Yahya Rahmat-Samii ( fa, یحیی رحمت-سمیعی; born August 20, 1948) is the

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Chair Professor in Electromagnetics at the

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Department at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, where he teaches and conducts research on

microwave transmission Microwave transmission is the transmission of information by electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the microwave frequency range of 300MHz to 300GHz(1 m - 1 mm wavelength) of the electromagnetic spectrum. Microwave signals are normally limi ...

and

radio antenna In radio engineering, an antenna or aerial is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter supplies an ...

s. Professor Rahmat-Samii received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1970 from the

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, Iran, and the Master of Science in 1972 and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1975 from the

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. Before joining UCLA in 1989, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the

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. He has made innovations in satellite communications antennas, personal communication antennas, wearable and implanted antennas for communications and biotelemetry, and antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications. He is the Director of the UCLA Antenna Research, Analysis and Measurement Laboratory.

Awards and honors

IEEE Electromagnetics Award The IEEE Electromagnetics Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1996. This award is presented for outstanding contributions to electromagnetics theory, application or education. It may be presented to an individual only. Rec ...

(2011) *Member of the

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(2008) *

Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

of the

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Antennas & Propagation Society (2007) *

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Booker Gold Medal (2005) *Foreign Member of

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(2001) *Honoris Causa Doctorate,

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, Spain (2001) *

Third Millennium Medal (2000) *Distinguished Alumnus Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,

(1999)1999 Distinguished Alumni Award
link from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Books

* 2008: ''Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering'' . * 2006: (with J. Kim
Implanted Antennas in Medical Wireless Communications
Morgan and Claypool Publishers. * 1999: (with E. Michielssen as editors

Wiley, NY. * 1995: (with D. Hoppe) ''Impedance Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics'',

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, Washington, DC.

References

External links

List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Electronics) This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Engineering, which includes over 2,000 current members of the United States National Academy of Engineering, each of whom is affiliated with one of 12 disciplinary section ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahmat-Samii, Yahya 1948 births Living people People from Rasht UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty American electronics engineers Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian electronics engineers Microwave engineers