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Dr. Yong-Mei Pan (Senior Member, IEEE) received her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, she was a Senior Research Assistant/Research Fellow at City University of Hong Kong. She joined South China University of Technology in 2013, where she is now a Full Professor.

Dr. Pan has authored or co-authored over 140 journal articles and holds 10 U.S. and 11 Chinese invention patents. Her research focuses on dielectric resonator antennas, filtering antennas, MIMO antenna arrays, and antenna-in-package. She received the First-Class Award of 2016 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) of Ministry of Education, China, the First-Class Award of 2020 Guangdong Provincial Technological Invention Awards (Science and Technology), and the 2022 IEEE APS Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award. She has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for several international conferences and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP), receiving its Commendation Certificate five times. She is now a Track Editor of IEEE TAP.

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Dr. Diego Caratelli (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Latina, Italy, in 1975. He received the Laurea (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering and the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in applied mathematics from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2000, 2004, and 2013, respectively. He also received the MicroMasters in manufacturing, finance, and data science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 2022, 2023, and 2024, respectively.

From 2005 to 2007, he served as a Research Fellow in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome. From 2007 to 2013, he was a Senior Researcher with the International Research Center for Telecommunications and Radar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. From 2015 to 2019, he was an Associate Professor with the Institute of Cybernetics, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. In 2013, he co-founded The Antenna Company, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer / Vice-President of Engineering and is responsible for product development, program portfolio management, and technical direction of the research and development team. From 2020 to 2025, he was an Associate Professor with the Group of Electromagnetics in Wireless Telecommunications, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he has been a Full Professor since September 2025. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He holds 32 families of patents in antenna-related technologies and advanced computational techniques. His current research interests include the full-wave analysis and design of passive devices and antennas for satellite, wireless, and radar applications, the development of analytically based numerical techniques devoted to the modeling of wave propagation and diffraction processes, the theory of special functions for electromagnetics, the deterministic synthesis of sparse antenna arrays, and the solution of boundary-value problems for partial differential equations of mathematical physics.

Dr. Caratelli has been Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee on Antenna Arrays and Systems of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society since 2025 and is currently a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the Italian Electromagnetic Society (SIEm), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was a recipient of the Young Antenna Engineer Prize at the 32nd European Space Agency Antenna Workshop and the 2010 Best Paper Award from ACES. He was a co-recipient of the Frost and Sullivan Best Practices Award for technology innovation in advanced antennas for wireless communications in 2016. He is the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issues on Antenna Array Design for Wireless Communications and Remote Sensing of MDPI Sensors and on Advanced Antenna Array Development for mm-Wave Communications of Hindawi International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, as well as of the Special Issue on Theory and Applications of Special Functions in Mathematical Physics of MDPI Symmetry. Dr. Caratelli is serving as the General TPC Chair for the European Microwave Week (EuMW) in 2025.

Dr. Caratelli has been Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee on Antenna Arrays and Systems of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society since 2025 and is currently a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the Italian Electromagnetic Society (SIEm), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was a recipient of the Young Antenna Engineer Prize at the 32nd European Space Agency Antenna Workshop and the 2010 Best Paper Award from ACES. He was a co-recipient of the Frost and Sullivan Best Practices Award for technology innovation in advanced antennas for wireless communications in 2016. He is the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issues on Antenna Array Design for Wireless Communications and Remote Sensing of MDPI Sensors and on Advanced Antenna Array Development for mm-Wave Communications of Hindawi International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, as well as of the Special Issue on Theory and Applications of Special Functions in Mathematical Physics of MDPI Symmetry. Dr. Caratelli is serving as the General TPC Chair for the European Microwave Week (EuMW) in 2025.

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Dr. Niru K. Nahar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in physics from Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1993, and the M.S. degree in physics from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA, in 1997. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from The Ohio State University, OH, USA, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. She has been a Researcher with the ElectroScience Laboratory of OSU, since 2008. She is currently a Research Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The Ohio State University. She has worked as a Research Intern for a year at the Surface Analysis Laboratory, Chemical and Metallurgical Division, Osram Sylvania Inc., Towanda, PA, USA. She has over three years of research experience in optometry and vision science. She has authored one book, one book chapter, three patents, 45 journal articles, and 125+ conference proceedings and abstracts. Her current research interests include the designs and characterization of THz and mmW sensors, THz spectroscopy systems for biomedical imaging, mmW ultrawideband low-profile antennas and phased arrays for cognitive sensing, automobile RADAR, reconfigurable arrays, and novel RF-EO sensors. She has graduated 9 Ph.D. and four M.S. students. She has been an Elected Member of URSI Commission B, since 2016. Dr. Nahar is a senior member of IEEE and The Optical Society. She is a member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, and IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics. She is also a member to Women in Radio Science and IEEE-APS Committee on Promoting Equality Committee. In 2015, she received the Lumley Research Award from the College of Engineering, OSU, for her outstanding research. She was a Secretary/Treasurer, the Vice Chairman, and the Chairman for IEEE Joint AP/MTT Chapter Columbus Section, from 2011 to 2014. She is an Associate Editor to IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

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Dr. Nima Ghalichechian (Senior Member, IEEE) is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. He is the director of the mmWave Antennas and Arrays Laboratory. His research interests include millimeter-wave phased arrays, reconfigurable antennas, reflect-arrays, transmit-arrays, on-chip antennas, phase-change materials, non-reciprocal microwave devices, high-power arrays, and millimeter-wave measurement techniques. Dr. received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2007. From 2007 to 2012, he was with the Research Department of Formfactor, Inc., Livermore, CA, as a Senior Principal Engineer. He was with The Ohio State University (OSU) as a research scientist and assistant professor from 2012 to 2021. He joined the School of ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in August 2021. He became a tenured Associate Professor in 2024. Prof. Ghalichechian is an active member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S). He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation. Previously, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2019-2022).

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Dr. Mauro Ettorre (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor at Michigan State University, USA. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at CNRS, IETR laboratory, France, where led the mm/sub-mm waves team (2016–2021), and co-chaired the Antennas and Microwave Devices Department (2021–2023).

His research interests include quasi-optical systems, periodic structures, wideband arrays, millimeter-wave antennas, and localized waves. He has authored over 95 journal papers, 250 conference papers, and holds 14 patents (2 licensed). He served as Associate Editor (2017–2023) and since 2023 as Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He is the 2024 IEEE MTT-S and AP-S Inter-Society Distinguished Lecturer. His work has received several prizes, including the 2014 Young Investigator Award from the French National Research Agency, the 2018 ESA Antenna Workshop Innovation Award, Best Paper Awards at EuCAP 2018 (UK), EuCAP 2021 (Germany), and iWAT 2023 (Denmark).

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Dr. Wael M. Abdel-Wahab received the M.S. degree from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in RF-microwave engineering and antennas from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2011.,From 2011 to 2013, he was a cross-appointed Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, and the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Oshawa, ON, Canada. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Center for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. He has been a Principle Engineer with C-COM Satellite System Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada, since 2014. He has authored/coauthored more than 90 research papers in highly cited journals and conferences in RF/microwave circuits and antennas. His current research interests focus on low-cost millimeter-wave phased array antennas and RF circuits for the new emerging mobile satellite communication (SATCOM) and 5G technologies. Dr. Abdel-Wahab was a recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI) Fellowship in 2011, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories Program in 2014 (declined), and the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) Fellowship funded by the National Research Council of Canada during the period 2014–2016.

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Dr. Vignesh Manohar (Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Mumbai, in 2013, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. Post his PhD, he was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of electrical and computer engineering, Florida International University until 2021. He is currently a senior antenna engineer at Delart technologies Corp. (Canada), where he drives the antenna design for emerging AR/VR devices. His research area focuses on the development of electrically small antennas, wideband antenna arrays, and deployable high gain aperture antennas for small satellite platforms. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Masters Thesis Award in the Physical and Wave Electronics in 2016, and the Henry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. He received an Honorable Mention in the Altair FEKO Student Competition for his work on stepped reflectors and characterizaition of planar near-field antenna measurements in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He was also the recipient of the 2019 IEEE Electromagnetic Theory Symposium Young Scientist Award for his work on umbrella reflector antenna characterization

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Dr. Diane Titz (Senior Member, IEEE) received the dual M.S. degree in telecommunications from the University and ENS of Paris-Saclay, France, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University Côte d'Azur, Nice, France, in 2012. She is currently an Associate Researcher with the Polytech’Lab, University Côte d'Azur, and a Full Teacher of Physics and Chemistry with Lycée Jules Ferry, Cannes, France. Her research interests include millimeter-wave applications (60 and 120 GHz, and up to 280 GHz) through the design of antennas, lens, and their measurement. She is also moving to higher frequencies considering electro-optics and plastic waveguides for high data-rate communications. She has coauthored three book chapters, more than 20 publications in journals, and 60 publications in international conferences. She was a recipient of the 2018 Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award, the Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC) 2014 Young Scientific Best Paper Award, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) IEEE Jack Kilby Award 2013, and the Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC) 2012 Best Paper Award. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

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Dr. Tian-Hong Loh (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K., in 2005. Since 2005, he has been with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington, U.K. He is Principal Scientist at NPL and Science Area Leader for Electromagnetic Technologies. He leads pioneering research in measurement science supporting emerging electromagnetic technologies. He has edited one book, held seven patents, and authored over 230 refereed publications. He serves as President of the URSI UK Board, Chair of EurAAP’s Measurement Working Group, Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, and IEEE AP-S Representative to the IEEE Future Networks Technical Community. He is also a member of the IEEE AP-S Standards Committee, IEEE TCAM and IET, and AMTA. His research interests span 5G/6G communications, MIMO antennas, and smart antennas, small antennas, metamaterials, body-centric communications, wireless sensor networks, electromagnetic compatibility, and computational electromagnetics.

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Dr. Zhi-Hao Jiang (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from The Pennsylvania State University, in 2013. He is currently a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University. He has co-authored more than 150 journal papers and co-edited two books published by Wiley/IEEE Press. He holds 9 granted U.S. patents and 20 granted Chinese patents. He has served as the TPC Co-Chair for multiple international conferences. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Scholar of NSFC in 2021, the IEEE Microwave Prize in 2021, the Young Scientist Award at URSI-GASS 2020, the Young Scientist Award at ACES-China 2019, and several best (student) paper awards at international conferences. He serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, as well as a committee member of AP-S TC-2 and MTT-S CEC. His current research interests include microwave/millimeter-wave antennas and circuits, millimeter-wave systems, metamaterials, and analytical methods.

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Dr. Takashi Tomura (Member, IEEE) received the B.E., M.E. and D.E. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008, 2011 and 2014, respectively. He was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2013. From 2014 to 2017, he worked at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo and was engaged in research and development of aperture antennas for satellite communications and radar systems. From 2017 to 2019, He was a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo. He is currently an Associate Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo. His research interests include electromagnetic analysis, aperture, reflectarray, and waveguide slot array antennas.

Dr. Tomura received the Best Student Award from Ericsson Japan in 2012, the IEEE AP-S Tokyo Chapter Young Engineer Award in 2015, the Young Researcher Award from IEICE technical committee on antennas and propagation in 2018, and the IEEE MTT-S Japan Chapter Young Engineer Award in 2022. He is a member of the IEICE.

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Dr. Peiyuan Qin (Senior Member, IEEE) received the joint Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic fields and microwave technology from Xidian University and Macquarie University, Australia, in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of reconfigurable antennas, antenna arrays, and microwave components. He received the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2017, the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence by Macquarie University in 2012, and the 2016 Computer Simulation Technology (CST) University Publication Award. He served as the General Co-Chair for 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP) and 2019 Australian Microwave Symposium. He also served as the Young Professionals Chair for AP-S/URSI 2023 and 2024. He is the Chair of Australian Node-Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.