Dr. Vince Rodriguez attended The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), in Oxford, Mississippi, where he obtained his B.S.E.E. in 1994. Following graduation Dr. Rodriguez joined the department of Electrical Engineering at Ole Miss as a research assistant. During his tenure at the department he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. (both degrees on Engineering Science with emphasis in Electromagnetics) in 1996 and 1999 respectively. After a short period as visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Dr. Rodriguez joined EMC Test Systems (now ETS-Lindgren) as an RF and Electromagnetics engineer in June 2000. During that time he was involved in E-field generator design and the RF design of several anechoic chambers, including rectangular and taper antenna pattern measurement chambers some of them operating from 100MHz to 40GHz. He was also the principal RF engineer for the anechoic chamber at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) the largest anechoic chamber in Latin America, a fully automotive, EMC and Satellite testing chamber. In September 2004 Dr. Rodriguez took over the position of Senior Principal Antenna Design Engineer, placing him in charge of the development of new antennas for different applications and on improving the existing antenna line. In the fall of 2010 he has served and Antenna Product Manager. In this position Dr. Rodriguez was in charge of all technical and marketing aspects of the antenna products at ETS-Lindgren. Among the antennas developed by Dr. Rodriguez are: broadband double and quad-ridged guide horns; high field generator horns; stacked LPDAs for automotive and military testing; and printed antennas for wireless testing. While mainly dedicated to antenna design Dr. Rodriguez continued being involved in anechoic chamber design. In November 2014 Dr. Rodriguez Joined MI Technologies (now NSI-MI Technologies) as a Senior Applications Engineer. In this position Dr. Rodriguez worked on the design of antenna, RCS, and radome measurement systems. During his tenure at NSI-MI Dr. Rodriguez has been involved in designing several Antenna and RCS anechoic ranges for near to far field, Compact Range and far field measurements. In 2017 Dr. Rodriguez was promoted to staff engineer positioning him as the resident expert at NSI-MI of RF absorber and indoor antenna ranges. He continued to be involved in the design of antennas and special RF absorbers to meet the necessary specifications of large antenna, RCS, and HWiL systems. In 2019 he was promoted to Senior staff engineer, a position equivalent to technical fellow. He has been involved on the design of over three tapered anechoic chambers and three of the largest four RCS ranges recently constructed, with test areas exceeding 6m across. Dr. Rodriguez is the author of more than fifty publications including journal and conference papers as well as book chapters and books. Dr. Rodriguez holds patents for hybrid absorber and for a dual ridge horn antenna. Dr. Rodriguez is a Senior Member of the IEEE and several of its technical societies. Among the IEEE technical societies he is a member of the EMC Society, where he is served as Distinguished Lecturer of the society from 2013 to 2014 and also served in the board of directors of the IEEE-EMC. Dr. Rodriguez also serves in the standard’s committee of the IEEE AP-S and as secretary of the working group for IEEE STD 149 and IEEE STD 1128 and co-chair of the IEEE STD 1720 working group. He is also a member of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) where he has served in the board of directors of AMTA as meeting coordinator (2010-2011) and vice president for the year 2012. In 2014 Dr. Rodriguez was named a E. S. Gillespie Fellow of the AMTA. Dr. Rodriguez is also a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES), where he served in the board of directors from 2014 to 2017. In 2019 he was elevated to Fellow of ACES. He has served as a reviewer for the ACES Journal, the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and for the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEWA). He has also served as reviewer for several IEEE, AMTA, ACES and EuCAP conferences. He has served as chair of sessions at several conferences of the IEEE, AMTA, and CPEM (conference on precision electromagnetic measurements). Dr. Rodriguez is a Full member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society and of the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society.Read more about this authorRead less about this author