He was the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics in 2012, and was the Vice Chair for this conference in 2010. He has been the co-chair of the SPIE symposium on “Metamaterials, Metadevices and Metasystems” for several years. His current research activities span a broad range of areas including optics, photonics, metamaterials, electrodynamics, microwaves, nano-optics, graphene photonics, imaging and sensing inspired by eyes of animal species, microwave and optical antennas, and physics and engineering of fields and waves.
