Elham Baladi

Elham Baladi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering – telecommunications from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetics and microwaves from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in January 2019. She developed a novel class of resonant metasurfaces during her Ph.D. degree and investigated their applications for shielding, imaging, and selective transmission.
Dr. Baladi was a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, from February 2019 to February 2021, where she conducted research on the modeling and development of reconfigurable antenna arrays for space applications. She was an Antenna and RF Filter Design Engineer with Syntronic Research and Development Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, from February 2021 to August 2022, where she worked on the development of RF cavity filters, duplexers, and multi-band antennas for 5G, IoT, and wireless communication systems. Dr. Baladi joined the department of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, as an Assistant Professor in September 2022. Her research interests include the development of novel multi-band multi-beam antenna arrays, metasurfaces, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, microwave sensors, and radar imaging solutions.
Dr. Baladi was the recipient of the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment scholarship, the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures scholarship, and the IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Award. She has been a lecturer at York University (Winter 2020) and the University of Alberta (Winter 2017) and serves as a reviewer for multiple IEEE and OSA journals. She currently serves as the chair of the IEEE Antenna & Propagation Section and the IEEE Women in Engineering in Montreal and is a member of the IEEE AP-S Technical Committee on Metamaterials. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University.