John L. Volakis
John L. Volakis | |
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| Born | May 13, 1956 |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University, Youngstown State University |
| Awards | URSI Booker Gold Medal (2020), NAI Fellow (2020), AAAS Fellow (2020), ACES Fellow (2010), IEEE Fellow (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering, Wireless Communication, antenna (radio), and Phased Array, Electromagnetism, Telecommunications, E-textiles, Bioelectromagnetics |
| Institutions | Florida International University, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, Youngstown State University |
| Thesis | Electromagnetic scattering from inlets and plates mounted on arbitrary smooth surfaces (1982) |
John L. Volakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Λ. Βολάκης) is an American engineer, educator and writer. He was born in Chios, Greece on May 13, 1956, and immigrated to the United States in 1973. He is an IEEE, ACES, AAAS and NAI Fellow and a recipient of the URSI Gold Medal. He served as the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society President (2004), and as chair and Vice Chair of the International Radio Science Union (URSI), Commission B (2017-2023).
He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and served as the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University (FIU) from 2017 to 2023. During his tenure as Dean, the college's student population grew from approximately 5,400 to 8,700, while the U.S. News and World Report graduate program rankings improved by more than 40 points to reach #61 among public universities in 2023 .
He carried out innovations and research on diffraction theory, antennas, medical sensing, computational methods, electromagnetic compatibility and interference, propagation, design optimization, Radio Frequency (RF) materials and metamaterials, Radio Frequency Identifications (RFIDs), millimeter waves and terahertz, body-worn wireless technologies, and multi-physics engineering.