Text Box: Erdem Topsakal, PhD Text Box: 405 Simrall Hall Hardy Street, Box.9571 Mississippi State, MS  39762 Phone/fax: 662 325 3669/2298 Email: topsakal@ece.msstate.edu   Text Box: ŠAugust 2003, Last Updated August 2003 Text Box: Erdem Topsakal is an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. Dr. Topsakal  received his BSc. degree in 1991, M.Sc. degree in 1993 and PhD degree in 1996 all  in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He worked as an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University between 1997 and 1998. He was a post doctoral fellow from 1998 to 2001 and an assistant research scientist from 2001 to July 2003 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Michigan.  His research areas include electromagnetic theory, numerical methods, fast methods, antenna analysis and design, frequency selective surfaces/volumes, electromagnetic coupling and interference, direct and inverse scattering. He has published over 40 journal and conference papers in these areas. He received the URSI young scientist award in 1996 and NATO fellowship in 1997. He is a senior member of IEEE and an active reviewer for the journals IEEE Antennas and Propagation, Radio Science, IEE Proceeding Microwave, Antennas and Propagation and Wave Motion.   Text Box:   Text Box:   Text Box:   Text Box:   Text Box:   Text Box: Teaching Text Box: Links Text Box: Publications Text Box:   Text Box:   Text Box:   Text Box: Vita Text Box: Research Text Box:   Assistant Professor