The 1st edition of the International School of Antennas
The 1st edition of the International School of Antennas
The 1st edition of the International School of Antennas
Keynote Speaker N°: 1
Small Antennas, reconfiguration and embedded sensors
Full Professor
Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Barcelona
Prof. Lluis Jofre
2011 IEEE Fellow. M.Sc. (Ing), 1978, and Ph.D. (Doctor Ing.), 1982, degrees in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications Eng.), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. 1981-82 visiting researcher, at the Ecole Superieure d’Eléctricité, Paris, France. Associate Professor (1982) and Full professor (1989) at the Communications Department of the Telecommunication Engineering School (UPC). 1986-1987, visiting Fulbright Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. 2000-01 visiting Professor at the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Director of the UPC-Telefonica Chair on Information Society Future Trends, Director of the Catalan Research Foundation (2002-04), General Director for Catalan Universities and Secretary for Universities and Research (2011-2015) and Academic Director of the Barcelona Mobility Hub (CARNET) since 2016. He is a member of the Catalan Studies Institute since 1996, 2011 IEEE Fellow and APS AdCom 2012-14 elected member. He has served as Conference Local chair for ICONIC’2005, as Conference Co-Chair for MEMSWAVE’2007, and as Conference General Co-Chair of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAp’2010), April 2010 Barcelona. Participant on the Artificial Intelligence for Europe (2018-22 ICT AI4EU) and on the Nanoengineering project for the European Flagship CSA. His research interests on radio communications and electromagnetic imaging include multi-element and reconfigurable antennas, MIMO, Hybrid and Massive MIMO antenna systems electromagnetic scattering and imaging, and system miniaturization for wireless and sensing industrial, mobility and bio applications from microwave to THz frequencies. He has published more than 200 scientific and technical papers, reports and chapters in specialized volumes. He has been IP of the 2008-2013 Spanish National Project Terasense, and Scientific Leader of the Spanish Excellence Research Group Maria de Maeztu on Future Communication and Sensing Technologies (2017-2020).
Keynote Speaker N°: 2
Course on Wireless Power Transfer
José Luis Gómez Tornero
José Luis Gómez Tornero was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1977. He received the Telecommunications Engineer degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2001, and the "laurea cum laude" Ph.D degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Cartagena, Spain, in 2005.
In 1999 he joined the Radio Communications Department, UPV, as a research student, where he was involved in the development of analytical and numerical tools for the automated design of microwave filters in waveguide technology for space applications. In 2000, he joined the Radio Frequency Division, Industry Alcatel Espacio, Madrid, Spain, where he was involved with the development of microwave active circuits for telemetry, tracking and control (TTC) transponders for space applications, working for international space agencies such as NASA, ESA, CNES and JAXA, and also for private satellite providers / operators such as Hispasat and Eutelsat. In 2001, he joined the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, as an Assistant Professor. From October 2005 to February 2009, he held de position of Vice Dean for Students and Lectures affairs in the Telecommunication Engineering Faculty at the UPCT. Since 2008, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Information Technologies, UPCT. Since 2017, he also works for the Spanish State Agency for Research (AEI) as a coordinator for the Evaluation and Tracing of National projects in the field of Telecommunication Engineering.
His current research interests include:
The development of numerical methods for the analysis and design of leaky-wave devices in planar and waveguide technologies,
Their application for telecoms, RFID, microwave heating/sensing, wireless power transmission/harvesting, hyperthermia, and analog signal processing.
The innovation in the area of higher-education teaching/learning.
He has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers (h-index: 26), more than 150 conference paper, and he has supervised 3 PhD. thesis and more than 50 MSc. thesis.
He has been visiting researcher/professor at University of Loughborough (UK, England), Heriot-Watt University (UK, Scotland), Queen’s University of Belfast (UK, Northern Ireland), and CSIRO-ICT Centre (Sydney, Australia).
José Luis Gómez Tornero received in July 2004 the national award from the foundation EPSON-Ibérica to the best Ph.D project in the field of Technology of Information and Communications (TIC). In June 2006, Dr. Gómez-Tornero received the Vodafone foundation-COIT/AEIT (Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación) award to the best Spanish Ph.D. thesis in the area of Advanced Mobile Communications Technologies. This thesis was also awarded in December 2006 as the best thesis in the area of Electrical Engineering, by the Technical University of Cartagena. In February 2010, He is the co-recipient of the 2010 IEEE Engineering Education conference award, the 2011 EuCAP best student paper prize, the 2012 EuCAP best antenna theory paper prize, finalist at the APS2013 best student paper prize and the EuCAP 2014 best paper award finalist, 2012 and 2013 URSI Spanish best student paper prizes, and 2018 IWAT Best Poster Award. The thesis he has supervised have been awarded by the HISPASAT foundation to the best Spanish Ph.D. thesis in the area of “New Applications for Satellite Communications” (May 2014), and in October 2015, by the HISDESAT foundation award to the best Spanish Ph.D. thesis in the area of “Satellite Services”.
Apart from his lecturing duties in the Technical School of Telecommunication at UPCT, Spain (teaching syllabus such as basic electronics, electromagnetic waves, antenna and microwave engineering), Prof. Gómez-Tornero serves as lecturer in international courses. He has participated in the “International Summer School on Wireless Power Transmission for Space Applications” (Aveiro, Portugal, June 2014), “International Spring School on Electromagnetics and emerging technologies for pervasive applications: Internet of Things, Health and Safety”, Bologna, Italy (April 2016), and the Europan School of Antennas “Leaky Waves and Periodic Structures for Antenna Applications”, Rome, Italy, (April 2017)), the “5G-AuRa Innovative Training Network (ITN)” in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Paris, France (September 2017), the European Microwave Association short courses, Madrid, Spain (September 2018), and the International School of Antennas in Fez, Morocco (December 2018). He has also served also as co-chair of Student Activities Committee in the European Microwave Week 2018, Madrid, Spain (September 2018).
Dr. Gómez Tornero is Senior Member of IEEE (USA), he was appointed CSIRO Distinguished Visiting Scientist by the CSIRO ICT Centre at Sydney (Australia), Honorary Visiting Professor by Heriot-Watt University at Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), and he holds a Chair Professor position in the School of Electronics and Information at Hangzhou Dianzi University (China).
José Luis loves learning and teaching electromagnetic waves and their applications, and in his little free time he nenjoys surfing the waves of the ocean. He has three lovely restless kids, Mar, Héctor and Ariel
Planar Antenna Designs for Cube Satellite Communication
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia.
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, NSW, 2522, Australia.
Technological Projects Department, the Libyan Center for Remote Sensing and Space Science, Tripoli, Libya.
Dr. FAISEL EM TUBBAL
was born in Libya in 1978. He received the M.S. degree in telecommunication engineering from University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, in 2012 and the M.S. degree in engineering management from University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, in 2013, and Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia in 2017. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled S-band Planar Antenna Designs for CubeSat Communications. Faisel has been working as a researcher with Libyan Centre for Remote Sensing and Space Science (LCRSSC), Tripoli, Libya. In 2012, he joined the University of Wollongong as an academic assistant at school of electrical, computer and telecommunication engineering. He is also a casual lecturer (Unit Convenor) at school of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Australia. In 2016, Faisel received the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (OCTAL). He is a Fellow at Wollongong Academy for Tertiary Teaching and Learning Excellence (WATTLE). He is interested in planar antenna designs for CubeSat communications. To date, he has published more than 15 conference and journal articles.
was born in Alcoy, Spain, in 1954. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain in 1977 and 1982, respectively. From 1977 to 1982, he was a Teaching Assistant in the Antennas, Microwave and Radar Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and in 1982, became an Associate Professor.
In 1990, he joined the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, as Professor. He was Director of the Telecommunication Engineering School (1991-96), Vice-Chancellor (1996-99, 2005-2009) and Director of Long-life learning Office (2009-2013). Currently he is teaching antennas, advanced electromagnetics and satellite communications. The research interest includes numerical methods, UWB antennas, mm-wave antennas and e-learning activities.
He is the director of the Electromagnetic Radiation Group of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications. The activities of the group are Integral Equations Methods, Antenna Design Using the Theory of Characteristic Modes, Waveguide-Slot Array Antenna design and Wireless Channel Modelling.
Abstract
The Theory of Characteristic Modes (TCM), defined by Garbacz, Harrington and Mautz nearly fifty years ago, has become very popular in the last years, as it has proven to be really effective for the systematic design of antennas in several modern applications.
TCM was rediscovered for aiding the design of mobile handset antennas about a decade ago, with two doctoral theses held at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the paper “The Theory of Characteristic Modes Revisited: A Contribution to the Design of Antennas for Modern Applications”
The impressive success of the TCM in modern systems lies in the fact that it provides very interesting physical insight into the potential radiating characteristics of an antenna, prior to the selection of the excitation. Characteristic Modes (CM) are intrinsic to the radiating structure and are computed numerically in absence of excitation. This fact paves the way for a systematic design methodology, in contrast to automated optimization methods or trial-and-error approaches, which do not usually bring any physical understanding about the antenna behavior
In this lecture, an introduction will be made to the theory of characteristic modes as well as its applications to the antenna design.
In particular, it will be applied to the design of UWB antennas, metallic lenses. and aperture antennas. The latest published progress will be reviewed.
The topic is of growing interest, and courses will be offered at EuCAP, IEEE APS and European School of Antennas (ESoA).
Keynote Speaker N°: 5
Etude, Conception des Antennes Fractales ULB et des Antennes Miniatures pour TAG RFID
Prof. Jamal Zbitou
Jamal Zbitou est né à Fès (Maroc) en juin 1976. Il a obtenu son doctorat en électronique de l’école Polytechnique, Université de Nantes, France, en 2005. Il est actuellement professeur Habilité en électronique à la Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Settat, Université Hassan 1er. Il travaille sur les thématiques suivantes :
Conception des antennes miniatures et reconfigurables.
Conception des antennes pour TAG RFID .
Conception des dispositifs, circuits passifs et actifs hyperfréquences en technologie hybride et Monolithique.
Keynote Speaker N°: 6
Systèmes antennaires intelligents pour les applications modernes: Concepts, principes et applications
Prof. Tomader Mazri
received her HDR degree in Networks and Telecommunication from Ibn Tofail University, PhD in Microelectronics and Telecommunication from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University and INPT of Rabat, Master’s in Microelectronics and Telecommunication Systems, and Bachelor’s in Telecommunication from the Cadi Ayyad University.
She is currently a Professor at the National School of Applied Sciences of Kenitra, a permanent member of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering Laboratory, author and co-author of 20 articles journals, 40 articles in international conferences, 3 chapter and three books. Her major research interests are on microwave systems for mobile and radar, smart antennas and mobile network security .
Keynote Speaker N°: 7
La technologie PLC (Power Line communication) au service de la domotique
Prof. Jamal BELKADID
Jamal Belkadid né le 13/08/1972 au Maroc. Il a obtenu une licence d’Electronique en 1994, puis un CEA en Automatique & Traitement du Signal en 1995, à l'Université de Fès-Maroc. Ensuite, il a obtenu son doctorat en transmission et traitement de l’information, en 2000, de la même Université. Les travaux de thèse, effectués de Novembre 1995 à Janvier 2000, étaient sur la prospection géophysique : concepts théoriques, méthodologies et applications; des articles de revues internationales et communications ont été publiés sur ce sujet.
