Ifana Mahbub

Dr. Ifana Mahbub is an Associate Professor and the Texas Instrument’s Early Career Chair Awardee in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she is leading the Integrated Biomedical, RF Circuits and Systems Laboratory (iBioRFCASL). She is also the Founder and CEO of the company called KinetixBeam. Her research interests include wireless power transfer for various implantable and wearable sensors, as well as UAVs and IoT devices. She received a B.Sc. degree (2012) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and a Ph.D. degree (2017) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Mahbub is the recipient of the NSF “Early Career Award” (2020), the DARPA “Young Faculty Award” (2021), and the DARPA Director’s Fellowship (2023). She serves as the vice-chair for the USNC-URSI commission K, and as an Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions of Antennas and Propagation. She is also serving as a full member for the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 25 (Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion)and the IEEE APS Technical Committee on Health and Medicine.