Jack Soh

Ping Jack Soh was born in Sabah, Malaysia. He received the bachelor's and master’s degrees from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium.

He is an Associate Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland, and an Academy Research Fellow with the Research Council of Finland. He started his career as a Test Engineer (2002-2004), and an R&D Engineer (2005-2006) in two multinational electronic/telecommunication companies. He was then a Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) (2006-2009) before moving to KU Leuven's WaveCoRE-Arenberg Group as a Research Assistant (2009-2013), Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013-2014) and a Research Affiliate (2014-date). He rejoined UniMAP as a Senior Lecturer (2014-2017) and an Associate Professor before joining the University of Oulu in 2021. In Oulu, he was also the coordinator for the “Devices and Circuit Technology” strategic research area within the 6G Flaghip research program (2022-2023). His research interests include antenna design and their applications in wearables / wireless body area communication (WBAN); metasurfaces and reflectors; 5G/6G communications; compact satellites; EM safety and absorption; and wireless techniques for healthcare.

Dr. Soh was the recipient of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters' Outstanding Associate Editor award in 2024, the URSI Young Scientist Award in 2015, the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications in 2013 and the IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Award in 2012. He was also the Second Place Winner of the IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition in 2013. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) and the International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields (IJNM, Wiley). He is/was also the Guest Editor of several Special Issues in AWPL, IJNM and the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (J-ERM) related to topics in wearable and implantable communications, in reconfigurable and multifunctional electromagnetic surfaces, in filtering antennas and arrays, and in the application of electromagnetics and RF signals to medicine and biology. He serves in the IEEE MTT-S Education Committee as the Co-Chair of the Undergraduate Scholarships Sub-Committee, and was the TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC) 2023. He is a Chartered Engineer registered with the UK Engineering Council; a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the IET and URSI.