Vahid Nayyeri

Vahid Nayyeri received the B.Sc. degree from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from the IUST in 2013, all in electrical engineering. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as an RF-circuit designer at the IUST satellite research center. He then was the technical manager of three research and industrial projects at the Antenna and Microwave Research Laboratory at IUST. In June 2012, he joined the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, as a visiting scholar. Presently, he is an assistant professor of the department of satellite engineering, IUST, and also serves as the co-director of the Antenna and Microwave Research Laboratory. In June 2019, he joined the University of Waterloo as a visiting professor. He has authored and co-authored one book (in Persian) and over 50 journal and conference technical papers. His research interests include applied and computational electromagnetics and microwave circuits. He is a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Nayyeri was the General Co-Chair of the 1st National Conference on Space Technology and Its Applications held in Tehran, Iran in 2019. In 2014, he received the "Best Ph.D. Thesis Award" from the IEEE Iran Section for his research on the modeling of complex media and boundaries in the finite-difference time-domain method. He has served as a reviewer to several journals and conferences.