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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Fellowship Program

Description

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) allocated $240,000 for its Fellowship Program in 2024. The program aim is to promote areas of interest to IEEE AP-S among graduate students and postdoctoral fellows worldwide to facilitate their career pursuit in these areas. Researchers affiliated with an academic institute and mentored by a faculty or industry supervisor for the academic year 2024-2025 are invited to apply for support of their work on a proposed research project. The AP-S is committed to demographic, geographic, and disciplinary diversity in the selection of high merit applications.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply:

  • Both the applicant and their supervisor must be members of the IEEE AP-S.
  • Students must be enrolled/admitted to a full-time Master’s or Doctoral degree program at an accredited institution for the year 2024-2025.
  • Postdoctoral applicants must hold a full-time appointment at an accredited institution for the academic year 2024-2025.
  • Former APSF student recipients may apply again only as higher degree students (or postdoctoral fellows).
  • A supervisor is not allowed to mentor more than one APSF applicant during 2024-2025.
  • The IEEE AP-S Fellowship (APSF) may be held in conjunction with IEEE AP-S travel grants and other IEEE awards.

Value of Awards

  • APSF value is US$5,000 to support research project specified in application.
  • APSF will be paid directly to the recipient (student or postdoctoral fellow).

Timeframe

  • Project must continue for at least two semesters (26 academic weeks or longer) during the academic year 2024-2025.
  • Project may commence on any date agreeable to both the student and the supervisor.
  • APSF recipients are expected to remain active and engaged members of IEEE AP-S for 3 years from the date of award.

Project Site

  • Students and postdoctoral fellows: accredited universities worldwide.
  • Postdoctoral fellows only: Companies having a line of business in the IEEE AP-S areas of interests (listed below).

Advising Process

  • Academia and industry supervisors must be individuals who are authorized by the university or company to conduct direct independent supervision of the student or postdoctoral fellow.

Research Areas of Interest

  • Relevant areas include: antennas, including analysis, design, development, measurement, and testing; electromagnetic theory, including analytical and numerical modeling of radiation and scattering, propagation, interaction of electromagnetic waves with discrete and continuous media; and applications and systems pertinent to antennas, propagation, and sensing, such as applied optics, millimeter- and sub-millimeter-wave techniques, antenna signal processing and control, radio astronomy, geoscience, terrestrial and space-based communication, including wireless, mobile, satellite, and telecommunications, bio-EM imaging and techniques.

Application Process

  • Applications will include a single pdf file, composed of the following items:
    • Application form, including the applicant and advisor names, the institute information, and the research topic.
    • Evidence of active IEEE AP-S membership in 2024 (screenshot from ieee.org, membership card, etc.)
    • Applicant Curriculum Vitae, separately listing: previous education and current academic status, relevant research/work experience and projects, journal publications, conference publication, distinctions and awards.
    • Research statement describing in detail the project, applicant’s aptitude for successfully carrying the project, and their intent to pursue a career in topics of interest to the IEEE AP-S. The statement should be in single column format, 10pt font size, no longer than 2 pages including figures, with up to 1 additional page for a reference list.
    • Students within the first 2 years of their graduate program must attach also university transcripts.
  • Applications will be accompanied by a single pdf file by the advisor, sent confidentially, including:
    • Advisor filled applicant evaluation form.
    • Advisor letter of endorsement that confirms the student’s eligibility to apply.
  • The applicants are responsible to verify their eligibility and that all material is submitted before the deadline. Missing items will result in significant reduction in score. Missing advisor file will automatically disqualify the application.
  • Applications and advisor support letters must be submitted, separately, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., with subject lines “APSF24: Applicant Surname, First Name – Application” or “APSF24: Applicant Surname, First Name – Evaluation”.

Application Evaluation

To applications will be reviewed and assigned scores based on the following criteria:

  • Quality and relevance to the AP-S of the research statement.
  • Applicant’s aptitude for the proposed research, as reflected from their track record and experience.
  • Advisor’s evaluation and endorsement letter.
  • Academic standing of the applicant, as reflected from their CV (and transcripts, where relevant).

Deadline

All material must be submitted before the deadline: June 1, 2024.

Notification of Results

IEEE AP-S will send an award decision to each applicant after the screening process is completed.

APSF Payment

The selected applicants will receive APSF payment in one installment of US$5000. AP-S will require students to fill out and submit forms W8/9 to process the payments.

Travel Allowances

APSF is not intended for covering travel expenses.

For More Information

Please contact Prof. Yaniv Brick at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Excellence Spotlight: Meet our top Reviewers of 2023

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations (IEEE TAP) is regarded as the flagship publication of the AP-S, esteemed for its scientific excellence, novelty, and rigor. The standing of the journal in the antennas and propagation community is a tribute to the continued support and invaluable contribution of our reviewers, whose commitment to providing rigorous expert feedback is pivotal for solidifying trust with TAP’s authors and readers and further cultivating the culture of excellence within our community.

