Biography

Professor Yang Hao (FREng, FIEEE, FIET) received the Ph.D. degree from the Centre for Communications Research (CCR) at the University of Bristol, U.K. in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was a postdoc research fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K. In May 2000, he joined the Antenna and Electromagnetics Group, Queen Mary, University of London, London, U.K. first as a lecturer and was promoted to Reader in 2005 and to Professor in 2007. Currently he is the holder of the QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) Research Chair. He also serves as the Deputy Vice Principal for Strategic Research, an elected University Council Member and Governance Committee Member, Queen Mary University of London.

Professor Hao's early work in metamaterials and transformation optics has been instrumental in reshaping the possibilities of electromagnetic devices. his research laid the foundation for discovering unconventional properties in materials through AI/Machine Learning and robotic controlled research lab automation, which enable the design of novel devices capable of precise wave control. Beyond theoretical advancements, Prof. Hao has delved into wireless communication and wearable electronics, with a focus on in-body radio channels and wireless implants. This work demonstrated his dedication to advancing communication technologies for medical applications, showcasing the broader societal impact of his research. His work has been featured by Daily Mail, CNN, Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times and IEEE Spectrum
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The breadth of Professor's expertise is reflected in his research interests, spanning wireless connectivity, metamaterials, antennas, terahertz technology, and intelligent systems. He has led research projects of approximate £60M from UKRI, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, ERC and EU. He currently leads several research programmes including an EPSRC prosperity partnership project of £2.6m . Professor Hao's research impact is not confined to the academic realm; he has been a driving force in fostering collaboration between academia and industry. His role as the QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair underscores his influence in shaping the future of wireless technologies through coommunication material innovation. He co-founded "Isotropic Systems (All.Space)", a successful satellite communication company creating more than 100 engineer jobs in Reading, exemplifies his commitment to bridging the gap between theoretical research and practical applications. Professor Hao was the PI and the director of a £4.6M EPSRC QUEST programme grant on transformation electromagnetics and microwave metamaterials. He is a management board member of Cambridge Graphene Center, which has attracted over £25M funding from UK EPSRC, and the ASG (AI for Science and Government) programme of Alan Turing Institute. Professor Hao was a strategic advisory board member for EPSRC, where he is committed to championing RF/microwave engineering for reshaping the future of UK manufacturing and electronics.

Professor Hao has contributed extensively to patent applications and scientific journals including Physics Review Letters, Nature Communications, Advanced Science, Proceedings of IEEE, NPJ Computational Materials etc. He was a co-editor and co-author of the books Antennas and Radio Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications (Boston, MA, USA: Artech House, 2006, 2012), and FDTD Modelling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications (Boston, MA, USA: Artech House, 2008), respectively.

From 2018, he serves as a publication committee chair for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Prof. Hao was an Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS during 2014 and 2017. He founded a new open access journal for metamaterial research and he is now an editor-in-chief for EPJ Applied Metamaterials. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION during 2008-2013, and also a Co-Guest Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in 2009. He was a Vice Chairman of the Executive Team of IET Antennas and Propagation Professional Network. He is currently a member of Board of the European School of Antenna Excellence, a member of EU VISTA Cost Action and the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials, Metamorphose VI AISBL. He was a conference General Chair of Metamaterials’09, and EuCAP’18.

Since 2000, Professor Hao has supervised more than 70 Postdocs and PhD students. They are now working in global industries and universities including Samsung Electronics, Airbus, Cobham, Cadence Design Systems, Isotropic Systems (All.Space), Heriot-Watt, Glasgow, QMUL, KTH, Dublin, and Penn State University. Three of them have set up spinout companies. Four of them winning Royal Society Research Fellowships.

In addition to his prolific research career, Professor Hao has excelled in academic leadership roles. He went through the training via the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme, Saïd Business School at University of Oxford. As the Deputy Vice Principal for Strategic Research at Queen Mary, University of London, and the Dean for Research at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, he has played a pivotal role in REF 2021 submission (ranked joint 7th in the UK for the quality of its research), setting up university research institutes and steering institutional research agendas.

Professor Hao was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020, Fellow of the IEEE in 2013, Fellow of the IET in 2010 and Fellow of the ERA Foundation in 2007. He was a holder of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award between 2013 and 2018. He also won the 2024 European Antenna Award from EurAAP, IET AF Harvey Research Prize and BAE Chairman's Silver Award.

Research

Research Themes:

• antennas and radio propagation for body centric wireless communications


Body-centric wireless communications refer to human-self and human-to-human networking with the use of wearable and implantable wireless sensors. It is a subject area combining wireless body-area networks (WBANs), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). Body-centric wireless communications has abundant applications in personal healthcare, smart home, entertainment and identification systems.

Our work on "body-centric wireless communications" started in 2000 and it was inspired by the collaboration with Professor Peter Hall at the University of Birmingham. The research was funded by EPSRC and the industry through many research grants for more than 10 years. Example projects include: Characterisation of ON-BODY Communication Channels; Wearable Antennas for Body-Centric Wireless Networks; New Paradigms for Body Centric Wireless Communications at MM Wavelengths.

While radio propagation mechanisms from RF to mm wave frequencies have been well understood, our research has now been focused on THz and nano-communications. One of the key components in our current research is to develop novel wearable and implantable sensors using nanomaterials. We are also interested in devloping radically new applications of wireless technologies for future healthcare applications including targeted drug delivery and precision medicine.

The impact of this research include a few highly cited publications, industrial collaborations and technology transfer with Dstl, Philips and GE Healthcare, as well as keynote/invited talks including one at Google HQ.

Reference: [1] Antennas and Propagation for Body-centric Wireless Communications, Artech House Publisher by Peter S. Hall, Yang Hao ; [2] Wireless body sensor networks for health-monitoring applications, IOP Physiological Measurement by Yang Hao and Robert Foster ; [3] Antennas and Propagation of Implanted RFIDs for Pervasive Healthcare Applications, Proceedings of IEEE, by Andrea Sani, Marie Rajab, Robert Foster, Yang Hao.


• active antennas for millimeter/sub-millimeter applications


In this research theme, we explore novel technologies and new frequency spectrum for active integrated antennas, predominantly for applications in high data rate wireless communications, security imaging and sensing. For example, in an EPSRC funded project on Monolithic Millimeter-Submillimeter Wave Active Conical Horn Antenna Arrays , we have developed a fully integrated active array on silicon substrates with Shockley diodes at 100GHz. The antenna system consists of an array of planar slot ring elements, each of which are supported with conical horn antennas. They are very effective for reducing substrate losses and hence enhancing the antenna efficiency. Key Advances and Supporting Methodology include: 1) the development of efficient FDTD technique to tackle electromagnetic structures with the curved boundary as well as large antenna arrays; 2) Innovative fabrication approaches for stepped conical horn antennas, which unwanted surface wave radiation and spill-over can be overcome; 3) experimental demonstration of imaging array antennas at 100GHz.

Photographs of the fabricated hard surface conical horn antenna array with its associated slot ring mixers can be found above this text.

The project was in a collaboration with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. It has attracted further funding with the injection of new concepts from metamaterials. For example, a free-formed extrusion technique was developed to fabricate all dielectric woodpile structures to replace the conical horn elements, so that a low profile active antenna array was developed and used for the experiment of security imaging at 100GHz.

Reference: [1] A monolithic active conical horn antenna array for millimeter and submillimeter wave applications, IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation, 2006 by Vasillis Douvalis, Yang Hao ; [2] Low-Profile Directive Millimeter-Wave Antennas Using Free-Formed Three-Dimensional (3-D) Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures, IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation, 2009 by Yoonjae Lee and Yang Hao et al ; [3] Millimetre-wave-imaging system at 95 GHz - quantitative performance evaluation. IET Proceedings on MICROWAVES ANTENNAS, 2012 by Zhang L, Parini CG, Hao Y.


• computational electromagnetics and optimisation including machine learning

Computer modelling of electrodynamics, materials and electronics has always been an important field, as it enables the industry and also academic users from other disciplines to capture newly developed theory and transform them seamlessly into commercial products and engineering applications. Our group has a long tradition of studying different numerical techniques to solve the Maxwell's Equations. We started it with the development of FDTD algorithm in the nonorthogonal coordinate system. We also developed some novel techniques to tackle both frequency and spatial dispersion of metamaterials. We developed the first time domain simulation of invisibility cloak, where superluminal behaviour of wave propagation can be visualised. While commercial modelling tools are becoming more and more powerful, we have now turned our attention to the modelling of novel materials and devices. For example, we have developed FDTD algorithms to understand the nonlinearity and THz responses of graphene under DC magnetic fields. We have also stretched our knowledge to include the Monte Carlo technique to model electron transport in graphene and other 2D materials. This has helped us to develop accurate transistor models, which can be used in the design of novel active devices and metamaterials.

Materials by design has always been perceived as a scientific fiction and now with the rapid advance of machine-learning, and fast modelling tools, it has become viable to tailor-make materials ranging from nanocomposites, graphene and 2D materials, metamaterials. This allows us to look into the possibility of developing new devices and systems across different length scales. One of examples is that, based on the dipole moment technique, we are now able to model up to 30,000 nanoparticles inside a luneburg lens. This will no doubt provide us the opportunity to apply different optimisation techniques to modify our designs according to industrial requirements.


Reference: [1] FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications, Artech House Publisher, 2008 by Yang Hao, Raj MIttra ; [2] Full-wave finite-difference time-domain simulation of electromagnetic cloaking structures, Optics Express, 2008 by Yan Zhao, Christos Argyropoulos, Yang Hao ; [3] Modelling of Wave Propagation in Wire Media Using Spatially Dispersive Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method: Numerical Aspects, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, 2007 by Yan Zhao, Pavel Belov, Yang Hao ; [4] FDTD Modeling of Nonlinear Phenomena in Wave Transmission Through Graphene, IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, 2018 by Liang Yang, Jing Tian, Khalid Z. Rajab and Yang Hao; [5] Graphene Field-Effect Transistor Model With Improved Carrier Mobility Analysis, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, 2015 by Jing Tian, Anestis Katsounaros, Darryl Smith, and Yang Hao; [6] Optimized microwave illusion device, Scientific Reports, 2017 by Benjamin Vial, Max Munoz Torrico and Yang Hao .


