{"545311":{"#nid":"545311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tentzeris Appointed as Ken Byers Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the area of flexible electronics, effective June 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETentzeris joined the faculty of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in 1998 after graduating with his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He leads the ATHENA Research Group, where he currently advises one visiting research scientist, nine Ph.D. students, two master\u2019s students, and nine undergraduate researchers. He has graduated 28 Ph.D. students and 18 master\u2019s students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETentzeris and his team have developed very successful research and academic programs in 3D\/inkjet-printed electronics and modules, flexible electronics, origami antennas and morphing electromagnetics, highly integrated multilayer packaging for RF and wireless applications, paper-based RFIDs and sensors, wireless sensors and biosensors, \u201cgreen\u201d electronics, energy harvesting and wireless power transfer, and nanotechnology applications in RF, microwave MEMS, and system-on-package integrated antennas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has served as the chair of the ECE electromagnetics technical interest group, the associate director for RFID\/sensors research in the Georgia Electronic Design Center, and associate director for RF research and the RF alliance leader for the Packaging Research Center (now known as the 3D Systems Packaging Research Center).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETentzeris has published more than 600 papers in refereed journal and conference publications, five books, and 23 book chapters, and he has served as associate editor for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and\u0026nbsp;Techniques\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cem\u003Ethe International Journal on Antennas and Propagation, Proceedings of the IEEE\u003C\/em\u003E. 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