Invited Keynote Speakers
Nader Engheta
Meta-Waves and Meta-Structures
Winner of the 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award, Nader Engheta is the
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He
received his B.S. degree from the University of Tehran, and his M.S and
Ph.D. degrees from Caltech. Selected as one of the Scientific American
Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology in 2006, he is a
Guggenheim Fellow, an IEEE Third Millennium Medalist, a Fellow of IEEE,
American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA),
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and SPIE-The
International Society for Optical Engineering, and the recipient of the
2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, the
Fulbright Naples Chair Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator award,
the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair, and several
teaching awards including the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback
Foundation Award, S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award and W. M. Keck Foundation
Award. He has co-edited (with R. W. Ziolkowski) the book entitled
“Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations” by Wiley-IEEE
Press, 2006. He was the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on
Plasmonics in June 2012
Henrik Lind
How new active safety system and always connected vehicles leads to challenges on antenna design and integration in the automotive domain - Download slides -
Mr.
Henrik Lind (MScEE) is a Technical expert on remote sensing within
Volvo Car Corporation. Henrik has been working with advanced driver
assistance technologies and technology research at Volvo Technological
Development since 1997 leading research of GaAs MMICs and 77GHz radar
technology for automotive. From the year 2001 Henrik became part
responsible for the introduction of radar and radar related functions at
Volvo Car Corporation with the aim to provide increased safety and
comfort for drivers by introducing forward collision warning with
emergency brake and adaptive cruise control.
Mikael Höök
Future of Radio Access - Download slides -
In the future everything that benefits from being connected will be connected.In this networked society, communication will expand from today’s human-centric needs to a large variety of machines and ‘things’ being connected. Wireless connectivity will be a key enabler in the global communication infrastructure and will have to support not only the heavy increase in traffic but also a more diverse range of requirements. This imposes considerable technology challenges where advancements within areas like multi-antenna technologies, spectrum utilization, air-interface design and co-ordination techniques will be of utmost importance in order to fulfill the requirements on future wireless networks. Technology evolution has however to be tuned for and targeting the propagation characteristics that will dominate future deployments.
Mikael Höök has been Head of Radio Access Technologies at Ericsson Research since 2007. He is based in Kista and the responsibility covers research of air-interface design, advanced signal processing, multi-antenna systems, propagation and modem RF design. Results are fed into standardization and product development. Höök has been involved in the research and standardization of GPRS, EDGE, HSPA and LTE.
Höök has 18 years of experience in the areas of research and standardization of wireless access technologies. He holds an MSc degree in Electric Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
More Invited Speakers
Ke Wu
Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Functional Substrate Integrated
Waveguide Antennas and Arrays for GHz and THz Applications: An Emerging
Disruptive Technology - Download slides -
Ke Wu is professor of
electrical engineering, and Tier-I Canada Research Chair in RF and
millimeter-wave engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique (University of
Montreal). He holds the first Cheung Kong endowed chair professorship
(visiting) at the Southeast University, the first Sir Yue-Kong Pao chair
professorship (visiting) at the Ningbo University, and an honorary
professorship at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, the
Nanjing University of Post Telecommunication, and the City University of
Hong Kong, China. He has been the Director of the Poly-Grames Research
Center and the founding Director of the Center for Radiofrequency
Electronics Research of Quebec (Regroupement stratégique of FRQNT). He
has also hold guest and visiting professorship in many universities
around the world. He has authored or co-authored over 860 referred
papers, and a number of books/book chapters and filed more than 30
patents. His current research interests involve substrate integrated
circuits (SICs), antenna arrays, advanced CAD and modeling techniques,
wireless power transmission, and development of low-cost RF and
millimeter-wave transceivers and sensors for wireless systems and
biomedical applications. He is also interested in the modeling and
design of microwave photonic circuits and systems.
Dr. Wu is a
member of Electromagnetics Academy, the Sigma Xi Honorary Society, and
the URSI. He has held key positions in and has served on various panels
and international committees including the chair of technical program
committees, international steering committees and international
conferences/symposia. In particular, he was the general chair of the
2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium. He has served on the
editorial/review boards of many technical journals, transactions,
proceedings and letters as well as scientific encyclopedia including
editors and guest editors. He is currently the chair of the joint IEEE
chapters of MTTS/APS/LEOS in Montreal. Dr. Wu is an elected IEEE MTT-S
AdCom member for 2006-2015 and served as Chair of the IEEE MTT-S
Transnational Committee and Member and Geographic Activities (MGA)
Committee. He was the recipient of many awards and prizes including the
first IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2004 Fessenden
Medal of the IEEE Canada and the 2009 Thomas W. Eadie Medal of the Royal
Society of Canada. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada (The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities). He was
an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer from Jan. 2009 to Dec.
2011.