Pr. Belkadid a débuté ses activités d'enseignement en poste de professeur assistant à l’Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d’Agadir (ENSAA) en avril 2002, Il enseigne plusieurs matières sur les réseaux informatiques, le traitement du signal et l’électronique numérique & informatique industrielle. Ses importantes activités d’enseignement et de recherche lui ont permis d’atteindre le grade de professeur Habilité à Diriger des Recherches en Décembre 2005, puis l’avancement en grade de Professeur d’enseignement supérieur en 2015.
Mr Belkadid est actuellement responsable de la filière Réseaux et Télécoms à l’EST de Fès, membre et vice directeur du Laboratoire de transmission et traitement d information (LTTI) à l EST de FES.
Keynote Speaker N°: 8
Innovation technologique et nouvelles applications des antennes microrubans : Télécommunications, Educations et santé
Prof. Hassan AMMOR
was born in Fes, Morrocco. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Mohammadia School of Engineering (EMI) Professor in Sector of Networks and Telecommunications and member of the Laboratory of Electronics and Communication (EMI) in Rabat. He received his Ph.D. in Microwave Techniques from the Henry Poincaré University of Nancy in France in 1988. Ph.D in applied Sciences from Mohammadia School of Engineering in 1996 in Electronics Technology and Communications. He is a member of RUSTE (University Networks Science and Space Technology). Head of Team STRC (Radiocommunications Systems and Communication Technology) and Expert in CRASTE (the African Regional Center of Science and Space Technique of the United Nations in Rabat). Dr. Hassan AMMOR has organized several international conferences in microwave and telecommunication.
Also, he has been a member in many scientific committees at international level. His current research interests include analysis and measurement of small antennas systems design for mobile communications, research on evaluation of the interaction between electromagnetic fields and the human body, and dielectric characterization of materials using microwave techniques and development of numerical methods and modeling of radio propagation for wireless communications systems. He has authored over 80 technical papers in international journals and conferences and numerous invited presentations at international workshops and conferences. He has authored the chapter 4 “A New Technique to Determine the Complex Permittivity of Each Layer for a Bi-Layer Dielectric Material at Microwave Frequency ’’, in the Handbook of Research on Advanced Trends in Microwave and Communication of Engineering Editor by IGI Global in 2015. From 2005 to 2016, he has authored of eight scientific inventions. He has been awarded valuable prizes in research and innovation. The 1st Prize of "Challenger Innovation" June 2006 and the Prize for invention and research science and technology in Rabat award in June 2009. The 1st Prize of Forum Entrepreneur-Inventor in Casablanca award in June 2007 and the Prize contest Innovation Research – Development and Technology 10th Edition in Casablanca in September 2016.
Award of Merit for the display of CSA (Cancer Smart Antenna) At INPEX 2017, Pittsburg, USA.
1st Prize of the 2017 African Innovation Contest and 1st Prize for the best Startup 2017 at Mohammed V University.
Keynote Speaker N°: 9
5G Key Technologies and Antenna Design: What Relationship?
Prof. Najiba EL AMRANI EL IDRISSI
Mrs Najiba EL AMRANI EL IDRISSI is Ph.D professor at Faculty of Sciences and Technologies-Fez. Member of the research team Signals, telecommunications and smart grids of the Signals, Systems and Components Laboratory. - Faculty of Sciences and Technologies-Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University-Fez. She was graduated Engineer in Computer System and has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering: Electro-technique and Power Electronics, from EMI (Mohammadia School of Engineering) Rabat, Morocco. She has been:
Program comity member of several international conferences.
Head of Electrical Engineering department – FST- USMBA
FP7 (7thFramework Programme for Research and Technological Development) ICT-National Contact Point of Morocco
National Coordinator of several national and European projects FP6, FP7and Horizon 2020 (MAP-IT, ShuMED, ClusMED, IdealIst2011, MED-Dialogue, IdealIst 2014, ClusDevMED ….)
Chairman of the ETC's (ESCWA Technology Centre) technical commission 2013-2014
Member of the Moroccan local team of Higher Education Reform Experts (HEREs);
Partners
LSSC,
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Fès
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Route d’Imouzzer,Fès, Maroc
www.fst-usmba.ac.ma
Keynote Speaker N°: 1
Small Antennas, reconfiguration and embedded sensors
Full Professor
Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Barcelona
Prof. Lluis Jofre
2011 IEEE Fellow. M.Sc. (Ing), 1978, and Ph.D. (Doctor Ing.), 1982, degrees in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications Eng.), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. 1981-82 visiting researcher, at the Ecole Superieure d’Eléctricité, Paris, France. Associate Professor (1982) and Full professor (1989) at the Communications Department of the Telecommunication Engineering School (UPC). 1986-1987, visiting Fulbright Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. 2000-01 visiting Professor at the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Director of the UPC-Telefonica Chair on Information Society Future Trends, Director of the Catalan Research Foundation (2002-04), General Director for Catalan Universities and Secretary for Universities and Research (2011-2015) and Academic Director of the Barcelona Mobility Hub (CARNET) since 2016. He is a member of the Catalan Studies Institute since 1996, 2011 IEEE Fellow and APS AdCom 2012-14 elected member. He has served as Conference Local chair for ICONIC’2005, as Conference Co-Chair for MEMSWAVE’2007, and as Conference General Co-Chair of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAp’2010), April 2010 Barcelona. Participant on the Artificial Intelligence for Europe (2018-22 ICT AI4EU) and on the Nanoengineering project for the European Flagship CSA. His research interests on radio communications and electromagnetic imaging include multi-element and reconfigurable antennas, MIMO, Hybrid and Massive MIMO antenna systems electromagnetic scattering and imaging, and system miniaturization for wireless and sensing industrial, mobility and bio applications from microwave to THz frequencies. He has published more than 200 scientific and technical papers, reports and chapters in specialized volumes. He has been IP of the 2008-2013 Spanish National Project Terasense, and Scientific Leader of the Spanish Excellence Research Group Maria de Maeztu on Future Communication and Sensing Technologies (2017-2020).
Keynote Speaker N°: 2
Course on Wireless Power Transfer
José Luis Gómez Tornero
José Luis Gómez Tornero was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1977. He received the Telecommunications Engineer degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2001, and the "laurea cum laude" Ph.D degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Cartagena, Spain, in 2005.
In 1999 he joined the Radio Communications Department, UPV, as a research student, where he was involved in the development of analytical and numerical tools for the automated design of microwave filters in waveguide technology for space applications. In 2000, he joined the Radio Frequency Division, Industry Alcatel Espacio, Madrid, Spain, where he was involved with the development of microwave active circuits for telemetry, tracking and control (TTC) transponders for space applications, working for international space agencies such as NASA, ESA, CNES and JAXA, and also for private satellite providers / operators such as Hispasat and Eutelsat. In 2001, he joined the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, as an Assistant Professor. From October 2005 to February 2009, he held de position of Vice Dean for Students and Lectures affairs in the Telecommunication Engineering Faculty at the UPCT. Since 2008, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Information Technologies, UPCT. Since 2017, he also works for the Spanish State Agency for Research (AEI) as a coordinator for the Evaluation and Tracing of National projects in the field of Telecommunication Engineering.
His current research interests include:
He has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers (h-index: 26), more than 150 conference paper, and he has supervised 3 PhD. thesis and more than 50 MSc. thesis.
He has been visiting researcher/professor at University of Loughborough (UK, England), Heriot-Watt University (UK, Scotland), Queen’s University of Belfast (UK, Northern Ireland), and CSIRO-ICT Centre (Sydney, Australia).
