Mark Mitchell, a Georgia Tech Research Institute Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory senior research engineer, has 15 years of experience in phased-array antennas, with particular emphasis in solid state array architectures and technology, error effects in wideband adaptive digital beamforming, and low-cost arrays.

Rick Sturdivant, founder and president of Microwave Packaging Technology Inc., has more than 15 years of experience in Transmit/Receive module packaging. He was employed at TRW and Raytheon, formerly Hughes Aircraft, from 1989 to 2000. In 1993, he received the Hughes Engineering Excellence award for his work in microwave packaging. He has extensive experience in development of phased array components, microwave devices, and passive circuits He has published more than 15 technical articles and holds five patents. His most recent interests are in large signal testing, microwave multichip modules, and 3D microwave modules.

Brent Wagner, Georgia Tech Research Institute principal research engineer, is responsible for managing research programs in the area of compound semiconductor materials and devices. He is a lead researcher on the development of thermal management solutions for high power amplifiers.

Tracy V. Wallace, a Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer and chief of the Air and Missile Defense Division of the Sensors and Electromagnetics Applications Laboratory, has designed and built numerous instrumentation radar transmitters and worked extensively in the field of active phased-array radars. He has supported numerous system developments such as THAAD, GBR-P, the ground-based X-band radar, naval X-band arrays, and advanced radar technology for the Missile Defense Agency. His research interests include transmit/receive modules, radar power systems, transmitter/receiver hardware architectures, and low-power density, low-cost phased-array architectures.

Mike Harris
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