George Hanson

George W. Hanson was born in Glen Ridge, NJ, in 1963. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, the M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, and the Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. From 1986 to 1988, he was a Development Engineer with General Dynamics in Fort Worth, TX, where he worked on radar simulators. From 1988 to 1991, he was a Research and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include nanoelectromagnetics, mathematical methods in electromagnetics, electromagnetic wave phenomena in layered media, integrated transmission lines, waveguides, and antennas, and leaky wave phenomena. Dr. Hanson is a member of URSI Commission B, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu, and was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2002–2007. In 2006 he received the S.A. Schelkunoff Best Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.