IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship

Description

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) has committed US$102,000 in 2024 to fund 34 Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarships (USRS). The USRS is introduced to promote the Society's areas of interest (listed below) among undergraduate students worldwide to ignite their interest in pursuing graduate studies in these areas. Applications are solicited from undergraduate students in conjunction with a faculty supervisor or industry supervisor to conduct a 16-week research program during the year 2024.

Note: USRSs may be held in conjunction with IEEE AP-S travel grants and other AP-S awards.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply:

The supervisor must be a member of the IEEE AP-S
Student must be at the date of the application a full-time registered bachelor's degree (or equivalent) student at an accredited institution in their country
Student must have a cumulative grade average of 75% or above
A maximum of two AP-S USRSs are allowed per student in the duration of undergraduate studies
Student must have completed coursework of at least full two years (4 semesters) of university studies at the date of award commencement
Student must not have begun a graduate program at any point during the 16-week period of USRS
Student must be involved on a full-time basis in the proposed project during the 16-week period of the AP-S USRS
Supervisor is allowed to sponsor no more than one AP-S USRS student during 2024

Value of Awards

USRS value is US$3,000 to support the duration of the 16-week research project
Professors and industry supervisors are encouraged to supplement the value of USRS with at least US$750. Applications from teams offering matching funds will be given priority during the selection process
USRS will be paid directly to the students

Timeframe

Project must continue for at least 16 weeks during 2024. Projects conducted on consecutive 16 weeks full-time basis will be given a priority
Project may commence on any date agreeable to both the student and the supervisor.

Project Site

Accredited universities worldwide
Companies having a line of business aligned with AP-S areas of interests (listed below)

Advising Process

Professors and industry supervisors must be individuals who are authorized by the university or company to conduct direct independent supervision of the student in the duration of the 16-week period of USRS. The supervisor must be a member of the IEEE AP Society.

Areas of Interest

Projects must be within the scope of AP-S areas such as: antennas, including analysis, design, development, measurement, and testing; radiation, propagation, and the 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 submillimeter-wave techniques, antenna signal processing and control, radio astronomy, and propagation and radiation aspects of terrestrial and space-based communication, including wireless, mobile, satellite, and telecommunications.

Application Process

Student together with their supervisor must fill out the one-page application form containing the outline of the proposed research project (see the application template accompanying this Call for Proposals) and must submit the student’s official current transcript with the information required to confirm eligibility. If the information required for confirmation of eligibility is unavailable in the official transcript, proposed supervisors must write a one-page support letter indicating how each of the eligibility criteria is fulfilled. Other supporting documents may not exceed 2 pages; overlength pages will be trimmed before the review process.

Evaluation Process

Evaluation of the applications will be conducted by the AP-S Membership/Benefits Committee and Education Committee based on the following 3 criteria:

Academic standing of the student
Quality of the proposed research project
Quality of the training

Deadline

Complete applications must be submitted electronically as a single pdf file to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and cc’ed to Prof. Maokun Li (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Prof. John Young (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by March 10, 2024. Projects may be conducted, however, during any 16-weeks period from the time of award to December 31, 2024.

Notification of Results

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

USRS Payment

Student will receive USRS payment in one installment of US$3000 each. The installment will be processed upon commencement of the project. AP-S will require students to fill out and submit forms W8/9 to process the payments.

Project Report

Recipients of the AP-S USRS will have to submit a final report describing the accomplishments of their project by December 31, 2024. In lieu of the report, the student can submit a copy of the paper or slides on the USRS project presented or submitted to an AP-S sponsored conference.

Travel Allowances

USRS is not intended for travel expenses.

