Dr. Niek Moonen
Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands

TOPIC:

Non-Ideal Behavior of Components

Dr. Niek Moonen (S’16-M’19-SM’25) received his B.Sc. in 2012, M.Sc. in 2014, and Ph.D. (Cum Laude) in 2019 in advanced technology, electrical engineering, and electromagnetic compatibility, respectively, from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. He is the secretary of the IEEE EMC Society TC7, a member of IEEE PELS TC11 and TC12, the vice-chair of the Dutch EMC-ESD association, and vice-chair of the IEEE EMC Benelux Chapter. Dr. Moonen received the Best student paper award runner-up in EMC Europe 2018, and in 2022 the Richard B. Schulz Best Transaction Paper award. He was also named Distinguished Reviewer of the IEEE Transaction on EMC each year from 2019 to 2024. He is currently also a Member at Large of the International Steering Committee of EMC Europe, and Chair of EMC Europe 2026. His research focuses on EMI mitigation in power electronics, EMI propagation in Smart Grids, digital signal processing in EMC measurements, and EMI filter optimization.

Dr. Flavia Grassi
Professor, Politecnico di Milano

TOPIC:

Signal Spectra

Dr. Flavia Grassi (M’07–SM’13) received the Laurea (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano. From 2008 to 2009, she was with the European Space Agency (ESA), ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands, as a Research Fellow. Her research interests include distributed-parameter circuit modeling, statistical techniques, characterization of measurement setups for EMC testing (aerospace and automotive sectors), and application of the powerline communications technology in ac and dc lines. Dr. Grassi received the 2016 and 2021 Richard B. Schulz Best Paper Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on EMC in 2015 and 2021, respectively. In 2025 she was awarded a Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE EMC-S. She is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on EMC, IEEE EMC Magazine, and IEEE Letters on EMC Practice and Applications. She is currently serving as the Chair of the IEEE EMC-S Technical Advisory Committee.

Dr. Michael Cracraft
Associate Professor, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

TOPIC:

Crosstalk

Dr. Michael Cracraft is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN. From 2007 to 2020 he worked for the IBM Systems Group in Poughkeepsie, NY as the IO Signal Integrity Lead, where he contributed to several generations of System Z and Power system releases. He holds a bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. from the Missouri University of Science & Technology (MST) awarded in 2000, 2002, and 2007, respectively. During his time at MST, he was part of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, which researched EMC, signal integrity, and power integrity in collaboration with a consortium of industry and academic partners. His current research interests include common-mode filtering techniques for IO, optimization techniques for packaging high-density high-speed digital systems, and computation electromagnetics. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Dr. Frank Leferink
Professor, University of Twente
Technical Authority, THALES Nederland
IEEE Fellow

TOPIC:

EMC Filters

Dr. Frank Leferink received his B.Sc. in 1984, M.Sc. in 1992 and his Ph.D. in 2001, all electrical engineering, at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. He has been with THALES, Hengelo, The Netherlands, since 1984, and is currently Director EMC. He is also manager of the Network of Excellence on EMC of the THALES Group, with over 150 EMC engineers scattered over more than 30 units, worldwide. In 2003, he was appointed as a (parttime, full research) Professor and the Chair for EMC with the University of Twente. At the University of Twente, he lectures the course EMC, and manages several research projects, with 3 junior researchers and 20 Ph.D. student-researchers. Over 400 papers have been published at international conferences or peer reviewed journals, and he holds 6 patents. Dr. Leferink is Vice-President Conferences of the IEEE EMC Society, and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility and the IEEE Letters on Electromagnetic Compatibility Practice and Applications.

Mr. Lee Hill
MSEE, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Founding Partner, SILENT Solutions LLC & GmbH
Adjunct Faculty, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Associate Tutor, University of Oxford

TOPIC:

Radiated Emissions

Mr. Lee Hill is Founding Partner of SILENT Solutions LLC, an EMC consulting firm he started in Silicon Valley in 1992. He is also Managing Director of Silent Solutions GmbH (Munich). Lee received his MSEE from the Missouri University of Science & Technology EMC Laboratory studying under Dr.’s Van Doren, Hubing, and Drewniak. Lee teaches graduate EMC as adjunct faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and is also an EMC course instructor for University of Oxford (England). Lee is the named inventor of three US patents for EMI control. Lee was previously the chair of the IEEE EMC Society’s Clayton R. Paul Global University program and Distinguished Lecturer program and served as a Distinguished Lecturer from 1994-96. Lee consults and teaches public and private in-person and online EMC courses worldwide and has been teaching short courses on EMC design and troubleshooting for over thirty years. He has presented EMC courses in the United States, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, Germany, France, Poland, Norway, Portugal, Italy, India, and United Kingdom.

Dr. Bogdan Adamczyk
Professor, Grand Valley State University (GVSU)
Director, Electromagnetic Compatibility Center

TOPIC:

Shielding

Dr. Bogdan Adamczyk (Life Senior Member, IEEE) received BSEE and MSEE from the University of Nevada, Reno and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He joined GVSU (Grand Rapids, MI) in 1999 where he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Founder and Director of Electromagnetic Compatibility Center at GVSU where he develops EMC educational material and teaches EMC courses for industry. The Center houses an industrial EMC pre-compliance lab supported by academia and industry that brings decades of EMC and SIPI expertise, tools, and capabilities to the classroom and student experience. He was a Founder and Chair (2011-2020) of IEEE EMC Chapter of West Michigan. He is an iNARTE certified Master Design Engineer. Prof. Adamczyk is the author of two textbooks: “Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility with Practical Applications (Wiley, 2017) and “Principles of Electromagnetic Compatibility: Laboratory Exercises and Lectures” (Wiley 2024). He is a senior contributor to IN Compliance Magazine where he writes a monthly column “EMC Concepts Explained” (since January 2017).

Dr. Daryl G. Beetner
Professor, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Director, Missouri S&T Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory
Director, NSF Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility

TOPIC:

Electrostatic Discharge

Prof. Daryl G. Beetner (Fellow, IEEE) (Fellow, IEEE) is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA (Missouri S&T), is the Director of the Missouri S&T Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, is the Director of the Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, and is the former Chair of the Missouri S&T ECE Department. He was the 2020 recipient of the IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award and the 2003 IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor. He has won a number of best paper awards including honorable mention for the 2018 Richard B. Schulz Best Transaction Paper award. He serves on the EMC Society Board of Governors and is the EMC Society Education Grant Chair.

Dr. Todd Hubing
Professor Emeritus, Clemson University
IEEE Fellow, ACES Fellow
Past President, IEEE EMC Society

TOPIC:

PCB Design for EMC Compliance

Dr. Todd Hubing is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University and President of LearnEMC. Dr. Hubing holds a BSEE degree from MIT, an MSEE degree from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He was an engineer at IBM for 7 years and a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) for 17 years before joining Clemson University in 2006. As the Michelin Professor of Vehicle Electronics at Clemson, he established the Clemson Vehicular Electronics Laboratory where he supervised research projects and taught classes in vehicle electronics, electromagnetic compatibility, and digital signal integrity. In 2015, he retired from Clemson and moved to Stoughton, Wisconsin. Currently, he provides EMC instruction, consulting and design assistance to engineers working in the electronics industry. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, and a Past-President of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society.