David Jackson

David R. Jackson was born in St. Louis, MO on March 28, 1957. He obtained the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985. From 1985 to 1991 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, Houston, TX. From 1991 to 1998 he was an Associate Professor in the same department, and since 1998 he has been a Professor in this department. He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1999. His present research interests include microstrip antennas and circuits, leaky-wave antennas, wave propagation effects including surface waves and leaky waves, leakage and radiation effects in microwave integrated circuits, periodic structures, and electromagnetic compatibility and interference.

He serves on the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Committee on Promoting Equality (COPE), AP-S Technical Committee 5 (Electromagnetics and Fundamentals) and on the MTT-1 (Microwave Field Theory) Technical Committee of the Microwave Theory and Technology Society. He is also serving as the Chair of the IEEE AP-S Constitution and Bylaws Committee.

Previously, he has served as the chair of USNC-URSI (The United States National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science). He has been the chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Committee of the IEEE AP-S, the chair of the Transnational Committee of the IEEE AP-S, the chair of the Chapter Activities Committee of the AP-S, a Distinguished Lecturer for the AP-S, a member of the AdCom for the AP-S, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.  He has also served as the chair of Commission B of USNC-URSI and as the Secretary of this Commission. He also previously served as an Associate Editor for the Journal Radio Science and the International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering.