Full Resume

EDUCATION:

B.E., Summa Cum Laude, Youngstown State University, June 1978

M.Sc., The Ohio State University, December 1979

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, September 1982

FAMILY:

Married to Maria I. Papouras-Volakis, Pharm. D., Ohio State Univ. 1985, 2005

Children: Leo (born 1986) and Alexandro (born 1989)

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

1/2003- Director, ElectroScience Laboratory

1/2003- Chope Chair Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 43212

9/84-12/2003 The University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept

Professor 1994-2003

Director, Radiation Laboratory, 1998-2000

Associate Professor, 1989-1994

Assistant Professor, 1984-1989

9/82-9/84 Rockwell International, North American Aircraft Operations, Columbus, OH. and Lakewood, CA., Member of Technical Staff

9/78-9/82 The Ohio State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, ElectroScience Lab., Columbus, OH. Graduate Research Associate

6/77-8/77 General Electric Co.,Ohio Lamp, Warren, Ohio.

Summer Trainee Engineer

6/76-8/76 United States Steel Corp.,Youngstown, Ohio.

Summer Trainee Engineer.

AREAS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

His primary research deals with computational methods, electromagnetic compatibility and interference, design of new RF materials, multi-physics engineering, bioelectromagnetics and high frequency methods. Dr. Volakis published 220 articles in major refereed journal articles (9 of these have appeared in reprint volumes), more than 300 conference papers and 10 book chapters. In addition, he co-authored two books: Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics (Institution of Electrical Engineers, London,1995) and Finite Element Method for Electromagnetics (IEEE Press, New York, 1998). He has also written two well-edited coursepacks on introductory and advanced numerical methods for electromagnetics, and has delivered short courses on numerical methods, antennas and frequency selective surfaces. In 1998 he received the University of Michigan (UM) College of Engineering Research Excellence award and in 2001 he received the UM, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Service Excellence Award. Dr. Volakis is listed by ISI among the top 250 most referenced authors (2004, 2005); He graduated/mentored 45 Ph.D. students/post-docs, and co-authored with them 5 best paper awards at conferences. For the past 10 years, Prof. Volakis has maintained a research funding at the level of $1 -$2.M per year.

Prof. Volakis’ group is best known for introducing hybrid finite element methods in electromagnetics and for his leadership in establishing these methods within the community. The books written on these methods are authored by himself and his former students. In the earlier part of his career he focused on diffraction methods where he introduced a new class of practical solutions based on higher order boundary conditions for modeling dielectrically coated structures. His 2^nd book focuses on diffraction methods for impedance and coated surfaces. From 1996 on, much of his focus has been on antenna design and miniaturization, with particular emphasis on broadband antennas. He has developed innovative antenna and frequency selective surface designs which incorporate unique material loading based on formal design methods. In the context of antenna design and material fabrication he has worked with faculty from other disciplines, and pioneered material design for antenna applications, including metamaterial antennas and a new class of photonic crystals for high gain antenna applications. In addition, his collaboration with mechanical engineering faculty led to new multiphysics tools for MEMS design and an understanding of the MEMS failure mechanisms based on asparity heating. Several of his current projects involve (1) antenna design and development for a variety of wireless applications (ultrawideband and narrowband), (2) studies on the mitigation of electromagnetic interference and coupling as relates to automobiles and aircraft, (3) new materials for RF applications, and (4) development of hybrid algorithms for large scale electromagnetic simulation associated with antennas and arrays, complex wireless environments, and mixed RF-digital signals.

Professional Activities:

Dr. Volakis served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 1988-1992, and as an Associate Editor of Radio Science from 1994-97. He chaired the 1993 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium and Radio Science Meeting, and co-chaired the same Symposium in 2003. He was a member of the AdCom for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society from 1995 to 1998 and served as the 2004 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He also serves as an associate editor for the J. Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Magazine, and the URSI Bulletin. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1996, and is a member of Commissions B and E of URSI.

Currently, he serves as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer on the following topics:

· Hybrid Frequency Domain Methods for Electromagnetics: From Analysis to Design

· Metamaterials for Miniaturization of Narrowband and Ultra-wideband Antennas

· Miniature Antennas and Arrays Embedded Within Magnetic Photonic Crystals

· EMI/EMC Modeling and Characterization of Mixed RF-Digital Systems

Previous major service actitives

In 1993 he edited a special Electromagnetics journal issue on Antenna RCS, in 1995 he edited a special Radio Science issue on Computational Electromagnetics, in 1997-98 he edited the Centennial A. Sommerfeld issue of Electromagnetics and in 2001 he edited a special IEEE Antenna and Propagation Transactions Section based on the “Days of Diffraction” millennium workshop. He currently co-chairs the Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering Workshop and also serves on the Executive/Steering Committee of several Workshops/Conferences including the Conference of Computational Electromagnetics, the Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering Workshop and JINA (France).

