Ping Jack Soh

Dr. Ping Jack Soh

University of Oulu
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Biography

Ping Jack Soh was born in Sabah, Malaysia. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2002 and 2006, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland, and a Research Affiliate with KU Leuven. He started his career as a Test Engineer in Venture Corp. Malaysia from 2002 to 2004 and joined Motorola Solutions, Malaysia, as an R&D Engineer in 2005. He was then a Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) (2006-2009) before moving to KU Leuven as a Research Assistant (2009-2013) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013-2014). He went back to serve in UniMAP as a Senior Lecturer (2014-2017) and an Associate Professor till 2021, prior to his current role. To date, he has won, led, and successfully completed a handful of internationally and nationally funded projects and industry-funded projects in his areas of research interest: wearable antennas; compact satellite antennas; flexible metasurfaces; on-body communication; electromagnetic safety and absorption; and wireless and radar techniques for healthcare. Dr. Soh was the recipient of the URSI Young Scientist Award in 2015, the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications in 2013, and the IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Award in 2012.

Affiliations

No affiliation has been shared yet.

Honors and Awards

honor

IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Award 2012

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S)

honor

IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship (Medical Applications) 2013

IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society

honor

URSI Young Scientist Award 2015

International Union of Radio Science (URSI)

Experience

University Educator/Researcher

University of Oulu

01 Jun 2021 - present

University Educator/Researcher

Universiti Malaysia Perlis

01 Jun 2014 - 01 May 2021

Post Doctoral Researcher

KU Leuven

01 Dec 2013 - 01 May 2014

Graduate Student or Post Graduate

KU Leuven

01 Dec 2009 - 01 Nov 2013

University Educator/Researcher

Universiti Malaysia Perlis

01 Aug 2006 - 01 Nov 2009

Research or Laboratory Scientist

Motorola Solutions Malaysia SB

01 Dec 2005 - 01 Jul 2006

Graduate Student or Post Graduate

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

01 May 2004 - 01 Nov 2005

Others

Venture Corporation

01 Aug 2002 - 01 May 2004