• graphene and nanomicrowave


Graphene and 2D materials are unique as they are one-atom thick and hence possess many extraordinary properties. For example, graphene has been dubbed as the "strongest" material ever tested, efficiently conducts heat and electricity, and nearly transparent. Due to its dimension of being at nanoscale, graphene and 2D materials have found applications predominantly at THz and optics. Integrated with the Silicon technology, they can potentially provide breakthroughs in high frequency electronics, which THz transistors and room temperature detectors can be developed. Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are often negelected by antenna engineers working at microwave frequencies, due to the mismatch between its operating wavelength and the dimension of materials. Our recent work funded by the EU Marie Curie Programme demonstrated that many exciting science and technologies can be developed by exploring microwave and matter interactions. For instance, researchers from NANOMICROWAVE have found their use in the development of near field microwave scanning spectroscopy and spintronic devices. As a key partner at the Cambridge Graphene Center and EU Graphene Flagship , we have made poineering contributions in terms of characterising graphene and exploring their applications at microwave and THz frequencies. The collaboration with our partner institutions has enabled us to broaden the scope of our research and driven us to some unexplored subject areas including sensing, energy harvesting as well as communications.


Reference: [1] Experimental demonstration of a transparent graphene millimetre wave absorber with 28% fractional bandwidth at 140 GHz, Scientific Reports, 2014 by Bian Wu, Hatice M. Tuncer, Majid Naeem, Bin Yang, Matthew T. Cole, William I. Milne and Yang Hao ; [2] Microwave absorption and radiation from large-area multilayer CVD graphene, Carbon, 2014 by Bian Wu, Hatice M.Tuncer, Anestis Katsounaros, Weiping Wu, Matthew T.Cole, KaiYing, LianhongZhang, William I.Milne, Yang Hao ; [3] Full-wave modeling of broadband near field scanning microwave microscopy, Scientific Reports, 2017 by Bi-Yi Wu, Xin-Qing Sheng, Rene Fabregas and Yang Hao .


• microwave metamaterials and transformation electromagnetics


It is undoubtful that our group has been one of major forces worldwide on the study of metamaterials and transformation optics. Our metamaterials research strated in 2003, was funded by several EPSRC grants, the Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Society . Our first work was driven by the curiosity of understanding how the perfect lens was operating and how it can be modelled using the FDTD. Along the way, we developed several algorithms which can be applied to efficiently model metamaterials with negative indices, hyperbolic media with strong locality and spatial dispersions and late, the invisibility cloak etc. In fact, even long before these work started, we had actively engaged with several research projects looking into how electromagnetic bandgap structures and high impedance surfaces can be used to improve antenna performances. Throughout many years of continuous research, we have established our own unique understanding of metamaterials and transformation optics. Indeed, in 2007, we were selected to led a prestigous EPSRC programme grant on The Quest for Ultimate Electromagnetics using Spatial Transformations (QUEST) . Thanks to all partner institutions, we have achieved some notable research outcomes: 1. up to 20 PhDs and PDRAs were trained and they are now major workforces worldwide for metamaterial research; 2. we published more than 100 papers, including those in Physical Review Letters, Nature Photonics and Scientific Reports; 3. we generated several patents and two spinouts; 4. our researchers have won several awards including BAE Chairman's Silver Awards and IET Harvey Research Prize; 5. we have organised the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition and other outreach events. A full list of research programme can be found from the QUEST webpage .

Looking forward, there are still so many to explore and we are pleased that further EPSRC projects have been funded in "Adaptive Tools for Electromagnetics and Materials Modelling to Bridge the Gap between Design and Manufacturing (AOTOMAT)" and recently "SOFTWARE DEFINED MATERIALS FOR DYNAMIC CONTROL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES (ANIMATE)".


Reference: [1] Perfect Surface Wave Cloaks, R. C. Mitchell-Thomas, T. M. McManus, O. Quevedo-Teruel, S. A. R. Horsley, and Y. Hao, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 213901 (2013); [2] Flat Luneburg Lens via Transformation Optics for Directive Antenna Applications, Carolina Mateo-Segura, Amy Dyke, Hazel Dyke, Sajad Haq, and Yang Hao, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2014); [3] Subwavelength imaging at optical frequencies using a transmission device formed by a periodic layered metal-dielectric structure operating in the canalization regime, Pavel A. Belov and Yang Hao, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 73, 113110 􏰀2006􏰁 .


• THz and photonic integrated antennas


Photonics and electromagnetic waves are often tightly integrated and they provide us some flexibility to deliver the information either through the air or via optical fibre, and nowadays through both media simultaneously. Our interests in this theme lie in the development of novel radiation structures which enable efficient O/E conversions and vice versa. Our first work was funded by EPSRC in collaboration with Prof Alwyn Seeds at University College London . In "Photonic Antennas with Integrated Optical Transducers", we produced a new type of optical/microwave transducer, "the Photonic Antenna", by combining assymetric Fabry-Perot modulator/detectors (AFPM) with photonic band gap (PBG) antennas. Such antennas require no electrical power. Now the research has been evolved and a new EU project named as "TERALINK" has been funded by a consortium of five European leading institutions. The TERALINKS project is dedicated to the demonstration of a real-time THz communication system, with the 200-300 GHz bandwidth, in an operational environment. Along the way, we have found the perfect fit between the use of novel materials such as graphene and the development of future systems involving THz electromagnetics and photonics. We are thrilled by the fact that more innovations will come out of this exciting research theme including the quantum technology. The project homepage can be found at https://www.teralinks.eu/.



Reference: [1] IEEE 802.11a Data Over Fiber Transmission Using Electromagnetic Bandgap Photonic Antenna With Integrated Asymmetric Fabry–Pérot Modulator/Detector, JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 26, NO. 15, AUGUST 1, 2008; [2] Magnetically tunable graphene-based reflector under linear polarized incidence at room temperature, Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 151103 (2018); [3] Mid-Infrared Reflect-Array Antenna With Beam Switching Enabled by Continuous Graphene Layer, IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, VOL. 30, NO. 8, APRIL 15, 2018.

Yang Hao’s List of Recent Journal Publications/Books

Publication Online Information

Authored Books

1. P. S. Hall, Y. Hao (editor) “Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications (Second Edition)”, ISBN: 978-1-60807-376-4, 340 pages. Copyright 2012, Artech House Publisher.
2. Yang Hao, Raj Mittra, “FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications”. ISBN-13: 9781596931602. Copyright 2008. Artech House, Incorporated Pub.

Research Team

Current PostDoc, Research Assistant and Visiting Professors

1. Dr Theo Saunders, “EPSRC ANIMATE/DREAM projects”, 2019-date.
2. Dr Hangfeng Zhang, “EPSRC ANIMATE”, 2019-date.
3. Dr Valentina Cicchetti, Dstl Spaniel, 2023.
4. Jonas Klob, “software defined materials”.
5. Orestis Christogeorgos, “hyperuniform disorder and its applications to phased array”.
6. Dr Joanna Cha Material Discover using Natural Language Processing.

Current PhD Research Students

1. James Henderson, “reconfigurable phased array for future mobile communications”, 2021-date.
2. Daniel Trussler, ‘Design and optimisation of metasurface materials using AI/machine learning algorithms’, 2022-date.
3. Parvathy “Deep Learning in Material Discovery for Tunable Applications’, 2019-date.
4. Mojan Omidvar “Material Research Automation”, 2020-date.
5. Rui Xu “Wireless drug delivery”, 2022-date.
6. Rahul Dutta “Active Metamaterials with Negative Static Electric Susceptibility”, 2021-date.
7. Shalitha Pathiranage "Material Discoovery by Machine Learning", 2023-date.

Research Income Secured

RESEARCH FUNDING SECURED AT QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (SOLE/PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED)

ACTIVE GRANTS

1. DSIT Spectrum Sharing Sandbox Project, £1.4M, March 2024 - Feburary 2025.
2. EPSRC/QinetiQ DREAM Prosperity Partnership £8M, Jan 2023-12 2027.
3. Industrial contract on METAVERSE Research, $100K, Dec 2022- Mar 2024.
4. EPSRC “Transmission Channels Measurements and Communication System Design for Future mmWave Communications (mmWave TRACCS)”, £500K, Jun 2022-30 Nov 2025.
5. Dstl “Gradient Index Spatial Lens Antenna (SpaNiel)”, £170K, 01/01/2022 to 31/03/2024.
6. QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair: Software Defined Materials, £225k, 01/03/2022 to 28/02/2027.
7. Industrialcontract: £500K 2019 to 2024.
8. Royal Society “Newton Advanced Fellowship”, £107k, 31/03/2019 to 31/12/2023.
9. Dstl PhD studentship on advanced materials (£120k), 09. 2018 to 12. 2023.
10. EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship with Thales UK (£120k). 01. 2018 to 12. 2023.
11. EPSRC ANIMATE: Software Defined Materials for Dynamic Control of Electromagnetic Waves, Sept 2018 to Dec 2023, £1.5M plus £600K from Qinetiq.

PAST GRANTS

1. EPSRC Strategic Equipment Grant on THz Antenna Fabrication and Measurement Facilities (TERRA), £1.3M. 09. 2018- 08. 2021.
2. Industrial PhD Studentship on 5G Antennas for Mobile Handset, £120K. 09. 2018- 08. 2021.
3. Dstl PhD Studentship on Software Defined Materials for Antenna Applications, £120K. 09. 2018- 08. 2021.
4. Industrial funding on compact basestation antennas for 5G, £100K. 10. 2018- 03. 2019.
5. EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship with Thales UK. 01. 2018- 07. 2021.
6. EPSRC ANIMATE: Software Defined Materials for Dynamic Control of Electromagnetic Waves, September 2018 – August 2022, £1.5M plus £600K from Qinetiq.
7. EPSRC research grant: TERAhertz high power LINKS using photonic devices, tube amplifiers and Smart antennas (TERALINKS), £190K, 03.2017-02.2019.
8. EPSRC Design by Science Grant: Adaptive Tools for Electromagnetics and Materials Modelling to Bridge the Gap between Design and Manufacturing (AOTOMAT), £1M, 12.2016-11.2019.
9. Dstl research project on Adaptive Communications Transmission Interface (ACTI), £300K, 2017-2020.
10. IET AF Harvey Research Prize, £300k, 01. 2016 to 12. 2020.
11. EPSRC Engineering Challenges, £500k (Loughborough Led £3.9M), 01. 2016 to 12. 2020.
12. Frequency Agile Antennas, Dstl, £300K, 2015.06 – 2018.5.
13. European Union Graphene Flagship, 250K euros, 2014. 10 – 2018. 9.
14. Cambridge Graphene Centre (Co-I) £12M from EPSRC and £13M from UK industry, PI: University of Cambridge, 2013.01-2018.12.
15. Innovation Fund: Glucose Monitoring, £3800, 01. 2015 to 06. 2015.
16. Multi-bean wide angle repointable antenna, Isotropic Systems, £90K, 07.2015 to 01.2016
17. HARNet (Harmonise the Antenna, Radio and Network), £6.6M from UK TSB and led by Thales and Cobham. 2014. 5 – 2015. 12.
18. NANOMICROWAVES in total 4M Euros from European Union FP7 under Marie Curie Action Coordinated by the UK’s Bio Nano Centre Ltd and involves nine other partners from UK, Austria, France and Italy, 2013. 1 – 2016. 12.
19. Industrial CASE award on graphene and magnetic metamaterials, £130K from BAE Systems, 2013.10 – 2016. 9.
20. “EP/I034548/1, The Quest for Ultimate Electromagnetics using Spatial Transformations (QUEST)”, EPSRC, £5M, 2011.7 – 2017. 3.
21. “Metamaterial Inspired Microwave Conformal Radar Antenna (MIMiCRA)”, European Defence Agency, in partner with 8 UK and French Partners including BAE Systems and Oxford. In total 1.4M Euros, 2011.5 – 2014. 4.
22. “EP/I00923X/1, PATRICIAN: New Paradigms for Body Centric Wireless Communications at MM Wavelengths”, EPSRC, £400K, in total, £1.2M jointly with Birmngham and Durham, 2011.1 – 2014. 12.
23. Industrial Contract from BAE Systems on “Transformation Design of Microwave Antennas”, £25K, 2012.3 – 2012. 9.
24. “EP/I000259/1: Reduction of Energy Demand in Buildings through Optimal Use of Wireless Behaviour Information (Wi-be) Systems”, EPSRC, £600K with QMUL £200K, 2010.8 – 2012.7 .
25. Industrial CASE award on “Transformation Electromagnetics”, DSTL, £65K, 2010.8 – 2014.1.
26. “High Power Directive Metamaterial Antennas”, Office of Naval Research, USA, $450K, in total $1M with Penn State University, USA, 2009.11 – 2012.10.
27. “Propagation Modelling for Unmanned Ground Sensor Systems”, Industrial Funding, £60K, 2010. 4 – 2011.3.
28. “Transformation Electromagnetics Design of Small Antennas”, DSTL, Consultancy Research, £20K, 2009. 11– 2010.4.
29. “Electrically Small Antennas loaded with Metamaterials for Body-centric Wireless Communications” Royal Society International Newton Fellowship support for Dr Rui Yang, £66K, 2009. 10 – 2011.9.
30. “AMULET (Advanced Materials for Ubiquitous Leading-edge Electromagnetic Technologies)”, £1.9m from the Technology Strategy Board’s Collaborative Research and Development programme; 2008. 3 – 2011.8.
31. Co-Investigator for “Antennas for Healthcare and Imaging Applications”, EPSRC, £1.2M, 2008. 6 – 2011.5.
32. “Characterisation of On-body Antennas”, £47K, DSTL, UK, 2008. 8 – 2009.3.
33. “Prototyping Wearable Antennas”, £35K, DSTL, UK, 2008. 10 – 2009.3.
34. “Sensium Digital Plaster Antennas”, Toumaz Technology, Oxford, £110K, 2008. 10 – 2009.9.
35. “Carbon-Nanotube and Liquid Crystal Antennas”, CAPE, University of Cambridge, £45K, 2008. 6 – 2009.5.
36. “iRFSim for BSNs: Imaging based subject-specific RF simulation environment for wearable and implantable wireless Body Sensor Networks (BSNs), a joint grant from EPSRC with Imperial College. Total Value: £700K with QMUL £350K, 2007. 11 – 2011.10.
37. “Wireless Implantable Biosensors with Advanced On-Body Data processing”, joint grant with QMUL Department of Materials, NEAT, Department of Health. Total value £70K, 2007. 11- 2009.3.
38. “Sensium Digital Plaster Antennas”, Toumaz Technology, Oxford, £50K, 2007. 10 – 2008. 3.
39. “Wearable Antennas for Body-Centric Wireless Network”, EPSRC/MoD JGS, £350K, 2007.4 – 2010. 10.
40. European Union, COST Action IC 0603, “Antenna Systems & Sensors for Information Society Technologies (ASSIST)”. Total Value: Unknown, 2007- 2012.
41. “Follow on Fund: Electromagnetic BandGap Enhanced Active Conical Horn Antennas”, EPSRC, £46K. 2006. 10 – 2007. 9.
42. “Solid Freeforming of New Microwave Metamaterials”, joint application with QMUL, Department of Materials, Leverhulme Trust. (PI: C. G. Parini), Total value £234K. 2006.2 – 2009.1.
43. “Characterisation and Implementation of Left-handed Metamaterials in Electromagnetic Crystal Structures”, GR/T28881/01. Value: £300K plus support from ERA Technology. 2005.4 – 2008.3.
44. “Investigation of Metematerials and Their Applications”, Roke Manor Research, UK. £10K. 2006. 8 – 2006. 12.
45. Queen Mary ICT interdisciplinary PhD studentship, Total value is worth £60K. 2006. 3 – 2008.2.
46. Dielectric/Dielectric Loaded Antennas, DSTL, Total value: £45K. 2006. 3 – 2007. 2.
47. Wearable Antenna Modelling, DSTL, Total value: £58K. 2006. 4 – 2007. 3.
48. On-Body Radio Propagation Modelling, GE Global Research, $20K. 2006. 5 – 2006. 12.
49. Incoming visit for Prof. Wenxun Zhang, Royal Society, £1500. 2006. 6 – 2006. 7.
50. In-Body Radio Channel Modelling, Philips Research, East Asia, Shanghai, £4000. 2005. 9 – 2005. 11.
51. Radio Propagation for Wireless Sensors, Philips Plc. Netherlands, 10K Euros. 2006. 4 – 2006. 12.
52. Subcontract from Prof. P. A. Barnes, Centre for Applied Catalysis, University of Huddersfield on an EPSRC funded project ‘An instrument for the quasi-simultaneous measurement of the temperature dependance of dielectric parameters’ GR/R38460/01. Value: £2K. 2003.5 – 2003.10.
53. Market developing with Xybernaut, Germany on ‘Novel RF and antenna technologies on wireless wearable computers’, 2004-2007. Equipment donation value £2K. 2004 – 2007.
54. The Royal Society: Wave Propagation in NRI-PBGs, Value: £10K. 2003.5 – 2004.4.
55. EPSRC/MOD JGS: Characterisation of On-Body Communication Channels, GR/S03812/01, Value: £150K. Total value: 350K (shared with University of Birmingham). 2003.7 – 2006.6.
56. The Nuffield Foundation: Undergraduate Research Bursaries on ‘Advanced Lens Antennas for MM-wave Broadband Wireless Communications’, 2002. Value: £1,359. 2002. 6 – 2002.9.
57. EPSRC Research Grant: Monolithic Millimeter-Submillimeter Wave Conical Horn Antenna Arrays GR/R16945/01, Value: £66,950. 2001.5 – 2004.5.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

