Yahya Rahmat-Samii is a Distinguished Professor, and the holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-author of Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering (Cambridge, 2008), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA), Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI), EMS and the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.