Agostino Monorchio is a Full Professor at the University of Pisa and IEEE Fellow. He spent several research periods at the Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University (USA) He has carried out a considerable research activity and technical consultancy to national, EU and U.S. industries, coordinating, as principal scientific investigator, a large number of national and European research projects.

He has been serving as a reviewer for international journals, Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and member of IEEE APS AdCom from 2017 to 2019. Organizer and chair of many scientific sessions at international conferences: IEEE AP-S, ICEAA, ACES; he was General Chair of IEEE 2024 Antennas and Propagation Symposium /URSI Meeting flagship conference held in Florence. He has served and is currently serving as project evaluator for Italian, EU and international agencies.

Prof. Monorchio is active in a number of areas including computational electromagnetics, microwave metamaterials, radio propagation for wireless systems, the design and miniaturization of antennas and electromagnetic compatibility, biomedical microwaves applications.

The activity is mainly carried out at the Microwave and Radiation Laboratory (www.mrlab.it) of the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, together with a large group of PhD students, Post-Docs and research associates. He is currently head of the National Laboratory RaSS (Radar and Surveillance Systems) of CNIT (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni).

He has published more than 200 papers at international journals, cited more than 12.700 times with an h-index of 51 (scholar.google.com). His paper appeared in 2012 with title "A Frequency Selective Radome With Wideband Absorbing Properties" has been named as one of the 20 most influential papers in the history of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Agostino Monorchio is the lead co-founder of the startup Free Space s.r.l., a spin-off company of the University of Pisa specialized in Electromagnetic Technologies (www.free-space.it)

Apra Pandey serves as the Director of Industry Process Consultant for Dassault Systèmes, SIMULIA, focusing on Electromagnetics in North America. In this role, she leads a technical team in delivering electromagnetics simulation workflows for customers across various industries.

Dr. Pandey earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She has authored several peer-reviewed papers and has served as an invited speaker at various conferences.

Since joining CST, Inc. in 2013 (which Dassault Systèmes subsequently acquired), she has held various progressive technical roles, ranging from application engineering to technical management - supporting the adoption of electromagnetic simulations.

Before joining Dassault Systèmes, she contributed to photonics research at Intel Corporation, focusing on hybrid silicon laser performance and thermal modelling techniques. Prior to that, she served as an R&D Engineer at Trek Inc. where she worked on the development of accurate electrostatic detection and measurement instrumentation for a wide range of industrial applications.

Dr. Pandey's current passion is to help improve simulation workflows with the help of AI and ML.

Dr. Aycan Erentok is a Senior Manager of Antenna Engineering at Tesla, where he leads antenna design and wireless system integration across its vehicle and robotics platforms. He has over 20 years of combined research and industry experience in electrically small antennas, full-lifecycle antenna development, electromagnetic integration spanning kHz to mmWave frequencies, and high-volume wireless product development.

He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, where his research focused on electrically small antennas and metamaterial-based and inspired antenna concepts under the supervision of Professor Richard W. Ziolkowski.

Since joining Tesla in 2017, he has led the development of integrated antenna architectures supporting cellular, Bluetooth, GNSS, FM/DAB, UHF, and radar connectivity systems. His work focuses on body-integrated and hidden antenna solutions that improve system performance, enable industrial design flexibility, and reduce hardware complexity across Tesla vehicle and robotics platforms. His body-integrated connectivity architecture, first introduced in the Model Y program, has since become a standard antenna integration approach across Tesla vehicle platforms.

Prior to Tesla, Dr. Erentok held antenna engineering leadership roles at Intel and Nokia, where he contributed to antenna technologies deployed in tens of millions of mobile and wearable devices.

Dr. C.J. Reddy is Siemens Fellow at Siemens Digital Industries Software. He served as Vice President, Business Development-Electromagnetics for Americas at Altair from 2014 to 2025 and transitioned to Siemens, with the acquisition of Altair by Siemens. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Visiting Fellowship to work at Communications Research Center in Ottawa during 1991-1993 and was awarded the US National Research Council (NRC) Resident Research Associateship in 1993 to work at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He also worked as Research Professor at Hampton University from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Reddy was the President of Applied EM, Inc (2000-2017) where he led several Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects for the DoD and NASA. He was also the President of EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc (2002-2014) and led the marketing of the EM Simulation tool, Feko in North America. EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc was acquired by Altair in 2014. 

Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACES (Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society) and a Fellow of AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association). Dr. Reddy is a co-author of the book, “Antenna Analysis and Design Using FEKO Electromagnetic Simulation Software,” published in June 2014 by SciTech Publishing (now part of IET). Dr. Reddy served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He served as the Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Young Professionals Committee during 2021-2024 and served on the AP-S AdCom during 2023-2024. Dr. Reddy is appointed to IEEE Fellows Committee by IEEE Board of Directors for the terms 2020-2021 and 2022-2023. Currently, Dr. Reddy is serving as the 2026 IEEE AP-S President. Dr. Reddy is inducted into IEEE Heritage Circle by the IEEE Foundation for establishing the "IEEE AP-S CJ Reddy Travel Grant for Graduate Students

Constantine Sideris is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California from 2018 to 2025 and an Associate Professor from 2025 to 2026. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees with honors from the California Institute of Technology in 2010, 2011, and 2017 respectively. He was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Wireless Research Center from 2013 to 2014. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech from January 2017 to August 2018. He was the recipient of an ONR YIP award in 2023, an NSF CAREER award in 2021, an AFOSR YIP award in 2020, an AFOSR DURIP award in 2021, the Caltech Leadership Award in 2017, and an NSF graduate research fellowship in 2010. His research is highly interdisciplinary and bridges the fields of bioengineering, medicine, applied mathematics and computation with electrical engineering and physics.

