Edl Schamiloglu

Edl Schamiloglu is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Directed Energy Center at the University of New Mexico (DEC@UNM). He was born in The Bronx, NY. He received the B.S. degree from the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department at Columbia University, NY, in 1979; he received the M.S. degree in Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1981; he received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988. He joined the University of New Mexico (UNM) as Assistant Professor in 1988. He lectured at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (Harvard University in 1990 and at MIT in 1997). He coedited Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2001) (with R.J. Barker), he has coauthored High Power Microwaves, 4th Ed. (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2025) (with J. Benford, J. Stephens, J. Swegle, and P. Zhang), he has coedited Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies using Metamaterials (with J.W. Luginsland, J.A. Marshall, and A. Nachman) (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2021), and he has coedited Recent Advances in High Power Electromagnetics (with F. Vega, N. Mora, and C. Kasmi) (IET Books, London, UK, 2025). He has coauthored over 200 refereed journal papers, over 300 reviewed conference papers, and 8 patents. His Google Scholar page is: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DXWQnZYAAAAJ&hl=en. He has been PI on over $55M of contracts and grants at UNM.

Professor Schamiloglu is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and an EMP Fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation). He was awarded the 2013 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award “For outstanding contributions to the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society through its Pulsed Power Science and Technology and Plasma Science and Applications Technical Committees,” the 2014 IEC ‘1906 Award’ “For his valuable technical contributions to SC77C projects and specifically for his technical contributions with respect to HPEM source technologies to support the standardization of test techniques for HPEM/IEMI,” the 2015 IEEE NPSS PPST Peter Haas Award “For research in the area of pulsed power, beams, and microwaves, and for his dedicated service to the current and future pulsed power community through his leadership and educational endeavors,” the 2017 UNM Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award, and the 2019 (inaugural) IEEE NPSS Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award “For outstanding contributions in experimental nuclear and plasma science.”

Professor Schamiloglu is on the Faculty of the University of New Mexico's Global and National Security Policy Institute - https://gnspi.unm.edu/degrees-and-certificates/masters-degree-.html. He is a Nonresident Fellow, Center for Disruptive Technology and Future Warfare, National Defense University, Washington, DC.