Chi-Chih Chen Receives 2016 Distinguished Achievement Award

Each year, Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) recognizes individuals whose research or technical advances have contributed to the body of knowledge in antenna testing with its Distinguished Achievement Award. We are proud to announce that this year the Association names Chi-Chih Chen, Research Associate Professor at the ElectroScience Laboratory at the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, as the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Achievement Award. In its award announcement letter AMTA recognizes Chen's distinguished career and dedication to the field, in particular "For outstanding and pioneering contributions to the development, practice and commercialization of antenna and radar technologies". AMTA cites Chi-Chih Chen:

• For the design and development of many novel antennas including dielectric rod ground penetrating radar (GPR) antennas, ultra-wideband (UWB) dual polarized tapered chamber feeds, GPS/GNSS antennas, wearable antennas, phase array antennas, low-profile antennas, and UWB permittivity probes.
• For ground breaking work on detection and discrimination methods for fully polarmetric ultra-wide-band ground penetration radar technology.
• For fostering the technical growth of the next generation of engineers and scientists in the area of EM measurements.
• For his many ongoing years of AMTA support. 

Chi-Chih Chen received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He has been with the ElectroScience Laboratory at the Ohio State since 1993, as a Postdoctoral Researcher (1997–1999), Senior Research Associate (1999– 2003), and Research Scientist (2004–2011). He became a Research Associate Professor with the University's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2011. He published 55 journal papers, more than 160 conference papers, five book chapters, one coauthored book, and more than 80 technical reports. He has also given short courses on small antennas, ultrawideband (UWB) antennas, UWB array, and ground penetrating radars (GPR). His research includes GPR, pedestrian and bicyclist detection radars, UWB antennas, dielectric antennas, small antennas, GPS/GNSS antennas, wearable antennas, phase arrays, RF energy harvesting and delivery, and sensor networks. 

Chi-Chih Chen is a Fellow of AMTA, and a member of the Exploration Geophysicists Society (SEG), Sigma Xi, and Phi-Kappa-Phi. He served as Treasurer, Vice Chairman, and Chairman of the IEEE Joint AP/MTT Columbus (2001–2003). He served as Technical Coordinator, President, and Past President of AMTA (2012–2015). He has served on the Review Committees and Technical Program Committees of several IEEE APS/URSI Symposiums, IEEE Phase Array Symposiums, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), and IEEE IGARSS Symposium Review Committees. He was the Technical Chair of the 2006 International GPR Conference, for which he has been a member of the International Advisory and Science Committee since. He also serves as referee for more than 15 journals. He received the Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Awards in 2004, 2010, and 2015.