Professor John Volakis
Professor Volakis obtained his Ph.D. from the Ohio State Univ. in 1982. After 2 years at Boeing Phantom Works, in 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor at The Univ. of Michigan, becoming a full Professor in 1994. Since Jan. 2003, he has been the R.&L. Chope Chair Professor at The Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.. He also serves as the Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory with $7.5M in external research funding on all aspects of electromagnetic and wireless communications (hardware, analysis and design). Over the years, he carried out research in radar scattering and computational methods, antennas and wireless communications, electromagnetic compatibility and interference, propagation, design optimization, RF materials and metamaterials, multi-physics engineering and bioelectromagnetics. His publications include 5 widely used books (including the well referenced text on Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetics, and the 4th ed. classic Antenna Engineering Handbook), over 275 journal papers and nearly 500 conference papers. He has graduated/mentored over 60 doctoral students/post-docs (with 14 of them having co-authored papers that won awards at international conferences). He has served as Associate Editor of several journals, was twice the general Chair of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, and in 2004 he was the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society President. Dr. Volakis is also listed by ISI among the top 250 most referenced authors in Engineering/Computer Science.
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Areas of interest: Antennas, Computational Methods for Electromagnetics, Novel Radio Frequency Materials and Metamaterials, Propagation and Coupling in Wireless Systems, Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference, Radar Scattering, Optimization Methods for Antennas and RF Systems, Finite Element and Integral Analysis Methods, High Frequency and Hybrid Methods for Large Scale Computing.