John (Yiannis) L. Volakis obtained
his
PhD degree from the Ohio State Univ. in 1982. After 2 years at
Boeing Phantom Works, in 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor
at The Univ. of Michigan, becoming a Full Professor in 1994.
Since Jan. 2003, he has been the R.&L. Chope Chair Professor at The
Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. He
also serves as the Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory with
$7.5M in external research funding on all aspects of electromagnetic
and wireless communications (hardware, analysis, and design). Over the years he carried
out research in radar scattering and computational methods, antenna
and wireless communications, EMC/EMI, propagation, design
optimization, RF materials and metamaterials, multi-physics
engineering and bioelectromagnetics. His publications
include 4 books (including the 4th ed. classic Antenna
Engineering Handbook), 260 journals and over 400 conference
papers. He has graduated/mentored nearly 60 doctoral
students/post-docs with 10 of them having co-authored papers that
won awards at international conferences. He has served as
Associate Editor of several journals, was twice the general Chair of
the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Symposium, and in 2004 he was the
IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society President. He is also
listed by ISI among the top 250 most referenced authors.
