Robert H. Caverly was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1954.

He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, in 1983. He received the M.S.E.E and B.S.E.E degrees from the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 1978 and 1976, respectively.

Dr. Caverly has been a faculty member at Villanova University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1997 and is now a Full Professor. 

Previously, he was employed for more than 14 years at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (formerly Southeastern Massachusetts University). 

In 1990, with support from The National Science Foundation, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Microwave Solid-State Group at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. 

Dr. Caverly's research interests, funded by several government agencies and private industry, are focused on characterizing semiconductor devices such as PIN diodes and FETs in the microwave and RF control environment. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers and one book in the RF communication device field as well as in other technical and educational areas.

He is on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions of Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Microwave Components Letters and the International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology and is an IEEE Fellow. 

He is currently Senior Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave Magazine.

Dr. Caverly has been on Technical Program Committees of many national and international conferences and was the 2012 and 2013 co-chair of the IEEE Topical Conference on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications (PAWR).  He is the most recent chairperson of MTT-17, the HF-VHF-UHF Technology Technical Committee of the IEEE. 

He is also a recipient of the Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award from The American Society of Engineering Education and a two-time recipient of the Villanova University College of Engineering Father Farrell Outstanding Service Award.

During his career, he has been a consultant for a number of microwave industries including Alpha Industries, M/A-COM, MDT and Microsemi working on various microwave control element projects.

He has an Extra-class amateur-radio license, WB4PWZ, and has been licensed since 1970.