Education

Ph.D., Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin (2009-2013)
M.S., National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan (2004-2006)
B.S., National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan (2000-2004)

Research and Work Experience

Associate Professor (2018 – present)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA
Assistant  Professor (2014 – 2018)
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University (WSU), USA
Research Scientist  (2013 – 2014)
Metamaterial Commercialization Center, Intellectual Ventures Lab (IV-Lab), USA
Research Staff  (2006 -2009)
National Nano Device Lab (NDL), Taiwan

• ACES Early Career Award (2019)
• NSF CAREER Award (2018)
• WSU College of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2018)
• Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) Award (2018)
• SPIE Rising Researcher Award (2018)
• IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award (2017)
• Young Scientist Award, URSI General Assembly (2017)
• Final 10, IOP Nanotechnology Young Researcher Award (2017)
• Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship (2016)
• Young Scientist Award, URSI Commission B: Electromagnetic Theory (2016)
• Argonne National National Laboratory Director’s Fellowship (declined) (2014)
• UT Austin Professional Development Award (2013)
• Donald D. Harrington Fellowship (2012)
• Ernest K. Smith Student Paper Prize, USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (2012)
• USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Awards (2012, 2013)
• Finalist (2011, 2013), Honorable Mention (2010), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Paper Contest Award
• Best Student Paper Award, Metamaterials’ 2011: The 5th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (2011)
• Student Grant of European Physical Society  (2010)
• Study Abroad Award, Taiwan Ministry of Education (2010)
• Honorary Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society (2006)
• United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) Scholarship (2005)
• Nation Chiao Tung University Presidential Award (2004, 2005)

Mentored Student Awards

• Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship Award (M. Sakhdari), for outstanding academic records and excellent research work at WSU (2017)
• Olbrot Travel Award (M. Hajizadegan), for excellence in graduate student research at WSU (2017)
• Finalist (L. Zhu),  Wireless Integrated MicroSensing & Systems (WIMS2) Student Poster Contest (2017)
• Honorable Mention (M. Hajizadegan), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Paper Contest Award (2018)
• Honorable Mention (M. Sakhdari), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Paper Contest Award (2017)
• Honorable Mention (M. Hajizadegan), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Contest Award (2017)
• Best Paper Award, (M. Hajizadegan & M. Sakhdari), IEEE Sensors Conference  (2016)
• Finalist (M. Sakhdari), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Paper Contest Award (2016)
• Finalist (M. Hajizadegan), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Paper Contest Award (2016)
• Finalist (Haiyu Huang; co-advised with Dr. Deji Akinwande), IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Student Paper Contest Award (2016)
• 1st Prize, National Institute Award & IET Award, UT Austin ECE Senior Design Project Competitions, 2011 Spring
• 2nd  Prize, UT Austin ECE Senior Design Project Competitions, 2010 Fall

Conference Organization & Service

• Technical Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2019), Lisbon, Portugal, June 23-26 (2019)
• Session Chair, 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2019), Lisbon, Portugal, June 23-26 (2019)
• Invited Paper Co-Chair, IEEE International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC), May 6-8 (2019)
• Session Chair, IEEE International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC), May 06-08 (2019)
• Session Chair, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (SPIE DCS), April 14-18 (2019)
• Session Chair, 2019 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium, Miami, April 14-18 (2019).
• Local Chair/Technical Program Committee, IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series (IMWS), Ann Arbor, July 16-18 (2018)
• Session Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation/USNC-URSI National Radio Science meeting, Boston, July 8 – July 13 (2018)
• Registration Chair, IEEE International Microwave Biomedical Conference  (IMBioC), Philadelphia, June 14-15 (2018)
• Session Chair, IEEE International Microwave Biomedical Conference  (IMBioC), Philadelphia, June 14-15 (2018)
• Technical Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2018), Marseille, France, June 24-July 1 (2018)
• Session Chair, 9th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2018), Marseille, France, June 24-July 1 (2018)
• Technical Program Committee, EMN Meeting on Photonics 2017, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-8 (2017)
• Session Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation/USNC-URSI National Radio Science meeting, San Diego, June 6 – July 1 (2017)
• Technical Program CommitteeChair, 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2016), Seoul, South Korea, July 25-28 (2016)
• Session Chair, 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2016), Seoul, South Korea, July 25-28 (2016)
• Session Chair, 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2016), Malaga, Spain, July 25-28 (2016)
• Session Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation/USNC-URSI National Radio Science meeting, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, June 26 – July 1 (2016) 
• Session Chair, 6th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2015), New York City, August 4-7 (2015)
• Session Chair, 5th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2014), Singapore, May 20-23 (2014)
• Session Chair, 4th  International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2013), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, March 18-22 (2013)

Membership

• Chair and Founder of IEEE Chicago Sensors Chapter (2019-)
• Vice Chair of Chapter IV (Microwave Theory and Techniques Soc.), IEEE Southeastern Section (IEEE-SEM) (2017-2019)
• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, American Physical Society (APS)
• Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Member, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
• Lifetime Member, Harrington Society

Consultation Work

• Maxim Integrated
• Skywatcher Telescope and Optics Corp. (2008– 2009)

Reviewing and Editorial Experience

Editor

• Associated Editor, IEEE Journal or Radio Frequency Identification (IEEE JFRID)
• Associated Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal
• Associated Editor, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (IEEE J-ERM)
• Associate Editor, Advanced Electromagnetics (2016-2019)
• Guest Editor, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
• Guest Editor, International Journal of Optics
• Guest Editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Reviewer for Journals

• ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
• ACS Photonics
• Advanced Functional Materials
• Advanced Materials
• Advanced Optical Materials
• AIP Advances
• Applied Optics
• Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing
• Applied Physics Letters
• Biosensors
• Computer Aided Design
• Electronics
• EPJ Applied Metamaterials
• FERMAT
• IEEE Access
• IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques
• IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
• IEEE Photonics Journal
• IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
• IEEE Sensors Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices
• IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
• IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
• IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Electronic Materials
• Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems
• Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetics Applications
• Journal of Optics
• Journal of the Optical Society of America A
• Journal of the Optical Society of America B
• Journal of Physical Chemistry
• Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
• Journal of Physics A: Materials Science & Processing
• Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
• Laser and Photonics Reviews
• Light Science and Applications (Nature Publication Group)
• Materials Research Express
• Materials Today
• Microelectronics Journal
• MRS Communications
• Nanomaterials
• Nanotechnology
• Nano Energy
• Nanophotonics
• Nature Electronics
• Nature Photonics
• New Journal of Physics
• Optics Communications
• Optics Express
• Optics Letters
• Photonics
• Physics Letters A
• Physical Review Applied
• Physical Review B
• Physical Review Letters
• Semiconductor Science and Technology
• Sensors
• Scientific Reports (Nature Publication Group)
• SPIE: Optical Engineering

Reviewer for Conference Proceedings

• European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) 2019
• IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation 2019
• 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2019)
• IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation 2018
• 9th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2018)
• IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation 2017
• IEEE Sensors Conference 2017
• 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2017)
• 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2016)
• 6th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2015)
• 5th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2014)
• 8th Metamaterials Congress (Metamaterials 2014)
• 4th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics (META 2013)
• 7th Metamaterials Congress (Metamaterials 2013)