Arokiaswami Alphones

A. Alphones received his B.Tech. from Madras Institute of Technology in 1982, M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in Optically Controlled Millimeter-wave Circuits from Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan) in 1992. He was a JSPS visiting fellow from 1996-97 in Japan. From 1997 to 2001, he was with the Centre for Wireless Communications, National University of Singapore involved in the teaching and research on optically controlled passive/active devices. Since 2001, he has been a Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has 35 years of research experience. He has published and presented over 350 technical papers in peer-reviewed International Journals/ Conferences. His current interests are electromagnetic analysis on planar RF circuits and integrated optics, microwave photonics, visible light communication and positioning, metamaterial-based leaky wave antennas, THz transceivers for 6G Systems, and wireless power transfer technologies. He was involved in many IEEE flagship conferences held in Singapore and was General Chair of APMC 2009, MWP 2011, TENCON 2016, APMC 2019, and TENCON 2024. He was the chairman of the IEEE Singapore section during 2015-2016, 2018, 2023 and a senior member of IEEE. He is a Singapore representative of IEICE(Japan). He is also a panel member of the IEEE Conference Application Review Committee.

Additional Service:

• Member of IEEE Conference Application Review Committee (CARC)
• Chair of IEEE Singapore Section
• Member of the International Steering Committee of APMC
• IEEE Student Branch Counsellor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore