Board Members

Dr. Jawad Yaseen Siddiqui

Ph.D.

Dr. Jawad Yaseen Siddiqui has over two decades of extensive teaching and research experience in applied electromagnetics, RF and microwave circuits, antennas and propagation. He has taught courses at several Universities in Canada and India.

Currently, he is a Senior Research Associate at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Queen’s University, Canada. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India. He has also been a Visiting Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Additionally, he has worked as a research associate in the ECE Department at Queen’s University and as a postdoctoral fellow and research assistant at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has been actively involved in several research projects funded by the Department of National Defence (DND) and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in Canada.

He is the Chair of the AP-S SIGHT, a standing committee of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) and has served on several other committees within the Society. He has also been a member of the Meetings and Symposia Committee of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) and served as the MTT-S representative on the IEEE Technical Activities Board (CPC) in 2021.

He is the recipient of the 2022 Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)–S.N. Mitra Memorial Award for his contributions and leadership in radio broadcast science and technology. He also received the 2015 IEEE AP-S Ulrich L. Rohde Humanitarian Technical Field Project Award for excellence in the humanitarian use of technology. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN). He has authored 150+ publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences.