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Nader Engheta October 2011 NADER ENGHETA Current Position: H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, and Professor of Bioengineering (secondary appoint), University of Pennsylvania Address: Office: Home: Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering/6314 2077 Fox Creek Road University of Pennsylvania Berwyn, Pennsylvania 19312, U.S.A. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6390, U.S.A. Tel: +1-215-898-9777 Fax: +1-215-573-2068 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.ee.upenn.edu/~engheta/ Educational Background: June 1982 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (with a minor in Physics) California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California June 1979 M.S. in Electrical Engineering California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California June 1978 B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with highest honor/rank) University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Research Interests: Metamaterials, Plasmonics, Nano-optics, Nanophotonics, Optical Nanocircuits, Metamaterial-Inspired Nanophotonics and Nanosystems ³Metatronics´ , Nanostructured Materials Modeling, Graphene Metamaterials, Nano-Electromagnetism, Theory of Nanoscale Devices and Components, Miniaturized Antennas, Electromagnetic/Photonic Band Gap Structures, One-way Flow of Photons, Bio-Inspired/Biomimetic Sensing, Processing, and Displaying Polarization Information, Reverse- Engineering of Polarization Vision and Information Sensing in Nature, Physics of Information Contents in Polarization Vision, Bio-Inspired Hyperspectral Imaging, Through-Wall Microwave Imaging, Electromagnetics/Electrophysics of Event-Related Brain Cortical Potentials (e.g., EEG), Mathematics of Fractional Operators and Fractal Domains. Professional Experience: July 1987 Department of Electrical Engineering (Dept. of Electrical and Systems to present Engineering since February 15, 2002) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor (January 1, 2005-present) Professor of EE (July 1995-present) Professor of Bioengineering (Secondary appointment) (5/2005-present) UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator chair holder (7/1999-6/2000) Associate Professor of EE (tenured) (July 1990-June 95) Assistant Professor of EE (July 1987-June 1990) EE Graduate Group Chairman (July 1993-June 1997) Member of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Graduate Group (Sept. 2008- present) Page 1 of 146 Nader Engheta October 2011 Member of Bioengineering Graduate Group (Sept. 96- present) Member of the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, U. of PA (February 1995-present) Affiliated with the Center for Science and Engineering of Nanoscale Systems (SENS), Nano-Bio Interface Center, UPenn (Jan. 2004-present) Affiliated with the Center for Sensor Technologies, UPenn (June 2000 ± present) March-May 1998 Visiting Professor under Fulbright Naples Chair Award (sabbatical) Universita' di Napoli Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica Napoli, Italia June 1983 Senior Research Scientist to June 1987 Kaman Sciences Corporation, Dikewood Division Santa Monica, California. June 1983 Visiting Research Associate in Electrical Engineering (Part Time) to June 1987 Caltech, Pasadena, California Spring 1986 Visiting Lecturer in Electrical Engineering (Part Time) UCLA June 1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering to June 1983 Caltech, Pasadena, California January 1979 Graduate Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering to June 1982 Caltech, Pasadena, California Honors and Distinctions: Selected to receive the 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award (one of the Technical Field Awards) IRU ³)RU FRQWULEXWLRQV WR electromagnetic theory and applications of metamaterials and QDQRVFDOHRSWLFV´(2012) Fellow of the SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering (2011) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010) Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2008) Recipient of the 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, December 2007. Selected as one of the Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology in 2006, for his contributions to the field of plasmonics, November 2006. Holder of the endowed H. Nedwill Ramsey Chaired Professorship in Electrical and Systems Engineering (Jan 1, 2005 - present) Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, April 2000. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, 1999. Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) (1999) Fellow of IEEE (1996) Page 2 of 146 Nader Engheta October 2011 Holder of the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair for one-year term (Academic Year 1999-2000) Recipient of the Fulbright Chair Award for Naples, Italy through the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs program (1998). (First recipient of Naples Chair in the field of engineering). Recipient of a NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award (1989). Recipient of the W. M. Keck Foundation's 1995 Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 1995. Recipient of the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award for distinguished teaching, April 1994. Recipient (two times) of the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award for distinguished teaching, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, October 1993, and April 2002. Recipient of the 2008 Computer Simulation Technology (CST) University Publication Award for the paper A. Alu and N. (QJKHWD ³Cloaking and Transparency for Collections of Particles with MeWDPDWHULDODQG3ODVPRQLF&RYHUV´Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 12, pp. 7578-7590, June 11, 2007. 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