Rodney Vaughan
Compact, Multiport Antennas for High Spectral Efficiency - Download slides -
The pursuit of spectral efficiency draws on many different
research areas. The most impactful is the deployment of multiport
antennas because it is the only technology that allows simultaneous
sharing of the spectrum between many users, including full duplex
operation in some circumstances. Current system designs are still a long
way from their information-theoretic limits, and similarly, current
multi-element antenna designs are quite a way from compactness limits.
This talk will touch on how wireless has reached this point, along with
the need for new results in information theory, communications
techniques, networking, antenna elements and arrays, and signal theory.
These aspects converge to set the scene for a new generation of adaptive
antenna technology, and some design examples will be presented. The
design of compact multiport antennas requires an extension of classical
performance metrics, and new approaches to measurement and evaluation
include tools such as physics-based statistical channel models.
Rodney
G. Vaughan attended the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and
Aalborg University, Denmark. He worked on mechanical and electrical
projects from abattoir hardware to telephone traffic forecasting, before
evolving to communications. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Sierra Wireless Chair in Communications at Simon Fraser University,
B.C., Canada. His research involves propagation and its modelling,
signal processing, and multiport antenna design and evaluation. Recent
projects include compact bio-implantable antennas; spatial efficiency of
MIMO antennas; multifaceted arrays; on-chip (60GHz) antenna structures,
blind techniques for MIMO, and mobile sonar channel modeling. He has
been on scientific evaluation panels for the funding and knowledge base
for ICT in the UK, the Canadian Communications Research Centre, and for
the ICT Centre of the CSIRO, Australia. He is Fellow of the IEEE, and an
IEEE VT Society Distinguished Lecturer.
Fred Gianesello
“Innovate in a 4G world: RFIC designers discovering antennas" - Download slides -
Dr Fred Gianesello received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Electronics
Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble,
France) in 2003 and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the
Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble, France) in 2006. Dr Gianesello has
authored and coauthored more than 80 refereed journal and conference
technical articles. He currently is with STMicroelectronics (Crolles,
France), where he leads the development of electromagnetic devices
integrated on advanced RF CMOS/BiCMOS, silicon photonics and advanced
packaging technologies.
The rapid growth of wireless data and
complexity of 4G systems drive new design challenges for RF chipset and
handheld/mobile device manufacturers along with carriers. The wide and
many frequency bands to be supported in multimode phone pose severe RF
design challenges both from the chipset and antenna point of view.
Generally,
RF chipset and antenna designs are performed independently and there is
little exchange between RFIC and antenna designers. This talk will
provide a perspective in order to illustrate how the wireless industry
can innovate and improve RF system performances leveraging a closer
collaboration between RFIC and antenna communities.
Bertram Arbesser-Rastburg
European Collaborative Propagation Research - a tribute to Aldo Paraboni and Gert Brussaard
Bertram
Arbesser-Rastburg studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical
University of Graz, Austria. In his first position at the Technical
University of Graz, he was involved in the design of a C-band weather
radar for propagation studies. In 1983 he became Propagation Engineer at
INTELSAT in Washington, D.C., taking responsibility for propagation
experiments in tropical regions. In 1988 he joined the European Space
Agency where he was responsible for the planning and implementation of
wave propagation studies for all aspects of satellite communication and
navigation as well as wave interaction studies for earth observation.
End of 2007 he was appointed Head of the Electromagnetics and Space
Environment Division of the European Space Agency, responsible for
R&D and project support in the fields of Antennas, Propagation, EMC
and Space Environment. He is Chairman of ITU-R SG3 (Propagation),
Coordinator of the European part of the international SBAS-IONO Group
and Executive Secretary of the Galileo Science Advisory Committee. He is
member of the Board of Directors of EurAAP and Chairman of Commission F
of the Netherlands URSI Committee. He serves as member of the editorial
boards of the “International Journal of Satellite Communications and
Networking” and as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of “Annals of
Telecommunications”. He is Senior Member of IEEE and Member of AGU,
IEICE and OVN.
Femius Koenderink
Antenna ideas at the nanoscale: quantum emitters at visible wavelengths controlled using plasmonics and metamaterials - Download slides -
Femius
Koenderink heads the Resonant Nanophotonics Group at the FOM Institute
AMOLF, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is also affiliated as a professor
to the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam. After a MSc
in Experimental Physics (1998) and in Mathematics (1999), he obtained
his PhD on emission and transport of light in photonic crystals in 2003
at the University of Amsterdam. During a postdoctoral stay with Vahid
Sandoghdar at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), he
became interested in nanophotonics: the science of measuring and
manipulating light confinement and light-matter interaction at deeply
subwavelength length scales. His group at AMOLF aims to bring antenna
physics to the nanoscale in order to manipulate the interaction of
quantum emitters and single photons. The group models, realizes and
characterizes plasmonic and metamaterial antennas, and explores their
uses to control how fast, how brightly, and whereto single molecules and
quantum dots emit.
Yves Lostanlen
From heterogeneous wireless networks to sustainable efficient
ICT infrastructures: how antenna and propagation simulation tools can
help? - Download slides -
Yves Lostanlen, MSc, PhD, DSc (HDR) is a
multilingual Business Executive and Technology Expert in the Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry.
Currently Vice
President and CTO of the Wireless activities at Siradel, a high-tech
company specialized in complex wireless system design optimization, Yves
has been involved, for more than 15 years, in delivering highly praised
high-tech products and expert consultancies to many top-tier companies
in the ICT and Media Industry: government, policy makers, regulation
bodies, wireless operators and manufacturers. Yves is known for his
ability and versatility to jump in a new environment, to successfully
valuate and transfer innovative technology, and to create original
solutions at the crossroads of several industries.
His research
focuses on smart devices, efficient wireless networks and Smart Cities
minimizing the Energy consumption, EM wave Exposure and Spectrum needs
to deliver optimal user experiences.
Yves Lostanlen is also
Professor of Wireless Communication Systems at the University of
Toronto, Canada, as Industrial Adjunct Fellow in the ECE Communications
Group.
A senior IEEE member, Dr. Lostanlen serves as Board Member of
the IEEE ComSoc Education Board, as Technical Program Committee Chair
for IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (2012, 2013). He
also serves as Guest Editor for EURASIP special issues. Author and
co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, Yves
Lostanlen is co-author of 2 chapters of the recent book “LTE-Advanced
and Next Generation Wireless Networks: Channel Modelling and
Propagation”.
Giuseppe Vecchi
Electromagnetic simulation of a multi-scale world- and beyond
Giuseppe Vecchi received the Laurea and Ph.D. (Dottorato di
Ricerca) degrees in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di
Torino, Torino, Italy, in 1985 and 1989, respectively, with doctoral
research carried out partly at Polytechnic University (Farmingdale, NY).
He was a Visiting Scientist with Polytechnic University in 1989-1990,
and since 1990 he is with the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di
Torino, where he has been Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
(1992 – 2000), and Professor. He was a Visiting Scientist at the
University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1992, and has been an Adjunct
Faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago, since 1997. In 2010 he has been
nominated academic reference person for the “Innovation Front-End”, a
technology-transfer outreach initiative of Politecnico di Torino.
Prof.
Vecchi is a Fellow of the IEEE, an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, member of the Board of the
European School of Antennas (ESOA), member of the IEEE-APS Educational
Committee, and the Chairman of the IEEE AP/MTT/ED Italian joint
Chapter. He serves as Course Organizer and instructor for the ESOA.
His
current research activities concern analytical and numerical techniques
for analysis, design and diagnostics of antennas and devices, RF plasma
heating, electromagnetic compatibility, and imaging.
Ernst Bonek
MIMO propagation channel modeling - Download slides -
Ernst Bonek
(http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/about-us/staff/ernst-bonek/) received the
Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. techn. degrees from Technische Universität Wien (TU
Wien). In 1984, he was appointed Full Professor of Radio Frequency
Engineering at the TU Wien, where he worked until his retirement in
2004. His field of research has been mobile communications, starting
1984, when the sweeping success of this technology had been by no means
apparent.
Contributions:
- 3D super-resolution measurements of the urban radio channel
- “Double-directional” viewpoint of the mobile radio channel
- MIMO propagation channel models
- Advanced antenna designs, mostly smart antennas
1996 - 1999 Board of Directors of Post und Telekom Austria (PTA)
1997 - 2005 Chairman of the "Antennas and Propagation" working group in COST 259 and COST 273
1999 - 2002 Chairman of Commission C “Signals and Systems“ of URSI
1999 Initiator of Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien
2008 Dr. Techn. honoris causa from Lund Universitet, Sweden
Prof. Fan Yang
Microwave and Antenna Institute
Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Progress in Reflectarray Antenna Research: From Enhanced Frequency Features to Advanced Radiation Capabilities - Download slides -
Fan
Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, and
the Ph.D. degree from University of California, Los Angeles. Currently,
he is a Professor at Tsinghua University, and serves as the Director of
the Microwave and Antenna Institute. Dr. Yang’s research interests
include antenna theory, designs, and measurements, electromagnetic band
gap (EBG) structures and their applications, computational
electromagnetics and optimization techniques, and applied
electromagnetic systems. He has published three books, five book
chapters, and over 150 journal articles and conference papers. Dr. Yang
is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Full Member of URSI/USNC. He is an
Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagation and Associate Editor-in-Chief for Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal.
