a Senior Research Scientist with the IETR/CNRS. His research interests include innovative biomedical applications of electromagnetic fields and associated technologies. He has coauthored five book chapters, > 100 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals, and > 200 contributions to conferences and workshops. He is a member of Board of Directors of international BioEM society and a member of IEEE TC95.4. He was an elected member of EBEA Council from 2017 to 2021 and President of URSI France Commission K till 2025. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology and served as Guest Editor of several special issues, including Human Exposure in 5G and 6G Scenarios of Applied Sciences and Advanced Electromagnetic Biosensors for Medical, Environmental and Industrial Applications of Sensors. He has been involved in 31 research projects (16 as PI). Dr. Zhadobov was a TPC member and/or session organizer at international conferences, including IEEE AP-S/URSI 2024, URSI AT-RASC 2024, AES 2023, BioEM 2023, EUMW2022, IEEE IMBioC 2022, AT-AP-RASC 2022, BioEM 2019, EuMW 2019, IEEE iWEM 2017, MobiHealth 2015–2017, BodyNets 2016, and IMWS-Bio 2014. He was the TPC co-Chair of BioEM 2021/2020 and member of LOC of BioEM 2025. He also served on review boards of more than 15 international journals and conferences, and has been acting as an expert at research councils worldwide. He received Research & Innovation BPGO Award in 2022, CNRS Bronze Medal in 2018, EBEA Award for Excellence in Bioelectromagnetics in 2015.

Sema Dumanli received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., in 2010.

She was with Toshiba Research Europe, Bristol, as a Research Engineer and a Senior Research Engineer from 2010 to 2017. She is currently an Associate Professor at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She is the founder and the director of Antennas and Propagation Research Laboratory (BOUNtenna) and Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory (AntennAlive). Her current research interests include antenna design for implantable and wearable devices, in-body sensor design, chipless RF-ID, biohybrid implants and multi-scale communications.

She is the recipient of Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) 2025, the IEEE APS Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award 2022, and three times recipient of “Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Engineering’s Excellence in Teaching Award”. She currently serves as the chair of IEEE APS/MTT/EMC/ED Turkey Joint Chapter and the vice chair of IEEE APS Young Professionals Committee. She also is a board member and the secretary of URSI Turkey and the chair of URSI Turkey Commission K.

Hendrik Rogier received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Mobile Communications Group, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. He is currently a Senior Full Professor with the Department of Information Technology, Ghent University and a Guest Professor with the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Ghent. He has authored or co-authored over 215 papers in international journals and over 250 contributions in conference proceedings. His current research interests include antenna systems, radio wave propagation, body-centric communication, numerical electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, and power/signal integrity.

Dr. Rogier is a member of the MTT TC-26 RFID, Wireless Sensor and IoT Committee, of AP-S TC-11 Health & Medicine, and he acts as the URSI Commission B representative for Belgium. He was a recipient of the URSI Young Scientist Award (twice) at the 2001 URSI Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory and at the 2002 URSI General Assembly, and a co-recipient of the 2014 Premium Award for Best Paper in the IET Electronics Letters, the Best Paper Award First Place in the 2016 IEEE MTT-S Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, the Best Poster Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems Symposium, the Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity, the Joseph Morrissey Memorial Award for the First Best Scientific Paper at BioEM 2013, the Article of the Year 2022 in Journal of Sensors Award, 2023 IEEE AP -S Tapan K. Sarkar Best IEEE CAMA Student Paper Award, the 2024 IEEE FLEPS 2nd place Student Best Paper Award, and the IEEE Journal of Microwaves 2023 Best Paper Award. From 2017 until 2019, he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of IET Electronics Letters and of IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation.