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Keynote Speakers

Elise Fear is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Together with Jeremie Bourqui, Dr. Fear co-founded Wave View Imaging in 2020 with the goal of commercializing medical microwave imaging. Wave View Imaging was one of 3 Canadian companies selected for Pfizer’s Healthcare Hub program in 2023. 

Dr. Fear’s research interests include microwave imaging and sensing for biomedical applications, including development of prototype systems and pilot feasibility studies with human subjects. She was the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures iCORE Strategic Chair in Multimodality Imaging and Sensing from 2013-2017.  Her work has been recognized with the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2007), the Killam Interdisciplinary Research Prize (2012), the Killam Annual Professorship (2018), the ASTech Award for Innovation in Healthcare (2023), and a Fellowship in the Engineering Institute of Canada (2024).

Jean-Charles Bolomey is currently Professor Emeritus of Paris-Saclay University, France (PSU). After earning a Radio Engineering degree from CentraleSupelec (CS), he became full-time professor at PSU in 1976, furthering his research in Laboratoire des Signaux and Systemes, a joint unit with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). ​ Since the early 1980s, his work has focused on fast Near-Field (NF) methodologies, including antenna measurement, EMC/EMI testing, RF dosimetry, Industrial-Scientific-Medical (ISM) and NDE/NDT applications, with a strong emphasis on innovative developments and technology transfer.  His major contribution, based on the Modulated Scattering Technique (MST), led to earliest convincing proofs-of-concept of rapid NF measurement and imaging systems using modulated probe arrays. ​

In 1986, he founded SATIMO, a company specializing in microwave imaging, whose advanced prototypes would leverage the launch of the Microwave Vision Group (MVG) ten years later.  He actively participated in several European collaborative programmes on microwave imagery, ranging from medical diagnostics and hyperthermia therapy control to industrial tomography and material processing. He has also contributed to the scientific advisory boards of various European institutions and start-ups, engaging in technology transfer and prototype evaluation procedures in these fields. ​

Professor Bolomey is an IEEE Life Fellow, an AMTA Gilespie Fellow and a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy. He is also a member of the EurAAP and has received numerous awards for his pioneering contributions to fast electromagnetic near-field (NF) techniques, microwave imaging and related applications.  He remained an active figure in these areas and was frequently invited to deliver keynote presentations and author review papers on the subject. He is currently broadening his interests to include multi-physics EM-Thermal visualization modalities for low-invasive NF characterization and diagnostic of wireless communication and sensing devices.

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