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2018 SPRING AWARDEES (OCTOBER 2017 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Blake Amacher	University of Akron	USA	Prof. R. Toonen
Anna Broome	Princeton University	USA	Prof. K. Sengupta
Ana Čović	University of Florida	USA	Prof. Y. Yoon
Silviu Gruber	University of Washington	USA	Prof. H. Cao
Kae-An Liu	University of Toronto	Canada	Prof. C. D. Sarris
Maxim Masyukov	ITMO University	Russian Federation	Prof. A. Vozianova

2017 FALL AWARDEES (APRIL 2017 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Pouyan Keshavarzian	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. M. Okoniewski
Abraham Pérez Hernández	University of Seville	Spain	Prof. C. Cadenas
Jie Zhou	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu	China	Prof. X. Luo

2017 SPRING AWARDEES (OCTOBER 2016 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Tal Kasher	University of South Carolina at Columbia	USA	Prof. G. Wang
Manuja Sharma	University of Washington	USA	Prof. H. Cao
Ramandeep Vilkhu	The Ohio State University	USA	Prof. A. Kiourti
Minwo Wang	University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	Prof. J. Bardin
Chun Kit Wong	City University of Hong Kong	China	Prof. C. H. Chan

2016 FALL AWARDEES (APRIL 2016 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Alberto Maria Angelotti	University of Bologna	Italy	Prof. A. Santarelli
Armagan Dascurcu	Sabanci University	Turkey	Prof. Y. Gurbuz
Anna Goryachuk	ITMO University	Russia	Prof. M. Khodzitsky
Konstantinos Katsinos	Democritus University of Thrace	Greece	Prof. G. Kyriacou
Muhammad Akram Mohd Sobri	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia	Prof. S. Rahim

2016 SPRING AWARDEES (OCTOBER 2015 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Dhruv Bhaskar	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. M. Helaoui
Ferran Bolós	Politechnic University of Catalonia	Spain	Prof. A. Georgiadis
Raymond Botty	University of Maryland – College Park	USA	Prof. K. Zaki
David Garrett	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. E. Fear
Muhammad Adam Hamidon	University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)	Malaysia	Prof. P. Soh
Liam Kelly	Princeton University	USA	Prof. K. Sengupta
Kevin McGrath	University College Dublin	Ireland	Prof. A. Zhu
Ting Qing	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China	Prof. S. Pan
Giulia Maria Rocco	University of Pavia	Italy	Prof. M. Bozzi
Muhammad Usman	Lahore University of Management Sciences	Pakistan	Prof. W. Khan

2015 FALL AWARDEES (APRIL 2015 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Mariia Borovkova	ITMO University	Russian Federation	Prof. S. Kozlov
Rémy Bouché	ENSEIRB-MATMECA engineering school	France	Prof. A. Ghiotto
Nicolò Delmonte	University of Pavia	Italy	Prof. M. Bozzi
Alaudi Denisultanov	ITMO University	Russian Federation	Prof. M. Khodzitsky
Giovanni Gugliandolo	University of Messina	Italy	Prof. N. Donato
Itthinat Jongsuebchoke	Asian University	Thailand	Prof. D. Torrungrueng
Alifero Leoni	University of L’Aquila	Italy	Prof. L. Pantoli
Jeffrey Mays	University of Texas at Arlington	USA	Prof. J. Chiao
Anand Sengar	Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology, New Delhi	India	Prof. A. Dahiya
Xingwei Ye	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China	Prof. S. Pan

2015 SPRING AWARDEES (OCTOBER 2014 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Jiun Rong (James) Chen	University of California, Davis	USA	Prof. X. Luo
Kristian Dimitrov	Technical University Sofia	Bulgaria	Prof. P. Petkov
Li Gao	South China University of Technology	China	Prof. X. Zhang
Ciaran Geaney	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. E. Fear
Chenhui Liu	Texas Tech University	USA	Prof. C. Li
Ludovic Thulliez	ENSEIRB-MATMECA Engineering School	France	Prof. A. Ghiotto
Esref Turkmen	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey	Prof. H. Yagci
Miroslav Veljović	University of Belgrade	Serbia	Prof. B. Kolundžija
Yaochen Wang	City University of Hong Kong	China	Prof. Q. Xue
Yuting Wei	University College Dublin	Ireland	Prof. A. Zhu

2014 FALL AWARDEES (APRIL 2014 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Gaurav Agrawal	Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai	India	Prof. A. Sankaran
George Alexopoulos	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. J. Papapolymerou
Rafael Cerna Loli	Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú	Peru	Prof. M. M. Yarleque
Laurence Cheung	University of Queensland	Australia	Prof. K. Bialkowski
Alexandre Marque	ENSEIRB-MATMECA Engineering School, Bordeaux	France	Prof. A. Ghiotto
Brendan Montgomery	Queen’s University at Kingston	Canada	Prof. Y. M. Antar
Thomas Roth	Missouri University of Science and Technology	USA	Prof. R. Zoughi
Giuseppe Salvo	University of Messina	Italy	Prof. A. Caddemi
Jarosław Szatkowski	Warsaw University of Technology	Poland	Prof. A. Lewandowski
Yao Tang	Texas Tech University	USA	Prof. C. Li
Beibei Zhu	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China	Prof. S. Pan

2014 SPRING AWARDEES (OCTOBER 2013 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Shi Chen	Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin	Ireland	Prof. B. Keogh
Ferdinando Costanzo	University of Roma Tor Vergata	Italy	Prof. R. Giofrè
Jorge Miguel Gomes	University of Aveiro	Portugal	Prof. N. B. Carvalho
Saša Marjanović	University of Novi Sad	Serbia	Prof. V. Crnojević-Bengin
Andy Morishita	University of Hawaii at Manoa	USA	Prof. W. A. Shiroma
Giuseppe Siciliano	University of Pavia	Italy	Prof. M. Bozzi
Eduardo Vélez Pellicer	University of Zaragoza	Spain	Prof. A. Mediano
Tang Zhenzhou	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China	Prof. S. Pan
Lei Zhang	City University of Hong Kong	China	Prof. L. Chiu
Marko Živanović	University of Niš	Serbia	Prof. N. Maleš-Ilić

2013 FALL AWARDEES (APRIL 2013 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Yuan Chai	Southeast University, Nanjing	China	Prof. L. W. Li
Katalin Frolio	The College of New Jersey	USA	Prof. A. Katz
Alvaro Guerrero Uribe	New York Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. A. Farajidavar
Anudeep Kumar Savant Malepati	Texas Tech University	USA	Prof. C. Li
Zachary Myers	University of California, Davis	USA	Prof. X. Liu
Alex Pacini	University of Bologna	Italy	Prof. A. Costanzo
Michael Recachinas	University of Virginia	USA	Prof. N. Barker
C. Justin R. Smith	University of Oklahoma	USA	Prof. H. Sigmarsson
Yamei Zhang	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China	Prof. S. Pan

2013 SPRING AWARDEES (NOVEMBER 2012 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Bryce Hotalen	University of South Florida, USA	USA	Prof. T. Weller
Xiao Xiao Liu	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)	China	Prof. X. Lin
Vincent Perot	Ecole Polytechnique (University of Montreal)	Canada	Prof. K. Wu
Alexey Slobozhanyuk	National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Saint Petersburg	Russia	Prof. P. Belov

2012 FALL AWARDEES (MAY 2012 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Alexander Chung	University of Texas at Dallas	USA	Prof. B. Banerjee
Muhyin Daud	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology	Taiwan	Prof. C. Tseng
Hongmei Liu	Dalian Maritime University (DMLU)	China	Prof. S. Fang
Ilker Kalyoncu	Sabanci University	Turkey	Prof. Y. Gurbuz
Byung Hyun Kim	Yonsei University	Korea	Prof. J. Yook
Nghia Nguyen	University of Adelaide	Australia	Prof. T. Kaufmann
Linh Nguyen	University of Alberta	Canada	Prof. A. Iyer
Hengjiang Ren	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Prof. Z. Shen
Akshay Shah	Columbia University	USA	Prof. H. Krishnaswamy

