Technical Committee 11: Activities - 2025

Events

• December
  
  1. 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.
  2. Dr. Hendrik Rogier is giving a keynote talk “mmWave-over-Fiber Distributed Antenna Systems for Next-Generation Wireless Applications” at MAPCON 2025.

  3. Dr. Qammer H. Abbasi and Dr. Nosherwan Shoaib are organizing a Workshop & Panel Discussion “Recent Advancements in Imaging and Integrated Sensing” on 15 December in Islamabad Pakistan. The workshop served as a focused platform for researchers, industry professionals, and students to explore state-of-the-art developments in modern imaging and sensing technologies. The activity featured expert panel discussions on emerging trends such as advanced sensor integration, imaging systems for healthcare and smart environments, and cross-disciplinary applications in IoT and intelligent systems. The workshop enhanced participants’ technical understanding, fostered knowledge exchange between academia and industry, and encouraged collaborative research initiatives. Its impact was reflected in increased awareness of cutting-edge technologies, capacity building among early-career researchers and students, and the promotion of innovative, application-oriented research aligned with future technological and societal needs.

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  4. IEEE AP-S Technical Committee on Health and Medicine and IEEE AP/MTT/EMC/ED Turkey Joint Chapter held a TOPICAL WORKSHOP ON ELECTROMAGNETICS IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE on 22^nd December.

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  5. Dr. Akram Alomainy, who is the vice chair of TC11, delivered an invited talk at IEEE MAPCON 2025, held in Kochi. His invited presentation, titled “Resilient, Scalable and Flexible Wearable & EM Technologies for Next Generation Healthcare”, highlighted recent advances in wearable electromagnetic technologies and their role in future healthcare applications. In addition to his invited talk, Dr. Alomainy also served as a Session Chair on Thursday 18 December at the same conference. He chaired the technical session “Novel Microwave Solutions for Biology and Medicine”, which focused on emerging microwave and RF technologies for biomedical and healthcare applications.

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  6. Dr. Akram Alomainy co-organised and led the European School of Antennas (ESoA) course on Body-Centric Wireless Communication: From Devices, Systems to Applications (Body-scale to Nano), hosted by Queen Mary University of London in London. The intensive week-long course formed part of the European School of Antennas programme and brought together leading international researchers and practitioners in body-centric and wearable wireless technologies. The course covered a wide range of topics including body-centric antennas and propagation, measurement and modelling techniques, wearable and implantable systems, and emerging mm-wave, THz and nano-scale communications. Through lectures and technical discussions, the programme provided participants with both theoretical foundations and practical insights into current challenges and future directions in body-centric wireless communication.

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• October
  

  1. Dr. Sima Noghanian submitted an idea of using bio-friendly materials for antenna fabrication to the IEEE Innovation Summit. The idea was selected, and an invitation to attend the IEEE Innovation Summit on October 5-6 in Alexandria, Scotland, was received. Prof. Qammer Abbasi, on behalf of Sima, attended the meeting. He was joined by a group of innovators from across IEEE to explore and refine the ideas that align with the strategic goals of IEEE Innovation and Public Imperatives. To know more about the summit, visit: https://techsummit.ieee.org/cleantech-2025/

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  2. Dr. Qammer Abbasi from TC 11 is attending the IEEE Technology Summit 2025 IEEE Technology Summit 2025

  3. Dr. Qammer Abbasi delivered a talk at 2025 IEEE AP-S/MTT-S Distinguished Instructors Workshop on 24^th October.

  4. Dr. Akram Alomainy and Dr. Qammer H. Abbasi delivered keynote talks at the International Conference on Future Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence (IC-FTAI’2025), held on 24-26 November 2025 in Alexandria. The conference was organised by the IEEE Egypt AP-S/MTT-S Joint Chapter and brought together researchers working across telecommunications, electromagnetics, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Alomainy presented a keynote titled “Resilient, Scalable and Flexible Wearable & EM Technologies for Next Generation Healthcare”, highlighting recent advances in wearable and body-centric electromagnetic systems for future healthcare applications. Prof Abbasi delivered a keynote entitled “Surfaces that can Act as Mirrors for Electromagnetic Waves”, focusing on intelligent and reconfigurable electromagnetic surfaces and their potential impact on next-generation wireless systems.

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• September
  

  1. Dr. Hendrik Rogier is giving a short course “Wearable Antenna Systems for Joint BodyCentric Communication, Powering and Sensing” on September 21st during the 2025 European Microwave Week in Netherlands.

     

  2. The IEEE MTT-S UMKC Student Branch Chapter officially kicked off with an inspiring keynote by Dr. Ifana Mahbub, MTT Regional Coordinator (Region 5), followed by an engaging interactive quiz that energized around 25 enthusiastic students on Sep. 22.

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• August
  

  Dr. Wenxuan Tang is co-organizing a Special Session “Characterization and Emerging Applications of Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials" at the 18th IEEE United Conference on Millimeter Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT2025) in Nanjing, China.

• 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.