Kenneth K. Mei

Kenneth K. Mei
Born
Kwan Hsiang Mei

(1932-05-19)May 19, 1932
Shanghai, Republic of China
DiedFebruary 16, 2017(2017-02-16) (aged 84)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Education
Known forContributions to computational electromagnetics
AwardsIEEE Electromagnetics Award (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Workplaces
ThesisScattering of radio waves by rectangular cylinders (1962)
Jean van Bladel

Kenneth Kwan Hsiang Mei (Chinese: 梅冠香; May 19, 1932 – February 16, 2017) was a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer and academic, who was a professor emeritus at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. From 1994 until his death, he was also a professor of electrical engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He is best known for his contributions to computational electromagnetics.

Biography

Kenneth Kwan Hsiang Mei was born on May 19, 1932 in Shanghai and served an interpreter in Korean War. Studying physics at National University of Taiwan in the 1950s for a year, he later emigrated to the United States, and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He obtained his masters and PhD degrees from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1960 and 1962, respectively; during his doctoral studies, he was advised by Jean van Bladel.

In 1962, Mei joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, where he was a professor until his retirement in July 1994. From 1994 until 2001, he was a Chair Professor at the institution, and served as the director of the Wireless Communications Research Center. In 2007, he received the title of honorary professor. Being elected as an IEEE fellow in 1979, he received IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2009 for "contributions to computational electromagnetics and Maxwellian circuits."

Mei's research has focused on numerical techniques for electromagnetic problems in microwave and antenna theory; he has published early research work on method of moments during the early 1960s. His later work involved innovations in the application of finite difference and finite element methods to antenna and scattering problems. He has also introduced a superabsorption method in 1989 and measured equation of invariance (MEI) approach in 1992, as well as developing the concept of Maxwellian circuits.

Mei died on February 16, 2017 in Oakland, California.

Selected publications

Journal articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 Crowley, Magdalene L. (March 10, 2017). "Prof. Kenneth Mei has passed away". eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 "Memorial of Prof. Mei, Kwan Hsiang Kenneth". Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  3. ↑ Mei, Kenneth K. (1962). Scattering of radio waves by rectangular cylinders (PhD thesis). University of Wisconsin–Madison. ProQuest 302124276.
  4. 1 2 "Kenneth K. Mei wins the 2009 IEEE Electromagnetics Award". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 50 (6): 174–176. December 2008. doi:10.1109/MAP.2008.4768961.
  5. ↑ Mei, K.; Van Bladel, J. (March 1963). "Scattering by perfectly-conducting rectangular cylinders". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 11 (2): 185–192. Bibcode:1963ITAP...11..185M. doi:10.1109/TAP.1963.1137996.
  6. 1 2 Oltman, George; Salazar Palma, Magdalena (July–August 2017). "In Memoriam: Kenneth Kwai-Hsiang Mei". IEEE Microwave Magazine. 18 (5): 124. doi:10.1109/MMM.2017.2690888.