Dr. Nader Behdad

Nader Behdad received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.) in 2003 and 2006 respectively. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, from 2006 to 2008, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA, from 2009 to 2013, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research expertise is in the area of applied electromagnetics with emphasis on electrically-small antennas, antenna arrays, antennas for biomedical applications, biomedical applications of RF/microwaves, periodic structures, frequency selective surfaces, passive high-power microwave devices, metamaterials, and biomimetics and biologically inspired systems in electromagnetics.

Prof. Behdad was a recipient of the IEEE R. W. P. King Prize Paper Award in 2014, the IEEE Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award in 2012, the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2011, the Young Investigator Award from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2011, and the Young Investigator Award from the United States Office of Naval Research in 2011. He received the Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty Fellowship in 2009, the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in 2008, the Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 2005-2006, the best paper awards in the Antenna Applications Symposium in Sep. 2003, and the second prize in the paper competition of the USNC/ URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, in January 2004. His graduate students were the recipients of the ten different awards/recognitions at the IEEE Pulsed Power & Plasma Science in 2013, IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014, and the Antenna Applications Symposium in 2008, 2010, and 2011. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and served as the co-chair of the technical program committee of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting.