Members

Chairman

Prof. George V. Eleftheriades
Canada Research Chair
University of Toronto
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
10 King's College Rd
Toronto, ON M5S 3G4
Canada
Tel.: +1-416-946-3564
Fax: +1-416-971-2286
E-Mail: gelefth@waves.utoronto.ca
Web: http://www.waves.utoronto.ca/prof/gelefth/main.html

George V. Eleftheriades is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Professor Eleftheriades is a recognized international authority and pioneer in the area of metamaterials: Man-made media with electromagnetic properties not found in nature. In 2002 Dr. Eleftheriades introduced a method for synthesizing high-quality metamaterials using loaded transmission lines. Together with his graduate students, he provided the first experimental evidence of imaging beyond the diffraction limit with a negative-index lens and pioneered several novel microwave and optical components, and antennas using these metamaterials. He received several awards including an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship in 2004 and the 2008 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Vice-Chairman

Prof. Dr. Jan Machac
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Technicka 2
16627 Prague 6
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 224352279
Fax: +420 224355865
E-Mail: machac@fel.cvut.cz
Web: http://elmag.org/en/

Jan Machac is a professor at the Department of Electromagnetic Field, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. His main scientific interests are: investigation of planar passive elements and subsystems of microwave technology, planar antennas, planar microwave filters, propagation of electromagnetic waves in periodic structures, metamaterials. Prof. Machac is an author or co-author of more than 250 publications in scientific journals and scientific international and national conferences.
Member of the MTT Society AdCom Membership and Geographic Activities Committee
MTT-S Region 8 Coordinator
Member of the IEEE MTT-S Int. Microwave Symp. TPRC, since 2008.
Member of the TPC of the European Microwave Conference, 1995-1997, and since 2013.
Reviewer of: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techn., IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Electronics Letters, IET Microwave Antennas & Propagation.

Former Chairman

Prof. Dr. Andreas Cangellaris
M. E. Van Valkenburg Professor and Head
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
155 Everitt Lab, MC-702
1406 W. Green Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Tel.: +1-217-333-2301
Fax: +1-217-244-7075
E-Mail: cangella@illinois.edu
Web: http://www.ece.illinois.edu/directory/profile.asp?cangella

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In Memoriam

A Tribute to Dr. Joshua Lei-wei Li († 22 May 2015)

We lost a good friend and prolific colleague

Prof. Joshua Le-wei Li passed away on 22nd of May 2015 at age 54, after a short and valiant fight with suddenly discovered cancer. He was a National Chair Professor at the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, where he was appointed as the Founding Director of the Institute of Electromagnetics, the Director of the Centre for Space Polar Energy Microwave Power Transmission, and the Vice Chair of the University Academic Committee. He was also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University (Malaysia campus).

Le-Wei (Joshua) was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, on the 26th of July, 1961. He received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from Xuzhou Normal College (XNC, known later as Xuzhou Normal University, and now as Jiangsu Normal University), Xuzhou, China, in 1984; the M.Eng.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation (CRIRP), Xinxiang, China, in 1987; and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 1992, respectively. From November 1992 to January 2011, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was a Professor and the Director of the NUS Centre for Microwave and Radio Frequency. From 1999 to 2004, he was appointed to the High Performance Computations on Engineered Systems (HPCES) Program of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) as a Faculty Fellow. Since 2009, he has been a National Chair Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Le-wei (Joshua) has been teaching and researching in the areas of electromagnetic theory, computational electromagnetics, radio-wave propagation and scattering in complex media, microwave propagation and scattering in tropical environments, and analysis and design of antennas. He was passionate for his work and has been a prolific researcher. He has authored and co-authored 4 books and 48 book chapters, over 370 international refereed journal papers, 49 regional refereed journal papers, and over 400 international conference papers. In particular, he made significant contributions to the theory of Green's functions and developed analytical dyadic Green's functions for different electromagnetic structures and media; he was informally known by many of us as "the man of Green's functions". He was the Editor and Associate Editor of Radio Science, an Associate Editor of the journal Radio Science, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.

Le-wei (Joshua) was elevated to the Fellow grade of the IEEE in 2005 and the Fellow grade of The Electromagnetics Academy in 2007. He received two best paper awards from the Chinese Institute of Communications and the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the 1996 National Award of Science and Technology of China, the 2003 IEEE AP-S Best Chapter Award (when he served as the IEEE Singapore MTT/AP Joint Chapter Chair), the 2004 University Excellent Teacher Award of the National University of Singapore, the 2013 Golden Crown Award from the Sichuan provincial government, the 2014 Multidisciplinary Platform Award for Excellence from Monash University at Sunway, and the 2014 National Friendship Award from the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China.

Le-wei (Joshua) was a very valuable member of the IEEE community, and he was extremely active in both the Antennas and Propagation (AP) and Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Societies. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE AP Society from 2011-2013. He was also a member of the MTT Technical Committee 15 on Microwave Field Theory.

Lei-wei (Joshua) now has departed on his final voyage and we have lost a good friend and prolific colleague. He leaves behind his loved ones, friends, students, research associates and colleagues to remember his legacy.

For condolences to his family and for further information, you may send email to kangkai@uestc.edu.cn.