IEEE IMAS 2026 Invited Speakers

Wolfgang Bösch is a Fellow of IEEE and IET. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1985, his Ph.D. degree from Graz University of Technology in 1988, and his M.B.A. from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom, in 2004.

In 2010, he joined Graz University of Technology to establish the Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering. His research focuses on microwave component design and characterization, wave propagation, RFID, communication systems, and radar technologies.

He served for nine years as Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering at Graz University of Technology, overseeing the strategic development, budget, and personnel of thirteen institutes and twenty full professors.

Prior to joining academia, he held several senior industrial positions, including Chief Technology Officer of the Advanced Digital Institute (UK), Director of Business and Technology Integration at RFMD (UK), and CTO of Filtronic Integrated Products.

Earlier in his career, he worked with the European Space Agency (ESA), MPR-Teltech (Canada), M/A-COM (USA), and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (now Hensoldt), contributing to microwave circuits, MMIC technologies, power amplifiers, and airborne radar systems.

Prof. Bösch has published more than 200 scientific papers and holds four patents in the fields of microwave engineering and wireless communications.

The rapid growth of wireless connectivity is expected to reach nearly 500 billion connected devices by 2030, driving unprecedented demands on communication technologies for applications such as smart homes, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, smart grids, and space exploration.

This talk discusses the technological challenges facing future 5G and 6G microwave front-end systems, including higher operating frequencies, greater integration, miniaturization, and lower power consumption.

Emerging microwave front-end technologies will be presented, highlighting innovative passive components such as filtering antennas (filtennas), advanced antenna and filter designs, and the application of metamaterials to achieve enhanced functionality within compact devices.

The presentation also introduces new characterization and calibration techniques that provide measurement error estimation, supporting the development of highly integrated microwave systems.

Finally, examples of optimized front-end amplifier designs and heterogeneous integration using embedded GaN devices will demonstrate future directions in high-performance wireless hardware.

Hadi Heidari is Professor of Nanoelectronics and an EPSRC Open Fellow in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow.

He is the CTO and Co-founder of Neuranics, a deep-tech semiconductor company building next-generation magnetic sensors for wearable neural interfaces and consumer extended-reality applications.

His research spans integrated magnetic sensors, wearable biomedical microsystems, and human–machine interfaces, and he has led multiple EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU, and ARIA projects, authoring 300+ peer-reviewed publications.

He has received multiple awards, including the IET Healthcare Technologies JA Lodge Award and the IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award.

This talk discusses the emergence of wearable magnetic sensing as a transformative modality for next-generation health monitoring and consumer electronics, offering capabilities that complement the antenna-based wearable systems.

Recent advances from Neuranics, a deeptech company commercialising wearable magnetic sensors for healthcare and extended reality, are presented, with a focus on ultra-sensitive Tunnelling Magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors integrated with custom CMOS readout ASICs to detect the minute biomagnetic fields generated by the human heart and muscles, as sensed through clothing and skin.

The co-design of TMR stacks, low-noise front-end electronics, and noise-cancellation architectures is examined, through which magnetocardiography (MCG) and magnetomyography (MMG) can be enabled outside shielded environments, opening the door to continuous, body-worn cardiac and neuromuscular monitoring as well as natural human-machine interaction in consumer wearables and extended-reality (XR) devices.

Device-level characterisation, system-level integration into compact wristband and patch form factors, and early demonstrations of real-time signal acquisition on human subjects are also covered. The talk is concluded with a perspective on how wearable magnetic sensing systems are positioned within the broader landscape of consumer wearables and wireless health-monitoring platforms, and on the route toward scalable translation, including manufacturability, low-power readout, packaging, and seamless integration into consumer wearables.

Chong Han received his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2016.

He is currently the John Wu & Jane Sun Endowed Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and Director of the Terahertz Wireless Communications (TWC) Laboratory.

He has served as the Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Special Interest Group (SIG) on Terahertz Communications since 2021.

Prof. Han received the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Early Achievement Award for his contributions to terahertz channels and communications.

His other honors include the 2024 Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany and the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award.

He also serves as a (guest) editor for leading journals including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).

The Terahertz (THz) band holds enormous potential for supporting unprecedented wireless data rates and millimeter-level sensing accuracy thanks to its ultra-broad bandwidth.

