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Prof. Goutam Chattopadhyay

Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a Visiting Professor at Caltech in Pasadena, USA. He previously served as the BEL Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Dr. Chattopadhyay received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2000.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE (USA), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE, India), and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He served as the 2025 President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), is a Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. His research interests include microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz receiver systems and radars, as well as space instrumentation for the search for life beyond Earth.

Dr. Chattopadhyay has authored over 450 publications in international journals and conferences and holds more than 25 patents. He has received over 35 NASA Technical Achievement and New Technology Invention Awards. In 2026, he received the NASA Group Achievement Medal for groundbreaking work on terahertz instruments for planetary exploration. In 2025, he was awarded the NASA-JPL North Star Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a JPL scientist. Additional honors include the Armstrong Medal from the Radio Club of America (2024), the NASA-JPL People Leadership Award (2023), IEEE Region 6 Engineer of the Year (2018), and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), India (2017). He is also a two-time recipient of the Best Journal Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology (2020 and 2013), received the Best Paper Award for Antenna Design and Applications at EuCAP (2017), and has been honored with the IETE Biman Bihari Sen Memorial Award (2022) and the IETE Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award (2014).

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Prof. Ke Wu

Ke Wu (M’87–SM’92–F’01) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in radio engineering from Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), Nanjing, China, in 1982, the D.E.A. degree (Hons.) and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in optics, optoelectronics, and microwave engineering, respectively in 1984 and 1987, all from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and the University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France.

He was the Founding Director of the Center for Radiofrequency Electronics Research of Quebec  (Regroupement stratégique of FRQNT) and the Canada Research Chair of RF and millimeter-wave engineering. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Industrial Research Chair in Future Wireless Technologies with the Polytechnique Montréal (University of Montreal), where he was the Director of the Poly-Grames Research Center from 1998 to 2024. He has (co)authored over 1500 referred articles and numerous books/book chapters and filed over 90 patents. His current research interests involve substrate integration technologies, antenna arrays, field theory and joint field/circuit modeling, ultrafast guided-wave electronics, wireless power transfer and harvesting, microwave photonics, and MHz-through-THz technologies and transceivers including RFICs/MMICs for joint radar/communication architectures, innovative multifunction wireless systems, and biomedical applications.

Dr. Wu is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He is a member of the Electromagnetics Academy, URSI, and IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN). He was a recipient of many awards and prizes including the inaugural IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2004 Fessenden Medal of the IEEE Canada, the 2009 Thomas W. Eadie Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013, the 2013 FCCP Education Foundation Award of Merit, the 2014 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Application Award, the 2014 Marie-Victorin Prize (Prix du Quebec), the 2015 Prix d’Excellence en Recherche et Innovation of Polytechnique Montréal, the 2015 IEEE Montreal Section Gold Medal of Achievement, the 2019 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, the 2021 EIC Julian C. Smith Medal, the 2022 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Educator Award, the 2022 IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award, and the 2025 IEEE MTT-S Pioneer Award. He has held key positions in and has served on various panels and international committees including the Chair of technical program committees, international steering committees, and international conferences/symposia. In particular, he was the General Chair of the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and General Co-Chair of the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS). He has served on the editorial/review boards for many technical journals, transactions, proceedings, and letters as well as scientific encyclopedia including editor, track editor, and guest editor. He was the Chair of the joint IEEE Montreal chapters of MTT-S/AP-S/LEOS and then the restructured IEEE MTT-S Montreal Chapter, Canada. He has served the IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee (AdCom) as the Chair for the IEEE MTT-S Transnational Committee, the Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Committee, the Technical Coordinating Committee (TCC), the Inter-Society Committee, and the 2016 IEEE MTT-S President among many other AdCom functions. He is currently responsible for organizing the IEEE MTT-S 75^th Anniversary Celebration, and Co-Chair of the IEEE HART Initiative (Hardware for AI, Research, and Talent-building). He was a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer of the IEEE MTT-S from 2009 to 2011. He served the European Microwave Association (EuMA) as the Inaugural Representative of North America in its General Assembly.

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Prof. Raafat Mansour

Raafat Mansour is Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo since January 2000 and has been holding Tier-1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Micro-Nano Integrated RF Systems since 2010. He also held the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Research Chair (IRC) for two terms, from 2001 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2010.  Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, he was with COM DEV, Cambridge, ON, Canada, from 1986 to 1999, where he held various technical and management positions with COM DEV’s Corporate Research and Development Department. He is the Founding Director of the Centre for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) Facility at the University of Waterloo. He holds 46 U.S. and Canadian patents and more than 450 refereed IEEE publications. He has coauthored a Wiley Book on Microwave Filters for Communication Systems and has had seven chapters published in five other books. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications in the areas of filters and multiplexers, high-temperature superconductivity, multifunction reconfigurable microwave and millimeter-wave devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and phase change materials (PCMs).  Dr. Mansour served as the Chair for the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2012) and has received several best paper awards and outstanding research performance awards both from COM DEV and the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Mansour is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). He was a recipient of the 2014 Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Engineering Medal for Research and Development and the 2019 IEEE Canada A. G. L. McNaughton Gold Medal Award.