In this episode, Haihan Sun, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, speaks with Nima Ghalichechian, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Haihan shares insights into her background, research focus, and professional journey, discussing the challenges she faced and the coping mechanisms she developed. She highlights the impact of AP-S on her career and offers advice to young professionals, especially women in engineering, emphasizing the importance of building strong support networks and maintaining resilience.
Main points of the discussion
| Timestamps | Questions |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | Introduction |
| 01:08 | Introducing Haihan. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about your background and academic preparation? |
| 02:50 | Can you tell us a little bit more about your research and why it is important to the AP community? |
| 05:22 | Could you share some of the challenges you have faced and how you addressed them? |
| 08:00 | Could you tell us about the role APS has played in your professional success and share some details about that experience? |
| 10:02 | Do you have any recommendations, suggestions or tips for the younger professionals who want to get involved with APS or specifically women in engineering who are earlier in their careers? |
About Haihan
Dr. Haihan Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on applied electromagnetics, ground-penetrating radar, non-destructive testing technologies, and advanced antenna and RF circuits. She was a recipient of several Young Professional and Student Paper awards at international conferences. She was awarded the Mojgan Daneshmand Grant for Women by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) in 2021. She serves as an Associate Editor for both the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and is also an IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador.
About Nima
Dr. Ghalichechian is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He is the Director of the mmWave Antennas and Arrays Laboratory. His research focuses on mmWave phased arrays, reconfigurable antennas, reflect-arrays, transmit-arrays, on-chip antennas, phase-change materials, non-reciprocal microwave devices, high-power arrays, and mmWave measurement techniques. Prof. Ghalichechian is an active member of IEEE AP-S. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation.
Recent research published by Haihan and Nima in TAP
- A Near-Field Super-Resolution Network for Accelerating Antenna Characterization, Y. Gu, H. -H. Sun and D. W. van der Weide, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 1732-1742, March 2025
- DMRF-UNet: A Two-Stage Deep Learning Scheme for GPR Data Inversion Under Heterogeneous Soil Conditions, Q. Dai, Y. H. Lee, H. -H. Sun, G. Ow, M. L. M. Yusof and A. C. Yucel, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 6313-6328, Aug. 2022
- Achieving Wider Bandwidth With Full-Wavelength Dipoles for 5G Base Stations, C. Ding, H. -H. Sun, H. Zhu and Y. Jay Guo, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1119-1127, Feb. 2020
- On-Chip Miniaturized Cavity V-Band Coplanar Folded Slot Array With High Efficiency and Reduced Mutual Coupling, S. Y. Lee, D. L. West, S. A. Dasari and N. Ghalichechian, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 7317-7322, Sept. 2024
- Vanadium-Dioxide-Based Reconfigurable Ka-Band Dual-Sense Linear-to-Circular Polarizer, M. S. Lust, D. L. West, V. Smet, T. G. Williamson and N. Ghalichechian, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 2468-2480, March 2024
- Toward High-Power Beam-Steerable Reflectarrays Using Tunable-Height Dielectric, K. Q. Henderson, W. Disharoon and N. Ghalichechian, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 2487-2496, March 2023