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ECE professor/grad student win best paper award at AHS-2009 Conference

Dr. Gregory Huff and his Ph.d. student, S. Andrew Long, recently received the Best Paper Award in Reconfigurable Hardware from the NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, (AHS-2009).
Huff and his student won the award for their paper titled "A Substrate Integrated Fluidic Compensation Mechanism for Deformable Antennas." The award comes with a cash prize and will be published on the AHS-2009 website http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~ahs2009/index.html.
Huff, an assistant professor in the department, joined the Electromagnetics and Microwaves group in the department in September 2006. He received his Ph.D., his M.S. and his B.S., all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2006, 2003 and 2000 respectively. Other recent honors include being named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his work on multifunctional antennas and multimodal sensing systems, receiving a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a Young Scientist Award from L’Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI) - the International Union of Radio Science.
Huff’s research interests include biologically inspired mechanisms and dynamic material systems (microfluidics, nanoparticles, etc.); the theory, design and application of reconfigurable antennas and circuits (sensors, phase shifters, filters, etc.); multifunctional (structural, electromagnetic, etc.) RF, microwave and millimeter-wave radiating systems and smart skins; studying the role of reconfigurable/multifunctional antennas in spread spectrum digital communication techniques; multiple antenna techniques; and the placement and electromagnetic interference (EMI) issues arising from the conformal integration high speed devices and radiators into host chassis.
The purpose of the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems is to bring together leading researchers from the adaptive hardware and systems community to exchange experiences and share new ideas in the field.