Professor Ahmed A. Kishk

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Mississippi

University, MS 38677 USA

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Biography: Ahmed A. Kishk received the BS degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1977, and in Applied Mathematics from Ain_Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1980. In 1981 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, where he obtained his M.Eng and PhD degrees in 1983 and 1986, respectively.

From 1977 to 1981, he was a research assistant and an instructor at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. From 1981 to 1985, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba. From December 1985 to August 1986, he was a research associate fellow at the same department. In 1986, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi, as an Assistant Professor. He was on sabbatical leave at Chalmers University of Technology during the 1994-1995 academic year. He is now a Professor at the University of Mississippi (since 1995). He was an Associate Editor of Antennas & Propagation Magazine from 1990 to 1993. He is now an Editor of Antennas & Propagation Magazine. He was a Co-editor of the special issue on Advances in the Application of the Method of Moments to Electromagnetic Scattering Problems in the ACES Journal. He was also an editor of the ACES Journal during 1997. He was an Editor-in-Chief of the ACES Journal from 1998 to 2001. He was the chair of Physics and Engineering division of the Mississippi Academy of Science (2001-2002).

His research interest includes the areas of design of millimeter frequency antennas, feeds for parabolic reflectors, dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, soft and hard surfaces, phased array antennas, and computer aided design for antennas. He has published over 120 refereed Journal articles and book chapters. He is a coauthor of the Microwave Horns and Feeds book (London, UK, IEE, 1994; New York: IEEE, 1994) and a coauthor of chapter 2 on Handbook of Microstrip Antennas (Peter Peregrinus Limited, United Kingdom, Ed. J. R. James and P. S. Hall, Ch. 2, 1989). Dr. Kishk received the 1995 outstanding paper award for a paper published in the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Journal. He received the 1997 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from Memphis section of the IEEE. He received the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Member of the 1998. He received the Award of Distinguished Technical Communication for the entry of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2001. He received the 2001 Faculty research award for outstanding performance in research. He also received The Valued Contribution Award for outstanding Invited Presentation, “EM Modeling of Surfaces with STOP or GO Characteristics – Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Soft and Hard Surfaces” from the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He received the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Microwave Prize 2004. Dr. Kishk is a Fellow member of IEEE (Antennas and Propagation Society and Microwave Theory and Techniques), a member of Sigma Xi society, a member of the U.S. National Committee of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission B, a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, a member of the Electromagnetic Academy, and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Society.