Soh Ping Jack
Description
Ping Jack Soh received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium.
He is an Associate Professor in the University of Oulu, Finland, and an Academy Research Fellow with the Research Council of Finland. He started his career in the electronics/ telecommunication industry as a Test Engineer (2002 -2004) in Venture Corp. and an R&D Engineer (2005-2006) in Motorola Solutions. He was then a Lecturer in Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) (2006-2009) before moving to KU Leuven as a Research Assistant (2009-2013), Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013-2014) and is now a Research Affiliate (2014-date). He rejoined UniMAP as a Senior Lecturer (2014-2017) and an Associate Professor (2017-2021), prior to his current role. In Oulu, he was also the coordinator for the “Devices and Circuit Technology” strategic research area within the 6G Flagship research program (2022-2023).
To date, he has led and completed five internationally- and nationally funded research projects as the Principal Investigator in the areas of antennas and related technologies. He is also currently the PI for five other projects funded by the US Office of Naval Research, the Research Council of Finland (LiBERATE and ULTRAGRAM), and Horizon Europe TERRAMETA consortium. His research interests include antenna design and their applications in wearables / wireless body area communication (WBAN); metasurfaces and reflectors; next-generation communications; compact satellites; EM safety and absorption; and wireless techniques for healthcare. He has published more than 400 articles (~180 in journals), a book, four book chapters and five invention disclosures.
Dr. Soh was the recipient of the Outstanding Associate Editor Award of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters in 2025 and 2024, URSI Young Scientist Award in 2015, the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications in 2013 and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Award in 2012. He was also the Second Place Winner of the IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition in 2013. He is a Chartered Engineer registered with the UK Engineering Council, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the IET and URSI. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL), the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and the International Journal of Numerical Modelling (IJNM) (Wiley). He is currently serving as the TPC Chair of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) 2026, and also served as the TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC) 2023. He is the Co-Chair of the Undergraduate Scholarship Committee in the IEEE MTT-S Education Committee.
Keywords
Antenna design
Affiliations
University of Oulu
Associate Professor
Centre of Wireless Communications
2021 - present
Source: ORCID
Education (1)
PhD
2009 - 2013
KU Leuven
Publications (231)
2024
A Compact Multimode Antenna Design Based on Metasurface for Wideband Applications
Journal of electromagnetic waves and applications
Open access
Peer-reviewed
Granted funding (2)
Research Council of Finland
2023 - 2027
2022 - 2026
Research Council of Finland
2022 - 2026