About: Dr. Vital’s work includes on-textile RF wireless power transfer and harvesting for Internet of Things applications and smart dressing solutions for electrochemical sensing and monitoring. The findings led to the publication of more than 20 conference and journal papers including the IEEE IMS, APS, the Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Nature (scientific reports), as well at the Transactions of Microwave Theory and Techniques , 2 patents, and 2 book chapters. In addition, he received the McKnight Dissertation Fellowship. During his Ph.D. he received several other awards including the Fall 2018 Student Conference Award, the International Microwave Symposium (IMS2019)/RFIC2019 Ph.D. Student Sponsorship (travel award), the 2019 U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (USNC-URSI) Travel Fellowship, the National Science Foundation (NSF) student travel to attend the smart health workshop, the NSF IEEE/RFIC’20 Student Conference Registration Award, and the McKnight Fellowship Travel Grant. He has also received the Third Place from the IMS2019 Student Design Competition and honorable mentions in IMS2019 and IMS2020 3MT Competitions. Dr. Vital joined the electrical and computer department at UIC in August 2021 and his research will cross the frontiers of RF textile electronics, internet of things/internet of health things, 5G, and quantum RF engineering.