Microwave Journal Podcasts

Professor Nick McKeown, the 2025 Marconi Prize winner, which is often called the “Nobel Prize for Communications”, talks with Pat Hindle and Del Pierson about his fundamental contributions to high-performance switches and routers, and software defined networking, and transferring these contributions into widespread practice.

Pat Hindle talks with Andrea Goldsmith, President of Stony Brook University and 2025 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal Winner, about how her wireless communications insights have affected wireless technology, the future of communications and her vision/strategy leading Stony Brook University into a new era.

Microwave Journal editors Pat Hindle and Del Pierson talk with Kamal Sarabandi, an IEEE Life Fellow and the Distinguished University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michigan, who has done pioneering work in remote sensing and made significant contributions to the world through science, education, and entrepreneurship. They discuss his work with remote sensing radar, projects at the MI Rad Lab and NASA, his dedication to education and future outlook on the industry. Kamal was the recent recipient of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications.

Microwave Journal Media Director, Pat Hindle, talks with IEEE Fellow and Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, about her career in nanometer semiconductor technologies and the promotion of microelectronics workforce development. She is the 2024 IEEE Founders Medal recipient and recognized for leadership in the advancement and commercialization of nanometer semiconductor technologies and the promotion of microelectronics workforce development.

Pat Hindle talks with Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, IEEE Fellow and 2024 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal recipient, and author of the well known textbook Wireless Communication, about her career, areas of study, startups, IEEE activities, and thoughts on future technologies.

Pat Hindle talks with Shahriar Shahramian, Head of Bell Labs' ASICs & Packaging Research Lab, Bell Labs Fellow, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Founder of The Signal Path about his career path, thoughts on education, current research, his popular YouTube channel and the future of communications technology.

Pat Hindle talks with Fred Daum, 2024 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications recipient, IEEE Fellow, Principal Fellow at Raytheon, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE and a graduate of Harvard University, about radar technology, his career path and outlook on future technology. Fred has developed, analyzed and tested the real time tracking, waveform scheduling, calibration and discrimination algorithms for essentially all the long range phased array radars built by the USA in the last four decades.

Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Wintek Chair in EE & Distinguished Professor at UCLA and 2023 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal Award winner talks with Pat Hindle, Media Director, about his lifelong work in electronics including the development of the HBT and BiFET used in most cell phones today and many other technologies including his recently award winning work with heterojunction device technology and CMOS System-on-Chip realizations that achieve unprecedented reconfigurability and bandwidth.

Benoit Derat, Senior Director for Systems & Projects, Antenna-Based Solutions at Rohde & Schwarz, Entrepreneur and Scientist talks with Pat Hindle, Media Director, about his experiences in education, entrepreneurship, inventions, rock bands and thoughts on the future of test and measurement. Can you guess which one is Benoit?

Alexander Chenakin, Senior Director, R&D at Anritsu Company, and world renown expert on frequency sources and synthesizers, talks with Pat Hindle, Media Director at Microwave Journal, about his work experience, groundbreaking synthesizer products and outlook on the future. Here is a link to the discussion in text.