Akanksha Bhutani received M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degrees from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, in 2012 and 2019, respectively. She worked as a research associate at the Institute of Radio Frequency Engineering and Electronics (IHE) in KIT from 2012 to 2019 and is currently leading the research group of Antennas and Packaging at IHE. Her research focuses on Terahertz Antennas and Package for radar and wireless communication. Bhutani has received the "Carl Freundenberg Prize" and the "Südwestmetall Advancement Award" for her dissertation titled "Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics for System-in-Package Applications at 122 GHz." She has also received the IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award in 2019, the EuMC Best Paper Award in 2019 and 2022, and is the author or co-author of over 40 research papers. Currently, Bhutani is serving as the Operations Director of the European Microwave Week (EuMW) conference 2023 in Berlin.