People

Biographies

Prof. George Hanson is a faculty member and past Department Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA). He is the coauthor of the book Operator Theory for Electromagnetics: An Introduction (Springer, NY, USA, 2002) and the author of Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics (Prentice-Hall, NJ, USA, 2007). His research interests include quantum optics, nanoelectromagnetics, and two-dimensional materials. He is the author of over 100 journal articles and numerous conference presentations. In 2009, Prof. Hanson was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the electromagnetic analysis of layered media and nanostructures. Prof. Hanson was a past Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and he is a current Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He currently serves as a member of the IEEE New Technology Directions Committee, and as a co-guest-editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine Quantum Technologies Column (2020).

Prof. Amir Boag received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the B.A. degree in physics in 1983, both Summa Cum Laude, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1991, all from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. From 1991 to 1992 he was on the Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion. From 1992 to 1994 he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1994, he joined Israel Aircraft Industries as a research engineer and became a manager of the Electromagnetics Department in 1997. Since 1999, he is with the Physical Electronics Department of the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, where he is currently a Professor. Dr. Boag’s interests are in computational electromagnetics and acoustics, numerically efficient algorithms for quantum electromagnetic simulations, radar imaging, and design of antennas and optical devices. He has published over 120 journal articles and presented more than 250 conference papers on electromagnetics and acoustics. Prof. Boag is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy. In 2008, Amir Boag was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to integral equation based analysis, design, and imaging techniques.

Prof. Mikhail (Misha) Portnoi obtained his Candidate of Sciences degree from the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia), and a DPhil degree from the University of Utah. After a short spell as a postdoctoral fellow at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, he was appointed (in 1999) a faculty member at the University of Exeter. During his two decades at Exeter, Prof. Portnoi supervised several dozens of PhD and Master students, many of whom choose to remain in academia. He has a broad range of research interests spanning from exactly-solvable problems in quantum and statistical mechanics and anyon excitons in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime to THz applications of carbon-based nanostructures and modelling white light-emitting diodes. His current research is focused on theory and applications of Dirac materials. Prof. Portnoi has published over a hundred papers in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book and delivered over a hundred invited talks. He held visiting professorships in Germany, Brazil, China and Russia. He organised a number of international conferences and serves on editorial boards of several journals. See http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/staff/meportno for more details.

Dr. Gregory Ya. Slepyan received his Ph.D. degree in radio-physics from Belarus State University (BSU), Minsk, in 1979, and his Dr.Sci. degree in radio-physics from Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1988. During 1992 -2012, he was a principal researcher in the Laboratory of Electrodynamics of Nonhomogeneous Media at the Institute for Nuclear Problems, BSU. Since 2013, he has been a Professor-Researcher with the Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is involved in teaching courses on classical electrodynamics, nanoelectromagnetism, and metamaterials. He has authored or coauthored 2 books, 9 collective monographs, and 150 journal articles. He is a member of Editorial Board of the journal “Applied Sciences”. His current area of research activity includes nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, metamaterials, and quantum optics.

Dr. Oleksandr Kyriienko is a theoretical physicist and a leader of Quantum Dynamics, Optics, and Computing group. He is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Physics department of the University of Exeter. Oleksandr obtained the PhD degree in 2014 from the University of Iceland, and was a visiting PhD in diverse institutions, including Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. From 2014 to 2017 he did postdoctoral research at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. In 2017-2019 he was a Fellow at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), located in Stockholm, Sweden.
Oleksandr’s research encompasses various areas of quantum technologies, starting from nonlinear quantum optics in two-dimensional materials and optomechanics, and ranging in designing quantum algorithms and simulators. Recently, he has been working towards developing machine learning approaches for physics and quantum-based solvers of nonlinear differential equations. Dr. Kyriienko has strong interest in approaches to efficient computation and metrology, with an overarching aim of improving quantum devices that work in a broad spectral range from microwave and terahertz all the way into optical frequencies.