Recent Honors and Distinctions
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Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (Since November 2008), | |
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Recipient of the 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, School of Engineering and Applied Science, | |
| University of Pennsylvania, December 2007. | ||
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Selected in the 2006 Scientific American List of 50 Leaders in Science and Technology, December 2006. | |
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Holder of the endowed H. Nedwill Ramsey Chaired Professorship in Electrical and Systems Engineering | |
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Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000 | |
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Recipient of a 1999 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship award | |
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Holder of the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator Term Chair for one-year term in Academic Year 1999-2000 | |
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Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since March 1999) | |
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Fellow of IEEE (since January 1996) | |
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Holder of the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair for one-year term (Academic Year 1999-2000) | |
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Recipient of the Fulbright Chair Award for Naples, Italy for the 1997-98 academic year. (First recipient of the | |
| Fulbright Naples Chair in the field of engineering.) | ||
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Recipient of a 1989 NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award. | |
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Recipient of the W. M. Keck Foundation's 1995 Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 1995. | |
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Recipient of the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award, April 1994. | |
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Two times Recipient of the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award for distinguished teaching, School of Engineering and Applied | |
| Science, University of Pennsylvania, October 1993, April 2002. | ||
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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Distinguished Lecturer for June 1997- December 1999. | |
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| Polarization-Sensitive Eyes to Biologically-Inspired Sensing and Imaging Science" at the 2008 XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI-GA 2008), Chicago, Illinois, August 7-16, 2008 | ||
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Invited speaker at the Lester Eastman Seminar Series at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, | |
| Ithaca, NY, November 30, 2007, with a talk entitled "Nanocircuits with Light and Wireless at Nanoworlds" | ||
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Kilby Keynote Speaker on the topic of “Seeing the Invisible: Polarization Vision in Nature and Non-Invasive | |
| Imaging and Sensing Applications” at the 2006 Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech 2006), San Diego, CA, March 20-23, 2006. | ||
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Invited member of a panel on “Metamaterials: Invisible Revolution,” at theEMTech: Emerging Technology Conference @ | |
| MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 25-27, 2007. | ||
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Keynote Speaker at the Plasmoic Metamaterials Conference of the 2007 SPIE-The International Society for Optical | |
| Engineering on Optics and Photonics, the talk entitled “Plasmonic Metamaterials: The Tale of Two Phenomena,” in San Diego, California, August 26-30, 2007. | ||
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Plenary Speaker at the Optical Society of America (OSA) Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics, talk entitled “What do Optical | |
| Nanocircuits, Squeezing Light, and Supermicroscopy Have in Common?” in Hangzhou, China, June 18-22, 2007. | ||
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Plenary Speaker at the 51st International Conference on Electron, Ion, Photon Beam Technology and Nanotechnology | |
| (EIPBN) talk on the topic of "Metamaterial and Plasmonic Nanocircuits: Towards a New Paradigm in Optical Nanoelectronics" in Denver, CO, May 29-June 1, 2007. | ||
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Delivered one of the three General Lectures (Plenary speech) on the topic of "Metamaterials and Plasmonic Structures" | |
| at the XXVIII General Assembly of International Union of Radio Science (URSI), in New Delhi, India, October 23-29, 2005. | ||
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Invited Keynote Speaker at the International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel | |
| Metamaterials (iWAT'05), talk on the topic of "Nanocircuit Elements, Nano-Transmission Lines, and Nano-Antennas Using Plasmonic Materials in the Optical Domains," in Singapore, March 7-9, 2005 | ||
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Invited Plenary Speaker at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)-U.S. National Committee (USNC), National | |
| Radio Science Meeting, talk on the topic of "Seeing the Invisible: Polarization Vision, Its Biophysical Mechanism and Non-Invasive Imaging Applicastions" in Boulder, CO, January 5-8, 2005. | ||
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Invited Keynote Speaker on "Metamaterials and Plasmonic Media: Theory and Potential Applications," at | |
| Bianisotropics'04: 10th International Conference on Complex Media and Metamaterials" in Ghent, Belgium, September 22-24, 2004. | ||
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Invited Plenary Speaker on "Electromagnetics of Complex Media and Metamaterials" in the Mathematical Methods in | |
| Electromagnetic Theory Conference (MMET'2002), Kiev, Ukraine, September 10-13, 2002. | ||
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Invited Plenary Speaker on "Fractionalization Methods and Their Applications to Radiation and Scattering Problems" in | |
| the Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory Conference (MMET'2000), Kharkov, Ukraine, September 12-15, 2000. | ||
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Invited Keynote Speaker for a plenary talk on "Fractional Derivatives, Fractional Integrals and Electromagnetic Theory," | |
| in the International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications (ICCEA'99), in Beijing, China, Nov. 1-4, 1999. | ||
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Invited Plenary Speaker on "Fractional Calculus and Fractional Paradigm in Electromagnetic Theory" in the Mathematical | |
| Methods in Electromagnetic Theory Conference (MMET'98), Kharkov, Ukraine, June 2-5, 1998. | ||
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Invited Plenary Speaker on "Chiral and Complex Materials" in the 14th Triennial URSI International Symposium on | |
| Electromagnetic Theory, Sydney, Australia, on August 17-20, 1992. | ||
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Distinguished Lectures Series Speaker at Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, | |
| Febuary 9, 2006, on "Metamaterials, Shrinking Circuit Elements, and Nanooptics." | ||
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Distinguished Lectures Series Speaker at University of Toronto, Edward S, Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and | |
| Computer Engineering, January 18, 2005, on "Metamaterials, Shrinking Components, and Near-Field Nano-Devices and Systems. | ||
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Distinguished Lectures Series Speaker at Temple University, College of Engineering, November 13, 2006, on | |
| “Metamaterials, Shrinking Circuit Elements, and Nanooptics.” | ||
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Distinguished Seminar Speaker at University of Arizona, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, April 20, | |
| 2004, on "Metamaterials and Plasmonic Nanostructures: Concepts, Salient Features, and Potential Applications | ||
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Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, American Men & Women of Science , Who's Who in the East, Who's | |
| Who in Technology, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World. | ||
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Member of the Electromagnetics Academy | |
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Selected as one of the Distinguished Graduates of the University of Tehran's School of Engineering on the occasion of | |
| the 70th Anniversary of School of Engineering of University of Tehran, December 2004 |