STUDENT INNOVATION COMPETITION

 

iWEM2022 Student Innovation Competition Winners (decided on Aug. 31, 2022)

Sekiya, Keita (Niigata University, Japan), “Experimental and Numerical Study of Near-Field Gain of an Underwater Dipole Antenna at 6 GHz”

Nakase, Takaharu (Yokohama National University, Japan), “Sampling Points Reduction in Over The Air”

Muramatsu, Kyoshiro (Iwate University, Japan), “Fast-human-aware High-efficiency Beamforming for Microwave Wireless Power Transfer”

Kumaki, Tomohiro (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan), “120-GHz-band Close Promixity Wireless Communication Using Metamaterial Integrated Glass Substrate”

Morioka, Takafumi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), “Design of Microstrip-Line-Fed Rotman-lens Beamforming Network at 274 GHz”

Xiang, Bingjie (City University of Hong Kong, China), “Linearly Polarized 1-Bit Reconfigurable Reflectarray Based on ME Dipole”

Congratulations!

iWEM2022 features “Student Innovation Competition” to award student authors with excellent paper submission and presentation. Finalists are selected based on the evaluation of the submitted papers. The final winners of the competition are selected from the finalists by Award Selection Board. The winners receive “iWEM2022 Student Award” with a certificate and a cash award.

Qualifications:

To be qualified for a paper to be considered as a student paper for Student Innovation 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 (oral presentation style) in person or remotely in the workshop.

 

Competition Finalist and Winner

The winners of Student Innovation 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 Award Selection Board will be attending to score the presentation.
  4. The winners of Student Innovation Competition are presented in the closing ceremony. All the finalists are requested to attend the closing ceremony.

 

Finalist List (decided on June 30, 2022)

 

Asahi, Kei (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan), “Space-time adaptive method for the MR/FDTD computation time reduction”

Li, Wei (National University of Tainan, Taiwan), “Design of a MIMO Open-Slot Antenna Module with Dual-Band Circular Polarization”

Sekiya, Keita (Niigata University, Japan), “Experimental and Numerical Study of Near-Field Gain of an Underwater Dipole Antenna at 6 GHz”

Nakase, Takaharu (Yokohama National University, Japan), “Sampling Points Reduction in Over The Air”

Muramatsu, Kyoshiro (Iwate University, Japan), “Fast-human-aware High-efficiency Beamforming for Microwave Wireless Power Transfer”

Zheng, Kangtai (Huizhou University, China), “Miniaturization of Wilkinson Power Divider Using Zigzag Combination of Microstrip and CPW Lines”

Kumaki, Tomohiro (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan), “120-GHz-band Close Promixity Wireless Communication Using Metamaterial Integrated Glass Substrate”

Morioka, Takafumi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), “Design of Microstrip-Line-Fed Rotman-lens Beamforming Network at 274 GHz”

Xiang, Bingjie (City University of Hong Kong, China), “Linearly Polarized 1-Bit Reconfigurable Reflectarray Based on ME Dipole”