Dr Polycarpou is a Professor at the University of Nicosia in the Department of Engineering. He graduated from Arizona State University in 1992 earning a B.S.E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering with Summa Cum Laude. He continued his graduate studies at the same university, where he received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in 1998. He has extensive experience in funded research projects related to antenna analysis and design, microwave circuits and high-frequency electronic packaging, numerical methods in electromagnetics, mode-matching and analytical methods, wave propagation in ferrites and liquid crystals, and radio-frequency identification (RFID). He has worked on numerous projects funded by a number of private companies and non-profit organizations. Prof. Polycarpou has broad knowledge and experience in information technology and communications and expertise in wireless communications, RF/microwave circuits, antenna analysis and design, and computational methods in electromagnetics. He is the author of a book titled "Introduction of the Finite Element Method (FEM) in Electromagnetics", two chapters in books on antenna theory and numerical methods, and more than 100 scientific papers in prestigious journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), and a member of the IEEE AP and MTT Societies