Omer Sade won the 1st place in the 2026 Kasher Undergraduate Student Project Contest in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion, for his project (together with the Communications laboratory) entitled “Electromagnetic Metagrating Absorbers“. Omer also presented this work in the Metamaterials’2026 symposium, which took place in NYC in the beginning of September 2026.

He now continues his studies as a Master’s student in Tel-Aviv University.

 

Way to go, Omer, and good luck in your future endeavors!

Our paper with Dr. Amit Shahm, “All-Angle Nonlocal Metasurfaces on Demand: Universal Realization of Normal Susceptibilities via Multilayered Printed-Circuit-Board (PCB) Cascades“ received the 2026 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society R.W.P King Award. The award recognizes the best paper by an author under the age of 36 published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during the previous year.

 

Amit is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Andrea Alù at the City University of New York.

 

Our Special Issue Invited Paper “Perfect all-angle asymmetric transmission via normal susceptibilities: exact spatial derivative by local meta-atoms and nonlocal metasurfaces” with former PhD student Amit Shaham (now postdoc and CUNY) was published in the Optical Materials Express.

Oz Diker, a Master’s student, has passed his MSc exam on February 18th, 2026.

Congratulations, Oz!

Ph. D. student Naama Cohen Levi was awarded with the 2025/6 Jacobs Citation of Excellence for Doctoral Students.

Way to go, Naama!

Ph.D. candidate Amit Shaham received the Yablonovitch Family Research Prize for the year 2025, awarded by the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering to recognize excellence in experimental research in the physical fields of electrical engineering. Congratulations, Amit!

Ph. D. candidate Amit Shaham was awarded with the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship for Nurturing Future Faculty Members for the year 2025-26. Way to go, Amit!

M. Sc. student Vitali Specktor received an Honorable Mention at the 2024 IEEE APS/URSI Student Paper Competition for his paper “Perforated Dielectric-Loaded Metallic Metagratings for Dual-Polarized Anomalous Refraction”.

Ph. D. candidate Naama Cohen Levi was selected as a finalist in the 2025 EuCAP Best Electromagnetics Paper for her paper “Bistable Beam Splitting in Nonlinear Metagratings”. Way to go, Naama!

Ph.D. candidate Amit Shaham wonthe 2nd place of the Student Paper Competition in IEEE APS/URSI 2024 that took place in Florence last July, for his paper

Amit Shaham and Ariel Epstein, “Perfect All-Angle Spatial Differentiators via Asymmetric Grazing-Angle Huygens’ Metasurfaces”

This adds to his other recent awards, among which are the Best Electromagnetics Paper in EuCAP 2024, the ECE Research Day, and the Viterbi Scholarship for doctoral students.

Congratulations once more, Amit!