Abas Sabouni

Professor Abas Sabouni joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Wilkes University in 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department at École Polytechnique de Montréal and the Montreal Neurology Institute, and as a research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Additionally, he held visiting scholar positions at the University of California, San Diego in 2014, and Harvard University in Boston in 2017. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department at Wilkes University. He also serves as Director of the graduate program in Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the Bioengineering master’s program.

Dr. Sabouni is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves on the Board of Directors for the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He is a highly esteemed educator who has been recognized multiple times for his outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching and research. His numerous honors include the 2021 Carpenter Award for Teaching and Student-Centered Research, the 2020 Alumni Mentoring Award, the 2020 Wilkes University President's Award, the 2017 Outstanding Scholarship Award, the 2017 Outstanding Adviser Award, the 2017 and 2025 O’Hop Last Lecture Awards, the 2016 Outstanding New Faculty Award, the 2014 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Teaching Award, the 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, the 2013 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Award, and the 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Honorable Mention Award.