• 2020 - Memebr of the Enterprise Hub, Research Coommittee and Fellowship Committee, Royal Academy of Engineering
• 2018 - Chair of Publication Committee, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
• 2015 - International advisory committee (IAC) of the Comin Labs project in France. As part of the former, the program "Laboratoires d'Excellence" is assigned 1 billion Euros in capital, for a 10 years period.
• 2013 - Fellow of IEEE for contribution to Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications.
• 2010 - Fellow of IET.
• 2008 - Fellow of ERA Foundation.
• 2014 - 17 Member of IET Communities Resourcing Committee (CRC).
• 2013 - 17 Member of EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for ICT Theme.
• 2010 - Member of EPSRC Reviewers College, UK.
• 2013 - 17 Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, USA.
• 2013 - Founder and Editor-in-Chief, EPJ Applied Metamaterials (a New Open Access Journal), EDP Sciences, France.
• 2008 – 13 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, USA.
• 2007 – 13 Associate Editor, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, USA.
• 2007 – 08 Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, USA.
• 2014 Co-Chair of Royal Society’s Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting.
• 2010 – 13 Vice Chair of The Executive Team of Professional Network on Antenna and Propagations, IET, UK.
• 2008 - Board Member of the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials, “Metamorphose VI AISBL”.
• 2008 - Member of Director Board, European School of Antennas, European Antenna Centre of Excellence.

SERVICE AS A REFEREE FOR LEARNED JOURNALS, PROFESSIONAL BODIES, RESEARCH COUNCILS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS

• Referee for research councils: UK EPSRC; Wellcome Trust, Royal Society, British Council, the Academic Assistance Council, European Union, European Research Council, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Singapore National Research Foundation, Finland Academy of Engineering, University of Cyprus, the Greek Ministry of Education, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France.
• Paper Reviewer for Nature, Science Magazine.

Reviewer for various journals including:

• IEE Proceedings. Part A. Science, Measurement and Technology;
• IEE Proceedings. Part H, Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation; IEE Electronics Letters;
• Radio Science; International Journal of Electronics;
• International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEUE: Archiv fuer Elektronik und Uebertragungstechnik)
• IEEE Transactions on Antenna & Propagations; IEEE Antenna Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques; IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters; IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters;
• Optics Letters; Optic Express; Physics Letters A, Journal of the Optical Society of America B; Applied Physics Letters, New Journal of Physics, Scientific Reports, Physics Review Letters.

