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Recent Honors and Distinctions
Selected in the 2006 Scientific American List of 50 Leaders in Science and Technology, December 2006.
Holder of the endowed H. Nedwill Ramsey Chaired Professorship in Electrical and Systems Engineering
(Jan 1, 2005 - present)
Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
Recipient of a 1999 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship award
Holder of the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator Term Chair for one-year term in Academic Year 1999-2000
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since March 1999)
Fellow of IEEE (since January 1996)
Holder of the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair for one-year term (Academic Year 1999-2000)
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.)
Recipient of a 1989 NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award.
Recipient of the W. M. Keck Foundation's 1995 Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 1995.
Recipient of the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award, April 1994.
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.
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Distinguished Lecturer for June 1997- December 1999.
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.
Invited member of a panel on “Metamaterials:  Invisible Revolution,” at theEMTech: Emerging Technology Conference @
  MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 25-27, 2007.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Distinguished Lectures Series Speaker at Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Febuary 9, 2006, on "Metamaterials, Shrinking Circuit Elements, and Nanooptics."
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.
Distinguished Lectures Series Speaker at Temple University, College of Engineering, November 13, 2006, on
  “Metamaterials, Shrinking Circuit Elements, and Nanooptics.”
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
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.
Member of the Electromagnetics Academy
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