Mohammad S. Sharawi
Blue Origin LLC
Affiliate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
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Prof. Mohammad S. Sharawi (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Principal Engineer at Blue Origin LLC working on research and development projects for space communication systems. He is an affiliate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He was a Full tenured Professor (Professeur titulaire) of electrical engineering with Polytechnique Montreal, Quebec, Canada between 2019-2023. Prof. Sharawi was with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, from 2009 to 2018, where he founded and directed the Antennas and Microwave Structure Design Laboratory (AMSDL). He was a Visiting Professor with the Intelligent Radio Laboratory (iRadio), Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in summer–fall 2014. He was a Visiting Research Professor with Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA, during 2023 and in 2013. Prof. Sharawi has more than 400 papers published in refereed journals and international conferences, 11 book chapters (two of which in the Antenna Handbook, fifth edition, McGraw Hill, 2018), one single authored book titled Printed MIMO Antenna Engineering (Artech House, 2014), the Lead Author of the book Design and Applications of Active Integrated Antennas (Artech House, 2018), and a co-author of the book MIMO Antenna Systems for 5G and Beyond (IEEE-Wiley, 2024). He has 28 issued/granted and ten pending patents in the U.S. Patent Office. Prof. Sharawi's research interests include multiband printed multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems, reconfigurable and active integrated antennas, millimeter-wave antennas, integrated 4G/5G and beyond 5G antenna systems, shared aperture and encapsulated antennas, microwave sensors, applied electromagnetics, sub-THz structures, and computational methods. He received his MSc. and PhD. degrees from Oakland University, Michigan, USA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

Prof. Sharawi was a recipient of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Award for Arab Researchers for the category of wireless systems in 2020 in addition to various best IEEE conference paper awards. He has served on the Technical and Organizational Program Committees as well as organized several special sessions on MIMO antenna systems and their applications in 4G and 5G wireless systems in several international conferences, such as European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Antennas and Propagation Society (APS), International Microwave Workshop Series on 5G Hardware and System Technologies (IMWS-5G), Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), among many others for many years. He has served as the IEEE APS Chair for the Montreal Section (2020–2023) and an Active Member for the IEEE Member Benefits Committee leading the initiative of the APS Student Travel Grant. He was also the Regional Delegate of the EuRAAP in North America. He is currently serving as the AP/MTT/ED Seattle joint chapter Co-Chair. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters from 2019 to 2023. Prof. Sharawi was the Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Communications and Networks for the System and Test-Bed Design Section from 2020 to 2022. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation and IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation (Wiley), and an Area Editor (antennas and microwave devices and systems) for Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (Wiley) since 2020. He is a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for APS for the period 2023–2025, and a Fellow of the IEEE and IET.

Titles of talks:

• The Dawn of Multi-Function, Multi-Standard Shared Aperture Antenna Systems
• Active Integrated Antennas: Fundamentals and Applications
• Advances in Antenna Systems for Future Wireless Terminals