Jonas Urbonas completed the System Design and Management (SDM) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds both a bachelor’s degree and a PhD from the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, with a specialization in the design and multiphysics characterization of high-power radio frequency (RF) and microwave transistors and power amplifiers.
Dr. Urbonas has acquired extensive experience across various engineering and leadership roles in several high-tech organizations. Since 2019, he has been with Maury Microwave Corp., initially joining as a senior product engineer. In 2021, he assumed the position of Research and Development (R&D) Engineering Manager, where he led a multidisciplinary team dedicated to developing new, state-of-the-art RF and microwave device characterization components, systems, and applications. In 2023, he joined dBm Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Maury Microwave, as General Manager, where he specialized in technologies for emulating satellite communications channel impairments and led the development of next-generation channel emulation products and systems. In January 2025, he was appointed Director of R&D Engineering at Maury Microwave Corp., where he oversees multiple engineering teams in the development of best-in-class RF and microwave device characterization systems.
Dr. Urbonas has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications across various IEEE journals and conferences and is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology, Communications, and Solid-State Circuits societies. He also serves as a young professional member of the IEEE MTT-29 Microwave Aerospace Systems Committee. In 2019, he received the ARFTG Roger Pollard Student Fellowship in Microwave Measurements and received Best Paper Awards at the 91st, 92nd, and 96th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conferences.
At the System Architecture Group, Jonas worked with Dr. Bruce Cameron on defining and analyzing the performance of embedded software-defined radio architectures, with an emphasis on their application in 6G communication systems.
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