The 2026 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP) includes a dedicated panel discussion featuring nine recognized researchers in electromagnetic engineering.
This panel convenes IEEE Fellows, MTT-S leadership, journal Editors-in-Chief, and specialized researchers to discuss current technical parameters and future implementations in the field. The participating panelists are: Prof. Kamran Ghorbani, Prof. Ke Wu, Prof. Quan Xue, Prof. Anding Zhu, Prof. Almudena Suárez Rodriguez, Prof. Qiaowei Yuan, Prof. Wenquan (Cherry) Che, Prof. Rodica Ramer, and Prof. Malgorzata Celuch.
Collectively, these panelists possess extensive empirical and theoretical backgrounds across multiple relevant disciplines. Their technical expertise encompasses microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, terahertz integration, non-linear modeling of RF systems, wireless power transfer, adaptive array antennas, and numerical methods for computational electromagnetics. Their research output directly supports application areas such as 5G/6G mobile communications, radar systems, microwave photonics, and substrate-integrated waveguides.
This session is designed to provide attendees with a structured, objective analysis of the practical development and physical realization of advanced RF and THz systems directly from the individuals guiding current research, system integration, and publication standards.
Kamran Ghorbani
Kamran Ghorbani (M’96) received the B.Eng (Hons.) and Ph.D. degree from RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in 1994 and 2001, respectively. From Nov. 1994 to 1996, he was a graduate RF Engineer with AWA Defence Industries working on early warning radar systems. In June 1996, he joined RMIT University to pursue his Ph.D. studies. From Dec. 1999 to March 2001, he was a Senior RF Engineer with Tele-IP working on VHF transceivers for commercial aircraft. He joined the Department of Communication and Electronic Engineering (now the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering) at RMIT University in 2001 as a continuing Academic. Prof. Ghorbani is currently the Director of the Communication Technologies Research Centre, RMIT University. He is responsible for strategic planning and managing the research center. His research interests include, dielectric measurements, composite material structures, frequency selective surfaces, metamaterials, RF energy harvesting, radar systems, ferroelectric devices and phased array antennas.
Prof. Ghorbani was the Chair of Asia Pacific Microwave Conference APMC2011, which was held in Melbourne, Australia. He was the Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee for IEEE International Microwave and RF Conference, IMaRC2014, which was held in India. He was the Chair of first Australian Microwave Symposium, AMS2014, which was held in Melbourne, Australian. He is the Chair of Technical Program Committee of the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference APMC2016, which is going to be held in India. He is a member of IEEE MTT-S Meetings and Symposia Committee (AdCom sub-committee).
Ke Wu
Dr. Ke Wu (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in radio engineering from Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) in 1982, the D.E.A. degree (Hons.) and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in optics, optoelectronics, and microwave engineering, all from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and University of Grenoble, France, respectively in 1984 and 1987. He is currently the Industrial Research Chair in Future Wireless Technologies and Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Polytechnique Montréal (University of Montreal), where he is also the Director of the Poly-Grames Research Center. He was the Canada Research Chair in RF and millimeter-wave engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Radiofrequency Electronics Research of Quebec. Dr. Wu has graduated over 75 Ph.D. and 95 M.Sc. Students. He has authored/co-authored over 1400 referred papers, and a number of books/book chapters and filed more than 80 patents. Dr. Wu was the General Chair of the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, and the 2016 President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). He also served as the inaugural representative of the North America in the General Assembly of the European Microwave Association. He was the recipient of many awards and prizes including the 2021 EIC Julian C. Smith Medal, 2022 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Educator Award, and 2022 IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award. He was an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer. Dr. Ke Wu is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Canada, and a Member of National Academy of Science and Engineering of Germany.
Quan Xue
Professor Xue began his professional career in the Universisty of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 1993 as a Lecturer, immidately after he obtained his Ph.D. In 1997, he became a Professor in UESTC then moved to Chinese University of Hong Kong to work as a Research Associate and then a Research Fellow. In 1999, he joined the City University of Hong Kong as Senior Scientific Officer, and then promoted as Assciate Professor, Professor, and Chair Professor of Microwave Engineering. He also served the University as the Associate Vice President, the Director of Information and Communication Technology Center, and the Deputy Director of the State Key Lab of Millimeter Waves (Hong Kong). In 2017, he joined South China University of Technology. Now he is a Professor and serves as the Dean of the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, the Dean of the School of Microelectronics, and the Director of the Guangdong Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves. He also serves as the Chief Scientist of Antenna in the 2012 Labs of Huawei Technologies. His is a member of Chinese National 6G Technology General Expert Group. He has published over 400 internationally refereed journal papers and over 150 international conference papers. In addition, he has held more than 50 Chinese patents and more than 30 granted US patents. Prof. XUE’s research interests include microwave/millimeter-wave/THz passive components, active components, antenna, microwave monolithic integrated circuits, etc.
Anding Zhu
Anding Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, in 2004. He is currently a Full Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in UCD. His research interests are in the area of nonlinear modelling and characterisation of RF circuits and systems with a particular emphasis on digital linearisation of RF power amplifiers for wireless communications. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and received research funding from various sources including awards from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), European Space Agency (ESA), Enterprise Ireland (EI) and industry donations.
Prof. Zhu is an IEEE Fellow. He served as the Secretary of Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) in 2018 and has been an Elected Member of MTT-S AdCom since 2019. He currently chairs the Budget Committee and is President-Elect. He will serve as President of MTT-S in 2026. He also served as Chair of the MTT-S Microwave High-Power Techniques Committee (TC-12) from 2020 to 2021. He was General Chair of 2018 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on 5G Hardware and System Technologies (IMWS-5G) and Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques on 5G Hardware and System Technologies. Prof. Zhu was a recipient of 2021 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize and served as a Track Editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques from 2020 to 2022. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Microwave Magazine. Prof. Zhu was also a Member of the IEEE Future Directions Committee from 2020 to 2023.
Almudena Suarez Rodriguez
Almudena Suárez is currently a full professor at University of Cantabria (Spain) and head of the research group Microwave Engineering and Radiocommunication Systems. She is a Fellow member of the IEEE since 2012. She was an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer from 2006 to 2008. She has published 115 papers in IEEE journals, with 79 papers in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (IEEE T-MTT). She has authored the book “Analysis and Design of Autonomous Microwave Circuits” (IEEE-Wiley, 2009) and co-authored the book “Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits” (Artech House, 2003). She has been a member of the TPRCs of IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) since 2004 and European Microwave Week (EuMW) since 2014. She was a member of the Board of Directors of European Microwave Association (EuMA) from 2012 to 2020. She was the Publication Officer of EuMA from 2021 to 2023. She received the Research Award of the Social Council of the University of Cantabria in 2021. She was the coordinator of the Communications and Electronic Technology Area for the Spanish National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP) from 2009 to 2013. She was the chair of the 2014 and 2015 editions of IEEE Topical Conference on RF/Microwave Power Amplifiers (PAWR), in Newport Beach and San Diego. She was the General TPC Chair of EuMW 2018. Prof. Suárez was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies from Cambridge University Press journals (IJMWT) from 2013 to 2018. She has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Microwave Magazine since 2014 and was an Associate Editor for IEEE T-MTT in 2019-2022. She was been the Chair of the IEEE Subcommittee for the Best paper Award in IEEE Microwave Magazine from 2017 to 2021. Since 2023 she is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE T-MTT.
Qiaowei Yuan
Qiaowei Yuan is a distinguished full professor at the Tohoku Institute of Technology, as well as a specially appointed professor at Tohoku University in Japan. She obtained her PhD degree from Xidian University in China, where she spent two years conducting research at Tohoku University in Japan. Dr. Yuan has extensive experience in antenna engineering, adaptive array antennas, and wireless power transfer (WPT) technology, having worked at Japanese companies and universities. She has co-authored three books on these topics and her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Best Paper Award and the Zenichi Kiyasu Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan, as well as several Achievement Awards from IEICE’s Technical Committee on Wireless Power Transfer and Antenna Propagation Committee.
