Zoya Popovic, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
/A History of Technical Contributions - Commission D
50th Anniversary Plenary Speaker, Thursday, January 11, 2024
Abstract: Commission D: Electronics and Photonics, promotes research and reviews new development in: (a) Electronic devices and applications; (b) Photonic devices and applications; (c) Physics, materials, CAD, technology and reliability of electronic and photonic devices, with particular reference to radio science and telecommunications. The Commission deals with devices for generation, detection, storage and processing of electromagnetic signals together with their applications, covering all frequencies, including those in the microwave and optical domains.
In this talk we will review the community of and technical contributions from Commission D throughout the decades. Major thrusts include the maturation of electronic and photonic devices in Si/SiGe and III-V devices for signal generation and processing, metamaterial and plasmonic structures and optical fiber for the guiding of signals, and system applications including wireless and imaging for commercial and defense, THz and millimeterwave instrumentation for security and planetary and earth sciences, and reconfigurable RF for cognitive radios in spectrum sensing/sharing. In addition, metrology and computer automated design tools will be discussed as supporting the major device, component, and system themes.
Biography: Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic received the Dipl.Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, in 1985, and the PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1990. Since 1990, she has been with the University of Colorado Boulder, where she is currently a Distinguished Professorand holds the Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair in RF Engineering in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. In 2001, she was a visiting professor with the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Since 1991, she has graduated more than 50 PhD students. She has served as the past USNC-URSI Commission D Chair and she is the current Chair of the USNC-URSI Women in Radio Science Chapter. Her research interests include high-efficiency, low-noise, and broadband microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, quasi-optical millimeterwave techniques for imaging, smart and multibeam antenna arrays, intelligent RF front ends, and wireless powering for batteryless sensors. Popovic was the recipient of the 1993 and 2006 Microwave Prizes presented by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) for the best journal papers, and received the 1996 URSI IssacKoga Gold Medal. In 1997, Eta Kappa Nu students chose her as a Professor of the Year. She was the recipient of a 2000 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists from the German Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. She was elected a Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2006. She was also the recipientof the 2001 Hewlett-Packard(HP)/American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) Terman Medal for combined teaching and research excellence.