Each year, at TAP we recognize our best-performing reviewers who contribute with their professionalism, dedication, and high scientific standards in ensuring the novelty, quality, and impact of published content. In this section, we highlight a line-up of our top reviewers among the 2023 best-performing ones, acknowledging and appreciating their invaluable role in ensuring an ethical, rigorous, and timely editorial procedure.

We invite you to celebrate their inspirational commitment with us by exploring their expertise, technical depth, and scholarly excellence.

Tim Brown

Tim W. C. Brown

University of Surrey, UK

Tim W. C. Brown (Senior Member, IEEE) is a chartered engineer and academic with key interests focusing on intelligent multiple antennas and their interaction with the radio environment. He received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., in 1999 followed by the Ph.D. degree focusing on antenna diversity for mobile terminals in 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

Since 2007 he has returned to the University of Surrey as an academic where he is currently an Associate Professor in RF antennas, and propagation. Since 2018, he has also been Editor in Chief of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journal of Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation while he has also served as an associate editor to the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters from 2016 to 2018.

His most substantial research contributions or interests include antennas and propagation for mobile and satellite communications, antennas for multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO), low electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure mobile terminals. He has published seminal works in the Royal Society Proceedings for the new concept of Linear Angular Momentum Multiplexing (LAMM), which is a promising solution to ensuring seamless gigabit connectivity from trackside to train.

Peiqin Liu

Peiqin Liu

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Peiqin Liu (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. Since September 2019, he has been with National University of Singapore, where he is a Research Fellow. His current research interests include metamaterial and antenna theory, particularly in novel metasurfaces with deep-learning techniques.

Dr. Liu has authored and co-authored more than 30 technical papers published in international journals and conferences and holds 5 granted Chinese patents. He is the recipient of Young Antenna Scientist Award of 2023 Singapore Workshop on Antennas (SWA); Top Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2022 and 2023; Outstanding Reviewer of IEEE Antennas Wireless Propagation Letters in 2023 (the 4th out of 1263); Outstanding Student Paper Award of 2018 Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSQRWC); the Best Student Paper Award of 2017 Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP); the Best Student Paper Award of 2017 National Conference on Antennas (NCANT).

Dr. Liu has been serving on the IEEE Singapore RFID Chapter since 2022, where he serves as the vice chair in 2024. He has been involved in multiple international events as co-chair and technical program committee member. He has delivered 2 invited speeches, 2 short courses, as well as organized 1 special session, and 1 workshop at international academic events.

Shanpu Shen

Shanpu Shen

University of Liverpool, UK

Shanpu Shen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in communication engineering from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, in 2017.

He was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2016. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with HKUST from 2017 to 2018 and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College London, London, U.K., from 2018 to 2020. He was a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST, from 2020 to 2023. He is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, U.K.

His current research interests include RF energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, reconfigurable intelligent surface, Internet-of-Things, MIMO systems, and antenna design and optimization. He is the 2024 IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador.

Son Xuat Ta

Son Xuat Ta

Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

SON XUAT TA received the B.Sc. (Eng.) degree in electronics and telecommunications from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam in August 2008, and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ajou University, Korea in February 2016. March, 2016 – February, 2017, he was a post-doctoral research fellow with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University. March, 2017 – August, 2017, he was with the Division of Computational Physics, Institute for Computational Science, and the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. September 2017 – present, he works as a lecturer at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam.

His research interests include antennas, metamaterials, metasurfaces, metamaterial-based antennas, metasurface-inspired antennas, circularly polarized antennas, and millimeter-wave antennas. He has authored and co-authored over 120 technical-journal and conference papers. He has served as a reviewer for over 15 scientific journals. He has been selected as a Top Reviewer for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in 2020-2023.

Excellence in Antennas and Propagation Research Spotlight on Women’s Contributions | Part 3

Excellence in Antennas and Propagation Research Spotlight on Women’s Contributions | Part 3

Francesca Vipiana

Research by Francesca published in IEEE TAP

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Mei Li

Research by Mei published in IEEE TAP

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Thi Hai-Yen Nguen

Research by Thi Hai-Yen published in IEEE TAP

Bing Wang

Research by Bing published in IEEE TAP

Tiantian Yin

Research by Tiantian published in IEEE TAP

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Excellence in Antennas and Propagation Research Spotlight on Women’s Contributions | Part 4

Excellence in Antennas and Propagation Research Spotlight on Women’s Contributions | Part 4

Ting Shi

Research by Ting published in IEEE TAP

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Rodica Ramer

Research by Rodica published in IEEE TAP

Fengyuan Yang

Research by Fengyuan Yang published in IEEE TAP

Sandra Costanzo

Research by Sandra published in IEEE TAP

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Call for “Nominations for Consideration for the Ballot” for the 2024 Elections to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Administrative Committee and the Office of President-Elect

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2024

Background: The Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) includes 12 members (besides the President-Elect, President, and the four most recent Past-Presidents) who are elected directly by the Society membership. Four are elected in the fall of each year to serve a three-year term that begins at the start of the next calendar year (2025). It is emphasized that membership of IEEE and AP-S is a requirement.

