Recent Advances in High-Power Electromagnetics

Felix Vega is the chief researcher at the Directed Energy Research Center (DERC); a Center affiliated with the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He oversees the applied research and development programs on high-power electromagnetics, EMC, high Energy lasers, and sensing systems. He is secretary of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.


Nicolas Mora is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. In 2018, he received the HPEM Fellow award from the Summa Foundation, and in 2019, the Motohisa Kanda Most Cited IEEE Transactions in EMC Paper Award. Since 2022, he has been associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. In 2023, he joined the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society as a representative of R9.


Edl Schamiloglu is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA. He is also director of the Directed Energy Center at the University of New Mexico (DEC@UNM). He has co-authored over 500 refereed journal and conference papers, and nine patents. His publications have been cited over 10,000 times. Professor Schamiloglu is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an EMP fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation).


Chaouki Kasmi is the chief innovation officer at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Kasmi has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers. He also is an associate electromagnetics scientist and researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Helmut Schmidt University. He serves as a vice president of the Commission E French Section and vice chair of the International Commission E of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). His scientific interests are the R&D of Directed Energy systems, Radars and Electro-optics.