Degrees: PhD Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, 1985 MS Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, 1981 BS Physics with Solid State Electronics option, American University in Cairo, Egypt, 1979 Research Interests Wireless communications, numerical techniques in electromagnetics, smart antennas, neural network and machine learning applications in electromagnetics, reconfigurable antennas, RF/photonic antennas. Plenary Speaker 2007 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave & Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC 2007), Salvador, Brazil, Oct. 2007.

Notable Professional Activities

• Keynote speaker in the 2007 International Workshop & Expo on Anti-counterfeiting, Security, Identification; Xiamen, China, April 2007
• Editor of a special issue on “Synthesis and Optimization Techniques in Electromagnetics and Antenna System Design”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2007
• Taught a two-week course on antennas at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, May 2007
• Gave talks as the IEEE APS Distinguished Speaker in Cleveland (NASA/ Case Western Reserve University), Los Angeles, and Toronto IEEE Chapters as well as at the universities of Sabanci, Koch, Bilkent and METU in Turkey and the Democritus University of Xanthi in Greece
• Tau Beta Pi Advisor 2007-present; elected Senate Committee member
• Vice chair of IEEE Albuquerque Section
• Member of the Technical Committee Programs for IMOC, Brazil 2007; HUT-ICCE, Hanoi-Vietnam 2008; MAPE 2007, Hangzhou, China 2007; LAPC, UK 2008; IEEE AP, Hawaii 2007; and IEEE APS Conference in San Diego 2008