Modern Antenna Measurements and Diagnostics:

Yahya Rahmat-Samii is a Distinguished Professor and holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

He is a recipient of the 2011IEEE Electromagnetics Field Award and has previously served as Chair of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. Dr. Rahmat-Samii received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Prior to joining UCLA, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Caltech/NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has authored or coauthored more than 1,100 journal and conference papers, over 40 book chapters, and seven books, and his work has appeared on the cover of IEEE publications more than 20 times. He is a coauthor of Antenna and Sensor Technologies in Modern Medical Applications (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2021), Surface Electromagnetics: With Applications in Antenna, Microwave, and Optical Engineering (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Advanced Computational Electromagnetic Methods and Applications, (Artech House, 2015), Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering (New York: Cambridge, 2009), Implanted Antennas in Medical Wireless Communications (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2006), Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms (New York: Wiley, 1999), and Impedance Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1995).

Dr. Rahmat-Samii is a Fellow of IEEE, AMTA, ACES, EMA, and URSI. He was a recipient of the Henry Booker Award from URSI, in 1984, which is given triennially to the most outstanding young radio scientist in North America, the Best Application Paper Prize Award (Wheeler Award) of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 1992 and 1995, the University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award in 1999, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the AMTA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2000. In 2001, he received an Honorary Doctorate Causa from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He received the 2002 Technical Excellence Award from JPL, the 2005 URSI Booker Gold Medal presented at the URSI General Assembly, the 2007 IEEE Chen- To Tai Distinguished Educator Award, the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, the 2010 UCLA School of Engineering Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2011campus-wide UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. He was also a recipient of the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from The Engineers Council in 2015, the John Kraus Antenna Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the NASA Group Achievement Award in 2016, the ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation S. A. Schelkunoff Best Transactions Prize Paper Award in 2017, and the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2019. The medals are awarded annually to a group of distinguished U.S. citizens who exemplify a life dedicated to community service. These are individuals who preserve and celebrate the history, traditions, and values of their ancestry while exemplifying the values of the American way of life and are dedicated to creating a better world. He is the recipient of 2020 AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Best Paper Award and 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics. He is the recipient of the 2023 USNC-URSI Outstanding Educator Award and the 2023 IEEE AP-S Outstanding Service Award. In 2023, he was designated as a “Legend of Electromagnetics” by the IEEE AP-S, with his interview available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO2-nrC2rCM. He has had pioneering research contributions in diverse areas of electromagnetics, antennas, measurement and diagnostics techniques, numerical and asymptotic methods, satellite and personal communications, human/antenna interactions, RFID and implanted antennas in medical applications, frequency-selective surfaces, electromagnetic band-gap and meta-material structures, applications of the genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimizations. His original antenna designs are on many NASA/JPL spacecraft for planetary, remote sensing, and CubeSat missions. He designed the original logo for the IEEE AP-S, displayed on all IEEE AP-S publications. He was the 1995 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and 2009–2011 President of the United States National Committee (USNC) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has also served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer presenting lectures internationally.