In the Autumn Conference of 2014 IEEE MTT-S Supreme Administrative Committee held in Rome, Italy, the distinguished alumni of SEU and “Yangtse River Scholar” Prof. Wu Ke was elected as President of IEEE MTT-S of 2016. He is the third non-American president(the other two are European scholars) ever since the establishment of the committee, becoming the first Chinese to win the honor.
IEEE is the world’s largest association of technical professionals with more than 10,000 professional members and 170 local branches in academic institutions such as universities and research institutes as well as government sectors around the world, its objectives are the educational and technical advancement of radio frequency, microwave, millimeter waves and Terahertz technology development. Prof. Wu Ke was the General Chair for the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2012.
Dr. Ke Wu (9 December 1962, in Liyang, Jiangsu, China) is professor of Electrical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique(University of Montreal), and Tier-I Canada Research Chairin Radio-Frequency (RF) and Millimetre-Wave Engineering. He is Director of the Poly-Grames Research Center, and the Founding Director of a Canadian university-industry consortium called Facility for Advanced Millimetre-wave Engineering (FAME) and the Center for Radiofrequency Electronics Research of Quebec (or Centre de recherche en électronique radiofréquence (CREER) – a strategic alliance of Québec).
Dr. Wu has received many coveted awards and prizes, including a URSI Young Scientist Award, the Oliver Lodge Premium Award from the IEE, the Asia-Pacific Microwave Prize, the Prix Poly 1873 pour l'Excellence en recherche – the Top University Research Award (the first recipient) from the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Urgel-Archambault Prize (the highest honour) in the field of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering of the French-Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science (ACFAS). He was elected IEEE Fellow in 2001.He became the first recipient of the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2002 for outstanding contributions to hybrid integration of planar and non-planar microwave and millimetre-wave circuits and the theory and practice of guided-wave structures. He was inducted Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 2002. In 2004, Dr. Wu received the Fessenden Medal from the IEEE Canada for many pioneering contributions to RF, microwave and millimeter-wave theory and techniques, in particular, the invention of substrate integrated circuits (SICs) for future wireless systems. In 2005, he was inducted Fellow of TheRoyal Society of Canada (The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities). In 2009, he was
awarded with the Thomas W. Eadie prize by Loyalist College, Canada. In 2013, he won the Diamond Jubilee Of Queen Elizabeth II medal. In 2015, he obtained The Best Award For Research and Innovation of école Polytechnique de Montréal.
