Some Recent Advances in Antennas for Wireless Communications and Future Trends
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Some Recent Advances in Antennas for Wireless Communications and Future Trends
Wed, 03/10/2018 - 13:00 to 13:30
Location:
Speaker:
Professor Yahia M.M. Antar
Affiliation:
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Royal Military College of Canada & Queen’s University at Kingston
Synopsis:
Many aspects of our modern lives are becoming fundamentally dependent on wireless technology in a manner that they were not before. This trend is exemplified by the massive investment in future endeavours, such as 5G technology. Many in IEEE believe 5G will become the cornerstone of future wireless networks, enabling fundamentally new applications. These include the internet of things (IOT), with its anticipated billions of devices laden with embedded sensors. A common denominator in many of the new wireless applications are the supporting antenna systems, which form the “eyes and ears” of many sensors. New developments for advancing the state-of-the-art in antenna technology and the associated microwave and millimetre-wave circuits to meet future challenges will be needed.
The talk will address some current and new emerging directions of research in antenna systems. This also includes new fundamental approaches for antenna analysis, the near fields and electromagnetic energy around antenna systems, and possible implications on future antenna systems design, in what is expected to be an increasingly crowded electromagnetic environment.
Biography:
Yahia M.M. Antar (S’73–M’76–SM’85–LF’00) received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in 1966 from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, MB, Canada, in 1971 and 1975, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1977, he held a Government of Canada Visiting Fellowship at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, and in May 1979 he joined the Division of Electrical Engineering at the National Research Council of Canada. In November 1987, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC), Kingston where he has held the position of Professor since 1990. He has authored or coauthored about 250 journal papers, several books and chapters in books, over 450 refereed conference papers, holds several patents, has chaired several national and international conferences, and has given plenary talks at many conferences. He has supervised and co-supervised over 90 Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses at the Royal Military College and at Queen’s University, several of which have received the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal Award, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis of the Division of Applied Science, as well as many Best Paper Awards in major international symposia. He served as the Chair of Canadian National Commission of URSI (1999–2008), Commission B (1993–1999), and has a cross appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Antar is a Life Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, and an URSI (International Union of Radio Science) Fellow. He serves as an Associate Editor of many IEEE and IET Journals and as an IEEE-APS Distinguished Lecturer. In May 2002, he was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electromagnetic Engineering which has been renewed in 2016. In 2003, he was awarded the Royal Military College of Canada “Excellence in Research” Prize, and the RMCC Class of 1965 Teaching Excellence award in 2012. He was elected by the to the URSI Board as Vice President in August 2008 and in 2014, and to the IEEE AP AdCom. in 2009.
On January 31, 2011, he was appointed Member of the Canadian Defence Advisory Board (DAB) of the Canadian Department of National Defence. In October 2012, he received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Governor General of Canada in recognition for his contribution to Canada. He is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Canada RA Fessenden Silver Medal for “Ground Breaking Contributions to Electromagnetics and Communications”, and the 2015 IEEE Canada J. M. Ham outstanding Engineering Education Award. In May 2015, he received the Royal Military College of Canada Cowan Prize for excellence in research. He is the recipient of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society prestigious Chen-To-Tai Distinguished Educator Award for 2017.