Alan J Fenn

Alan J. Fenn (Life Fellow, 2019) received the BS degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and MS and PhD degrees from The Ohio State University, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Fenn is a senior staff member in the RF Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He received the Life Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive phased array antennas. He is an author of numerous journal articles, conference papers, and patents and five books in the field of antennas, electromagnetics, and adaptive phased array systems. Since joining Lincoln Laboratory in 1981, he has worked on many antenna, electromagnetics, and array solutions for communications, radar, and sensing applications. He developed focused near-field adaptive nulling and mutual coupling calibration techniques for testing the performance of phased arrays. He has also patented and investigated the use of focused microwave adaptive phased arrays for cancer treatment. From 1978 to 1981, he was a senior engineer in the Antenna Systems Group at Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, Colorado. Dr. Fenn received the 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference, M. Charles Fogg Best Paper Award, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s 1990 H.A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award, and the IEEE/URSI-sponsored 1994 International Symposium on Antennas (JINA) Award. He served as Technical Program Chair for the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, and he was Technical Program Chair for the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.