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Research Interests

Computational Electromagnetics

Weng Cho Chew received the B.S. degree in 1976, both the M.S. and Engineer's degrees in 1978, and the Ph. D. degree in 1980, all in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

He is serving as the Dean of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was a professor and the Director of the Center for Computational Electromagnetics and the Electromagnetics Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Before joining the University of Illinois, he was a department manager and a program leader at Schlumberger-Doll Research. He served on the IEEE Adcom for Antennas and Propagation Society as well as Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. He has been active with various journals and societies.

His research interests are in the areas of waves in inhomogeneous media for various sensing applications, integrated circuits, microstrip antenna applications, and fast algorithms for solving wave scattering and radiation problems. He is the originator several fast algorithms for solving electromagnetics scattering and inverse problems. He has led a research group that has developed parallel codes that solve dense matrix systems with tens of millions of unknowns for the first time for integral equations of scattering.

He has authored a book entitled Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, coauthored a book entitled Fast and Efficient Methods in Computational Electromagnetics, authored and coauthored over 300 journal publications, over 400 conference publications and over ten book chapters.

He is an IEEE Fellow, an OSA Fellow, an IOP Fellow, and was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator (USA). He received the Schelkunoff Best Paper Award for AP Transaction, the IEEE Graduate Teaching Award, UIUC Campus Wide Teaching Award, IBM Faculty Awards. He was a Founder Professor of the College of Engineering, and currently, a Y.T. Lo Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois. From 2005 to 2007, he served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He served as the Cheng Tsang Man Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2006. In 2002, ISI Citation elected him to the category of Most-Highly Cited Authors (top 0.5%). In 2008, he was elected by IEEE AP Society to receive the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award.

Chinese Bio

Selected Publications

Books:

  • W.C. Chew, J.-M. Jin, E. Michielssen, J.M. Song, Fast and Efficient Algorithm in Computational Electromagnetics, Artech House, 2001.

  • W.C. Chew, Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990. Reprinted IEEE Press, 1995.

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