Biography: Francesco P. Andriulli received the Laurea in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2004, the MSc in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, and the PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he was a Research Associate with the Politecnico di Torino. From 2010 to 2017 he was an Associate Professor (2010-2014) and then Full Professor with the École Nationale Supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Brest, France. Since 2017 he has been a Full Professor with the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. His research interests are in computational electromagnetics including frequency- and time-domain integral equation solvers, well-conditioned formulations, fast solvers, low-frequency electromagnetic analyses, and modeling techniques for antennas, wireless components, microwave circuits, and biomedical applications with a special focus on brain imaging.

Prof. Andriulli received several best paper awards at conferences and symposia (URSI NA 2007, IEEE AP-S 2008, ICEAA IEEE-APWC 2015) also in co-authorship with his students and collaborators (EMTS 2025, ICEAA IEEE-APWC 2021, EMTS 2016, URSI-DE Meeting 2014, ICEAA 2009) with whom received also a second prize conference paper (URSI GASS 2014), a third prize conference paper (IEEE-APS 2018), seven honorable mention conference papers (ICEAA 2011, URSI/IEEE-APS 2013, 4 in URSI/IEEE-APS 2022, URSI/IEEE-APS 2023) and other three finalist conference papers (URSI/IEEE-APS 2012, URSI/IEEE-APS 2007, URSI/IEEE-APS 2006, URSI/IEEE-APS 2022)). Moreover, he received the 2014 IEEE AP-S Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award, the triennium 2014-2016 URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal, and the 2015 L. B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics.

Prof. Andriulli is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi. He serves as the 2026 President-Elect of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and served as IEEE AP-S Vice-President of Publications 2025, as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Access, URSI Radio Science Letters, and IET-MAP.

Biography: 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 the Chair Professor and Principal Investigator of IMPACT Lab. He was an invited researcher at the VTT Micro-Modules Research Center (Oulu, Finland) in 2006. He and his students have won best paper awards in numerous IEEE conferences. 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. His research interests are in innovative antenna designs and their integration strategies with circuits and sensors for exible and wearable wireless sensing systems through a combination of CMOS and additive manufacturing technologies. He is a Fellow of IEEE, founded the rst IEEE AP/MTT chapter in Saudi Arabia (2013)He is currently the AdCom member for IEEE AP-S, Founding Chair of IEEE AP-S TC-8 (wireless Communication), member of APS Fellow Evaluation Committee, member of APS eld awards committee, Chair of APS student travel grants, 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).

Biography: FDavid González Ovejero (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 2005, the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Université catholique de Louvain, Leuven, Belgium, in 2012, and the Habilitation á Diriger des Recherches degree from the Université de Rennes, Rennes, France, in 2024. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Research Associate with the University of Siena, Siena, Italy. In 2014, he joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, where he was a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow. Since 2016, he has been a tenured Researcher with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique (IETR), Rennes. His current research interests include computational electromagnetics, large phased arrays, periodic structures, metasurfaces, and submillimeter-wave antennas

Dr. González Ovejero was awarded the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Commission in 2013; the Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 2016; the Best Paper Award in Antenna Design and Applications at the 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) in 2017; the Best Paper Award in Electromagnetics at the 15th EuCAP in 2021; the Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Antenna Technology in 2023; and the Médaille Blondel from the SEE in 2025. From 2019 to 2025, he served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, receiving the Outstanding Associate Editor recognition for the latter in 2022, 2023, and 2025. He currently serves as a Track Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Biography: Eva Rajo-Iglesias received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, in 2002.

She was a Teacher Assistant with the University Carlos III of Madrid from 1997 to 2001. She joined the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, as a Teacher Assistant, in 2001. She joined University Carlos III of Madrid as a Visiting Lecturer in 2002, where she has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications since 2004. Since 2018 she is Full Professor in the same department. She visited the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, as a Guest Researcher, in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, and has been an Affiliated Professor with the Antenna Group, Signals and Systems Department, since 2009 to 2016. She has co-authored more than 100 papers in JCR international journals and more than 150 papers in international conferences. Her research interests include microstrip patch antennas and arrays, artificial surfaces and periodic structures, gap waveguide technology, higher symmetries and 3D printing.

Dr. Rajo-Iglesias was the recipient of the Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference Best Paper Award in 2007, the Best Poster Award in the field of Metamaterial Applications in Antennas, at the conference Metamaterials 2009, the 2014 Excellence Award to Young Research Staff at the University Carlos III of Madrid and the Third Place Winner of the Bell Labs Prize 2014.