The composition of the 12 elected members of AdCom is: 8 from Regions 1-8, 1 from Region 9 and 3 from Region 10. In order to achieve this goal, for the 2024 elections (AdCom members starting in 2025), three of the elected members will be from Regions 1-8, and one of the elected members will be from Region 10. Thus, for the 2024 elections, nominations for AdCom are requested from Regions 1-8 and Region 10.

The President-Elect is also elected directly by the Society membership during the same elections. The elected person will serve in the office of President-Elect during a one-year term that begins at the start of the next calendar year (2025), in the office of President during one-year term that begins at the start of the next calendar year (2026), and as Past President for a four-year term that begins at the start of the next calendar year (2027). Candidates for President-Elect must be members of IEEE and AP-S and must be or have been an elected member of AP-S AdCom.

The AP society maintains a policy that the candidate for President-Elect alternates annually between Regions 1-6 and Regions 7-10. For the 2024 elections, the candidate for President-Elect must be from Regions 1-6. Thus, for the 2024 elections, nominations from Regions 1-6 are requested.

The responsibility of AdCom is to manage the operations and functions of the Society. These include the publications of the Society, the conferences sponsored by the Society, the various Society awards, and the promotion of the general interests of the Society members. More details on AdCom functions may be found in the Constitution, Bylaws, and Operating Manual of the Society posted on the Society website: http://www.ieeeaps.org/.

The President-Elect shall fulfill the duties of the President in case of the President’s absence or incapacity. The President shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Society and presides over AdCom meetings. Past-Presidents, during their four-year term as AdCom members, are the members of the IEEE AP-S Nominations Committee, which is chaired by the most recent Past President. Other functions of President-Elect, President, and Past-Presidents, may be found in the above-mentioned documents.

Call: The IEEE AP-S Nominations Committee seeks nominations of outstanding members of the Society to be considered for inclusion on the ballot for election to the AdCom and the office of President-Elect. These nominees will be considered for inclusion on the 2024 ballot. The following details should be observed:

(1) Nominations will be accepted from the general membership. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline for the receipt of nominations is April 30, 2024. All nominations are to be submitted via email in copy to each of the four (4) members of the Nominations Committee:

  • Prof. Stefano Maci (Chair) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Prof. Gianluca Lazzi (Vice-Chair) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Prof. Yahia Antar, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

(2) For nominations other than self-nominations, the nominator MUST verify: (a) that the prospective nominee fulfills the requirements, (b) is willing to stand for election if selected, and (c) work closely with the nominee to obtain the required information in the proper format.

(3) The required nominee data are: (a) family and (b) given names, (c) e-mail address, (d) telephone number, (e) affiliation, (f) country, (g) position for which the nominee is to be considered, i.e., AdCom or President-Elect, (h) biographical statement (written in the third person), (i) IEEE AP-S activities, (j) other IEEE activities, (k) other professional organizations activities, (l) major accomplishments, (m) qualifications, and (n) position statement (written in the first person). The nominator must prepare in English the above-mentioned profile as required by the attached template.

(4) Required nominator details (except for self-nominations), to be included in the e-mail accompanying the nominee information, are: (a) full name, (b) e-mail address, and (c) affiliation. For self-nominations, please indicate so in the e-mail accompanying the nominee information.

(5) Both the nominee and the nominator MUST be current members of the IEEE and the AP-S. For President-Elect, the nominee must be or have been previously an elected member of AP-S AdCom.

(6) The Nominations Committee makes no guarantee that a nominated person will be included on the ballot. The process of constructing the final ballot and voting are as follows:

  • AdCom members will be presented with a list of 16 nominees (twelve from Regions 1-8 and four from Region 10) for AdCom and four nominees for President-Elect from Regions 1-6.
  • During the summer meeting of AdCom, the voting members will vote in executive session for up to eight nominees for AdCom (six from Regions 1-8 and two from Region 10) and up to two nominees for President-Elect. Candidates will be ranked in order based on the number of votes they receive. The six AdCom nominees from Regions 1-8 and the two AdCom nominees from Region 10 with more votes will proceed to the ballot. The two President-Elect nominees with more votes will proceed to the ballot.
  • AP-S membership will vote to elect the four new AdCom members and the President-Elect. For AdCom, the three candidates from Regions 1-8 and the candidate from region 10 with the larger number of votes will become the elected AdCom members for the period 2025-2027. For President-Elect, the candidate with the larger number of votes will be the elected 2025 President-Elect.
  • The election will be administered by IEEE and will be held from mid-August to late September.

(7) Nominators must collect and check the required materials BEFORE submitting the nomination. Once submitted, there is no provision for edits or corrections. For those nominees selected for the ballot, the biographical statement, IEEE AP-S activities, other IEEE activities, other professional organizations activities, major accomplishments, qualifications, and position statement will be included on the ballot as submitted.

(8) Questions should be sent by e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

(9) The members of the Nominations Committee are listed above in (1) and are the most recent four past presidents. Any of these individuals may also be contacted for additional information.

Thank you for your support of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society through your continuing membership and your participation in the election process.

Stefano Maci

AP-S 2024 Nominations Committee Chair and Immediate Past President

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