Robert Schmid

Robert L. Schmid (S’06 – M’15 – SM’20) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA, in 2009, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. In 2015, he joined the Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems Development Group, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA. He is currently the Assistant Group Supervisor of the Sensor Technologies Group at the APL, which includes 50-60 staff focusing on developing the next generation of sensor systems and capabilities. His interests include distributed RF systems, phased-array architectures and advanced techniques, metamaterials, and electro-optic systems.

Dr. Schmid is currently the chair of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society Technical Committee on Microwave/Millimeter-wave Radar, Sensing, and Array Systems (TC-24), was the general chair of the 2024 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), and serves on the RF, Millimeter-wave, and THz Integrated Circuits Front Ends Technical Program Sub-committee for SiRF. He has been author or co-author of >50 publications in archival journals and conference proceedings in these and related fields.