ANTENNA-ON-CHIP

Hammad M. Cheema received a B.S. Summa Cum Laude in electrical engineering in 2002 from the National University of Sciences and Technology(NUST), Pakistan, a M.Sc. in telecommunications in 2004 from the Technical University of Denmark, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2010 from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. In June 2010, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), NUST, as an assistant professor. Dr. Cheema was a postdoctoral researcher from 2011 to 2013 at IMPACT, Saudi Arabia, working on 60-GHz transmitter chips, onchip antennas, and inkjet-printed electronics. Currently, Dr. Cheema is an associate professor and dean of the Research Institute for Microwave and Millimeter wave Studies (RIMMS) at NUST as well as the principal investigator of the Radar Research Group.

Dr. Cheema won the Best University Teacher award in 2016 and Best Institute Researcher award in 2019. His work on biomedical wearable devices has won various entrepreneurial awards, including the Best in IT Innovation Award (BITA), the The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards (APICTA) Indonesia, the SATHA Innovation award, and the DICE Foundation Innovation award. His research interests include RF integrated circuits and antennas, radar front ends, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Dr. Cheema’s industrial experience includes various technical roles at Motorola and Ericsson in Pakistan and Danske Telecom, Accenture, and Microsoft in Denmark. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 international publications and a book on 60-GHz CMOS PLLs. Dr. Cheema is a senior member of the IEEE and the cochair of the IEEE Joint MTT-AP-EMC-CAS Chapter Islamabad.

Fatima Khalid received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the SEECS,NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2015 and an M.S. in RF and microwave engineering from the RIMMS, NUST, in 2019. While working toward her M.Sc., she was involved in the design of 3-D multiband RF energy-harvesting systems with a focus on antenna design and power combination circuits. She is currently working as a research scientist and technical writer in the domain of antenna-on-chip design and implementation. Her research interests are closely related to millimeter-wave and terahertz antenna design with applications in IoT, RF energy-harvesting systems, on-chip integration, and wearable and biomedical devices.

Atif Shamim received an M.S. in 2004 and a Ph.D. in 2009 in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Canada. He was an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholar at Carleton University from 2007 to 2009 and an NSERC postdoctoral fellow from 2009 to 2010 at the Royal Military College Canada and KAUST. In August 2010, he joined the Electrical Engineering Program at KAUST, where he is currently an associate professor and the principal investigator at the IMPACT Lab. He was an invited researcher at the VTT Micro-Modules Research Center, Oulu, Finland, in 2006. His research work has won best paper awards in IEEE EuWiT 2008, IEEE IMS 2016, and IEEE MECAP 2016; the first prize in IEEE IMS 2019 3MT competition; and the finalist or honorable mention prizes in the IEEE APS Design Competition 2020, IEEE APS 2005, IEEE IWAT 2006, IEEE IMS 2014, and IEEE IMS 2017 (3MT competition). He was given the Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year Award in 2008 in Canada. His work on wireless dosimeter won the ITAC SMC Award at Canadian Microelectronics

Corporation TEXPO in 2007. Professor Shamim also won numerous businessrelated awards, including first prize in Canada’s national business plan competition, and was awarded the OCRI Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2010. He is the author or coauthor of 250 international publications and an inventor on 30 patents and has given over 65 invited talks at various international forums. His research interests are in innovative antenna designs and their integration strategies with circuits and sensors for flexible and wearable wireless sensing systems through a combination of CMOS and additive manufacturing technologies. Professor Shamim is a Senior Member of the IEEE and served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2013 to 2019 and as a guest editor for the IEEE AWPL Special Issue in 2019. He is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology.