biography

  • Prof. Volakis is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and former Dean of FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing (2017-2023). During his tenure as Dean, he led the college to a historic growth in student success, research and advancement/industry relationships. He is an IEEE, AAAS, NAI, URSI and ACES Fellow. Prior to coming to FIU, he was the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in Engineering at Ohio State and a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. (2003-2017). He also served as the Director of the Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory for 14 years.

    His career spans 2 years at Boeing, 19 years on the faculty at the Univ of Michigan and 15 years at Ohio State. At Michigan he served as the Director of the Radiation Laboratory at U of Michigan (1998-2000). Prof. Volakis has 40 years of engineering research experience, and has published over 450 journal papers, 1000 conference papers, and over 30 chapters. In 2004, he was listed by ISI Web of Science as one of the top 250 most referenced authors, and his google h-index=81 with over 32,000 citations (as of June 2024). He has mentored over 105 Ph.Ds/Post-Docs and has written with them 46 papers which received best paper awards. His research is in electromagnetics, RF materials and metamaterials, antennas and phased array, RF transceivers, textile electronics, millimeter waves and terahertz, EMI/EMC as well as EM diffraction and computational methods. He is also the authors of 9 books, including the Antenna Handbook, referred to as the “antenna bible.”

    His service to Professional Societies includes: 2004 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Chair of the International Union Radio Science-B (URSI-B) from 2020-2023, US URSI-B Chair from 2015-2017, twice the general Chair of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, 2019 co-Chair of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) conference, and the 2019 Chair of the International WorkShop on Antenna Technologies (iWAT). He also served as an IEEE APS Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE APS Fellows Committee Chair, IEEE-wide Fellows committee member & Associate Editor of several journals. Among his awards are: 1) Univ. of Michigan College of Engineering Research Excellence award (1993), 2) IEEE Tai Teaching Excellence award (2011), 3) IEEE Henning Mentoring award (2013), 4) IEEE APS Distinguished Achievement award (2015), 5) Ohio State Univ. Distinguished Scholar Award (2016), 6) Ohio State ElectroScience Lab Sinclair award (2016), and 6) the URSI Booker Gold Medal for URSI Booker Gold Medal for “seminal contributions to Electromagnetics, including small, ultra-wideband and textile antennas and arrays, low power transceivers, diffraction and for transitioning hybrid finite element methods into commercial computational toolsets.”

research interests

  • Medical Imaging; Neurosensing; RF Sensors for Medical Application; Wireless Communication and Propagation; Antennas and Arrays; RF Materials and Packaging; RF Matching and Tunable Circuits; RFIDs; Millimeter Waves & TeraHertz; Computational Electromagnetics; Electromagnetic Compatability and Interference; Scattering and Diffraction

selected scholarly works & creative activities