In each of the past few years he has delivered 6-8 presentations at local IEEE sponsored meetings and invited industry meetings. He also organizes special topics sessions at professional symposia and serves as a reviewer for all journals in his field, and since 2005 he serves on the cmt for evaluating and organizing special sessions for IEEE APS.

In 1997 he received the Univ. of Mich. College of Engineering Research Excellence award and in 2001 he received the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept. Service Excellence Award. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi and an elected member of URSI Commission B. He is also listed in several Who is Who directories, including Who is Who in America.

Books/Coursepacks

T.B.A.Senior and J.L.Volakis, Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics, IEE Press, New York and London, 1995

J. L.Volakis, A. Chatterjee and L. Kempel, Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetics, IEEE Press, New York (ISBN 0-7803-3425-6) and Oxford Univ Press, London (0-19-850479-9), 1998

J. L.Volakis, Kubilay Sertel and Brian C. Usner, Frequency Domain Hybrid Finite Element Methods forBooks/Coursepacks

T.B.A.Senior and J.L.Volakis, Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics, IEE Press, New York and London, 1995

J. L.Volakis, A. Chatterjee and L. Kempel, Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetics, IEEE Press, New York (ISBN 0-7803-3425-6) and Oxford Univ Press, London (0-19-850479-9), 1998

J. L.Volakis, Kubilay Sertel and Brian C. Usner, Frequency Domain Hybrid Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetics, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006

John L. Volakis, Antenna Engineering Handbook Fourth Edition, McGraw Hill Professional, 2007

J. L. Volakis, Advanced Numerical Electromagnetics, 500pp coursepack for EECS 633.

J. L. Volakis, Introduction to Numerical Electromagnetics, coursepack for EECS 503

Patents

M. Nurnberger and J.L. Volakis, Slot Spiral Antenna with Integrated Balun and Feed, UM file 1172, U.S. patent no 5,815,122.

B. Jensen, K. Saitou, K. Kurabayashi and J.L. Volakis, Active Stiction Control for

Improved Reliability of RF-MEMS Switches, patent disclosure

Paper Awards

Best paper award at the IEEE EMC International Syposium 2003, Istanbul, Turkey; Conf. paper: E.S. Siah, K. Sertel, R.W. Kindt, J.L. Volakis and V.V. Liepa, “Fast Frequency Domain Computational EM tools for System Analysis of EMI/EMC topologies.”

Best student paper award at the 2002 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Conference; Conf paper: Z. Li, G. Kiziltas, J.L. Volakis and N. Kikuchi, “Material Design Optimization for Printed Antennas Using the Finite Element-Boudary Integral Method.”

Best paper award at the 2002 IEEE Int. Symposium on Antennas and Propagation; Conf Paper: D. Filipovic and J.L. Volakis, “Design of a multi-functional slot aperture (combo-antenna) for automotive applications.”

Third place best paper award at the 2003 IEEE Int. Symposium on Antennas and Propagation; Conf Paper: R. Kindt and J.L. Volakis, “A multi-cell array decomposition approach to composite finite array analysis.”

Best Paper Award at the 2004 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA),

Conf Paper: M. Lee, Chi-Chih Chen and John Volakis, “Antenna miniaturization using artificial transmission line,”

2005 IEEE EMC Society Leo L. Beranek Student Grant Award, and Runner-Up of Best Student Paper Award; Conf Paper: “A Novel Technique for Concurrent On & Off - Board EMI Analysis of Mixed RF-Digital Circuits via Hybrid Scattering Parameters”, Y. Bayram, J.L. Volakis and P. Roblin.

Chapters/Articles in Edited Books (some included in journals list)

1. J.L. Volakis and K. Barkeshli, "Applications of the Conjugate Gradient FFT method to Radiation and Scattering," in Application of Iterative Methods to Electromagnetics and Signal Processing, ed. T. Sarkar, Elsevier Pub. Co., pp. 159-240, 1991.

