Yahya Rahmat-Samii is a Distinguished Professor, holder of the Northrop-Grumman Chair in electromagnetics and past Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has received numerous recognitions and awards including IEEE Fellow in 1985, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the 2005 URSI Booker Gold Medal, the 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the membership of the US National Academy of Engineering.
