Breakout - DoD II

Education: B.E. Andhra University (India/National Merit Scholar), M. Tech. IIT (Kharagpur, India), Ph. D. (Applied Physics, 1982), Oregon Graduate Institute (was merged into Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) in 2001). OHUS is a state institution.

Faculty member/Post-Doc/Graduate Student, Oregon Graduate Institute (Portland, OR) (1982 to 1997, left at the rank of associate Professor, Research in laser propagation and teaching applied physics classes, also in Microwaves. He worked at Ansoft Corp. (1997 -1999)doing research microwaves devices and Lucent Lucent Technologies (Breinigsville, PA, 2000 to 2001, worked in a team with six Bell lab fellows to develop first 40 GH optical comm. receiver).

Since 2002, he was back to working on the topics of laser propagation and imaging first at Mission Research Corporation (Dayton, OH, 2002-2005, mostly ABL modeling, PAPA modeling) and then Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate, Detachment 15, Kihei,, HI (2005-current).

He is senior member of OSA (Optical Society of America, SPIE and IEEE. He reviewed joural papers submissions for OSA and in 2015, Recognized as one of the Outstanding Reviewers for 2015 by the Editors-in-Chief of Optical Society of America (OSA) (generally 15 persons are selected for this recognition each year for the 15+ journals of OSA). He also received for 4 times best Journal publication award from Directed Energy Directorate (AFRL). He held Faculty fellowships at AFRL, NASA-Marshall, US Navy (NOSC) and Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Dr. Terrence E Johnson graduated from Penn State University with a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering in 2010. Since graduating, Terrence postdoc 6 years at the US Army Research Laboratory and worked 2 years as a government contractor. He is currently a Design Optimization Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Research Laboratory. His research topic of interest is structural design optimization.

Stavros V. Georgakopoulos received the Diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in June 1996, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering both from Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, in 1998, and 2001, respectively. From 2001-2007 he held a position as Principal Engineer at SV Microwave, Inc. Since 2007, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, where he is now Professor, the Director of the Transforming Antennas Center (a research center focused on foldable/origami, physically reconfigurable and deployable antennas), and the Director of the RF Communications, Millimeter-Waves, and Terahertz Lab. His current research interests relate to novel antennas, arrays, RFID, microwave and RF systems, novel sensors and wireless powering of portable, wearable and implantable devices. Dr. Georgakopoulos received the 2015 FIU President’s Council Worlds Ahead Faculty Award, which is the highest honor FIU extends to a faculty member for excelling in research, teaching, mentorship and service. Dr. Georgakopoulos served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2013–2019), and he currently serves an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation (2019–present).

Served as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from 1999 to 2005. He is a Fellow member of IEEE, a member of Commission B of URSI, an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2007-2010), and a Distinguished Professor at UNM. Currently, he is the Dean for the School of Engineering and Computing. He has advised over 30 Ph.D. students and over 70 M.S, has published over 500 papers in journals and conferences, has 17 book chapters and has co-authored 8 books.