Ryan Adams

Biography

Dr. Adams currently serves the College of Engineering and Mines as Interim Dean and Professor.  He has previously served UND as Associate Dean for National Security and Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as the University of North Carolina Charlotte as a faculty member and Associate Department Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He has served his country as an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force where he was a program manager with the Space and Missile Systems Center, and an aircraft maintenance technician.  Dr. Adams's research interests include Electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media including ferrites, metamaterials, and chiral media; antenna design for both cellular and medical applications; and numerical schemes for the simulation of wave propagation in a variety of scenarios.