Awards

iWAT2024 Student Paper Award Winners (Decided on April 16, 2024)

Jiangcheng Chen (University of Oulu, Finland), “Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Millimeter-Wave Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna with Second-Order Bandstop Filtering Characteristic”

Andrew J Park (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA), “Simultaneous Transmit-Receive Horn Antenna Based on a Nonreciprocal Metasurface with Embedded Magnetic Bias”

Xu Qin (Tsinghua University, China), “Negative Capacitor and Inductor with Loss Analysis”

Keiji Sawairi (National Defense Academy, Japan), “Simple Measurement Method for Reflectarray Using Monostatic-Bistatic Equivalence Theorem”

Atsuya Yamazaki (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), “Grating-Lobe Suppressing Feed Technique for 2D Phased Array with Interpolating Excitation Elements in 300-GHz band”

Honourable Mention Award Winners (Decided on April 16, 2024)

Jiangcheng Ge (Xidian University, China), “Ultra-wideband Adaptive Switchable FSS Design with High Selectivity”

Phuong Linh Hoang (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), “Dead-zone-integrated Antenna Based on Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Via-less Restrictions”

Guillaume Ndjamba Nyami (Concordia University & Polytechnique Montreal, Canada), “Standing Wave Dual-Band Substrate Integrated Waveguide Slotted Array Antenna for mmWave Automotive Radar Application”

Congratulations!

About the Awards

iWAT2024 features paper competitions to award student authors with excellent paper submissions and presentations. Finalists are selected based on the evaluation of the submitted papers. The final winners of the competition are selected from the finalists by the Award Selection Board. The winners receive the “Student Paper Award” with a certificate and a cash award or “Student Encouragement Award” with a certificate.

Qualifications

To qualify for a paper to be considered as a student paper for paper competition, the following conditions must be, in accordance to the international conference tradition, satisfied.

  1. The student must be registered at his/her university;
  2. The student must be the principal author of the paper;
  3. The student must pre-register for the conference;
  4. The student must present his/her paper in the Finalist Sessions (poster presentation style) in person in the workshop.

Competition Finalist and Winner

The winners of the paper competition are worked out based on the following procedures:

  1. All the student papers are peer-reviewed by senior professionals working in the related fields, and the technical reviewers will judge the paper based on the paper’s technical contribution, the innovation highlighted, and the technical presentation.
  2. In accordance with the nominations by reviewers and also the scores obtained in the review process, the shortlisted candidates will be selected to form the finalists.
  3. The finalist papers will be presented in the Finalist Sessions, where the members of the Award Selection Board will be attending to score the presentation.
  4. The winners of the paper competition are presented in the award ceremony held in the workshop banquet or the closing ceremony. All the finalists are requested to attend the award ceremony.

Finalist List (Decided on January 30, 2024)

Yun-Hao Chang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan), “Performance Evaluation of LC Materials for Display and Non-display Applications in Ku-Band 6×6 Antenna Array Structure”

Jiangcheng Chen (University of Oulu, Finland), “Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Millimeter-Wave Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna with Second-Order Bandstop Filtering Characteristic”

Jiangcheng Ge (Xidian University, China), “Ultra-wideband Adaptive Switchable FSS Design with High Selectivity”

Phuong Linh Hoang (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), “Dead-zone-integrated Antenna Based on Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Via-less Restrictions”

Cuixia Huang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China), “Wideband High-Isolated Eight-Element Slot MIMO Antennas Based on Current Couplings Cancellation”

Qiheng Huang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), “Transmitarray Design of Dielectric Resonator Antennas Using Deep Learning”

Hiroyasu Mimura (Niigata University, Japan), “Experimental Validation of an Extended Pseudo-Scale Model for Air-Brackish Two-Layer Problem”

Guillaume Ndjamba Nyami (Concordia University & Polytechnique Montreal, Canada), “Standing Wave Dual-Band Substrate Integrated Waveguide Slotted Array Antenna for mmWave Automotive Radar Application”

Andrew J Park (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA), “Simultaneous Transmit-Receive Horn Antenna Based on a Nonreciprocal Metasurface with Embedded Magnetic Bias”

Xu Qin (Tsinghua University, China), “Negative Capacitor and Inductor with Loss Analysis”

Keiji Sawairi (National Defense Academy, Japan), “Simple Measurement Method for Reflectarray Using Monostatic-Bistatic Equivalence Theorem”

Chuankui Shen (Southern University of Science and Technology, China), “An RFID-Controlled Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface”

Atsuya Yamazaki (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), “Grating-Lobe Suppressing Feed Technique for 2D Phased Array with Interpolating Excitation Elements in 300-GHz band”

Yuehan Yang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), “An Integrated Imaging Sensing and MMW Communication System with Universal Software Radio Peripheral”