Mojgan Daneshmand Grant Recipients

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) established a new award to increase women’s visibility at the annual IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. The grant is named after our late colleague Prof. Mojgan Daneshmand, whose research achievements and commitments to the Antennas and Propagation Society are a model to promote women.

2026 Recipients

Mouad Addad Djillali Liabes University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria

Azin Hojjati The University of Texas at Dallas

Şekip Dalgaç Sivas University of Science and Technology, Sivas, Turkey

Parul Rattanpal Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India

Soomin Kim Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Vydehi Nitta Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy

Radha Yadav Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Ankita Kumari Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Anuradha Gupta Department of E&ECE, IIT Kharagpur, India

Sajedeh Keshmiri Arizona State University

2025 Recipients

Astrid Algaba Brazález Technical University of Cartagena, Spain

Diana Sofía López Cárdenas Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Giada Maria Battaglia Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Hadeel Elayan Northeastern University, Boston, United States

Kaitlin Hall University of Utah, United States

Li Zhang Sanda University, China

Maha Hesham Elfeshawy German University in Cairo, Egypt

Mehri Ziaee Bideskan University of Calgary, Canada

Subhadrita Ghosh Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India

Xing Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Yi He University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Zahra Sarpanah Sourkouhi University of British Columbia, Canada

2024 Recipients

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) is happy to announce a new award to increase women’s visibility at the annual IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting.

Hajar Abedi University of Waterloo

Azadeh Ahmadihaji Ecole supérieure de technologie Montréal

Elisa Augello University of Waterloo

Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Secil F. Dogan The Ohio State University

Rotem Gal-Katzir University of Tel-Aviv

Martina Gugliermino Politecnico di Torino

Hira Hameed University of Glasgow

Myoungsun Kim Pohang University of Science and Technology

Tianrui Qiao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Suchitra Tiwari Indian Institute of Technology Jammu

Jiexi Yin Karlsruhe Institue of Technology

2023 Recipients

AP-S awarded the 2023 Mojgan Daneshmand Grant of $1,500 to these 12 members, enabling them to participate in person at the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. The event will take place 23-28 July 2023 in Portland, Oregon, USA. In addition to the grant, the registration fee and banquet ticket are covered. The selection committee was led by Prof. Claire Migliaccio, Chair of AP-S DEI Committee.

Andrea Alejandra Ávila Saavedra Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso

Audrey L Evans University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Elizaveta Motovilova Weill Cornell Medicine

Gaurangi Gupta Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Mai Osama Sallam Nile University

Martina Teresa Bevacqua Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Department DIIES

Zahra Manzoor Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA

Parisa Lofti Antenna engineer at PCTEL

Prajakta Sathe Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E&ECE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Rocio Rodriguez Cano Aalborg University / Penn State

Siti Nailah Mastura Zainarry University of Adelaide

Tang Shiwen Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2022 Recipients

AP-S chose these 12 members to receive the 2022 Mojgan Daneshmand Grant. They participated in person at the 2022 AP-S/URSI symposium that took place 10-15 July 2022 in Denver, Colorado, USA. The selection committee was led by Prof. Claire Migliaccio, Chair of AP-S DEI Committee.