Committee Members
Initiative Co-Chairs
Dominique Schreurs
PhD KU Leuven, Belgium and FIEEE. Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her main research interests concern the nonlinear characterization and modelling of microwave and millimeter wave devices and circuits, as well as design for telecommunications and biomedical applications. She is a past President of the IEEE MTT-S and past Editor in Chief of the IEEE transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, among many other distinguished roles within IEEE.
Aiguo Patrick Hu
PhD U. Auckland, NZ and SMIEEE. Professor at U. Auckland, New Zealand. More Info.His research interests include wireless/contactless power transfer systems, and application of power electronics in renewable energy systems.
Hooman Kazemi
PhD U. Leeds, United Kingdom and SMIEEE. Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Technologies, El Segundo, CA USA.His recent focus is on developing mm-Wave wireless power systems including high-power sources and high efficiency receivers delivering power at long range for a variety of applications.
Steering Committee Members
Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy. Her research is in Far-field WPT, energy focusing and ranging, wearable energy-harvesting and battery-less wireless sensors. She co-chairs the IEEE WPTCE Conference Steering committee and is very much interested in proposing WPT in the scientic communities wordwide.
Alexandru Takacs
HDR Habilitation à diriger des recherches/Ability to conduct research. Associate Professor at U. Toulouse III Paul Sabatier and LAAS-CNRS, France. His research is in Far-field WPT, battery-less wireless sensors networks, and WPT based security and indentification in the context of SWIPT/IoT. He was the 2022 IEEE WPTCE Conference general co-chair and is interested in promoting WPT research worldwide through the Initiative.
Arnaud Vena
PhD, Associate Professor at U. Montpellier, France. His research is in RFID, backscattering, ultra low power and sustainable electronics. He is a member of technical committees in the IEEE CRFID, strongly involved in the field of passive UHF RFID which exploits radiative WPT to operate, and interested on research in WPT.
Bin Zhao
Chris Mi
PhD, Distinguished Professor at San Diego State U., California USA. His research is in power electronics, wireless power transfer, and battery management systems. He is the IEEE PELS Representative for the Initiative.
Daniela Touma
PhD, Assistant Professor at U. South Alabama, USA. Her research is in wireless power transfer, electric vehicles, and renewable energy. She was the chair of the WPT SDC at the IEEE WPTCE 23 conference and is interested in expanding the knowledge of WPT in the community, and networking.
Zhizhang (David) Chen
PhD, Distinguished Professor at Dalhousie U., Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. His research is in applied electromagnetics, wireless power, microwave systems, and bioelectricity and bioelectromagnetics. He chaisr the Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion Committee (TC-25) of IEEE MTT-S and is interested in helping promote and expand the wireless power theory and technology.
Dinesh Kithany
Francesca Benassi
Grant Covic
PhD U. Auckland, NZ and SMIEEE. Professor at U. Auckland, New Zealand.
His research is in power electronics and wireless power transfer. He co-chairs the IEEE WPTCE Conference Steering Committee, chairs the IEEE PELS technical community on Wireless power (TC9), and aims to guide and promote the development and uptake of WPT in academia and industry.
Greg Kushnir
Jungchih (JC) Chiao
PhD CalTech, CA USA and FIEEE, is Mary and Richard Templeton Centennial Chair Professor at Southern Methodist U. Dallas, TX USA.
His research is in medical devices and sensors. He is IEEE MTT-S Elected Voting Member of Administrative Committee and IEEE Access Editorial Board Member. His intersts for the Initiative are to coordinate WPT technologies for medical implants, creation of a new WPT journal and extend the scopes of WPT in various IEEE societies.
Jasmin Grosinger
Venia Docendi PhD Graz U. Tech. Austria and SMIEEE. Associate Professor at Graz U. of Technology, Austria and Tohoku U., Japan.Her research is in sustainable wireless electronics and systems. She is IEEE MTT-S Elected Voting Member of Administrative Committee (VP Conferences) and MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer. For the Initiative, she drives the creation of a new IEEE journal on wireless power technologies and is interested in advancing wireless power technologies as an active researcher in the field.
Jenshan Lin
PhD UCLA, CA USA and FIEEE. Program Director, U.S. National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA.
He manages programs to support research in wireless and semiconductors. He was Chair of 2021 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC), and Chair of IEEE MTT Technical Committee on Wireless Energy Transfer and Conversion 2013-2015. Since WPT started within the IEEE MTT Society and is now gaining interests in many IEEE societies, Jenshan supports this initiave’s joint effort to bring it to the next level.
Mauro Ettorre
PhD U. Siena, Italy and FIEEE. Professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
His research is in antennas, wireless power transmission, and non-diffractive radiation. He is the IEEE APS representative on the WPT Initiative as an active researcher in the field of WPT.
Mauro Feliziani
SMIEEE. Professor at the University of L’Aquila, Italy.
His current research interests include wireless power transfer and bioelectromagnetics. He was the Co-Chair of the EMC Europe Virtual Symposium 2020.
Naoki Shinohara
PhD Kyoto U., Japan and SMIEEE. Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
His research is in Far Field Wireless Power Transfer. He is an MTTS AdCom member, and the MTTS Standard Committee Chair. Naoki supports the WPT Initiative because he believes that WPT is a game changing technology with radio wave/field technology. Thanks to WPT in the near future, electricity will be transmitted from space, which is called Space Based Solar Power.
PhD U. de Aveiro, Portugal and FIEEE. Professor at U. de Aveiro, Portugal.
His research is in wireless power transmission, SWIPT, SDR, and spectrum sensing. He is IEEE MTT-S Past President and Member of the IEEE Future Directions Committee. As an active researcher in the field of WPT, he is interested to see how the technology evolves.
Pablo Perez-Nicoli
PhD U. de la República, Uruguay. Associate Professor at Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
His research is in inductive wireless power transmission. He is IEEE LASCAS 2024 (CAS) – co-general chair, CAS Uruguay chapter chair and a member of the IEEE MTT-S., interested in supporting the WPT Initiative while being involved in the community.
Ricardo Pereira
Simon Hemour
Tommaso Campi
Vadim Issakov
Yasser Qaragoez
PhD Student at KU Leuven, Belgium.
His research is in wireless power transfer, SWIPT, and RFID. He is the website co-coordinator for the IEEE WPT Initiative, an opportunity that allows him to contribute to and learn from innovative projects.