Honors and Awards 

Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for 2024-2026.

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (2019-).

2021 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, for the paper "Artificial neural network models for radiowave propagation in tunnels", Volume 14, Issue 11, September 2020, pp. 1198-1208 (lead author: Ph.D. student Aris Seretis).

Faculty Teaching Award; Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 2021 (recognizing a faculty member who demonstrates outstanding classroom instruction and develops innovative teaching methods).

Chair, IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee on Field Theory and Computational Electromagnetics (2017-2019). 

Departmental Teaching Award; ECE Department, University of Toronto Spring 2006, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2021 (for excellence in undergraduate teaching).

IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award; IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, 2013 (for outstanding early-career contributions to microwave engineering).

Nominated for the 2011 Tatsuo Itoh Best Paper Award in the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, for the paper "Extending the Stability Limit of the FDTD Method With Spatial Filtering".

 The Eugene V . Polistuk Chair in Electromagnetic Design (2009-2019); ECE Department, University of Toronto  (endowed Chair in support of research on electromagnetic design).

 Early Researcher Award; Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, 2007 (for promising, recently-appointed Ontario researchers).

The Gordon R. Slemon (teaching of design) Award; ECE Department, University of Toronto, 2007 (for excellence in teaching of design).

Guest Editor, IEEE Microwave Magazine Special Issue on machine learning for microwave engineering (2021) and Special Issue on time-domain methods (2009).

Technical Program Committee Chair, 2019 IEEE MTT-S Numerical Electromagnetics, Multiphysics, Optimization (NEMO) Conference, Boston, MA; 2015 IEEE AP-S Int. Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and URSI CNC/USNC Joint Meeting, Vancouver, BC.

Honorable mention, Student Paper Competition, 2001 International Microwave Symposium, Phoenix, AZ (for the paper "Development and Application of an Efficient FDTD/MRTD Numerical Interface"). 

1997 Class Bronze Medal, ECE Department, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (for graduating third in a class of 250; G.P.A.=9.67/10).

 Award for Academic Excellence, Hellenic National Fellowship Foundation 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97 (awarded to students with top three annual GPA’s in their class).

Award for Academic Excellence, Technical Chamber of Greece, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97 (awarded to engineering students with top ten annual GPA’s in their department, regardless of year).

Finalist for 2023 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation R.W.P. King paper prize, Aristeidis Seretis (March 2023).

Finalist, student paper competition, 2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Qiming Zhao (June 2021).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2020 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Aristeidis Seretis (July 2020).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2020 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Sameer Sharma (July 2020).

 Finalist for 2020 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation R.W.P. King paper prize, Xingqi Zhang (March 2020).

 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Fellowship, Sameer Sharma (August 2019).

Government of PR China Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Xingqi Zhang (April 2019).

 Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2019 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Qiming Zhao (July 2019).

Shastri Research Student Fellowship, Sameer Sharma (April 2019).

TICRA Travel Grant to the 2018 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Xingqi Zhang (July 2018).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2018 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Xingqi Zhang (July 2018).

 Finalist, student paper competition, 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Kae-An Liu (June 2018).

 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship, Kae-An Liu (January 2018).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2016 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Xingqi Zhang (June 2016).

 Second place, student paper competition, 2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC), Hans-Dieter Lang (May 2015).

Finalist, student paper competition, 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (top 7.3% of student paper submissions), Chun Chang (June 2012).

NSERC Post-doctoral Scholarship, Roberto Armenta (May 2012). 

Finalist, student paper competition, 2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Chun Chang (June 2011).

Finalist, student paper competition, 2010 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Roberto Armenta (June 2010).

Government of PR China Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Dongying Li (April 2010). 

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Fellowship, Roberto Armenta (July 2010).

IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship, Roberto Armenta (May 2010).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Roberto Armenta (June 2009).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2009 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Jackie Leung (June 2009).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2009 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Roberto Armenta (June 2009).

Honorable mention, student paper competition, 2008 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Dongying Li (July 2008).

NSERC Canada Research Scholarship, Roberto Armenta (May 2008). 

Third prize, student paper competition, 2008 Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics, Roberto Armenta (April 2008).

Distinction (awarded to top ECE 4th year design projects) for the project “Machine Learning for Electromagnetic Field Computations” by Y. Zhang and Y. Lu.

 Honorable Mention in the student paper competition for EngSci thesis student Elizabeth Chen, 2019 IEEE AP-S Int. Symp. on Antennas and Propagat., Atlanta, GA, July 2019.

Best Paper Award for EngSci thesis student Gengyu (Paul) Xu, FASE/Medical Imaging Catapult Innovation Meeting, Toronto, May 2016.

Highly Commended list at the 2015 Undergraduate Awards (top 10% of more than 5,000 submissions) for EngSci thesis student Xiyu (Tim) Liu (UofT press release).

Best presentation award, Undergraduate Engineering Summer Research for ECE undergraduate summer student Phillip K. Lee, August 2013.

Engineering Science Centennial Thesis Award for Jason C.C. Mak, May 2013.