Prof. Omar Ramahi

Omar M. Ramahi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine. He received his BS degrees in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. From 1993 to 2000, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (presently, HP). In 2000, he joined the University of Maryland at College Park as an Assistant Professor and later as a tenured Associate Professor. Presently, he is a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is a coauthor of the book EMI/EMC Computational Modeling Handbook, 2nd Ed. Professor Ramahi has served as a consultant to several companies and cofounded Applied Electromagnetic Technology and Wave Intelligence Inc. He won the Excellent Paper Award in the 2004 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Sendai, Japan, and the 2010 University of Waterloo Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. In 2009, he was elected an IEEE Fellow, and in 2012, he was awarded the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Technical Achievement Award. From 2007 to 2015, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging. From 2010 to 2012, he served as an IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer. He has authored over 500 journal and conference papers. Professor Ramahi is the winner of the 2022 University of Waterloo Engineering Research Excellence Award.