Hans-Dieter Lang was born in Switzerland, in 1984. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Eastern Switzerland, Rapperswil (FHO/HSR), in 2008 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2012 he was with the Institute for Communication Systems, ICOM, in Rapperswil, Switzerland, where he was working on various projects for industrial partners, focusing on development, integration and optimization of antennas as well as applied research and applications of wired and wireless communication systems. In fall 2012 he joined the Electromagnetics Group of the ECE Department at the University of Toronto, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. His research interests include wireless power transfer, electromagnetic optimization and computational electromagnetics.