Invited Talk and Conference Presentations

• Invited Speaker at IEEE Comcas 2023, Israel, November, 2023.
• Invited Speaker at Singapore Antenna Workshop, October, 2023.
• Invited Speaker at Metamaterials Congress, Crete, Greece, 2023.
• Keynote Speaker at iWAT, Dublin, 2022.
• Invited Speaker at Metamaterials Congress, Siena, Italy, 2022.
• Keynote Speaker at GSMM, Korea, 2022.
• Invited Speaker at MMS, Pizzo Calabro, Italy, 2022.
• Invited speaker at Centre for wireless communications, Belfast, 2021.
• Invited speaker at APMC 2020, Hong Kong, December 2020.
• Invited speaker at INCAP, India, December 2020.
• Invited speaker at Metamaterials Congress, New York, 2020.
• Keynote Speaker at ACEM, Nanjing, August 2019.
• Keynote Speaker at iWAT, Florida, USA, March 2019.
• Keynote Speaker at he XXII Italian Meeting on Electromagnetics, in Cagliari, from September 3 to September 6, 2018.
• Keynote Speaker at Sigma Symposium 2018: “LED there be light”, Nijmegen, Netherland, April 17, 2018.
• Keynote Speaker at ANTEM, Waterloo, Canada, 2018.
• Keynote Speaker at the International Workshop Metamaterials by Design, Italy, 2016.
• Keynote Speaker at iWEM 2016, Nanjing, China.
• Keynote Speaker at LAPC 2016, UK.
• Invited Speaker at Metamaterials 2016, Crete, Greece.
• Invited Speaker at Metamaterials Workshop organised by European Defence Agency, 2015.
• Keynote Speaker at IMWS-AMP 2015, Suzhou.
• Keynote Speaker at IMWS-Bio 2015,
• Keynote Speaker at iWAT, Seoul, Korea, March 2015.
• Keynote Speaker at CEM 2014, London, March 2014.
• Keynote Speaker at Cambridge Wireless Joint ICT KTN & Radio Technology SIG Event: ‘Millimeter-Wave Radios: Challenges and Opportunities, Jan 2014.
• Keynote Speaker at ICEcom 2013, Croatia, Nov 2013.
• Invited Speaker at IMWS 2013 Singapore, Dec 2013.
• Keynote Speaker, 2nd International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - MobiHealth 2011, Kos Island, Greece, October 2011.
• Invited speaker at the special session on "Metamaterials: Theory and Simulation" at the 2011 URSI GASS in Istanbul, Turkey, August 2011.
• Invited speaker at a Special Session on "Non-Foster Circuits for Metamaterials and Antennas" for AP-S, URSI conference to be held in Spokane, Washington, USA, July 2011.
• Invited speaker, Advanced Techniques in Computational Electromagnetics (AT-CEM'11), Glasgow, June 2011.
• Keynote speaker at 2011 IEEE International Conference on Microwave Technology & Computational Electromagnetics, Beijing, China, May 2011.
• Invited speaker at the convened session "CP12 Propagation in Body Area Networks", the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Rome, Italy, April 2011.
• Invited speaker at 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology, Hong Kong, March 2011.
• Invited speaker at eMobility Technology Platform, a new Expert Advisory Group to help shape the priority areas in future calls of FP7 and FP8 programmes respectively, Alcatel Lucent in Stuttgart, Germany, January 2011.
• Invited speaker at MobiHealth 2010 Special Session on “Wireless Implants”, October 2010.
• Invited speaker at MobiMedia 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2010.
• Invited speaker at IEEE CSNDSP 2010, UK, May 2010.
• Invited speaker at WSIM2010, Brazil, May 2010.
• Keynote speaker at IWAT 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2010.
• Invited speaker at LAPC 2009, Loughborough UK, November 2009.
• Invited speaker at Metamaterials Congress, London, August 2009.
• Invited speaker at IWAT 2009, Santa Monica, California, USA, March 2009.
• Keynote speaker at 2009 International Workshop on Wireless Pervasive Healthcare (WiPH), UK, March 2009.
• Invited speaker at Metamaterials workshop, Shanghai, China, November 2008.
• Invited speaker at Metamaterials workshop, Nanjing, China, November 2008.
• Invited speaker at Metamaterials Congress, 2008, Spain, September 2008.
• Invited speaker at The Medical Innovation Forum, Olympia conference centre, London, June 2008.
• Invited speaker at IEEE Nagoya Chapter, Japan, March 2008.
• Invited speaker at IWAT 2008, Chiba, Japan, March 2008.
• Invited speaker at LTN event on Technology Developments in eHome and eCare, London, December 2007.
• Keynote speaker at International Symposium on Antenna and Propagation (ISAP), Japan, August, 2007.
• Invited speaker at Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, 2007, April, 2007.
• Invited talk at the Antenna Working Group (AWG) meeting, DSTL, Sevenoaks, UK, October 2006.
• Invited talk at Home Office Research Laboratory, London, UK, October 2006.
• Invited talk at Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, June 2006.
• Invited talk at Department of Computer Science, Imperial College, London, January 2006.
• Invited talk at Kodak European Research Centre, Cambridge, January 2006.
• Invited talk at Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea, August 2005.
• Invited talk at Philips Research East Asia, Shanghai, China, August 2005.
• Invited talk at Charles Draper’s Lab, MIT, USA, July 2005.
• Keynote speaker at The 11th Internationnal Symposium on Antenna Technology and Apply Electromagnetics (ANTEM 2005), St Malo, France, June, 2005.
• ‘Antennas and Propagation for Body Centric Wireless Communications’, invited by Prof. R. Mittra, Life Fellow of IEEE, USA, special session on “Communication Antenna Analysis and Design (ACES/IEEE)” at IEEE and ACES meeting, Hawaii, USA, 2005, Apr., 2005.
• Invited talk at Philips Research Centre, Redhill, UK, January 2005.
• ‘Spatial harmonics selection in metamaterials for antenna applications’, Invited by Prof. R. Mittra, Life Fellow of IEEE, Bianisotropics 2004 (BIAN' 04)-10th Conference on Complex Media and Metamaterials, Ghent, Belgium, Sept. 2004.
• ‘From Electromagnetic BandGap Structure to Left-handed Metamaterials: Modeling and Applications’, IEE seminar on metamaterials for microwave and (sub) millimeter wave applications: photonic bandgap and double negative designs, components and experiments, Nov 24, 2003.
• Invited talk on ‘Small Antennas on EBG Structures’, at WIRELESS BROADBAND FORUM, Cambridge, UK. Nov. 2003.
• Invited talk on ‘Novel Antenna Technologies for WLANs and its Potential On-board Spacecraft Applications’, at WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS FOR ONBOARD SPACECRAFT, ESTEC. Apr., 2003.
• Invited talk on ‘Emerging Technologies in antenna design for Wireless Networks’ at WIRELESS BROADBAND FORUM, Cambridge, UK. Nov. 2002.
• Invited talk at BAe System, Advanced Technology Centre, Essex, UK. Oct. 2002.
• Invited talk at Nortel, Harlow, UK. Oct. 2002.
• Invitation to visit and give a talk at Communication Research Lab, Tokyo, Japan. Nov. 2002.

Lab News:

• Ms Joanna Cha's paper has been chosen as the cover article by IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2023.
• Many congratulations to Dr Achintha Avin Ihalage for winnning the Mansel Davies Award from the Institute of Physics, UK, 2022.
• Ms Joanna Cha's paper has been chosen as the cover article by Advanced Optical Materials, 2022.

