Consultants:
Halim Boutayeb received the Diplôme d’Ingénieur (B.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the École Supérieur d’Ingénieur de Rennes, France, in 2000, and the French D.E.A. (M.Sc.) degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rennes, Rennes, France, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. From March 2004 to December 2006, he was with INRS-EMT, Montréal, QC, Canada. From Jan. 2007 to Dec. 2011, he was a Researcher with the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. He was also Coordinator and a member of the Centre de Recherche en Électronique Radiofréquence (CREER), which is a strategic cluster that provided a unique platform for putting together 35 Canadian researchers in the field of applied electromagnetics and RF technologies. From Jan. 2012 to May 2020, he was a Research and Development Staff Member with the Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada. Since June 2020, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Quebec, Gatineau, Canada.
Ioannis (John) Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and Vice Dean for Infrastructure and Innovation of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering. He graduated with his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His M.Eng. thesis was performed as a co-op at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab on organic thin-film transistors, and his Ph.D. was obtained in the Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT, working on field-emission displays. After graduation, he spent three years as a postdoc in MIT's Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics, working on a variety of organic electronic devices, and also as a senior engineer for QD Vision (later acquired by Samsung Electronics) working on the integration of quantum dots in displays. He joined the faculty at Columbia University in electrical engineering as an assistant professor in 2006, and served as chair of the department from 2020-2024. He is a fellow of the IEEE, Optica, the Society for Information Display (SID), SPIE, and the National Academy of Inventors and is currently the president of SID. His current research interests include the application of thin film electronics to a range of problems including robotics, displays, biological systems, radiation and gas sensing, energy harvesting, and IoT applications.
Yahia M.M. Antar (S’73–M’76–SM’85–LF’00). He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from Alexandria University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, MB, Canada, all in electrical engineering. He worked at the Communications Research Centre on Satellite Communications and the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa on Radar Polrization before joining the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC), Kingston where he has held the position of Professor since 1990. He has authored or coauthored over 300 journal papers, several books and chapters in books, over 500 refereed conference papers, holds several US patents, has chaired several national and international conferences, and has given plenary talks at many conferences. He has supervised and co-supervised about 110 Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses at the RMC and at Queen’s University, several of them have received the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal Award, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis of the Division of Applied Science, as well as many Best Paper Awards in journals and at major international symposia. He served as the Chair of CNC Canadian National Commission) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (1999–2008), Commission B (1993–1999), and was elected to URSI Board as Vice President for two terms. He has held a cross appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston since 1990.
