Editor In Chief
Atif Shamim
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division
King Abdullah university of science and technology
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Email: Atif.shamim@kaust.edu.sa
Atif Shamim received his M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Canada, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He was an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholar at Carleton University from 2007–2009 and an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow from 2009–2010 at the Royal Military College of Canada and KAUST. In August 2010, he joined KAUST and is now chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program and principal investigator of the IMPACT Lab.
His research work has won best paper awards at major IEEE conferences, and his students have won several design competitions. He has served as Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE AP-S (2022–2024), won the King’s Prize for inventors and the gifted (2018) for his work on sensors for the oil industry, and was awarded the Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year Award in 2008 in Canada. His work on wireless dosimetry won the ITAC SMC Award from the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation TEXPO in 2007. Prof. Shamim has also won numerous business-related awards, including 1st prize in Canada’s national business plan competition and OCRI Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010. He is an author/co-author of one book, three book chapters, and more than 400 international publications. He is an inventor on 40 patents and has given over 120 invited talks at various international forums. His research interests are innovative antenna designs and their integration strategies with circuits and sensors for flexible and wearable wireless sensing systems through a combination of CMOS and additive manufacturing technologies. He is a fellow of IEEE and has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2013–2019), IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (2020–2024), and as a guest editor for IEEE AWPL Special issue (2019). He was appointed as editor-in-chief for IEEE JERM for three years beginning in 2026. He has served as an administrative committee member for IEEE AP-S (2025) and is currently serving as the founding chair of IEEE AP-S TC-8 (Wireless Communications) and vice chair of IEEE AP-S MGA Committee.
Former Editor-In-Chief
J.-C. Chiao
(2016 Founding Editor-in-Chief, 2017-2020)
J.-C. Chiao received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He was a Research Scientist in the Optical Networking Systems and Testbeds Group at Bell Communications Research and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Hawaii, Manoa. Dr. Chiao was a Product Line Manager and Senior Technology Advisor at Chorum Technologies before he joined the University of Texas at Arlington in 2002, where he was the Janet and Mike Greene endowed Professor and Jenkins Garrett Professor of Electrical Engineering. Currently, Dr. Chiao is Professor and Mary and Richard Templeton Centennial Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University.
Dr. Chiao has been general chair for several international conferences including IEEE IMBioC18. He served as Chair in the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 10 Biological Effect and Medical Applications of RF and Microwave and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. Dr. Chiao was the recipient of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award; Tech Titans Technology Innovator Award;Research in Medicine award in the Heroes of Healthcare; IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator award; IEEE MTT Distinguished Microwave Lecturer; IEEE Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturer; 2017 SPIE Fellow; and 2011 O’Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.
Former Editor-In-Chief
Yongxin Guo
PhD, FIEEE, FSAEng
Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
Email: Yongxin.guo@cityu.edu.hk
Yongxin Guo received his B.Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong, all in electronic engineering. He is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is also the Laboratory Supervisors for the MMIC Modelling and Packaging Laboratory & the Antennas and Scattering Processing Laboratory. Concurrently, He is Director, Center for Peak of Excellence on Smart Medical Technology at NUS Suzhou Research Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 460 international journal and conference papers and 4 book chapters. He holds over 30 granted/filed patents in USA, China and Singapore and some of them have been licensed to industries. His current research interests include RF sensing, antennas and electromagnetics in medicine; wireless power for biomedical applications and internet of things; wideband and small antennas for wireless communications; and RF and microwave circuits and MMIC modelling and design.
Dr. Guo was the recipient of 2020 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Tatsuo Itoh Prize of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S); Design Contest Award of the 20th International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and design, Rome, Italy, 2015; Best Poster Award at 11th International Conference on Wearable & Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Zurich, Switzerland, 2014; 2013 Raj Mittra Travel Grant Senior Researcher Award; and 2009 National University of Singapore Young Investigator Award. He is an IEEE Fellow. He has served as the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee for IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2019-2020). Dr Guo is the Chair for IEEE AP-S Technical Committee on Antenna Measurement in 2018-2020 and is serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwave in Medicine and Biology (2017 – 2020), Electronics Letters (2015-2019), IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2013-2018), and IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (2014-2017). He has served as General Chair/Co-Chair for several international conferences including IEEE MTT-S IMWS-AMP 2020, APMC 2019, AWPT 2017, ACES-China 2017, IEEE MTT-S IMWS-AMP 2015 and IEEE MTT-S IMWS-Bio 2013. He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair for IEEE MTT-S IMBioC 2020, IMWS-AMP 2017/2019 and RFIT2009.
Steering Committee
The IEEE J-ERM Steering Committee provides strategic oversight and governance for the journal, representing the co-sponsoring IEEE societies.
Asimina Kiourti
Christophe Fumeaux
Imran Mehdi
J.C. Chiao
Editor-in-Chief
Atif Shamim
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Received M.S. and Ph.D. from Carleton University, Canada (2004, 2009). NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholar (2007-2009) and Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2010). Research interests include innovative antenna designs and integration with additive manufacturing technologies. Fellow of IEEE. Appointed EIC for IEEE JERM for three years beginning in 2026.
Former Editors-in-Chief
J.-C. Chiao
USA
Received B.S. from National Taiwan University, M.S. and Ph.D. from Caltech. Previously Product Line Manager at Chorum Technologies, Assistant Professor at University of Hawaii Manoa, and Professor at UT Arlington. Recipient of multiple awards including 2011 O’Donnell Award.
Yongxin Guo
Hong Kong SAR, China
Received B.Eng. and M.Eng. from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Ph.D. from City University of Hong Kong. Laboratory Supervisor for MMIC Modelling and Packaging Lab at NUS. IEEE Fellow.
Senior Editors
Qammer Abbasi
Scotland UK
Professor of Applied Electromagnetics and Sensing. Research focuses on biomedical electromagnetics, RF sensing, antennas, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, IET, and EAI.
Associate Editors
Zengdi Bao
Martina Teresa Bevacqua
Yifan Chen
Alessandro Fanti
Yueming Gao
Luis Gomez
Changzhan Gu
John Ho
Hong Hong
Shaoying Huang
Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam
Kai Kang
Asimina Kiourti
Stavros Koulouridis
Wei Jie Jonathan Lee
Yang Li
Tian Hong Loh
Lian Leng Low
Rui Ma
Tomislav Markovic
Simona Di Meo
Marco Mercuri
Sudip Nag
Natalia Nikolova
Marco Pasian
Emily Porter
Anil RamRakhyani
Masood Ur Rehman
Benjamin Sanchez
Syed Ahson Ali Shah
Fu-Kang Wang
Shiquan Wang
Xiong Wang
Chung-Tse Michael Wu
Chin-Lung Yang
Xiuzhu Ye
Tuba Yilmaz
Mohammad Zarifi
Xuezhi Zeng
Maxim Zhadobov
Xiaotong Zhang
