Steven Weiss

Mohammod Ali (M‘93-SM'03) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1987 and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. From January 1998 to August 2001, he was with Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. Since August 2001, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, where he is currently a Professor. From June to August 2004, he had held appointment as a Visiting Research Scientist with the Motorola Corporate EME Research Laboratory, Plantation, FL, USA. In the summer of 2010 and 2011, he was a Summer Faculty Fellow with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, USA. He is the author coauthor of over 150 publications and eight U.S. pat-ents. His research interests include smart antennas, metamaterials and meta-surfaces, conformal antennas, and wireless power transfer and wireless sensors. Dr. Ali served as the Technical Program Cochair of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society's International Symposium, Charleston, SC, USA, in 2009. He served as an Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Antennas And Propagation Letters from 2008 to 2013. He received the National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award in 2003 and the College of Engineering and Computing Young Investigator Award, the Research Progress Award, and the Samuel Litman Distinguished Professor Award from the University of South Carolina in 2006, 2009, and 2011, respectively.