Young Professionals and Women in Microwaves Event
Speakers
Dr. Shobha Sundar Ram
Bio:
Shobha Sundar Ram did her Bachelor of Technology in ECE from the University of Madras, India, in 2004, Master of Science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. She worked as a research and development electrical engineer at Baker Hughes Inc., USA, from 2009 to 2013. She joined Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2013, where she is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering. She is primarily engaged in research and education, principally in the areas of radar systems and electromagnetic sensor design and modeling. She serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, and is a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. She has served as a Guest Editor for IET Radar, Sonar, and Navigation and Topics Editor for Frontiers of Signal Processing. She currently serves as the Secretary of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). She is a Vice-Chair of the Young Professionals Standing Committee under the MTT-S Administrative Committee. She is a member of the following technical committees: the Radar System Panel of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS), the Microwave/mm-Wave Radar, Sensing and Array Systems Technical Committee -24 of MTT-S, and the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). She is also a member of the following working groups: the Integrated Sensing and Communications Working Groups of MTT-S and AESS, and the Synthetic Aperture Working Group of SPS. She has served in the Technical Program Committee of several international conferences and was the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE Microwave, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON) in 2024. She has won several student paper awards for co-authored works in the USA, Europe, and India, and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India award for 2022 and 2024.
Ms. Shakthi Priya Gowri
Bio:
Shakthi Priya Gowri is a Senior Filter Design Engineer at Qorvo Inc., where she develops RF and microwave solutions for advanced wireless systems. Her work spans acoustic filter and module design and integration to address the needs of the ever increasingly complex cellular and connectivity platforms.
Shakthi is also pursuing a part-time Ph.D. in Dr. Kenle Chen's research group, with a focus on efficient Power Amplifier architectures. Her contributions include co-design of RF front end components to ensure optimum system performance.
Shakthi is actively involved in professional development initiatives, includes her role as a Co-Lead of Women in Technology group at Qorvo. As someone navigating both industry and academia, she is passionate about mentoring students and early-career engineers as they transition into the RF workforce.
Ms. Damla Dimlioglu
Bio:
Damla Dimlioglu received the B.S. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with a minor in Solid-State Physics from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, in 2012, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Semiconductor Devices and Physics from the University of California, Davis, CA, in 2015. Her M.S. research focused on novel high-speed and low-power SAR ADC architectures based on time-to-digital conversion. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, NY, focusing on Out-of-Band Interference-Tolerant mmWave Receivers on CMOS, SiGe, and GaN technologies for high-data-rate wireless communications and sensing. In 2023, she demonstrated the first GaN N-path passive mixer ever reported to date in a mixer-first downconverter prototype and presented it to the Director of NIST, who oversees the CHIPS Act under the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Before joining Cornell in 2020, she was an R&D mmWave IC design intern at Next Generation Radio Integration Lab at Intel Labs, OR, working on Nonlinear Distortions in mmWave Phased Array Transceivers. She worked on tunable PLLs at Analog Devices, CA (2015), high-speed optical modulator drivers at Bell Laboratories, NJ (2016), and bandwidth extension techniques for broadband amplifiers at Intel Labs, OR (2017).
Damla is a reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I), IEEE Journal of Microwaves (JMW), IEEE Microwave Magazine, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT). She has been an editor for the IEEE Microwave Magazine since 2025. She serves as an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal of Microwaves (JMW) for the technical tracks Microwave and mmWave Integrated Circuits and RF/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing.
She has been a member of the MTT-S TC-14 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits Committee and the IEEE International Microwave Symposium Technical Program Review Committee (IMS TPRC) since 2021. She also served on the 2023 IEEE IMS Early Career Paper Competition Review Committee. Since 2025, she has served on the technical review committees of the European Microwave Integrated Circuits (EuMIC), European Microwave Conference (EuMC), German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), IEEE Space, Aerospace and Defense (IEEE SPACE), IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation (IEEE MAPCON), and IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (IEEE BCICTS) conferences. She is the TPC Co-chair for the 2026 IEEE Texas Symposium on Microwave and Wireless Circuits and Systems (IEEE MWCS).
Damla is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Rising Stars Award.
She has been named one of the 2026 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding YP Lecturers in the global cohort of 8 newly selected speakers.
Dr. Enrique Gonzalez
Bio:
Enrique González Carvajal was born in Valencia, Venezuela, in 1987. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Carabobo, in 2012, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a Senior Design Engineer with Qorvo, Inc. He was an Instructor in the topics of Optical Communications and Guided Waves Systems Laboratory at his Alma Mater until the end of 2014, when he joined the University of South Florida. He joined USF to pursue his Ph.D. degree conducting research within Dr. Gokhan Mumcu’s group.
His research focus was on the realization of RF reconfigurable devices by using microfluidic technology, specifically RF switches, antenna elements and antenna arrays, and filters. He also developed various 3D visualizations for enhancing and complementing the teaching of electromagnetic theory in undergraduate courses. The visualizations cover topics of Vector Algebra, Vector Calculus and Electromagnetic Field Theory, Electrostatics and Time-Varying Fields through different interactive animations that can be displayed on 3D-enabled screens. He served as vice-chair and chair of the MTT-S Student Branch Chapter at the University of South Florida in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He became an IEEE Senior Member in 2021 and continues to contribute to career development of young engineers in RF/Microwave engineering through the Project Connect initiative in IMS. He is with TE Connectivity designing and developing high-speed connector solutions for data-center hyper-scalers and next-generation data transfer.
Dr. Michael Grady
Bio:
Dr. Michael Grady is a Principal RF/Wireless Engineer at Honeywell, where he works on advanced and applied technology projects involving antennas, RF devices, and sensors, and also supports externally funded research initiatives. Previously, he was a Senior Research Engineer in the Electromagnetics Division of the Advanced Concepts Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, in 2008 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, in 2017. His technical interests include RF, microwave, and antenna engineering, with experience in antenna and circuit design, sensors, and applied electromagnetics. Dr. Grady has also been active in the IEEE microwave community and served as General Chair of the 2025 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON).