Prof Ehud Heyman

Short Professional Biography

 

Prof. Ehud Heyman received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude Valedictorian, from Tel-Aviv University, in 1977, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, with distinction, from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrophysics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, in 1982. While at the Polytechnic Institute, he was a Research Assistant and later on a Post Doctoral Fellow. During his PhD he also was a Fulbright Fellow, a Rothschild Fellow, and a Hebrew Technical Institute Fellow.

 

In 1983 he joined the Department of Physical Electronics at the Faculty of Engineering at Tel-Aviv University, where he now holds the position of Full Professor. He headed various Faculty committees and was the department chairman from 1999 to 2003. From  2003 to 2006 he served as the first Head of the school of Electrical Engineering at TAU, which has been established as a merger of the 3 departments: The System Department, the Physical Electronics Department and the Interdisciplinary Studies Department. Since 2006 he is the Dean of the faculty of Engineering.

 

In 1991/2 he spent a Sabbatical leave of absence with Northeastern University, Boston, and with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and he also spent several summers as a Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic Institute, at Northeastern University, at Chuo University, Tokyo, and at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

 

Prof. Heyman is the President of the Israeli National Committee for Radio Sciences, and an IEEE Fellow [Citation: "For contributions to theory of time domain electromagnetics and of pulsed beam radiation, propagation, and scattering"].  He is the 2011 laureate of URSI’s Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal Award [Citation: "For developing mathematical tools to analyze the generation, propagation and scattering of beam-shaped electromagnetic fields, and their engineering applications"]. He serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Waves and was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He was on the organizing and technical committees of many international symposia.