Vahid Nayyeri

Vahid Nayyeri was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1983. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (communications) from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (fields and waves) from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (fields and waves) from IUST in 2013.

From 2007 to 2013, he was a Research Assistant at IUST and a Visiting Scholar with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. In 2013, he joined the faculty of IUST, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Advanced Radio Circuits and Systems (ARCS) Laboratory. In 2019, he also served as a Visiting Professor with the University of Waterloo. In parallel with his academic activities, he is a Co-Founder and Chair of a communication technology company.

Dr. Nayyeri has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal papers and over 50 conference papers, as well as two books/book chapters. His research interests include microwave engineering, antennas, computational electromagnetics, metasurfaces, microwave sensing, and RF power amplifiers.

He received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the IEEE Iran Section in 2014 and the Raj Mittra Travel Grant from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 2024. He has also received multiple institutional honors from IUST, including Outstanding Educator, Distinguished Researcher, Outstanding Faculty Member in Industrial Collaboration, and International Excellence awards. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, and IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation. He has been actively involved in the IEEE Iran Section, serving on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Membership Development and Young Professionals Committees.