Rahmat-Samii and Wang Selected for Endowed Chairs
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii was recently selected to hold the Northrop Grumman
Chair in Electromagnetics in recognition of his outstanding and diversifi ed research contributions
in the areas of electromagnetics and antennas. He is a well-known international authority
in his fi eld and heads the UCLA EE Department Antenna Research, Analysis and Measurement
(ARAM) Laboratory. Dr. Rahmat-Samii has authored and co-authored over 720 technical journal
articles and conference papers and has written 25 book chapters and three books. He has received
numerous awards, including the 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
Prof. Rahmat-Samii’s pioneering research activities cover many areas including: (a) Advanced Reflector Antenna Designs
and Compensations (in which antenna concepts and designs are utilized in many planetary space missions, soil
moisture remote sensing instruments, direct broadcast satellites, and outer space missions); (b) Personal Communication
Antennas including Human Interactions (ARAM is considered one of the prominent research groups in the area
of communication antennas for mobile units, MIMO, wearable and implanted applications. It is among the pioneering
groups to include the effects of the human biological tissues in simulation models); (c) Nature-Based Optimization
Techniques in Electromagnetics (Prof. Rahmat-Samii pioneered activities in the application of the genetic algorithms
and particle swarm optimizations in electromagnetics and antenna research. Many
innovative and multifunction communication antennas, radar absorbing structures,
and antenna array topologies have been designed using these techniques); (d) Antenna
Measurements and Diagnostics Techniques (Advanced measurements and
diagnostic techniques for antenna characterization have been developed). For the
fi rst time ever, the indoor bi-polar near fi eld measurement technique has been
demonstrated. A microwave holography technique for antenna diagnostics including
phaseless measurements has also been developed.
Kang Wang
Professor Kang L. Wang, recently appointed as the Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Science,
received his BS (1964) degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS (1966) and
PhD (1970) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is recognized internationally
as a leader in nanotechnology. He serves on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology (American Scientifi c publishers).
He also currently serves as the
Director of the MARCO Focus Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA),
an interdisciplinary Research Center funded by the Semiconductor Industry Association and Department
of Defense to address the need of information processing technology beyond scaled
CMOS, and was named the Director of Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN) — a coordinated multi-project
Research Institute. WIN is funded by NRI, Intel and the State of California Current
ongoing projects are aimed at spintronics for low power applications. Prof. Wang
was also the founding director of the Nanoelectronics Research Facility at UCLA
(established in 1989) with an infrastructure to further research in nanotechnology.
In addition to these technical leadership contributions, he has provided academic
leadership in engineering education. He was the Dean of Engineering from 2000 to
2002 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prof. Wang’s research
includes nanoelectronics, spintronics and new architectures for nanodevices.
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics
Raytheon Chair in Physical Sciences
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