His research interests include analog/RF integrated circuits, photonic integrated circuits, and computational electromagnetics for biomedical and biosensing applications and wireless communications. His current interests in biomedical devices include portable Point-of-Care in-vitro biosensors, wearable devices for real-time monitoring and analysis of biological signals, ingestible “smart” pills, and implantable devices. His current interests in computational electromagnetics include developing fast algorithms for simulating RF and nanophotonic devices and coupling them with efficient optimization algorithms to achieve the automated design of new, high-performance electromagnetic devices.

Gordon Harling is President and CEO of CMC Microsystems, accelerating research and innovation across Canada and serving clients in over 20 other countries. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Gordon spent a decade working in research and development at large companies such as Mitel, NovAtel, and Dalsa. Prior to joining CMC in 2018, he was founder and CEO of several start-up companies, including Goal Semiconductor, Elliptic Technologies, and Innotime Technologies.

Gustavo Navarro is the CEO and co-founder of Divergent Physics, Inc., a deep tech startup building agentic AI tools for RF and electromagnetic simulation workflows. The company's flagship product, HFSS Copilot, integrates with Ansys HFSS to enable more design exploration, dramatically faster data processing, and accelerated onboarding for junior engineers.

Gustavo holds a PhD in Mathematics from UC Davis, where his research focused on partial differential equations. He brings more than eight years of experience in RF and engineering startups, including leadership roles at Reach Power where he built long-range wireless power transfer technology. His work sits at the intersection of rigorous applied mathematics, electromagnetic engineering, and AI, a combination that informs both the technical depth and the product vision behind Divergent Physics.

Based in the Bay Area, Gustavo spends most of his free time with his young son and enjoys open ocean swimming.

Howard Liu is Chief Scientist/VP and President of North America Research Institute, Sunway Communication, a global leading electronic solution provider. Hongwei and his team of professionals specialize in RF and Antenna Technologies for 6G, Future Vehicle, Smart IoT and Low Orbit Satellite Communication

He earned his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), where his research focus on Neural Network Application for Radar Target Recognition and Millimeter Wave Radar Antennas.

Prior to current job, Dr Liu served as Research Fellow at University of Bradford (UK) and Royal Military College of Canada, a Professor and Vice Dean, College of Electronic Engineering at UESTC, a Fellow of the Technical Staff and Senior Director at Motorola/Motorola Mobility and Senior Antenna Expert and Senior Director at Huawei Device USA.

He has more than 30 patents granted globally and co-author of the Chapter on Mobile Device Handset Antenna for Antenna Engineering Handbook (5th Edition, 2018). He served as Chair of IEEE APS/MTT Chicago Chapter (2007-2010) and Chair of LTE TRP/TIS Task Force, CTIA WG (2017-2019), WG Member of IEEE Standard for Definitions of Terms for Antennas and Judge of Innovative Products, CES 2026.

Joonho Byun is a Corporate Vice President at Samsung Electronics, leading the Antenna Engineering Group at Samsung Electronics. With over 25 years of experience in the mobile industry, he has been a key driver of innovations, including the development of the world's first 5G smartphone and the commercialization of foldable devices. He is responsible for the strategy, technology roadmap, and architecture of antenna systems across various product lines, including smartphones, tablets, wearables, and more. He has also led the development of patent portfolios related to antenna technologies and played a key role in integrating advanced antenna systems such as satellite communication, UWB, and mm-wave into mobile devices. He has contributed to global standardization efforts, including unifying OTA requirements with telecom operators. He holds a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1999.

Juliano Mologni is a Principal Product Manager at Synopsys specializing in high frequency electromagnetics simulation, with more than 25 years of experience in computational electromagnetics. He joined Ansys in 2019, where he has led the development and strategy of advanced simulation solutions for RF, signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI/EMC applications. Author of multiple patents and over 70 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications spanning automotive electronics, RF systems, and high-speed design. He holds a Master’s degree in semiconductor manufacturing processes and doctoral research focused on automotive EMC and signal integrity—areas that remain central to his professional work today. Prior to joining Ansys, Juliano held engineering and leadership roles across the automotive and high-tech industries, including positions at Motorola, Delphi Automotive Systems, WebTech Wireless, and ESSS (Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software).

Seong-Hwoon Kim, is a Vice President at HRL Laboratories where he leads a world class organization of researchers creating next generation electronics and sensors to protect our national security and transitioning technology for commercial applications. One area of emphasis at HRL is leveraging its long and rich history in microelectronics fabrication with modern heterogeneous packaging approaches to create highly integrated devices, modules and subsystem solutions for emerging Future G markets. Dr. Kim earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University specializing in antennas and electromagnetic phenomenology.

Tarun Chawla (Member, IEEE) received the B.S.E.E. degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 2008, and the M.B.A. degree from the University of Memphis in 2019. He is the Director of Business Development at Remcom, State College, PA, USA, with over 16 years of experience in hardware, middleware, and computational physics for electronics. His teams focus on integrating simulation tools for manufacturers in the semiconductor, consumer, automotive, and defense industries, including NASA. He works at the intersection of research and product engineering to support the development of AI-enabled wireless systems.

Xiaobo Wang received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electronic Engineering and Information Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2010. He has over 16 years of experience in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry, with a focus on computational electromagnetics and optimization algorithms. He is currently a Software Architect at Cadence Design Systems, where he leads research on generative AI for antenna and integrated circuit design.