AMTA Invited Speaker : Michael H. Francis
Estimating Uncertainties in Antenna Measurements - Download slides -
Michael
Francis received the Bachelor’s Degree in physics in 1973 and a
Master’s Degree in 1976, both from the University of Colorado. He was a
research assistant at the University of Colorado from 1974 – 1980,
where he studied the solar chromosphere-corona transition region.
He
joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (then the
National Bureau of Standards) Antenna Metrology Group in 1980. His
research has been primarily in the theory and practice of near-field
measurements. He has participated in the development of probe-position
correction methods at NIST for both planar and spherical near-field
measurement techniques. He specializes in uncertainty analysis methods
for near-field measurements. He was the project leader for the
NIST/Boulder team that performed the electromagnetic testing of the
prototype ePassport and ePassport reader. He has organized and lectured
at the NIST biannual near-field short course for more than twenty-five
years. He is currently a senior scientist in the Radio-Frequency Fields
Group at NIST.
Mr. Francis has received the US Department of
Commerce Bronze, Silver and Gold Medals. He has received the Antenna
Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) Distinguished Achievement and
Distinguished Service Awards.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently chairs the IEEE Antenna Standards Committee and the Near-Field Working Group.
Anthony Grbic
Metamaterial Surfaces for Near and Far-Field Applications - Download slides -
Anthony Grbic (S’00–M’06) received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1998, 2000, and 2005, respectively. In January 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include engineered electromagnetic structures (metamaterials, electromagnetic band-gap materials, frequency selective surfaces), printed antennas, microwave circuits, wireless power transmission systems, and analytical electromagnetics.
Dr. Grbic received an AFOSR Young Investigator Award as well as an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2008. In January 2010, he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2011, he received an Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, a Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan, and a Booker Fellowship from the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC/URSI). In 2012, he was the inaugural recipient of the Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in the Department of Electrical and Computer Science, University of Michigan. Anthony Grbic served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting. He is currently the Vice Chair of AP-S Technical Activities, Trident Chapter, IEEE Southeastern Michigan section.
Anja Skrivervik
Implantable antennas: The challenge of efficiency - Download slides -
Anja Skrivervik obtained her electrical engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1986, and her PhD from the same institution in 1992, for which she received the Latsis award. After a stay at the University of Rennes as an invited Research Fellow and two years in the industry, she returned part time to EPFL as an Assistant Professor in 1996, and is now a Professeur Titulaire at this institution. Her teaching activities include courses on microwaves and antennas. Her research activities include electrically small antennas, implantable and on body antennas, multifrequency and ultra wideband antennas, numerical techniques for electromagnetics and microwave and millimeter wave MEMS. She is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications. She is very active in European collaboration and European projects. She is currently the chairperson of the Swiss URSI, the Swiss representative for COST action 297 and a member of the board of the Center for High Speed Wireless Communications of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.
Hisamatsu Nakano
Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Natural and metamaterial low-profile antennas with emphasis on realization of wideband characteristics - Download slides -
Hisamatsu NAKANO received a Dr. E. degree in electrical engineering from Hosei University, Tokyo, in 1974. He has been a faculty member of Hosei University since 1973, where he is now a Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department. His research topics include numerical methods for low- and high-frequency antennas and optical waveguides. He has published over 290 articles in major refereed journals and is the author or co-author of eight books.
In 1989, he received the IEE (currently IET) International Conference on Antennas and Propagation Best Paper Award. In 1992, he was elected an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the design of spiral and helical antennas, and, in 1994, he received the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Best Application Paper Award (H. A. Wheeler Award). He also received the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award, in 2006. More recently, in 2010, he received the Prize for Science and Technology from Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.
Prof. Nakano has served as a member of AdCom (2000-2002) and a Region 10 representative (2004-2010) of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He is an associate editor of several journals and magazines, such as Electromagnetics, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Magazine, and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
Kevin Boyle
Antenna tuners for mobile applications
Kevin Boyle received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from City University, London, a M.Sc. (with distinction) in Microwaves and Optoelectronics from University College, London and the Doctor of Technology degree from Delft University of Technology.
He has more than twenty years experience in the design of a wide range of antennas and associated RF systems. He was with Marconi Communications Systems Ltd. until to 1997, working on all aspects of antenna system design. He then joined Philips Research Laboratories (which became NXP Semiconductors Research in 2006) where he was a Principal Research Scientist and a Cluster/Project Leader for antenna and propagation related activities. In 2008 he joined EPCOS (which has since become TDK-EPC) working as an Antenna Systems Architect. His main areas of interest include antenna design for mobile communication systems, adaptive RF systems, MIMO/diversity, propagation modelling and related areas of mobile system design.
Dr. Boyle has actively participated in COST 259 and COST 273, is a member of the IEEE and IET – where currently serving on the Antennas and Propagation Executive Committee - and a Chartered Engineer. He has published more than thirty papers in refereed international journals and conferences, has contributed to two books and holds more than fifteen patents.
