MTT-S Awards Banquet
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
18:30–21:00
Salon 7, Yerba Buena Ballroom, San Francisco Marriott Marquis
The MTT-S Awards Banquet will honor this year's awardees and feature exciting entertainment. Please note: A ticket is required for entry and can be purchased via IMS Registration.
Past MTT-S Award Winners can be found here.
Congratulations to the 2025 MTT-S Awardees!
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Microwave Career Award |
James Lin —For a Career of Leadership, Meritorious Achievement, Creativity and Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Microwave Theory and Technology |
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Microwave Pioneer Award |
Dominic Deslandes & Ke Wu —For Pioneering Contributions to the Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Technology |
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Microwave Application Award |
Jianping Yao —For Outstanding Contributions to UWB Over Fiber Technologies |
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Distinguished Service Award |
Mohammad Madihian —In Recognition of a Distinguished Record of Service to the MTT Society and the Microwave Profession over a Sustained Period of Time |
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Distinguished Educator Award |
Fadhel Ghannouchi —For Outstanding Achievements as an Educator, Mentor, and Role Model of Microwave Engineers and Engineering Students |
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Distinguished Educator Award |
Almudena Suarez —For Outstanding Achievements as an Inspirational Educator, Mentor, and Role Model in the Field of Microwave Engineering |
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N. Walter Cox Award |
Daniel Pasquet —For Exemplary Service to the Society in a Spirit of Selfless Dedication and Cooperation |
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IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award |
Fabian Lurz —For Outstanding Early Career in the Field of Microwave Sensor Technology, and for Exemplary Service to the Society |
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IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award |
Xiaobang Shang —For Outstanding Early Career Achievements in the Design and Measurement of Millimeter-wave and Sub-terahertz Circuits, as well as Exemplary Service to the Microwave Community |
| IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award | Monte Watanabe —For Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Development and Application of Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging for RF/microwave Aerospace Applications |
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IEEE Microwave Prize |
Tzu-Yuan Huang, Naga Sasikanth Mannem, Sensen Li, Doohwan Jung, Min-Yu Huang, and Hua Wang — “A Coupler Balun Load-Modulated Power Amplifier with Extremely Wide Bandwidth,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 1573-1586, April 2023 |
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IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Tatsuo Itoh Best Paper Award |
Ibrahim Abdo, Teruo Jyo, Adam Pander, Hitoshi Wakita, Yuta Shiratori, Miwa Muto, Hiroshi Hamada, Munehiko Nagatani, Carrel da Gomez, Chun Wang, Kota Hatano, Chenxin Liu, Ashbir Aviat Fadila, Jian Pang, Atsushi Shirane, Kenichi Okada, and Hiroyuki Takahashi —“300-GHz-Band Four-Element CMOS-InP Hybrid Phased-Array Transmitter With 36circ Steering Range,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 887-890, June 2023 |
| IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award | Valentina Palazzi, Ricardo Correia, Xiaoqiang Gu, Simon Hemour, Ke Wu, Alessandra Costanzo, Diego Masotti, Enrico Fazzini, Apostolos Georgiadis, Hooman Kazemi, Ricardo Pereira, Naoki Shinohara, Dominique Schreurs, Jung-Chih Chiao, Alexandru Takacs, Daniela Dragomirescu, and Nuno Borges Carvalho —“Radiative Wireless Power Transfer: Where we are and Where We Want to Go”, IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 57-79, February 2023 |
| IEEE Journal of Mícrowaves Best Paper Award | Mohmoud Wagih, Leonardo Balocchi, Francesca Benassi, Nuno Borges Carvalho, Jung-Chih Chiao, Ricardo Correira, Alessandra Costanzo, Yepu Cui, Dimitra Georgiadou, Carolina Gouveia, Jasmin Grosinger, John S. Ho, Kexin Hu, Abidun Komolafe, Sam Lemey, Caroline Loss, Gaetano Marrocco, Paul Mitcheson, Valentina Palazzi, Nicoletta Panunzio, Giacomo Paolini, Pedro Pinho, Josef Preishuber- Pflügl, Yasser Qaragoez, Hamed Rahmani, Hendrik Rogier, Jose Romero Lopera, Luca Roselli, Dominique Schreurs, Manos Tentzeris, Xi Tian, Russel Torah, Ricardo Torres, Patrick van Torre, Dieff Vital and Steve Beeby—“Microwave-Enabled Wearables: Underpinning Technologies, Integration Platforms, and Next-Generation Roadmap,” IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 193-226, January 2023 |
| IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology Best Paper Award | John D. Garrett, Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong, Lingzhen Zeng, Tse-Jun Chen, and Ming-Jye Wang, “A 345-GHz Sideband-Separating Receiver Prototype With Ultra-Wide Instantaneous Bandwidth”, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 237-245, May 2023 |