Costas Sarris

Costas Sarris received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002, and the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with distinction) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1997.  He joined the University of Toronto in 2002, where he is now a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

Prof. Sarris is an IEEE Fellow. He was a recipient of the 2021 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2013 and the Early Researcher Award (from the Ontario Ministry for Research and Innovation) in 2007. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for 2024-2026.

Prof. Sarris served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques in 2019-2024. Moreover, he served as Guest Editor of two special issues of the Microwave Magazine on Machine Learning for Microwaves (2021-co-edited with Prof. Q.J. Zhang) and Time-Domain Numerical Methods (2010), an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (2009-2013) and the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (2007-2009). 

He was the TPC Chair of the 2023 and 2019 MTT-S Numerical Electromagnetics, Multiphysics and Optimization  (NEMO) Conference and the 2015 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC Joint Meeting in Vancouver, BC; the TPC Vice-Chair of the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Montreal, QC; the TPC co-Chair for the IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC Joint Meeting in Toronto, ON, and the Chair of the MTT-S Technical Committee on Field Theory and Computational Electromagnetics (2018-2020). 

Prof. Sarris received the Faculty Teaching Award from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto in 2021, the Gordon R. Slemon (teaching of design) award in 2007 and four Departmental Teaching Awards (by confidential vote of ECE students, for excellence in undergraduate teaching) in Fall 2021, 2018, 2016 (3rd year Fields and Waves) and Spring 2005 (4th year Radio and Microwave Wireless Systems).