José Luis Gómez Tornero received in July 2004 the national award from the foundation EPSON-Ibérica to the best Ph.D project in the field of Technology of Information and Communications (TIC). In June 2006, Dr. Gómez-Tornero received the Vodafone foundation-COIT/AEIT (Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación) award to the best Spanish Ph.D. thesis in the area of Advanced Mobile Communications Technologies. This thesis was also awarded in December 2006 as the best thesis in the area of Electrical Engineering, by the Technical University of Cartagena. In February 2010, He is the co-recipient of the 2010 IEEE Engineering Education conference award, the 2011 EuCAP best student paper prize, the 2012 EuCAP best antenna theory paper prize, finalist at the APS2013 best student paper prize and the EuCAP 2014 best paper award finalist, 2012 and 2013 URSI Spanish best student paper prizes, and 2018 IWAT Best Poster Award. The thesis he has supervised have been awarded by the HISPASAT foundation to the best Spanish Ph.D. thesis in the area of “New Applications for Satellite Communications” (May 2014), and in October 2015, by the HISDESAT foundation award to the best Spanish Ph.D. thesis in the area of “Satellite Services”.
Apart from his lecturing duties in the Technical School of Telecommunication at UPCT, Spain (teaching syllabus such as basic electronics, electromagnetic waves, antenna and microwave engineering), Prof. Gómez-Tornero serves as lecturer in international courses. He has participated in the “International Summer School on Wireless Power Transmission for Space Applications” (Aveiro, Portugal, June 2014), “International Spring School on Electromagnetics and emerging technologies for pervasive applications: Internet of Things, Health and Safety”, Bologna, Italy (April 2016), and the Europan School of Antennas “Leaky Waves and Periodic Structures for Antenna Applications”, Rome, Italy, (April 2017)), the “5G-AuRa Innovative Training Network (ITN)” in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Paris, France (September 2017), the European Microwave Association short courses, Madrid, Spain (September 2018), and the International School of Antennas in Fez, Morocco (December 2018). He has also served also as co-chair of Student Activities Committee in the European Microwave Week 2018, Madrid, Spain (September 2018).
Dr. Gómez Tornero is Senior Member of IEEE (USA), he was appointed CSIRO Distinguished Visiting Scientist by the CSIRO ICT Centre at Sydney (Australia), Honorary Visiting Professor by Heriot-Watt University at Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), and he holds a Chair Professor position in the School of Electronics and Information at Hangzhou Dianzi University (China).
José Luis loves learning and teaching electromagnetic waves and their applications, and in his little free time he nenjoys surfing the waves of the ocean. He has three lovely restless kids, Mar, Héctor and Ariel
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose_Gomez_Tornero
https://personas.upct.es/perfil/josel.gomez
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EuEX024AAAAJ&hl=en
Keynote Speaker N°: 3
Planar Antenna Designs for Cube Satellite Communication
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia.
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, NSW, 2522, Australia.
Technological Projects Department, the Libyan Center for Remote Sensing and Space Science, Tripoli, Libya.
Dr. FAISEL EM TUBBAL
was born in Libya in 1978. He received the M.S. degree in telecommunication engineering from University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, in 2012 and the M.S. degree in engineering management from University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, in 2013, and Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia in 2017. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled S-band Planar Antenna Designs for CubeSat Communications. Faisel has been working as a researcher with Libyan Centre for Remote Sensing and Space Science (LCRSSC), Tripoli, Libya. In 2012, he joined the University of Wollongong as an academic assistant at school of electrical, computer and telecommunication engineering. He is also a casual lecturer (Unit Convenor) at school of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Australia. In 2016, Faisel received the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (OCTAL). He is a Fellow at Wollongong Academy for Tertiary Teaching and Learning Excellence (WATTLE). He is interested in planar antenna designs for CubeSat communications. To date, he has published more than 15 conference and journal articles.
https://www.soundzones.com/ftubbal/
www.linkedin.com/in/faisel-tubbal-51437528
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Faisel_Tubbal
Keynote Speaker N°: 4
Design of Antennas using the Theory of Characterstic Modes
Prof. Miguel Ferrando Bataller
Instituto de Telecomunicaciones y Aplicaciones Multimedia
Universitat Politècnica de València
Camino de Vera s/n 46022-Valencia (Spain)
http://www.iteam.upv.es/user/miguel-ferrando-bataller.html
Prof Miguel Ferrando-Bataller
was born in Alcoy, Spain, in 1954. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain in 1977 and 1982, respectively. From 1977 to 1982, he was a Teaching Assistant in the Antennas, Microwave and Radar Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and in 1982, became an Associate Professor.
In 1990, he joined the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, as Professor. He was Director of the Telecommunication Engineering School (1991-96), Vice-Chancellor (1996-99, 2005-2009) and Director of Long-life learning Office (2009-2013). Currently he is teaching antennas, advanced electromagnetics and satellite communications. The research interest includes numerical methods, UWB antennas, mm-wave antennas and e-learning activities.
He is the director of the Electromagnetic Radiation Group of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications. The activities of the group are Integral Equations Methods, Antenna Design Using the Theory of Characteristic Modes, Waveguide-Slot Array Antenna design and Wireless Channel Modelling.
Abstract
The Theory of Characteristic Modes (TCM), defined by Garbacz, Harrington and Mautz nearly fifty years ago, has become very popular in the last years, as it has proven to be really effective for the systematic design of antennas in several modern applications.
TCM was rediscovered for aiding the design of mobile handset antennas about a decade ago, with two doctoral theses held at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the paper “The Theory of Characteristic Modes Revisited: A Contribution to the Design of Antennas for Modern Applications”
The impressive success of the TCM in modern systems lies in the fact that it provides very interesting physical insight into the potential radiating characteristics of an antenna, prior to the selection of the excitation. Characteristic Modes (CM) are intrinsic to the radiating structure and are computed numerically in absence of excitation. This fact paves the way for a systematic design methodology, in contrast to automated optimization methods or trial-and-error approaches, which do not usually bring any physical understanding about the antenna behavior
In this lecture, an introduction will be made to the theory of characteristic modes as well as its applications to the antenna design.
In particular, it will be applied to the design of UWB antennas, metallic lenses. and aperture antennas. The latest published progress will be reviewed.
The topic is of growing interest, and courses will be offered at EuCAP, IEEE APS and European School of Antennas (ESoA).
Keynote Speaker N°: 5
Etude, Conception des Antennes Fractales ULB et des Antennes Miniatures pour TAG RFID
Prof. Jamal Zbitou
Jamal Zbitou est né à Fès (Maroc) en juin 1976. Il a obtenu son doctorat en électronique de l’école Polytechnique, Université de Nantes, France, en 2005. Il est actuellement professeur Habilité en électronique à la Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Settat, Université Hassan 1er. Il travaille sur les thématiques suivantes :
Keynote Speaker N°: 6
Systèmes antennaires intelligents pour les applications modernes: Concepts, principes et applications
Prof. Tomader Mazri
received her HDR degree in Networks and Telecommunication from Ibn Tofail University, PhD in Microelectronics and Telecommunication from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University and INPT of Rabat, Master’s in Microelectronics and Telecommunication Systems, and Bachelor’s in Telecommunication from the Cadi Ayyad University.
She is currently a Professor at the National School of Applied Sciences of Kenitra, a permanent member of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering Laboratory, author and co-author of 20 articles journals, 40 articles in international conferences, 3 chapter and three books. Her major research interests are on microwave systems for mobile and radar, smart antennas and mobile network security .
