Willie John Padilla
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Paul Wang Distinguished Professor
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Research Themes
Metamaterials
Research Interests
Theoretical and experimental investigation of electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, and their application to imaging and sensing at microwave, terahertz, and infrared frequencies
Education
- Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2004
Positions
- Dr. Paul Wang Distinguished Professor
- Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Fellow. Optical Society of America. 2013
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. President of the United States of America. 2009
Courses Taught
- PHYSICS 621: Advanced Optics
- MSEG 591: Independent Study
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- ECE 571: Electromagnetic Theory
- ECE 541: Advanced Optics
- ECE 370D: Intermediate Electromagnetic Theory
- ECE 270L9: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation (Lab)
- ECE 270DL: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation
- BME 552: Advanced Optics