The Special Interest Group on Theory of Characteristic Modes (SIG TCM) was initiated at the Special Session on TCM during the 2014, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation in Memphis, TN, on 10 July 2014. SIG TCM was formed as a platform to promote technical activities in the field of TCM.
Since its inception, it has attracted more than 90 research groups/companies, most of whom are active in this area. Major achievements to date include the successful proposal of a Special Issue on TCM in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (top ranked journal in the field) published in 2016 as well as many special sessions at major conferences.
Interested research groups/companies are welcome to join SIG TCM by sending an email to the Coordinator Prof. Buon Kiong Lau (Lund University) and provide some text for each of the following bullet points (if applicable):
- a statement of interest on the topic (i.e., what are you interested in?)
- a summary of activities on the topic to date (i.e., what have you been doing in this topic, if any?)
- a list of relevant publications (i.e., what you have published in this topic or relevant to this topic, if any?)
Once approved to join, this information will then be included in a directory shared among the SIG members and you will also be included in a mailing list maintained for the members, where the latest news and opportunities in the field are exchanged. It should be noted that interested groups/companies that are not already active in TCM research are welcome to join the SIG, however, a clear statement of interest should be provided.
The current SIG members and their affiliations are listed below:
| Group | Name | Affiliation | Country |
| 1 | Sean Hum | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 2 | Mohammad S. Sharawi | Blue Origin LLC and the University of Washington | USA |
| 3 | Ruiyuan Tian | Huawei Technologies Oy | Finland |
| Jocelyn Aulin | Huawei Technologies Sweden AB | Sweden | |
| 4 | Buon Kiong Lau | Lund University | Sweden |
| Hanieh Aliakbariabar | |||
| Irfan Yousaf | |||
| Yuyan Cao | |||
| Jiawang Li | |||
| 5 | Jussi Rahola | Optenni | Finland |
| 6 | Zhinong Ying | Sony Mobile | Sweden |
| 7 | Majid Manteghi | Virginia Tech | USA |
| 8 | Chao-Fu Wang | Temasek Laboratories, NUS | Singapore |
| 9 | Derek McNamara | University of Ottawa | Canada |
| Jonathan Ethier | |||
| Hamad Alroughani | |||
| 10 | Binbin Yang | North Carolina A&T State University | USA |
| 11 | Roberto Rojas-Teran | Ohio State University | USA |
| 12 | John Volakis | Florida International University | USA |
| 13 | Jacob Adams | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | USA |
| 14 | Ulrich Jakobus | Altair Engineering, Inc. | South Africa |
| Klearchos Samaras | |||
| C. J. Reddy | Altair Engineering, Inc. | USA | |
| 15 | Eva Antonino Daviu | Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) | Spain |
| Marta Cabedo Fabres | |||
| Miguel Ferrando Bataller | |||
| Felipe Vico | |||
| 16 | Olivier Vacus | CEA | France |
| 17 | Gert Pedersen | ||
| Shuai Zhang | |||
| 18 | Hiroyuki Arai | Yokohama National University | Japan |
| 19 | Werner Schroeder | RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | Germany |
| 20 | Ming Zheng | Amazon Inc. | USA |
| Nicholas E. Buris | |||
| Khaled Obeidat | |||
| Sumitra Dey | |||
| 21 | Dirk Manteuffel | Leibniz Universität Hannover | Germany |
| Leonardo Mörlein | |||
| Axel Hoffmann | |||
| Lukas Grundmann | |||
| Tim Hahn | |||
| 22 | Jennifer Bernhard | UIUC | USA |
| 23 | Jari Holopainen | Aalto University | Finland |
| 24 | Naoki Honma | Iwate University | Japan |
| 25 | Jiang Xiong | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) | China |
| 26 | Eva Rajos Iglesias | Charles III University of Madrid | Spain |
| 27 | Dejan Filipovic | UC Boulder | USA |
| Maxim Ignatenko | |||
| 28 | Georgios Kyriakou | Democritus University of Thrace | Greece |
| 29 | Yue Ping Zhang | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 30 | Cyril Luxey | University of Nice | France |
| 31 | Miloslav Čapek | Czech Technical University in Prague | Czech Republic |
| Pavel Hazdra | |||
| Lukas Jelinek | |||
| 32 | Karim Y. Kabalan | American University of Beirut | Lebanon |
| 33 | Sangwook Nam | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 34 | Giuseppe Di Massa | Università della Calabria | Italy |
| 35 | Yahia M. M. Antar | Royal Military College (RMC) | Canada |
| Monica Wasfy | |||
| 36 | Jason Lohn | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| 37 | Jian Yang | Chalmers University | Sweden |
| 38 | Yi Huang | University of Liverpool | UK |
| Jiafeng Zhou | |||
| 39 | Yehuda Leviatan | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| 40 | Adam Narbudowicz | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland |
| Wroclaw University of Science and Technology | Poland | ||
| Robert Borowiec | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology | Poland | |
| Adam Jeżak | |||
| Abel Zandamela | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | |
| 41 | Danie Ludick | Alphawave | South Africa |
| 42 | Hui Li | Dalian University of Technology | China |
| 43 | Jan Eichler | CST Computer Simulation Technology AG | Germany |
| 44 | Qi Wu | Beihang University | China |
| 45 | Simone Genovesi | University of Pisa | Italy |
| Alessio Dicandia | |||
| Filippo Costa | |||
| 46 | Ozlem Aydin Civi | Middle East Technical University | Turkey |
| Lale Alatan | |||
| 47 | Romanus Dyczij-Edlinger | Saarland University | Germany |
| 48 | Naobumi Michishita | National Defense Academy | Japan |
| 49 | Deb Chatterjee | University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) | USA |
| 50 | Yue Gao | University of Surrey | UK |
| 51 | Kubilay Sertel | Ohio State University | USA |
| 52 | Raj Mittra | University of Central Florida | USA |
| 53 | Ahmed M. Hassan | University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) | USA |
| 54 | Yikai Chen | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) | China |
| Wenyang Zhou | |||
| Chenghui Wang | |||
| 55 | Branko Mrdakovic | WIPL-D | Serbia |
| Branko Kolundzija | |||
| 56 | Weng Cho Chew | UIUC | USA |
| Qi Dai | |||
| 57 | Joseph Modro | JCM-EM Consulting LLC | USA |
| 58 | Divitha Seetharamdoo | IFSTTAR | France |
| Hassanein Rabah | |||
| 59 | Peiyuan Qin | University of Technology Sydney (UTS) | Australia |
| 60 | Jaume Anguera | FRACTUS, S.A. and Universitat Ramon Llull | Spain |
| Aurora Andújar | FRACTUS, S.A. | ||
| 61 | Matthys M. Botha | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
| 62 | Krishna Kumar Kishor | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technological University | India |
| 63 | Oscar Quevedo-Teruel | Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) | Sweden |
| Lars Jonsson | |||
| 64 | Guido Valerio | Sorbonne Universités – Université Pierre et Marie Curie | France |
| 65 | Zhi Ning Chen | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 66 | Nader Behdad | University of Wisconsin-Madison | USA |
| 67 | Shih-Yuan Chen | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
| 68 | George Shaker | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| 69 | Pasi Ylä-Oijala | Aalto University | Finland |
| Joni Lappalainen | |||
| Dimitrios Tzarouchis | |||
| Ari Sihvola | |||
| 70 | Yang Hao | Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | UK |
| 71 | Ezdeen Elghannai | Starkey Hearing Technologies | USA |
| 72 | Yen-Sheng Chen | National Taipei University of Technology | Taiwan |
| 73 | Robert Ledig | ThyssenKrupp AG | Germany |
| 74 | Bhaskar Gupta | Jadavpur University | India |
| Arka Bhattacharyya | |||
| 75 | Marc Harper | Microsoft | USA |
| 76 | Pei Li | USA | |
| 77 | Zachary Miers | Amazon Project Kuiper | USA |
| 78 | Philipp Gentner | Ericsson Antenna Technology Germany GmbH | Germany |
| 79 | Zhan Zhang | Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) | China |
| 80 | Eric Lucas | Alpha Omega Electromagnetics (AOE) LLC | USA |
| 81 | Ying Liu | Xidian University | China |
| 82 | Kurt R. Schab | Santa Clara University (SCU) | USA |
| 83 | Guangshang Cheng | Anhui University | China |
| 84 | Hussein Jaafar | CEA-Leti | France |
| 85 | Markus Berg | ExcellAnt | Finland |
| 86 | Piero Triverio | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 87 | Suramate Chalermwisutkul |
The Sirindhorn Int. Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering (KMUTNB) RWTH Aachen University |
Thailand Germany |
| 88 | Chi-Yuk Chiu | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China |
| Shanpu Shen | |||
| Ross Murch | |||
| 89 | Kapil Saraswat | Central University of Rajasthan | India |
| 90 | Kalyan C. Durbhakula | Missouri Institute of Defense and Energy, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) | USA |
| 91 | Fenghan Lin | ShanghaiTech University | China |
| 92 | Liying Nie | Hefei University of Technology | China |
| 93 | John Borchardt | Sandia National Laboratories | USA |
| 94 | Mahrukh Khan | The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) | USA |
| 95 | Mikko Heino | Tampere University | Finland |
| 96 | Teng Li | Southeast University (SEU) | China |
| 97 | Ping Jack Soh | University of Oulu | Finland |
| 98 | Arturo Mediano | University of Zaragoza | Spain |
| Miguel Labodia | |||
| 99 | Dave Bekers | TNO | The Netherlands |
| 100 | Daniel Segovia Vargas | University Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) | Spain |
| Ahmed El Yousfi | |||
| Abdenasser Lamkaddem | |||
| Nilton Santos | |||
| 101 | Sani Mubarak Ellis | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | Ghana |
| 102 | Mariana Dalarsson | Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) | Sweden |
| Balwan Rana | |||
| 103 | Meijun Qu | Communication University of China (CUC) | China |
| Zengrui Li | |||
| 104 | Yongmei Pan | South China University of Technology (SCUT) | China |
| 105 | Wen-Jun Lu | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) | China |
| 106 | Xingyue Guo | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) | China |
| 107 | Xue Song Yang | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) | China |
| 108 | Jiang Feng Lin | South China Normal University (SCNU) | China |
| 109 | Fan Jiang | Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) | China |
| 110 | Longyue Qu | Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) | China |
| 111 | Ren-Zun Lian | Xidian University | China |
| 112 | Can Ding | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
| 113 | Loïc Bernard | French-German Research Institute of St-Louis (ISL) & IETR | France |
| Raphaël Notter | |||
| 114 | Yong Wang | Remcom | USA |
| 115 | Johan Lundgren | Lund University | Sweden |
| 116 | Sumithra P | IIT Madras | India |
| 117 | Kannadassan D | Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) | India |