Dr. Yuan has also held various leadership positions, including serving as the secretary of IEICE’s Technical Committee on Wireless Power Transfer, as well as being the vice-chair and chair of IEEE Sendai Women in Engineering (WIE). She is a member of IEEE’s R10 WIE committee, and currently serves as a member of IEEE MTT-C25 and the vice-chair of the Technical Committee on Antennas and Propagation of IEICE.
Wenquan (Cherry) Che
Wenquan Che received the B.Sc. degree from the East China Institute of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1990, the M.Sc. degree from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong (CITYU), Hong Kong, in 2004. In 1999, she joined CITYU as a Research Assistant. In 2002, she joined the Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, as a Visiting Scholar. From 2007 to 2008, she conducted academic research at the Institute of High Frequency Technology, Technische Universität München. During the summers of 2005-2006 and 2009-2012, she was with CITYU, as a Research Fellow and a Visiting Professor. Since 2013, she has been the Executive Dean of the College of Elite Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. She is currently a Professor with the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Dr. Che was a recipient of the 5th China Young Female Scientists Award, in 2008. She received the 2007 Humboldt Research Fellowship presented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany and the Distinguished Young Scientist award by the National Natural Science Foundation Committee of China, in 2012.
She has authored or co-authored over 150 internationally referred journal papers and over 70 international conference papers. She holds over 10 Chinese patents. Her research interests include microwave antenna technology, planar/coplanar circuits and subsystems in RF/microwave frequency, microwave monolithic integrated circuits, and medical application of microwave technology. Dr. Che currently serves as an Elected Member for the IEEE MTT-S AdCom and the Representative for MTT-S at the IEEE Women in Engineering Society.
Rodica Ramer
Prof. Rodica Ramer received a B.E., M.E., and PhD degrees in solid-state physics from the University of Bucharest. She has been with the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia, where she is currently a full professor and the head of the microelectronics, and micro- nano-systems research discipline. She was also with the University of Alabama at Huntsville and Colorado State University, USA, and the University of Chiba Japan. Her research area includes microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, substrate-integrated waveguides, antennas, and novel materials technologies for 5G and 6G mobile communications applications.
Xiaoke Yi
Professor Xiaoke Yi is Professor and Director of the Photonics Research Group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research has made key contributions to microwave photonics, photonic signal processing and sensing. Her research interests include integrated microwave photonics, sensors, photonic signal processing, photonic integrated circuits, nanophotonics and hardware for artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration.
Her current research focuses on developing novel signal processing and sensing technologies that enable high-speed, wideband, low-power, and scalable solutions for data-intensive and data-driven communication, sensing, and AI applications. She was an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and was a recipient of the Engineers Australia Most Innovative Engineer award. Xiaoke Yi is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Malgorzata Celuch
Malgorzata Celuch received the International Baccalaureate (with honors) at the United World College of the Atlantic, South Glamorgan, U.K., and the M.Sc. (honors) and Ph.D. (honors) degrees from the Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, in 1988 and 1996, respectively.,Since 1996, she has been an Assistant Professor with the Warsaw University of Technology. She coauthored QuickWave software. She was co-founder and Vice-President of QWED. She has authored over 150 publications, including 20 journal papers and three book chapters. She has been a Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Magazine. Her main fields of research are electromagnetic modeling of microwave circuits and numerical methods for computational electromagnetics, including conformal FDTD methods, new applications of FDTD with enthalpy-dependent material parameters, and frequency-domain parameter extraction from FDTD simulations.,Dr. Celuch has been a reviewer for the Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Physica Status Solidi B, Computer Physics Communications, and Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Lacznosci. She has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS) since 2002. She is the founder and chair of a new TPRC sub-committee devoted to microwave power applications. She is a member of the Microwave Materials and Applications Conference MMA, IET CEM, and ANTEM. She has been an invited speaker, session organizer, and session chair at numerous conferences.