Terahertz Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is viewed as a game-changing technology for realizing connected intelligence in 6G and beyond wireless systems.

This talk motivates the development of THz ISAC technologies and discusses state-of-the-art channel modeling, communication solutions, and enabling techniques.

Experimental results and system demonstrations will also be presented, highlighting the transformative capabilities of terahertz communications for future intelligent networks.

Prof. Allam is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Information Engineering and Technology (IET) at the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt.

He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Military Technical College (MTC), Egypt, in 1978, his M.S. degree from Cairo University in 1985, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kent, United Kingdom, in 1988.

He began his professional career in the Egyptian Air Force before joining the Military Technical College as a researcher, lecturer, Associate Professor, and later Full Professor. He also served as Dean and Deputy Commandant of the Military Technical College.

After retiring from military academic service, he joined the German University in Cairo, where he served as both Dean and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Information Engineering and Technology.

His research interests include RF and microwave engineering, antenna design, smart antennas, vehicular radar systems, satellite communications, metamaterial absorbers, electromagnetic sensing, wireless power transfer, energy harvesting, and MIMO radar technologies.

He has published extensively in leading international journals and conferences and has actively participated in IEEE events worldwide. His recent work focuses on automotive radar systems, radar-absorbing materials, and advanced antenna technologies for biomedical and sensing applications.

Implantable and wearable antennas have become a promising platform for non-invasive and minimally invasive cancer screening and biomedical diagnosis. The sensing principle relies on the electromagnetic differences between healthy and malignant tissues, which affect antenna resonance characteristics and reflection coefficients.

This talk summarizes more than a decade of research (2013–2026) covering antenna-based biomedical sensing for the diagnosis of brain, kidney, breast, oral cavity, lung, and torso abnormalities.

It reviews the evolution of antenna technologies from narrowband MICS-band implantable antennas to ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas for deep-tissue sensing, and finally to flexible, tattoo, and textile-based wearable antennas designed for improved comfort and biomedical monitoring.

The presented research combines realistic breast tissue phantoms with machine-learning algorithms capable of distinguishing malignant from healthy tissue through differential S11 responses. Simulation results using CST Microwave Studio are validated through fabricated prototypes, tissue phantoms, and in vivo animal experiments.

The presentation highlights four major research themes:

• Narrowband implantable antennas for diagnosing brain, kidney, breast, oral, and torso abnormalities.
• Ultra-wideband antennas for brain stroke and lung cancer detection.
• Tissue-aware breast modeling and electromagnetic characterization.
• Flexible and wearable antenna platforms including LPIFA, tattoo, logarithmic-spiral, smartwatch, and Koch-fractal antenna designs.

The talk concludes by demonstrating how AI-assisted classification enhances antenna-based biomedical sensing, strengthening the integration of intelligent diagnostics with next-generation wearable antenna technologies.

Prof. Dr. Diaa E. Fawzy (Member, IEEE) was born in Egypt in 1968. He received his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University, Germany, in 2001.

He participated in the German–European GSM-R project, where he was responsible for network planning and optimization for several years.

Since 2008, he has been with Izmir University of Economics, Türkiye, where he currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Prof. Fawzy is a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals, a member of IEEE, and the author of more than 100 international publications.

His research interests include microwave devices, computational electromagnetics, antenna design, millimeter-wave technologies, microwave engineering, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence.

Metamaterials have become a promising technology for improving the performance of next-generation wireless communication systems.

This presentation summarizes recent research on the design and development of compact, wideband, and ultra-wideband metamaterial structures for 5G and millimeter-wave applications.

The work focuses on novel metamaterial absorbers and antenna configurations that provide enhanced bandwidth, high absorptivity, improved antenna gain, and reduced structural dimensions.

Innovative unit-cell geometries based on letter-shaped resonators and periodic metamaterial arrangements are introduced to generate multiple resonances and broaden the operational bandwidth. These structures are implemented on conventional dielectric substrates as well as textile materials for wearable electronics, energy harvesting, and smart communication systems.

Experimental and simulation results demonstrate significant improvements in electromagnetic performance, including efficient microwave absorption, wide reflection-loss bandwidths, and enhanced antenna characteristics, contributing to future 5G, 6G, and IoT technologies.