Research Interests:

Microwave devices and antennas, Wireless communications, Bio-electromagnetics

 

1. List of Recent Research Projects:

Item

Source of funds

Title of Project

Duration (months)

Starting date

Total Value

Partners / Note

1

EPSRC /DTI

Gigabit Powerline Communications

36

Nov. 2005

£1.12m (£280k)

Artimi Ltd, COE Ltd

2

EC/GJU

Galileo Advanced Concepts

24

May 2005

3.2m Eur (207k)

Eutelsat, TRT, etc

3

Ofcom/DTI

Development of Semi-Smart Antenna Technology

12

Mar. 2005

£200k

Lucent Ltd, B SCLtd

4

Ofcom/DTI

Automatic Interference Monitoring System

15

Feb. 2005

£0.5m (£60k)

MASS Ltd

5

DTI/e2v Ltd

Computer Modelling of Crossed Field Devices

36

Mar 2006

£140k

E2v Ltd

6

Dstl

Modelling RF Fields in Transmission Line & B rain Slices

24

Apr 2003

£42k

 

7

PPARC

A Novel Magnetron Phase Locking Technique

36

May 2003

£170k

E2v Ltd

8

US Air Force Office

Generation of High Power Chaos

34

Feb 2003

£93k ($144k)

 

9

e2V Ltd

Magnetron Computer Modelling

48

Oct 2000

£80k

 

10

Ofcom/DTI

Antenna Array Technology and MIMO Systems

1 2

Jun 2003

£1 30 k (£58k)

Antenova Ltd

11

EPSRC

RF Interaction with Humans: Mechanisms, Exposure & Medical Applications

2

Feb 2003

£5.6k

 

12

ERA Foundation

Study of Grid Antennas

6

Jun 2002

£20k

CI

13

MCL Ltd

Numerical Dosimetry of Rat Models

10

Dec 2001

£16k

 

14

EPSRC JERI

Measuring Wide Angle Antenna Performance

12

Dec 2001

£113k

CI

15

US Air Force Office

Computer Modelling of Virtual Cathode Oscillators

35

Jan 2000

£93k ($144k)

 

16

MAT Ltd

X-band Magnetron modelling

12

Oct 1999

£23k

 

17

MCL Ltd/DERA

FD-TD Modelling of a RF Radiation Cell

24

Oct 1999

£12k

 

18

EPSRC

Advanced EM simulation of multiplayer MMICs

36

Sep 1998

£49k

 

 

2. List of Reearch Students and Assistants:

i) Current and Past Research Assistants and Academic Visitors:

•  Dr Yasir Alfadhl, Research Assistant.

•  Mr Choo C. Chiau, Research Assistant.

•  Prof Pengcheng Li, B eijing Institute of Telemetry, Academic Visitor.

•  Dr Jianxin Zhang, Research Assistant.

Dr A Hallac, Research Assistant (2004)

  Prof Yan Chen , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Academic Visitor (2005).

•  Dr Siew B ee Yeap , Research Assistant (2003/04)

•  Dr Zhou Wang , Research Assistant(2002).

•  Prof Guenter Nimtz , University of Cologne , Germany , Academic Visitor (2000).

•  Prof Caidong Xiong, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Royal Society Research Fellow (1998).

 

ii) Research Students:

Current Research (MPhil/PhD) Students

Individual

Start Date

State of Study

Research subject

Choo C. Chiau

Jan. 2002

PhD

MIMO Antenna

Jianxin Liang

Sep. 2002

PhD

UW B Antenna

Daohui Li

Apr. 2003

PhD

Chaos generator

Yue Gao

Sep. 2003

PhD

MIMO channel

Yonggang Chen

Sep. 2003

MPhil

Measurement of bio-dielectrics

Zhao Wang

Sep. 2004

MPhil/PhD

RF and bio-cell interactions

Milind Pathak

Oct. 2005

MPhil/PhD

UW B Radio propagation

Graduated PhD Students:

Yasir Alfadhl (2005)

Zhou Wang (2001)

Jianxin Zhang( 2001)

Nalinda Somasiri (2003)

Wee Kian Toh(2004)

Lili Ma (2005)

 

3. Conference Organisation:

(1) Conference Chairman/Co-Chairman in:

  • IEEE International Workshop on Antennas and Technologies, 21-23 March, 2007, Cambridge , UK .
  • IoP/IEE/IPEM International Workshop on EM technologies (RF-THz): Applications, Safety and Human Interactions, 7-8 Sept 2005, Glasgow , UK
  • IEE International Workshop on Ultra Wideband Communication Technologies & System Design, 8 July 2004 , London , UK
  • IoP/IEE International Conference on RF Interaction with Humans: Mechanism, Exposure and Medical Application, 27-28 February, 2003, London , UK
  • 9 th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications, 23-26 June 2002, B eijing , China

(2)Session Chairman in:

  • Seventeenth Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC2005), 4-7 December, 2005, Suzhou , China
  • Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium’ 05, 22-26 August,  2005, Hangzhou ,  China
  • IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technologies (iWAT 2005), Singapore , 7-9 March 2005
  • International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation ’04, August 17-21, 2004 , Sendai , Japan .
  • Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium’ 04, 28 - 31 August,  2004, Nanjing ,  China
  • 8 th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications, B ucharest , Romania , 4-7 June 2001.
  • 25 th International Conference on Infrared and Millimetre Waves, 12-15 September 2000, B eijing , China
  • International Workshop on Superluminal Velocities, Cologne , Germany , 6-10 June 1998.
  • 5 th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications, Chalkidiki, Greece , 21-25 June 1998.

(3)Member of Technical Programme Committee in:

  • International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and System, 7-10 August, 2006, Setubal , Portugal .
  • 13 th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications( ICT) ’06, 9 - 12 May 2006 , Funchal , Portugal
  • Tenth IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS 2006), 30 Oct – 2 Nov 2006 in Singapore
  • Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications , Guadeloupe , French Caribbean , Feb 19-22, 2006
  • IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation (ARP 2006), B anff , Canada , July 3-5, 2006 .
  • IEE Symposium on Ultra Wideband Systems, Technologies and Applications, London , UK , 21-22 April, 2006
  • Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, Loughborough , UK , 11-12 April 2006
  • IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technologies (iWAT 2006), New York , USA , 6-8 March 2006
  • Seventeenth Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC2005), 4-7 December, 2005, Suzhou , China
  • International Conference on E- B usiness and Telecommunication Networks, 3-7 October 2005, Microsoft ( UK ), Reading , UK
  • Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium’ 05, 22-26 August,  2005, Hangzhou ,  China
  • 12 th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications( ICT) ’05, 3 - 6 May 2005 , Cape Town , South Africa
  • Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications , Lisbon , Portugal , July 17-20, 2005
  • IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technologies (iWAT 2005), Singapore , 7-9 March 2005
  • 11 th IEEE ICT’04, Fortaleza , B razil , 1-6 August, 2004
  • 10 th IEEE ICT , 23 February – 1 March, 2003 , Tahiti , French Polynesia