She has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION MAGAZINE (2009-2019) and Associate Editor of the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS (2011-2017) and is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION.

Biography: Goutam Chattopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a Visiting Professor at Caltech in Pasadena, USA. He previously served as the BEL Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Dr. Chattopadhyay received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2000. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (USA), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the IETE (India); an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, the 2025 President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), a Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. His research focuses on microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz receiver systems and radars, as well as space instrumentation for the search for life beyond Earth.

Dr. Chattopadhyay has authored over 450 publications in international journals and conferences and holds more than 25 patents. He has received over 35 NASA Technical Achievement and New Technology Invention Awards. In 2026, he received NASA's Group Achievement Medal. In 2025, he received the NASA-JPL North Star Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a NASA-JPL scientist. In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious Armstrong Medal by the Radio Club of America (RCA) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to radio science. He also received the NASA-JPL People Leadership Award in 2023. Among other honors, he was named IEEE Region 6 Engineer of the Year in 2018 and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), India, in 2017. He is a two-time recipient of the Best Journal Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology (2020 and 2013), and also received the Best Paper Award for Antenna Design and Applications at EuCAP in 2017. Additional accolades include the IETE Biman Bihari Sen Memorial Award (2022) and the IETE Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award (2014).

Biography: Michael A. Jensen received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994, and since then he has been at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at BYU, where he is currently a University Professor and Dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering. He has published nearly 300 articles and book chapters on his research interests that include radar systems and multi-antenna wireless communications. He is Past-President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and was previously the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He is a fellow of the IEEE and has been the recipient of the Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award from BYU, the Ernst and Young Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and many other recognitions from the university and his academic and entrepreneurial communities. Dr. Jensen is a co-founder and member of the Board of Wavetronix, a company that designs, manufactures, and markets radar solutions for motorways.

Biography: Distinguished Professor Karu Esselle, FRSN, FIEEE, FIEAust, is Distinguished Professor in Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering at University of Technology Sydney. A large collection of awards Karu recently received include Academic Research Team of the Year (Team Leader) at 2025 Australian Space Awards, 2024 Premier's Prize for Leadership in Innovation in New South Wales, Australia's national 2023 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia (Team Leader), Australia's national 2022 Professional Engineer of the Year, both the most prestigious space award in Australia - the “Winner of Winners” Excellence Award - as well as the Academic of Year Award at the 2022 Australian Space Awards, 2022 UTS Chancellor's Medal, both the Excellence Award and the Academic of the Year Award at 2021 Australian Defence Industry Awards, and 2019 Motohisa Kanda Award (from IEEE USA) for the most cited paper in IEEE Transactions on EMC in the past five years.

Karu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, IEEE and Engineers Australia. He has authored over 750 research publications, and his papers have been cited over 18,000 times. His h-index is 66. Karu is among the top 0.3% of active researchers in the world in the research area of Networking and Telecommunications, according to an analysis published in Elsevier, which considered only actively publishing researchers in this field.

Since 2002, his research income is over 35 million dollars. Karu has provided expert assistance to more than a dozen companies in USA, Europe and Australia. At present, Karu is the Representative of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (AP-S) for all Asia-Pacific countries excluding China and India. From 2018 to 2020. Karu chaired the prestigious Distinguished Lecturer Program Committee of the IEEE AP-S for 3+ years. He has served or is serving in 8 global committees of this IEEE society, including AdCom and Awards. In addition, Karu has been a Senior Editor of IEEE Access and has served as an Associate Editor for nearly all major journals in his fields including IEEE Transactions on Antennas Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Access and IET MAP. He is a Director of Innovations for Humanity Pty Ltd.

Karu was in the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation. He has been invited to serve as an international expert/research grant assessor by many research funding bodies around the globe, and as an Assessor for professorial promotions by prestigious universities.

Previously Karu was a Director of WiMed Research Centre and Associate Dean - Higher Degree Research (HDR) at Macquarie University. He has also served as a member of the Dean's Advisory Council and the Division Executive. Karu is also the Chair of the Board of management of Australian Antenna Measurement Facility, and was the elected Chair of both IEEE New South Wales (NSW), and IEEE NSW AP/MTT Chapter, in 2016 and 2017. His research activities are posted in the web at https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/karu.esselle and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karu_Esselle

Biography: Eric Mokole (Life Fellow IEEE, MSS Fellow, URSI Senior Member) received the B.S. in applied mathematics from New York University in 1971, the M.S. in mathematics from Northern Illinois University in 1973, and the M.S. in physics, M.S. in applied mathematics, and the Ph.D. in mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976, 1978, and 1982, respectively.

He has been volunteering in various roles for the IEEE and URSI since retirement in 2021. From 2017-2021, he was employed by The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA USA. He was on the technical staff of the Sensors, Electromagnetics & EW Department of the MITRE Corporation, where he was the MITRE Lead to the Sensors and Processing Community of Interest (CoI) of the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)). From 2015-2017, he did volunteer work for the IEEE AP-S and AES-S. In 2014, he retired from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington DC USA, after nearly 30 years of conducting and leading radar-related R&D and system analyses for existing and proposed U.S. Navy radars on spaceborne, airborne, shipboard, expeditionary-based, and ultrawideband platforms. He was employed in various roles by NRL's Radar Division: Head of the Surveillance Technology Branch (2001-2005); Acting Superintendent of Radar (2005-2008); resumed Branch-Head duties until retirement from Federal service (2008-2014). From 1983-1986, he worked for the Electronic Warfare Division of the Naval Intelligence Support Center, Washington DC USA. From 1982-1983, he was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Kennesaw College in Kennesaw GA USA.

He has published over 105 conference papers, journal articles, book chapters, and reports and is coeditor/coauthor of 5 books. He has made over 170 presentations. Past/Present Professional Activities include: IEEE [AP-S, AES-S, EMC-S, GRS-S, MTT-S, AES-S Radar Systems Panel (Member, Chair), AP-S (AdCom, NTDC Chair, Standards Committee)]; USNC-URSI [Commission C Chair/Vice Chair/Secretary, Commission E Secretary]; NATO Sensors and Electronics Technology Panel [US Member (2006-2014), Vice Chair (2009-2011), Chair (2011-2014)].

Biography: Dr. Ning Yuan is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm. She received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 1999. From 1999 to 2000, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Telecommunications and Industrial Physics at CSIRO in Sydney, Australia. She subsequently served as a Research Fellow and Research Scientist at the National University of Singapore (2000-2007) and a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Houston (2007-2012).

Since 2012, Dr. Yuan has been with Qualcomm, where she transitioned her research focus from computational electromagnetics, antenna design, radar cross section and electrical well logging to RFIC passive device design, isolation and coupling analysis, package and multi level EM co Design and RFIC integration support etc. She has contributed as a key EM engineer to more than 12 RFIC production chips spanning 65-nm through 6-nm technology nodes and has led EM work for several premium tier RF production chips.

Dr. Yuan received the National Science and Technology Advancement Award of China in 2002 and the Science and Technology Advancement Award of Sichuan Province in 1994. She served as Co-Chair of sessions at the 2009 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and the 2009 USNC/URSI Meeting, and as Lead Guest Editor of the 2011 Special Issue on High-Performance Computing and Engineering Applications in Electromagnetics for the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. Dr. Yuan is an inventor or co-inventor on multiple U.S. patents and has authored or co-authored over 60 journal papers and 40 conference papers. She has been a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2007.

Biography: Richard W. Ziolkowski received (magna cum laude) the B. Sc. degree (Hons.) in physics from Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, in 1974; the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, in 1975 and 1980, respectively; and an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark in 2012.

He is currently a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. He was a Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering as well as a Professor in the College of Optical Sciences until his retirement in 2018. He was also a Distinguished Professor in the Global Big Data Technologies Centre in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies (FEIT) at the University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo NSW Australia from 2016 until 2023. He was the Computational Electronics and Electromagnetics Thrust Area Leader with the Engineering Research Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before joining The University of Arizona in 1990.

Prof. Ziolkowski was the recipient of the 2019 IEEE Electromagnetics Award (IEEE Technical Field Award). He is an IEEE Life Fellow as well as a Fellow of OPTICA (previously the Optical Society of America, OSA) and the American Physical Society (APS). He was the 2014-2015 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced Science and Technology (sponsored by DSTO, the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation). He served as the President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) in 2005 and has had many other AP-S leadership roles. He is currently serving as an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2026-2028). He is also actively involved with the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) professional societies. He is the co-Editor of the best-selling 2006 IEEE-Wiley book, Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations, as well as an author and co-Editor of the recent Wiley-IEEE Press books: Advanced Antenna Array Engineering for 6G and Beyond Wireless Communications (2022) and Antenna and Array Technologies for Future Wireless Ecosystems (2022), respectively.