Graduate Fellowship Award Selection Committee

Graduate Fellowship Award Committee Chair

Jay McDaniel

University of Oklahoma

United States

Jay McDaniel

Biography

Jay W. McDaniel (S'12--M'18) received the B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Kansas State University of Manhattan, KS, in 2013, the
M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas of
Lawrence, KS, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Oklahoma of Norman, OK, in 2018. His research
interests include all-digital phased array radar system design for defense
and remote sensing applications; RF/microwave passive component
design and integration; radar cross section measurement techniques in
cluttered environments; multi-sensor fusion techniques for position,
navigation, and timing applications; and distributed coherent radar sensor
networks.
From 2015 to 2016, he was a Radar Systems Engineer with the
Department of Energy's Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC),
where he also served as an RF/Microwave expert for several plant-driven
research and development (PDRD) projects. In August 2018, he joined the
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Oklahoma (OU) as an Assistant Professor and conducts research out of
the Advanced Radar Research Center's (ARRC's) Radar Innovations
Laboratory (RIL). In 2023, Dr. McDaniel joined OU's Office of the Vice
President for Research and Partnerships as an Aerospace and Defense
Faculty Fellow. His research has been supported by Sandia National
Laboratories (SNL), the National Security Campus (NSC), Office of Naval
Research (ONR), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and industry
partners.
Dr. McDaniel is currently the chair of the IEEE instrumentation and
measurement societies (IMS) graduate fellowship award committee, the

inaugural young affiliate member of the microwave theory and techniques
technical committee TC-4 on “Microwave Passive Components and
Transmission Line Structures” and TC-24 on “Microwave/mm-wave Radar,
Sensing, and Array Systems,” and an associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Radar Systems. He is a recipient of several awards,
including the meritorious Richard K. Moore Best Master's Thesis Award at
the University of Kansas in 2015, the Office of the Vice President for
Research and Partnerships Award for Excellence in Research Grants at
the University of Oklahoma in 2021 and 2023, the prestigious National
Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2022, and the IEEE IMS
Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2023.

Affiliation(s)

University of Oklahoma

United States

Graduate Fellowship Award Committee Chair

Jay McDaniel

Graduate Fellowship Award Committee Member

Mohamed Abou-Khousa

Kurt Barbé

Luca De Vito

Christian Schuss