About Professor Richard W. Ziolkowski
IEEE Biography
Richard W. Ziolkowski (ScB'74-M'75-PhD'80) received the
Sc.B. degree in physics magna cum laude with honors from Brown
University in 1974, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975 and 1980,
respectively. He was a member of the Engineering Research Division at
the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1981 to 1990 and served
as the leader of the Computational Electronics and Electromagnetics
Thrust Area for the Engineering Directorate from 1984 to 1990. Prof.
Ziolkowski joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Arizona as an Associate Professor in
1990, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1996. He was selected by the
Faculty to serve as the Kenneth Von Behren Chaired Professor for
2003-2005. He currently is serving as the Litton Industries John M.
Leonis Distinguished Professor. He holds a joint appointment with the
College
of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. His research interests include
the application of new mathematical and numerical methods to linear and
nonlinear problems dealing with the interaction of acoustic and
electromagnetic waves with complex media, metamaterials, and realistic
structures.
Prof. Ziolkowski is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi,
Phi Kappa Phi, the
Institute
of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society, the Optical
Society of America, and Commissions B (Fields and Waves) and D
(Electronics and Photonics) of URSI (International Union of Radio
Science). He is an IEEE Fellow. He has served as a member of the IEEE
Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Administrative Committee
(ADCOM). He served as the IEEE AP-S Vice President in 2004 and as
President in 2005. He served as the Vice Chairman of the 1989 IEEE AP-S
and URSI Symposium in San Jose,
and as the Technical Program Chairperson for the 1998 IEEE Conference on
Electromagnetic Field Computation. He has served an Associate Editor for
the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
He was a Steering Committee Member for the 2004 ESA Antenna Technology
Workshop on Innovative Periodic Antennas. He served as a co-Chair of the
International Advisory Committee for the inaugural IEEE International
Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials,
IWAT2005. He has served as a member of the International Advisory
Committees for IWAT 2006-2009 and for MAPE2005. He served as an Overseas
Corresponding Member of the ISAP2007 Organizing Committee. He served as
the Technical Program Committee Chair for the 2008 Metamaterials
Congress in Pamplona,
Spain.
He was a Co-Guest Editor (with Prof. Nader Engheta) for
the October 2003 IEEE AP Transactions Special Issue on Metamaterials.
For the US URSI Society he served as Secretary and as Chairperson of the
Technical Activities Committee for Commission B and as Secretary for
Commission D. He has served
as a Member-at-Large of the U.S. National Committee (USNC) of URSI and
is now serving as a member of the International Commission B Technical
Activities Board. He is a
Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He was a Co-Guest Editor (with
Prof. Kurt Oughstun) of a 1998 JOSA A special issue. He was a
Co-Organizer (with Dr. Brent Little) of the Photonics Nanostructures
Special Symposia at the 1998, 1999, 2000 OSA Integrated Photonics
Research (IPR) Topical Meetings. He served as the Chair of the IPR
sub-committee IV, Nanostructure Photonics, in 2001.
Prof. Ziolkowski was awarded the Tau Beta Pi Professor of
the Year Award in 1993 and the IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding
Teaching Award in 1993 and 1998. He also holds the title of Sensei with
a Nidan rank in Matsunoryu Goshin Jujitsu and a Nidan rank in Kajukenbo.
