Alireza Baghai-Wadji is Professor Emeritus at University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. He holds M.Sc.
and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering, and the D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) degree in
physical electronics from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He has also been honored with
the D.Sc. degree in materials science and quantum physics from Aalto University, Finland. Since 2012 he
has been with University of Cape Town. He was ECE Program Director, chaired the EE curriculum
development, and was Assistant Dean (internationalization) with UCT. He was 2005–2012 Professor,
Discipline Head, Senior Member of the Platform Technologies Research Institute, and International
Representative with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. From 1997–2005 he
was Associate Professor with Vienna University of Technology. He has lived on five continents and
occupied senior academic, executive, and principal engineering consultancy positions, invariably
promoting rigorous and creative thinking, and advocating for a system-of-systems approach to STEM
development and problem solving: Distinguished Visiting Professor with BIT, Beijing, China; High-level
Foreign Expert Visiting Professor with XUST, Xian, China. Visiting Professor with Aalto University, Finland;
Visiting Scientist with Max Planck Institute (Quantum Optics), Germany; Visiting Professor with IHPC and
Senior Member with IMS, NUS, Singapore; Visiting Scientist with UCI, CA, USA; Adjunct Professor with
ASU, AZ, USA; and Director of Aerospace and Aviation Electronics Program with Sir Lawrence Wackett
Aerospace Centre, Australia. He was Principal Engineering Consultant with Motorola, USA; CTS, USA;
EPCOS, Germany; Siemens Matsushita, Austria; and Siemens, Germany. He was an award-winning Nokia
Fellow. He was awarded the prestigious Austrian Kurt Goedel Fellowship three times. Since 1997 he has
been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
(UFFC). He was twice Guest Editor for the IEEE T-UFFC. He is the current UFFC-S Representative to the
Transaction on Quantum Engineering. Since 2019 he has been an Associate Editor for the Applied
Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES). He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in
journals and conference proceedings, and delivered more than 120 invited, plenary, and keynote
speeches. He is the owner of one patent in the USA. He has instructed 33 half-day or full-day short
courses sponsored by IEEE or ACES. His original contributions to mathematical physics include the unified
diagonalization and supplementation of multi-scale, multi-physics strongly coupled system of thermoacousto-electro-magnetic partial differential equations, the design of physics-based Dirac-like
generalized functions, the development of regularization techniques in the near- and far-fields, the
design of problem-tailored basis, dual basis, frames, dual frames, and Green’s functions-induced
wavelets. He is credited for developing the Taylor Transform and Inverse Transform (TTIT). He is
Honorary Member and Fellow of Electromagnetics Academy, USA, and has been listed in Who-is-Who in
Electromagnetics. He is Honorary Professor at Amity University, Noida, India, and Adjunct Professor at
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.