Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Born	(1948-08-20) August 20, 1948 (age 76) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Citizenship	Iran, United States
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Tehran
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	A new integral equation solution of electromagnetic aperture coupling and thin plate scattering problems (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Raj Mittra

Yahya Rahmat-Samii[1] (Persian: یحیی رحمت-سمیعی; born August 20, 1948) is the Northrop Grumman Chair Professor in Electromagnetics at the electrical engineering department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches and conducts research on microwave transmission and radio antennas. Rahmat-Samii received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1970 from the University of Tehran, Iran, and the Master of Science in 1972 and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering in 1975 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining UCLA in 1989, he was a senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[2]

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.[3]

Awards and honors

• IEEE Electromagnetics Award (2011)
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2008)[4]
• Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (2007)
• International Union of Radio Science Booker Gold Medal (2005)
• Foreign Member of The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (2001)
• Honoris Causa Doctorate, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2001)
• IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999)[5]

Books

• 2008: (with F. Yang) Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering, Cambridge University Press.
• 2006: (with J. Kim) Implanted Antennas in Medical Wireless Communications, Morgan and Claypool Publishers.
• 1999: (with E. Michielssen as editors) Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms, Wiley, NY.
• 1995: (with D. Hoppe) Impedance Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics, Taylor & Francis, Washington, DC.

See also

• List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Electronics)

References

1. Yahya Rahmat-Samii was elected in 2008 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for contributions to the design and measurement of reflector and handheld-device antennas.
2. Professor Rahmat-Samii at UCLA
3. UCLA Antenna Research, Analysis, and Measurement Laboratory at Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
4. Rahmat-Samii, NAE member from National Academy of Engineering
5. 1999 Distinguished Alumni Award, link from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign