[IEEE AP-S/MTT-S Seminar] Development of a Defence and Dual-use RDT&E Ecosystem at the University of Alberta
June 27 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Please join us for an upcoming seminar on 27 June 2025 at 10 – 11 am (Eastern Time) by Dr. Ashwin Iyer, Professor at the University of <a href="http://Alberta.
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Date: Friday, 27 June 2025
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EST)
Location: Room BA 2135, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St George St, Toronto
Development of a Defence and Dual-use RDT&E Ecosystem at the University of Alberta: Focus on Antenna and Microwave Engineering
The University of Alberta is a place of historical significance in the antenna- and microwave-engineering communities. Beginning with a brief historical overview, this talk will summarize the evolution of its antennas and microwave R&D program at the Microwave, Millimetre-wave, and MetaDevices (M3) Laboratory. This will be followed by a discussion on its efforts to create and maintain a secure research ecosystem for defence, dual-use, and sensitive research, including its recent designation as a NATO DIANA test centre, its participation in the Contract Security Program and Controlled Goods Program, and finally the establishment of its Centre for Applied Research in Defence and Dual-use Technologies (CARDD-Tech), whose mandate is to partner with defence industry to respond to emerging security challenges, particularly in Canada’s North, through innovation, RDT&E, and <a href="http://commercialization.
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Dr. Ashwin Iyer is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and has 25 years of experience in developing novel high-frequency antennas, circuits, sensors, and engineered materials and surfaces. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. George Eleftheriades, where he was involved in the discovery and development of the transmission-line approach to metamaterial design and the realization of metamaterial lenses for free-space microwave subdiffraction <a href="http://imaging.
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Dr. Iyer is the founding Director of the University of Alberta’s Centre for Applied Research in Defence and Dual-use Technologies (CARDD-Tech), as well as founding director of its Microwave, Millimetre-wave, and MetaDevices (M3) Laboratory. He serves as Lead PI for a DND IDEaS Micro-net developing compact soldier-worn sensors and engineered surfaces for situational awareness of troop health in challenging environments, and one of two Co-PIs on a recently completed DND IDEaS Competitive Project realizing robust sensors for fixed CAF assets in harsh Arctic conditions. He also leads multiple projects with defence and adjacent industry in the areas of low-SWaPC antenna and sensor platforms. He has trained 24 graduate students, 5 postdoctoral fellows, and 1 research <a href="http://associate.
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Dr. Iyer has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and 4 book chapters in the earliest reference texts on metamaterials/metasurfaces and is considered one of the pioneers in this field. He holds 3 issued and 4 pending US and Canadian patents. He has been recognized as a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and has served the IEEE’s Antennas and Propagation Society in multiple capacities, including on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation for the past 13 years. He has served as Co-chair of the Technical Program Committees of the 2025, 2020, 2016, and 2015 IEEE International Symposia on Antennas and Propagation, with this year’s instalment to take place in Ottawa in July. In 2023, he was invited to participate in the Royal Canadian Navy’s Canadian Leaders at Sea program and helped organize the 2024 and 2025 instalments of the RCN Canadian Students at Sea program jointly with the U of A Faculty of <a href="http://Engineering.
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Room: BA 2135, Bldg: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2E4