Roles

The activities of the AP-S TC on Wireless Communications are dedicated to systems and technologies for wireless communications in next generation 6G and beyond, satellite and radar communication, electromagnetic (EM) standards, integrated communication and sensing, smart antennas using AI, beam forming/beam steering technology, MIMO technologies, THz antennas and antenna-in-package for wireless communications, vehicular communication utilizing real time roadside infrastructure, etc. The roles for the TC are to organize and implement keynote lectures, organize special sessions in IEEE AP and Wireless conferences including workshops, plenary talks, short lecture series and tutorials, promote wireless communication activities through academic institutions among undergraduate and graduate members globally as well as leading an active participation through industries. The committee will also endeavor to increase the wireless communication community within the AP-S and to make recommendations to the APS Standards Coordinating Committee.

Scope

1. Next generation 6G and beyond.
2. Wireless applications of smart antennas and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
3. MIMO technologies and systems.
4. AI driven communication in satellite and radar technology.
5. Integrated communication and sensing systems.
6. THz antennas for wireless communications.
7. Antenna-in-package and chip-scale wireless communications.
8. Latest challenges in wireless communications.

Members – TC on Wireless Communications

Prof. Atif Shamim

_Chair

Prof. Wonbin Hong

_Vice-Chair

Dr. Apala Banerjee

Dr. Duixian Liu

Dr. Jiang Zhu

Prof. Natalia Nikolova

Dr. Ahmed Abdellatif

Prof. Syeda Fizzah Jilani

Dr. Rod Waterhouse

Prof. Eva Roja Iglesias

Prof. Mahrukh Khan

Prof. Yang Yang

Biographies

Prof. Atif Shamim received his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Canada in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He was an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate scholar at Carleton University from 2007 till 2009 and an NSERC postdoctoral Fellow in 2009-2010 at Royal Military College Canada and KAUST. In August 2010, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at KAUST, where he is currently a Full Professor and Principal Investigator of IMPACT Lab. He was an invited researcher at the VTT Micro-Modules Research Center (Oulu, Finland) in 2006. His research work has won best paper awards in IEEE ICMAC 2025 and 2021, IEEE IMS 2016, IEEE MECAP 2016, IEEE EuWiT 2008, first prize in IEEE IMS 2019 3MT competition, IEEE AP-S Design Competition 2022 and IEEE MTT-S Design Competition 2024, finalist/honorable mention prizes in IEEE APS 2023, IEEE AP-S Design Competition 2020, IEEE IMS 2017 (3MT competition), IEEE IMS 2014, IEEE APS 2005 and R. W. P. King prize for journal papers in IEEE TAP 2017 and 2020. He has served as the Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE AP-S (2022-2024). He has won the Kings Prize for the best innovation of the year (2018) for his work on sensors for the oil industry. He was given the Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year Award in 2008 in Canada. His work on Wireless Dosimeter won the ITAC SMC Award at Canadian Microelectronics Corporation TEXPO in 2007. Shamim also won numerous business-related awards, including 1st prize in Canada’s national business plan competition and was awarded OCRI Entrepreneur of the year award in 2010. He is an author/co-author of 1 book, 3 book chapters and close to 400 international publications, an inventor on 35 patents and has given over 120 invited talks at various international forums. His research interests are in innovative antenna designs and their integration strategies with circuits and sensors for flexible and wearable wireless sensing systems through a combination of CMOS and additive manufacturing technologies. He is a Fellow of IEEE, founded the first IEEE AP/MTT chapter in Saudi Arabia (2013) and served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2013-2019), IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (2020-2024), and as a Guest Editor for IEEE AWPL Special issue (2019). He is currently the AdCom member for IEEE AP-S, Chair of IEEE AP-S TC-8 (wireless Communication), Vice Chair of IEEE APS MGA Committee and has previously served on IEEE TC on Antenna Measurements (AP-S), Microwave Controls (MTT-S 13), and Additive Manufacturing (CRFID).

Prof. Wonbin Hong (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 2004, and the master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2016, he was with Samsung Electronics as a Principal and a Senior Engineer participating and leading extensive research and development tasks for upcoming wireless applications, including MIMO, wireless power transfer, and millimeter-wave wireless solutions. Since February 2016, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea, as an Associate Professor. He currently holds the Mueunjae Chaired Professorship. He has over a decade of extensive research and development experience with primary interests’ in future wireless communication antennas and RF circuits, mesoscale and nanoscale transparent electronics, IoT/wearable devices based on advanced electromagnetics, and 3D packaging.

Dr. Apala Banerjee (Member IEEE) received her M. Tech degree from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal (Gold Medalist) in 2018 and her PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in the year 2024. She has been previously associated with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and General Electric (GE), Bangalore for her research work. Her research interest includes the development of RF and Microwave sensors for industrial, biomedical and humanitarian applications, active RF sensors, active circuits, eddy current sensing and front end THz receiver architecture design. She is currently associated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia as a Post-Doctoral Researcher.

Dr. Duixian Liu (Fellow IEEE) is currently with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. He has designed antennas ranging from 3 to 240 GHz for the past 27 years, and concentrated on millimeter-wave antenna-in-package designs for phased array application for the past 14 years. He has edited or co-edited two books, written two book chapters, published more than 110 papers, and had 80 patents issued or pending. Mr. Liu was a recipient of the three IBM’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, one Corporate Award, and the 2012 S. A. Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award of the AP Society. He was named as Master Inventor in 2007.

Dr. Jiang Zhu (Fellow IEEE) Technical Director/Principal Scientist of Wireless Technology, Meta. Jiang has been an engineer, scientist and engineering leader at Apple, Google and Meta over the past 15 years. He is currently Technical Director / Principal Scientist at Meta Reality Labs focusing on wireless technology. He is the inventor of more than 100 pending and granted US patents, many of which have been commercialized in products. He has been an Editor for 7 IEEE Journals and has served on IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee. Jiang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto and is a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Natalia Nikolova (Fellow IEEE) received the Dipl. Eng. (Radio electronics) degree from the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 1997. From 1998 to 1999, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 1999, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University, where she is currently a Professor. From 2008 to 2018, she held a Canada Research Chair in High-frequency Electromagnetics at McMaster University. Her research interests include inverse scattering, microwave and millimeter-wave imaging, as well as high-frequency computer-aided analysis and design. Prof. Nikolova is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Dr. Ahmed Abdellatif (Senior Member IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees, both in electronics and communications engineering, from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo. ON, Canada. From April 2009 to December 2009, he was with Newport Media Inc. (acquired by Atmel in July, 2014). From January 2010 to August 2014, he was with the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) as a Research Assistant. He is now with Peraso Technologies Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada. His research interests include beam-steering techniques, phased-array antenna systems, and complex environment RF modeling.

Prof. Syeda Fizzah Jilani received the Ph.D. degree in antennas and electromagnetics from the Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K., in 2018. She is a Lecturer with the Department of Physics, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, U.K. Before that, she was a Research Scientist with the University of Maine, USA, on a U.S. Department of Energy Project on the technology transition of harsh-environment RF sensors to the industry.

Dr. Rod Waterhouse (Fellow IEEE) is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Pharad/Octane Wireless. He is world-renowned for his innovative approaches to creating optimally performing antennas as well as highly efficient radio over fiber communication links. During his career, Dr. Waterhouse has undertaken pioneering endeavors in both academia and venture backed industry, focusing on breakthrough technologies in antennas, electromagnetics and microwave photonics engineering. Dr. Waterhouse received his BEng, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1987, 1989 and 1994, respectively, and has over 300 publications to his credit, including two books.

Prof. Eva Roja Iglesias (Senior Member IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Madrid, Spain, in 2002. From 1997 to 2001, she was a Teacher Assistant with UC3M. In 2001, she joined the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, as Teacher Assistant for a year. She came back to UC3M as a Visiting Lecturer in 2002, and since 2004, she has been an Associate Professor with the Departamento de Teoría de la Señal y Communications, UC3M. Since 2009, she has been an Affiliate Professor with the Antenna Group, Signals and Systems Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, where she was a Guest Researcher during autumn 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. Her main research interests include microstrip patch antennas and arrays, metamaterials and periodic structures, and optimization methods applied to electromagnetism.

Prof. Mahrukh Khan is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Microwave and Wireless Communication Lab (MWCL) at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Her research Interests span ultra wideband antennas, characteristic modes, microwave, millimeter-wave, and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) antennas and arrays, with applications in 5G and beyond, satellite communications, and biomedical systems. Dr. Khan earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) in 2017. Before joining TCNJ, she held positions as Assistant Research Professor at the Missouri Institute of Defense and Energy (MIDE) and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Micro and Nano-Technology Lab in UMKC’s Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In recognition of her innovative research, Dr. Khan received the prestigious NSF Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) Grant in 2022 for her work on microstrip antennas using characteristic modes. That same year, she was named the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) Young Professional Ambassador.

Prof. Yang Yang (IEEE Senior Member) received a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, in 2013. In 2012, Dr. Yang joined Rain Bird Australia, Melbourne, Australia, serving as an Asia Pacific GSP Engineer. In April 2015, he returned to academia, holding the position of Senior Research Associate in microwave and antenna technologies at Macquarie University. In April 2016, he was appointed as a Research Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong Kong. In December 2016, Dr. Yang joined the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is currently an Associate Professor and a Group Leader of 3D Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Circuits and Antennas in UTS Tech Lab. His research interests include additively manufactured electronics, millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz technologies in 5G and beyond and biomedical applications. He has over 280 international publications in microwave, millimeter-wave and terahertz circuits and antennas.