Jack Soh

Ping Jack Soh received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium.

He is a Professor and Academy Research Fellow funded by the Research Council of Finland at the University of Oulu, Finland. He started his career in the electronics/ telecommunication industry as a Test Engineer (2002 -2004), and an R&D Engineer (2005-2006). He was then a Lecturer in Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) (2006-2009) before moving to KU Leuven as a Research Assistant (2009-2013), Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013-2014) and is now a Research Affiliate (2014-date). He rejoined UniMAP as a Senior Lecturer (2014-2017) and an Associate Professor (2017-2021), prior to joining the University of Oulu. In Oulu, he was also the coordinator for the “Devices and Circuit Technology” strategic research area within the 6G Flagship research program (2022-2023). His research interests include antenna design and their applications in wearables / wireless body area communication (WBAN); metasurfaces and reflectors; next-generation communications; compact satellites; EM safety and absorption; and wireless techniques for healthcare.

Dr. Soh was the recipient of the Outstanding Associate Editor Award of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters in 2024, 2025 and 2026, the URSI Young Scientist Award in 2015, the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications in 2013 and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Award in 2012. He is a Chartered Engineer registered with the UK Engineering Council, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the IET and URSI. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and the International Journal of Numerical Modelling (Wiley). He also served as the TPC Chair of the 20th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) 2026, and as the TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC) 2023. He is also serving as the Co-Chair of the Undergraduate Scholarship Committee in the IEEE MTT-S Education Committee.