2. J.L. Volakis and T.B.A. Senior, "Application of a Class of Generalized Boundary Conditions to Scattering by a Metal-Backed Dielectric Half Plane," in Radar Cross Section of Complex Objects, ed. W. R. Stone, IEEE Press: New York, 1990, pp. 419-427.

3. H.H. Syed and J.L. Volakis, "Multiple Diffractions Among Polygonal Impedance Cylinders," in Radar Cross Section of Complex Objects, ed. W.R. Stone, IEEE Press: New York, 1990, pp. 441-449.

4. J.L. Volakis and M.A. Ricoy, "H-polarization Diffraction by a Thick Metal-Dielectric Join," in Radar Cross Section of Complex Objects, IEEE Press: New York, 1990, pp. 481-491.

5. M.A. Ricoy, S. Kilberg and J.L. Volakis, "Simple Integral Equations for Two-Dimensional Scattering with Further Reduction in Unknowns," in Moment Methods in Antennas and Scattering, ed. R.C. Hansen, Artech-House: Norwood, MA., 1990.

6. J.D. Collins and J.L. Volakis and J.M. Jin, "A Combined Finite Element-Boundary Integral Formulation for Solution via CGFFT of Two-Dimensional Scattering Problems," in Finite Elements for Wave Electromagnetics:methods and techniques, pp. 272-278; eds. P. Silvester and G. Pelosi, IEEE Press: New York, 1994.

7. J.M. Jin and J. L. Volakis, "A Hybrid Finite Element Method Scattering and Radiation From Microstrip Patch Antennas and Arrays Residing in a Cavity," in Finite Elements for Wave Electromagnetics:methods and techniques, pp. 299-305; eds. P. Silvester and G. Pelosi, IEEE Press: New York, 1994.

8. J.D. Collins, J.M. Jin and J.L. Volakis, "Eliminating Interior Cavity Resonances in Finite Element-Boundary Integral Methods for Scattering," in Finite Elements for Wave Electromagnetics:methods and techniques, pp. 313-315; eds. P. Silvester and G. Pelosi, IEEE Press: New York, 1994.

9. A. Chatterjee, J.M. Jin and J.L. Volakis, "A Finite Element Formulation with Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Three Dimensional Scattering," in Finite Elements for Wave Electromagnetics:methods and techniques, pp. 485-490; eds. P. Silvester and G. Pelosi, IEEE Press: New York, 1994.

10. J.L. Volakis, J. Gong and T. Ozdemir, “FEM Applications to Antennas,” in Finite Element Methods and Software in Electromagnetics (eds. Itoh, Pelosi and Silvester), Wiley 1996.

11. T.B.A. Senior and J.L. Volakis, “Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics,” in Review of Radio Science, Ed. R.Stone, Oxford, pp. 205-234, 1996.

12 J.L. Volakis, T.B.A. Senior, S.R. Legault, T. Ozdemir and M. Casciato,“ Artificial absorbers for truncating finite element meshes,” Chapter I, pp. 15-25, in Direct and Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering, eds. Serbest and Cloude, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. (Pitman Research Series in Mathematics).

13. J. L. Volakis, J.Gong and T. Ozdemir, “Hybrid Finite Elements for Electromagnetics,” Chapter in Computational Electromagnetics and its Applications, eds. Campbell et.al. (pp. 252-287), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

14. L.A. Andersen and J.L. Volakis, “Hierachical Mixed-Order Tangential Vector Finite Elements for Triangular Elements,” Chapter in book edited by N. Uzunoglu et.al. (pp. 164-174), Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1998.

15. J.L. Volakis, “Two Dimensional Finite Element-Boundary Integral Method,” Chapter in book edited by N. Uzunoglu et.al. (pp. 175-182), Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1998.

16. T. Eibert, K. Sertel, D. Filipovic and J.L. Volakis,”Finite Element-Fast Integral Methods for Antenna Analysis,” Chapter in book edited by N. Uzunoglu et.al. (pp. 183-197), Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1998.

17. T. Eibert and J.L. Volakis, "Antennas, Radar and Mobile Communications", Chapter in book edited by Sabatier, Wiley and Sons, 2001, pp. 384-406.

18. J.L. Volakis and T. Eibert, “Antenna Analysis Methods,” chapter in Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, ed. J. Proakis (2004).

19. C.C. Chen and J.L. Volakis, “Spiral Antennas: Overview, Properties and Miniaturization Techniques, “ in book edited Rdo Waterhouse, Research Studies Press, UK, April 2006.