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Recent Advances in Reconfigurable Antennas at University of Technology Sydney

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This paper presents an overview of the recent advances in reconfigurable antennas for wireless communications at University of Technology Sydney. In particular, it reports our latest progress in this research field, including a multi-linear polarization reconfigurable antenna, a pattern reconfigurable antenna with multiple switchable beams, and a combined pattern and polarization reconfigurable antenna.

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Peiyuan Qin [corresponding author] received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2006, and a joint Ph.D. degree from Xidian University and Macquarie University, Australia, in electromagnetic fields and microwave technology in 2012.

From 2012 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Lecturer with University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Since 2017, he is a Senior Lecturer with UTS. His research interests include reconfigurable antennas, phase shifters, reconfigurable reflectarrays, and MIMO communications.

Dr. Qin was awarded an Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2017. He was a recipient of the UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2015 and CSIRO OCE Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2012. He won the international Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship in 2010 and was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for academic excellence by Macquarie University in 2012. One of his journal papers was selected as 2016 Computer Simulation Technology (CST) University Publication Award and he was selected as Finalist of the Best Paper Award in 2017 ISAP. He is currently severing the Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas andWireless Propagation Letters. (Email: Peiyuan.Qin@uts.edu.au)

Shulin Chen (S’16) was born in Hubei Province, China. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Fuzhou University, China, in 2012, and the M.S. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Xiamen University, China, in 2015. Since 2016, he has been working towards the Ph.D. degree in Engineering with the Global Big Data Technologies Centre (GBDTC), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.

His research interests include reconfigurable antennas, leaky-wave antennas, millimeter wave antennas, and adaptive array processing. He has authored or co-authored over 15 journal and conference papers. He was a finalist of ISAP 2017 best paper competition, and his paper was listed as an Honorary Mention in APS-URSI 2017.

Y. Jay Guo (Fellow’2014) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xidian University in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1987, all in China. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET, and a member of the College of Experts of Australian Research Council (ARC). He has won a number of most prestigious Australian national awards, and was named one of the most influential engineers in Australia in 2014 and 2015. His research interests include antennas, mm-wave and THz communications and sensing systems as well as big data. He has published over 350 research papers and holds 22 patents in antennas and wireless systems.

Prof. Guo is a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of Global Big Data Technologies Centre at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Prior to this appointment in 2014, he served as a Director in CSIRO for over nine years, directing a number of ICT research portfolios. Before joining CSIRO, he held various senior leadership positions in Fujitsu, Siemens and NEC in the U.K.

Prof. Guo has chaired numerous international conferences. He was the International Advisory Committee Chair of IEEE VTC2017, General Chair of ISAP2015, iWAT2014 and WPMC’2014, and TPC Chair of 2010 IEEE WCNC, and 2012 and 2007 IEEE ISCIT. He served as a Guest Editor of special issues on “Antennas for Satellite Communications” and “Antennas and Propagation Aspects of 60-90 GHzWireless Communications,” both in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Special Issue on “Communications Challenges and Dynamics for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), and Special Issue on “5G for Mission Critical Machine Communications”, IEEE Network Magazine.

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Qin, P., Chen, S. & Guo, Y.J. Recent Advances in Reconfigurable Antennas at University of Technology Sydney. J. Commun. Inf. Netw. 3, 15–20 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41650-018-0005-6

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