HAUPT Randy (M’82–SM’90–F’00) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Academy, CO, USA, the M.S. degree in engineering management from Western New England College, Springfield, MA, USA, in 1981, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1987.

Currently, he is a Professor and Department Head of EECS, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA. Previously, he was an RF Staff Consultant with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Senior Scientist, and Department Head with the Applied Research Laboratory of Pennsylvania State University, Professor and Department Head of ECE with Utah State, Professor and Chair of EE with the University of Nevada Reno, and Professor of EE with the USAF Academy. He was a Project Engineer for OTH-B radar and a Research Antenna Engineer for Rome Air Development Center early in his career. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force in 1997. He is the coauthor of the books Practical Genetic Algorithms (2nd edn, Wiley, 2004), Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics (Wiley, 2007), and Introduction to Adaptive Antennas (SciTech, 2010), as well as the author of Antenna Arrays a Computation Approach (Wiley, 2010), and Timed Arrays (Wiley, 2015). Dr. Haupt is a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He was the Federal Engineer of the Year in 1993. He serves as Chair of the IEEE AP-S Fellows Committee.