Yahya Rahmat-Samii

PhD, Distinguished Professor, holder of the Northrop-Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics, and past chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA. Professor Rahmat-Samii is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the current Chairman of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC-URSI). He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the AMTA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2000, the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Booker Gold Medal in 2005, the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 2007, and in 2009 the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award, recognizing his outstanding career contributions. Professor Rahmat-Samii is a co-author of four books and over 800 journal and conference papers. His pioneering research contributions cover modern design analyses and measurements in antenna engineering. His original concepts have been used in NASA’s space missions and in commercial personal communication systems.