2012 SPRING AWARDEES (NOVEMBER 2011 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Claudia Vasanelli	University of Salento	Italy	Prof. L. Tarricone
Jun Ye Jin	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China	Prof. X. Lin
Patrick Ormond	University of Virginia	USA	Prof. S. N. Barker
David Grillet	University of Leuven	Belgium	Prof. B. K. Nauwelaers
Zulhazmi A. Mokhti	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	Prof. J. Lees
Lemtiri Chlieh Outmane	Georgia Tech	USA	Prof. J. Papapolymerou
Raymond Rowe	Boise State University	USA	Prof. J. Browning
Stefano Moscato	University of Pavia	Italy	Prof. L. Perregrini
Larry Martin	University of Hawaii	USA	Prof. W. A. Shiroma

2011 FALL AWARDEES (MAY 2011 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Robert Henry	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. E. Fear
Valeria Nocella	University of Perugia	Italy	Prof. R. Sorrentino
Sung Ho Park	University of Michigan	USA	Prof. M. Harrahi
Rolando Roca	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. M. M. Tentzeris
Eleonora Troysi	University of Pavia	Italy	Prof. L. Perregrini
Marc Zimmermanns	Ruhr-Universitat Bochum	Germany	Prof. I. Rolfes

2011 SPRING AWARDEES (NOVEMBER 2010 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Raymond T. Rowe	University of Idaho	USA	Prof. J. Browning
Luyu Wang	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)	China	Prof. X. Lin

2010 FALL AWARDEES (MAY 2010 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Bao Jun Lei	University of Hawaii at Manoa	USA	Prof. W. A. Shiroma
Carson Curry	University of Texas at Dallas	USA	Prof. R. Henderson
Robert Maurer	University of Notre Dame	USA	Prof. P. Fay
Manuel Duarte	University of Averio	Portugal	Prof. J. C. Pedro
J. Humpries	University of Central Florida	USA	Prof. D. C. Malocha
Tolga Dinc	Sabanci University	Turkey	Prof. Y. Gurbuz
Ryan Kruba	University of Virginia	USA	Prof. S. N. Barker
Justin Pollock	University of Alberta	Canada	Prof. A. Iyer
Yutthanai Suparhan	Asian University	Thailand	Prof. D. Torrungrueng
Hector Sarnago Andia	University of Zaragoza	Spain	Prof. A. Mediano
Xin Zhao	City University of Hong Kong	China	Prof. K. M. Luk

2010 SPRING AWARDEES (NOVEMBER 2009 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Varun Agrawal	Indian Institute Technology	India	Prof. A. R. Harish
Ilias Aitidis	Democritus University of Thrace	Russia	Prof. G. Kyriacou
Seyhmus Cacina	Sabanci University	Turkey	Prof. Y. Gurbuz
Koushik Das	Indian Institute Technology	India	Prof. A. Chakraborty
Yuan Gao	University of Manchester	China	Prof. A. Rezazadeh
Young Ki Hong	University of Texas at Dallas	USA	Prof. R. Henderson
Mavidu Iddagoda	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Prof. Z. Shen
Nathan Jastram	University of Minnesota	USA	Prof. R. R. Franklin
Wee Ling Ong	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Prof. L. W. Li
Kyle Unger	Arizona State University	USA	Prof. G. W. Pan

2009 FALL AWARDEES (MAY 2009 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Milad Alemohammad	Drecel University	Iran	Prof. P. R. Herczfeld
Maria Brumos-Vicente	Technical University of Valencia	Spain	Prof. V. E. Boria-Esbert
Yuan Fang	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	China	Prof. K. Wu
Adamos Kyriacou	Democritus University of Thrace	Greece	Prof. M. Chrysomallis
Xiangke Liu	City University of Hong Kong	China	Prof. K. M. Luk
Varittha Sanphuang	Asian University of Science and Technology	Thailand	Prof. D. Torrungrueng

2009 SPRING AWARDEES (NOVEMBER 2008 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Christopher Boyd	University of Tennessee	USA	Prof. A. E. Fathy
Carlos Caraceller-Candau	Technical University of Valencia	Spain	Prof. V. E. Boria-Esbert
Evan Everett	Auburn University	USA	Prof. S. Wentworth
Carl Pfeiffer	University of Michigan – Ann Arbor	USA	Prof. A. Grbic
Caleb Sieck	University of Arkansas-Fayetteville	USA	Prof. V. Varadan
Ann Trippe	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. J. Papapolymerou
Samet Zihir	Sabanci University	Turkey	Prof. Y. Gurbuz

2008 FALL AWARDEES (MAY 2008 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Ralph Alfano	Villanova University	USA	Prof. R. Caverly
Elif Selin Baytok	Sabanci University	Turkey	Prof. I. Tekin
Alexander Bazhenov	Moscow Power Engineering Institute	Russia	Prof. S. Smolskiy
Michael Buscher	University of Arkansas	USA	Prof. V. Varadan
Adam Dziekonski	Gdansk University of Technology	Poland	Prof. M. Mrozowski
Mark Gallagher	University of Central Florida	USA	Prof. D. C. Malocha
Lina Ye	University of Electronic Science and Technology	China	Prof. T. Yang

2008 SPRING AWARDEES (NOVEMBER 2007 COMPETITION)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Diana Fuertes	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. J. Papapolymerou
Mingzhi Lu	Southest University (NIT)	China	Prof. T. J. Cui
Timothy Mercer	University of Southern California	USA	Prof. H. Hashemi
Will Moulder	The Ohio State University	USA	Prof. J. Volakis
Paul Nelson	University of Central Florida	USA	Prof. X. Gong
Ugur Olgun	Bilkent University	Turkey	Prof. E. Vakur
Gabriel Reyes	University of Florida	USA	Prof. J. Lin
Binh Tran	University of Arkansas	USA	Prof. V. Varadan
Joseph Weijiu Wu	City University of Hong Kong	China	Prof. C. H. Chan
Konstantinos Zekios	Democritus University of Thrace	Greece	Prof. G. Kyriacou

2007 AWARDEES

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Wesley Allen	Purdue University	USA	Prof. D. Peroulis
Amir Aslani	George Washington University	USA	Prof. M. Pardavi-Horvath
Jiashu Chen	City University of Hong Kong	China	Prof. C. Chi
Erez Avigdor Falkenstein	University of Colorado, Boulder	USA	Prof. Z. Popovic
Ruei Bin Lai	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	Prof. H. Wang
Philip John Marraccini	University of Central Florida	USA	Prof. N. Behdad
Duan Ryan	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Prof. Z. Shen
Filippo Rossi	University of Victoria	Canada	Prof. P. So
Trang T. Thai	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. M. M. Tentzeris
Zhiqin Wang	Southest University (NIT)	China	Prof. W. Hong
Wesley Allen	Purdue University	USA	Prof. D. Peroulis

2006 AWARDEES

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Amanda Angell	Northeastern University	USA	Prof. C. Rappaport
Lisa Yun Chen	University of Waterloo	Canada	Prof. S. Safavi-Naeini
Po-Kai Ken	Stanford University	USA	Prof. A. M. Niknejad
Xiajun Chen	Texas A&M University	USA	Prof. C. H. Chan
Nihan Gokalp	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	Prof. O. A. Civi
Hitesh Harnal	Indian Institute Technology	India	Prof. S. K. Koul
Andrew Macpherson	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. J. Haslett
Mustafa Rangwala	University of Michigan	USA	Prof. K. Sarabandi
Amin Rida	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. M. M. Tentzeris
Kaushik Sengupta	Indian Institute Technology	India	Prof. H. Hashemi

2005 AWARDEES

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Aytac Alparslan	Koc University	Turkey	Prof. I. Aksun
Abhishek Banerjee	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	Prof. E. Wasige
Berke Cetinoneri	Sabanci University	Turkey	Prof. Y. Gurbuz
Afshin Edrissi	University of Utah	USA	Prof. C. Furse
Micah Gregory	Bucknell University	USA	Prof. D. Kelley
Larissa Marple	Virgina Tech	USA	Prof. C. Bostian
Andrew Mui	Massachusettes Institute of Technology	USA	Prof. D. Oates
Eva Tarin-Tarin	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain	Prof. V. E. Boria-Esbert
Boris Tsukerman	University of York	UK	Prof. J. Everrard
Akram Bin Sediq	University of Sharjah	UAE	Prof. N. Qaddoumi

2004 AWARDEES

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Pekka Ikonen	Helsinki University of Technology	Finland	Prof. S. Tretyakov
Ekaterina Laskin	University of Toronto	Canada	Prof. S. Voinigescu
Shaohua Lin	University of Central Florida	USA	Prof. T. Wu
Chaipat Sae-Heng	Asian University of Science and Technology	Thailand	Prof. D. Torrungrueng
Antonio Torrezan De Souza	State University of Campinas	Brazil	Prof. H. H. Figueroa
Matthew Valerio	Ohio Northern Universisty	USA	Prof. K. Al-Olimat
Issac Waldron	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	USA	Prof. S. Makarov

2004 AWARDEES (HONORABLE MENTIONS - 50% OF AWARD)

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Ahmad Akl	American University of Sharjah	UAE	Prof. N. Qaddoumi
Tomasz Filiped	Warsaw University of Technology	Poland	Prof. R. Romaniuk
Jerry Jun	University of Florida	USA	Prof. J. Lin
Blaine Murakami	University of Hawaii at Manoa	USA	Prof. W. A. Shiroma Dr. R. Miyamoto
Andrey Nosich	Kharkov National University	Ukraine	Prof. Y. Gandel

2003 AWARDEES

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Thomas Eireiner	University of Ulster/University of Applied Science	Germany	Prof. S. Katzen Prof. J. F. Luy
Balint Horvath	Budapest University of Technology and Economics	Hungary	Prof. T. Berceli
Anthony Lai	University of California -LA	USA	Prof. T. Itoh
Mariya Lazebnik	University of Madison, Wisconsin	USA	Prof. S. Hagness
Akbar Ng	University of Houston	USA	Prof. J. Williams
Prashant Poddar	Lafayette College (Easton, PA)	USA	Prof. W. D. Jemison
Thomas Rondeau	Virgina Tech	USA	Prof. C. Bostian
Aaron Scher	Texas A&M University	USA	Prof. K. Chang
Bozhi Li	Beijing Institute of Technology	China	Prof. B. Gao
Amy Van Munn	University of California – Santa Barbara	USA	Prof. R. A. York

2002 AWARDEES

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Si Weng Fok	University of Macau, China	China	Prof. K. W. Tam
Kelly Goss	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. E. Fear
Guangxi Wang	Lafayette College (Easton, PA)	USA	Prof. W. D. Jemison
Ju-Ling Eng	Ohio State University	USA	Prof. F. Teixeira

2001 AWARDEES

Student	University	Country	Faculty Advisor
Marc Caballero Gomez	Polytechnic University of Catalonia	Spain	Prof. L. Pradell
Soumya Chandramouli	Lafayette College (Easton, PA)	USA	Prof. W. D. Jemison
Eddie Chiang Pong	University of Macau	China	Prof. K. W. Tam
Scott Jacobsen	University of Calgary	Canada	Prof. M. M. Okoiewski
Farrukh Rashid	GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology	Pakistan	Prof. M. M. Ahmed
Joseph Rutherford	University of Illinois	USA	Prof. A. Cangellaris
Jonathan Sewter	Queen’s University, Kingston	Canada	Prof. C. E. Saavedra
Anthony Webster	University of South Florida	USA	Prof. L. P. Dunleavy

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