Faculty Profile - Ioannis "John" Papapolymerou

Professor; Associate Director, Georgia Electronic Design Center
Electromagnetics, and Electronic Design and Applications

Phone: 404.385.6004
Fax: 404.894.0222
Office: TSRB 512

Microwave Circuit Technology Group

Biography

John Papapolymerou received the B.S.E.E. degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1993, the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999-2001 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Arizona, Tucson and during the summers of 2000 and 2003 he was a visiting professor at The University of Limoges, France. From 2001-2005 and 2005-2009 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor, respectively, at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests include the implementation of micromachining techniques and MEMS devices in microwave, millimeter-wave and THz circuits and the development of both passive and active planar circuits on semiconductor (Si/SiGe, GaAs) and organic substrates (liquid crystal polymer-LCP, LTCC) for System-on-a-Chip (SOC)/ System-on-a-Package (SOP) RF front ends.

Dr. Papapolymerou is the Chair for Commission D of the US National Committee of URSI. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. During 2004, he was the Chair of the IEEE MTT/AP Atlanta Chapter. He was the recipient of the 2009 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2009 Georgia Tech School of ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the 2004 Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, the 2002 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the best paper award at the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology (ICMMT2002), Beijing, China and the 1997 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructional Assistant Award presented by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), The University of Michigan Chapter. His students have also been recipients of several awards including the Best Student Paper Award presented at the 2004 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, the 2007 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship, and the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate Scholarship/Fellowship.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests

Monolithic microwave/mm-wave integrated circuits
Silicon micromachining for high-frequency applications
RF MEMS
EBG structures
Packaging and wireless interconnects
W-band transmit/receive modules

Distinctions

Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, April 1997.
Chair of the Tucson IEEE joint MTT/AP/EMC/COM chapter (1999-2001)
Workshop organizer for the 2001 Intern. Microwave Symposium and European Microwave Conference
Chair of the 2001 Intern. Microwave Symposium Student Paper Competition
Member of the 2001 Intern. Microwave Symposium steering and technical program committees
Best paper award with student Guizhen (Emily) Zheng at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology (ICMMT2002), Beijing, China, August 17-19, 2002
NSF CAREER award, 2002
US Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2004
Best student paper award with student Guizhen (Emily) Zheng at the 2004 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (2004 SiRF), Atlanta, GA, September 8-10, 2004
IEEE Fellow

Last revised on April 22, 2011.