Gabriel M. Rebeiz is a Lebanese-American electrical and computer engineer, currently the Wireless Communications Industry Chair Chair and Professor at

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. He is the first to introduce

MEMS Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), also written as micro-electro-mechanical systems (or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) and the related micromechatronics and microsystems constitute the technology of microscopic devices, ...

and micromachining to the RF/

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field by developing several novel components with this technology. He is also the pioneer of the integrated phased arrays for communication and defense systems. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2016 for contributions to radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS) and phased array technologies. He is also a Fellow of the

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