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.
IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Award 2012
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S)
IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship (Medical Applications) 2013
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
URSI Young Scientist Award 2015
International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
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