Keynote Speaker N°: 7
La technologie PLC (Power Line communication) au service de la domotique
Prof. Jamal BELKADID
Jamal Belkadid né le 13/08/1972 au Maroc. Il a obtenu une licence d’Electronique en 1994, puis un CEA en Automatique & Traitement du Signal en 1995, à l'Université de Fès-Maroc. Ensuite, il a obtenu son doctorat en transmission et traitement de l’information, en 2000, de la même Université. Les travaux de thèse, effectués de Novembre 1995 à Janvier 2000, étaient sur la prospection géophysique : concepts théoriques, méthodologies et applications; des articles de revues internationales et communications ont été publiés sur ce sujet. Pr. Belkadid a débuté ses activités d'enseignement en poste de professeur assistant à l’Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d’Agadir (ENSAA) en avril 2002, Il enseigne plusieurs matières sur les réseaux informatiques, le traitement du signal et l’électronique numérique & informatique industrielle. Ses importantes activités d’enseignement et de recherche lui ont permis d’atteindre le grade de professeur Habilité à Diriger des Recherches en Décembre 2005, puis l’avancement en grade de Professeur d’enseignement supérieur en 2015. Mr Belkadid est actuellement responsable de la filière Réseaux et Télécoms à l’EST de Fès, membre et vice directeur du Laboratoire de transmission et traitement d information (LTTI) à l EST de FES.
Keynote Speaker N°: 8
Innovation technologique et nouvelles applications des antennes microrubans : Télécommunications, Educations et santé
Prof. Hassan AMMOR
was born in Fes, Morrocco. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Mohammadia School of Engineering (EMI) Professor in Sector of Networks and Telecommunications and member of the Laboratory of Electronics and Communication (EMI) in Rabat. He received his Ph.D. in Microwave Techniques from the Henry Poincaré University of Nancy in France in 1988. Ph.D in applied Sciences from Mohammadia School of Engineering in 1996 in Electronics Technology and Communications. He is a member of RUSTE (University Networks Science and Space Technology). Head of Team STRC (Radiocommunications Systems and Communication Technology) and Expert in CRASTE (the African Regional Center of Science and Space Technique of the United Nations in Rabat). Dr. Hassan AMMOR has organized several international conferences in microwave and telecommunication.
Also, he has been a member in many scientific committees at international level. His current research interests include analysis and measurement of small antennas systems design for mobile communications, research on evaluation of the interaction between electromagnetic fields and the human body, and dielectric characterization of materials using microwave techniques and development of numerical methods and modeling of radio propagation for wireless communications systems. He has authored over 80 technical papers in international journals and conferences and numerous invited presentations at international workshops and conferences. He has authored the chapter 4 “A New Technique to Determine the Complex Permittivity of Each Layer for a Bi-Layer Dielectric Material at Microwave Frequency ’’, in the Handbook of Research on Advanced Trends in Microwave and Communication of Engineering Editor by IGI Global in 2015. From 2005 to 2016, he has authored of eight scientific inventions. He has been awarded valuable prizes in research and innovation. The 1st Prize of "Challenger Innovation" June 2006 and the Prize for invention and research science and technology in Rabat award in June 2009. The 1st Prize of Forum Entrepreneur-Inventor in Casablanca award in June 2007 and the Prize contest Innovation Research – Development and Technology 10th Edition in Casablanca in September 2016.
Award of Merit for the display of CSA (Cancer Smart Antenna) At INPEX 2017, Pittsburg, USA.
1st Prize of the 2017 African Innovation Contest and 1st Prize for the best Startup 2017 at Mohammed V University.
Keynote Speaker N°: 9
5G Key Technologies and Antenna Design: What Relationship?
Prof. Najiba EL AMRANI EL IDRISSI
Mrs Najiba EL AMRANI EL IDRISSI is Ph.D professor at Faculty of Sciences and Technologies-Fez. Member of the research team Signals, telecommunications and smart grids of the Signals, Systems and Components Laboratory. - Faculty of Sciences and Technologies-Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University-Fez. She was graduated Engineer in Computer System and has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering: Electro-technique and Power Electronics, from EMI (Mohammadia School of Engineering) Rabat, Morocco. She has been:
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