Biography
Professor Hakan Bagci is a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program at KAUST. He specializes in computational electromagnetics, focusing on time-domain integral equations, hybrid methods, and numerical solvers for complex electromagnetic interactions, with applications in photonic, optical, and electronic systems.
Professor Hakan Bagci received his Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering ('01) from Bilkent University, Turkey. He obtained his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), U.S., in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
From 2001 to 2006, Bagci was a research assistant with the UIUC Center for Computational Electromagnetics and Electromagnetics Laboratory, U.S. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan's Radiation Laboratory, U.S.
Bagci arrived at KAUST in August 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was promoted to Associate Professor in the same program six years later.
In 2021, he was elevated as an Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Fellow for his "exceptional achievements in computational electromagnetics, including ACES publications, and extensive service to ACES." He is a Senior Member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) for his research achievements in the field of computational electromagnetics.
He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (2019 to present), Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (2018 to present), and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2017 to present).
Research Interests
Professor Bagci’s research focuses on theoretical and applied aspects of the interdisciplinary field of computational electromagnetics (CEM). CEM fuses elements of electrical engineering, physics, applied mathematics and computational sciences to enable the numerical design and characterization of real-life electromagnetic, optical and photonic devices and systems.
The field of CEM complements and facilitates advances in other fields of electromagnetics, optics and photonics.
Bagci’s CEM research group is developing novel, efficient, accurate algorithms and numerical schemes for solving integral/differential forms of Maxwell equations—a set of four complicated equations that describe the world of electromagnetics.