Media Report:

• Queen Mary, QinetiQ secure funding for wireless tech innovations, 2023. https://www.miragenews.com/queen-mary-qinetiq-secure-funding-for-wireless-1011050/
• Preparations for ‘move towards a 6G future, 2023. https://www.palatinate.org.uk/durham-university-begins-preparations-for-move-towards-a-6g-future/
• Queen Mary academic appointed as Research Chair to help solve economic and environmental challenges through computer-manipulated materials, 2022. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2022/se/queen-mary-academic-appointed-as-research-chair-to-help-solve-economic-and-environmental-challenges-through-computer-manipulated-materials.html
• Scientists develop AI technology which can tell how someone is feeling, Daily Mail, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9233749/Scientists-develop-AI-technology-tell-feeling.html, 2020.
• 29 June 2018, “Collaborating with Queen Mary University of London on advanced materials”, QinetiQ, https://www.qinetiq.com/News/2018/06/Queen-Mary-Collaboration .
• 14 May 2018, “Queen Mary awarded £3m to develop software defined materials”, Queen Mary University of London, https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2018/se/queen-mary-awarded-3m-to-develop-software-defined-materials.html .
• 20 Jul 2016, “Scientists get closer to creating real-life invisibility cloak”, CNN, http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/20/health/invisibility-cloaks-research/ .
• 30 Mar 2016, ‘Free Wi-Fi in the air? New antenna promises ultrafast in-flight broadband’, Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/21/free-wi-fi-in-the-air-new-antenna-promises-ultrafast-in-flight-b/ .
• Sept 2015, “A short history of invisibility cloaks”, NewStatesman, http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/technology/2015/09/short-history-invisibility-cloaks .
• Apr 2014, "Transformation Electromagnetics for Antenna Design" collaborated with Dr Sajad Haq from BAE Systems, has been reported by Financial Times "Flat antennas could transform aircraft design", http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1e6f2b68-bf71-11e3-a4af-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2yo9aEXQK .
• Feb 2014, "Graphene Paper" published by Nature Scientific Reports, has been reported by IEEE Spectrum Nanoclast "Graphene Films Promise Secure Wireless Networks", http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/graphene-films-promise-secure-wireless-networks .
• “Perfect Surface Wave Cloaks”, highlighted by Nature Materials, “Rough with the smooth”, http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v13/n1/full/nmat3853.html 2014.
• “Scientists create 'perfect solution' to iron out kinks in surfaces”, Electronics Weekly, http://www.engineerlive.com/content/scientists-create-perfect-solution-iron-out-kinks-surfaces, 2013.
• “Graphene: Taking the wonder-stuff from dream to reality”, http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/graphene-taking-the-wonder-stuff-from-dream-to-reality.
• Electronics Weekly, “Personal body networks go wireless at 2.4GHz”, May 2012. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/16/05/2012/53666/personal-body-networks-go-wireless-at-2.4ghz.htm .
• Photonics, “QUEST Begins for Improved Electromagnetic Manipulation”, http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=47671 , July 2011.
• Spotlights in Optics, “FDTD analysis of the optical black hole”, October 2010. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/spotlight/summary.cfm?uri=josab-27-10-2020 .
• “Latest implanted medical devices antennas” in Engineering News. September 2009. http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/943.html .
• Interview by IET E&T magazine on Wearable Electronics, “Catwalk goes techno”, October 2008. http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/et_20081801.
• Interview by the Engineer, https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/may-2008-online/clear-signal/, 02 May 2008.
• Interviewed by Environmental Engineering, “Making Waves”, Autumn 2007.
• Interview by the Engineer, https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/13-november-2006/switched-on/, Nov. 2006.
• Feature article by Helen Duncan, ‘Technology Focus on antennas and photonic bandgap structures’, Microwave Engineering Europe. http://img.cmpnet.com/mwee/pdf/techfocusjune03.pdf, June/July 2003.
• Interview by Sara Sowah, EE Times on ‘Microstrip antenna array suits broadband comms’. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1219956, 3 Sept. 2001.

HONOURS OR AWARDS

• Applications are invited for CSC studentships the detail can be found in http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electronic-engineering-and-computer-science
• Postdoc positions are available for on an EPSRC funded project https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2023/pr/queen-mary-university-of-london-and-qinetiq-secure-funding-for-future-innovations-in-wireless-technology.html
• Applications are invited for up to five PhD studentships on various industrial funded projects. The applicants must be UK nationals and they are expected to spend some time in companies during their PhD studies. Please contact Prof Yang Hao for more information.
• Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant position on a project on “Software Defined Materials for Dynamic Control of Electromagnetic Waves (ANIMATE) project”. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BMG460/postdoctoral-research-assistant
• Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant position on a project on “Broadband Graphene THz Detectors”.
  https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=3428
• Applications are invited for up to eight PhD Studentships, to undertake research in the area of smart/tunable materials, nanotechnologies, antennas and electromagnetics in collaboration with UK industries including Qinetiq, Thales UK from September 2018, or as soon as possible thereafter.
  https://jobs.newscientist.com/en-gb/job/1401650288/qmul-epsrc-phd-studentships/
• Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant position on a project on “TERAhertz high power LINKS using photonic devices, tube amplifiers and Smart antennas”.
  https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=3272

Past PhD Students and Postdoc Researchers

Isotropic Systems to Revolutionize Satellite Antenna Technology