Emily Porter

Dr. Emily Porter is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal Canada, and the Cancer Research Program at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre. She was granted her Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) in 2015 from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where she also completed her M.Eng. (2010) and B.Eng. (2008). She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and EU Marie-Curie Research Fellow with the Translational Medical Device Laboratory at National University of Ireland Galway from 2015-2019.  She was then an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin until 2023. Her research interests include the development of novel technologies for therapeutic and diagnostic applications of electromagnetic waves and the measurement of dielectric properties of biological tissues. Dr. Porter is the recipient of several prestigious national and international awards, including the IEEE Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award, multiple URSI Young Scientist Awards, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award, the Irish Research Council New Foundations Grant, and the Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grant.