For More Information

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

Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship (USRS) finalists

№	Name of the applicant	Proposed supervisor	University	Title of the proposed research project
1	Nathan Young	Georgios Trichopoulos	Arizona State University	Energy Optimization for Millimeter Wave Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
2	Eric Grey Dubberstein	Nader Behdad	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Wideband, Phased-Array Antenna Development Using Electronically Reconfigurable Reflect arrays
3	Anuja Panna Shah	Gianluca Lazzi	University of Southern California	Wireless Electrical Stimulation of the Optic Nerve Through the Use of Magneto-Electric Nanoparticles
4	Samuel COOGLE	Asimina Kiourti	Ohio State University	Magneto-Inductive Waveguides: Interconnecting the Next Generation of Wearables and Implants
5	Eve K. Stegner	Cherish Bauer Reich	University of Jamestown	Development of RFID for use in Environmental Sensing
6	Parker Dean Lambert	Yuzhang Zang	Western Washington University	Optimizing Wireless Sensor Network Designs for Environmental Monitoring in Residential and Commercial Buildings
7	Tianqi SHEN	Nader Behdad	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Phased Array Antenna Control Systems
8	Connor Buternowsky	Dustin Isleifson	University of Manitoba	Towards the Detection of Oil Spills in Arctic Sea lce using Electromagnetic Modeling and Radar Measurements
9	James William STEPHENSON	Mahmoud Wagih	University of Glasgow	A Differential Long Range Wearable RF Sensing Platform using Printed Antennas
10	Villani Clarissa	Nunzia Fontana	University of Pisa	Metasurface Small-Scale Demonstrator for Electrical Vehicles (EV) Wireless Charging Applications
11	Guglielmi Federico	Francesco Paolo Andriulli	Politecnico di Torino	Tolerance Analysis and Optimization for Multi Level Adaptive Cross Approximations with Uniform Matrix Relative Error Constraints
12	Burak Ferhat OZCAN	Sema Dumanli	Bogazici University	Real Time In-body Sensing at Molecular Level
13	Uğur Berkay Çalışkan	Tuba YILMAZ ABDOLSAHEB	Istanbul Technical University	Temperature-Dependent Dielectric Properties of Tissue Mimicking Materials
14	Adnan Hassan Zahran	Angie Reda Eldamak	Ain Shams University	Microwave Sensors for Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring
15	Mohamed Zidan	Mohamed Ismail Mohamed Ahmed	Electronics Research Institute	Design and Fabrication of 3D Printed Wideband Dual-Polarized Horn Antennas for mm-Wave Applications
16	Hamzeh QAMAR	Nasir Saeed	United Arab Emirates University	Designing a Digital Twin of Small Satellite Constellations for Regional Environmental Monitoring
17	Bethel Wodajo Alyazia Aldhaheri	Mousa Hussein	United Arab Emirates University	AI-Enabled Design and Development of Microstrip-Based Biosensor for Rapid Diagnosis and Analysis
18	Shiqi Wang	Xingqi Zhang	University College Dublin	Machine Learning-Based Models of Radio Wave Propagation for 5G and Beyond Wireless Communications
19	Jose Alvarez	Francisco Pizarro Torres	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso	Design and Characterization of Different Unit Cells for the Implementation of Lenses in the mmWave Spectra
20	Elijah Schutz	Withayachumnankul Withawat	The University of Adelaide	Three-Dimensional Raster Scanning System for Measuring Near-Field Distribution of Terahertz Antennas
21	Jingfeng Yu	Yujian Cheng	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	Parametric Modeling and Automatically Design for Tightly Coupled Dipole Arrays with ANN
22	ASERKAR AKSHAY	Sandeep Joshi	Birla Institute Of Technology And Science–Pilani	Novel Beamforming Techniques for 5G and Beyond Communication Systems
23	Saurabh Kichouliya	Sandeep Joshi	Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT)	Design and Development of Conformal Frequency Selective Surface using 3-D printing Technique for Shielding Applications
24	Ankit Mishra	Rakesh Sinha	National Institute of Technology, Rourkela	Measuring the Mass of Heavy Stars Using Gravitational Redshift Spectrum Analysis.
25	VEERABHADRAIAH VINAY	AJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI	Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology	Machine Learning Based Monitoring, Optimal Localization, And Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Microwave Ablation Technique for covid 19 patients.
26	Gopika G Krishnan	Sumi M	NSS College of Engineering	Planar Multiresonators based Chipless RFID tag for loT Applications
27	V. Aparna	K. Karthika S. Arunkumar	Kumaraguru College of Technology	Design of a Compact High Gain Millimeter Wave Antenna for the Future Sixth Generation (6G) Communication
28	Karthik Gugulothu	Ravi Kumar Gangwar	Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad	Design and Development of SIW based Antenna Array for Futuristic 6G Applications
29	Dhaval Tukaram Chande	Yerram Ravinder	Pune Institute of Computer Technology	Comparative Study of Spectral Estimation Techniques and Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Advanced Indian MST Radar Adyanced Indian MST Radar Adyanced Indian MST Radar
30	Shreeya Mittal	Madhur Deo Upadhayay	Shiv Nadar University	NB Antenna for Drone Detection
31	Noor Syahirah Kamaruddin	Hasliza binti A Rahim Samsuddin	Universiti Malaysia Perlis	Flexible Slotted UWB Textile Antenna Sensor with Truncated Ground Plane for Breast Cancer Detection
32	Komal Narejo	Muhammad Yameen Sandhu	Sukkur IBA University	Dielectric Loaded Filtering Antenna with Stopband Transmission Zeros
33	Noor Ulain	Qasim Umar Khan	National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)	Design and Analysis of a Dual Band Single Layer Pattern Diversified Patch Antenna for Wi-Fi and Sub 6GHz 5G Communication Applications

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Fellowship Program Awards (2023)

Alejandro Rangel	Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Aleksandar Golubovic	University of Belgrade
Alex Murray	U. of Alberta
Álvaro F. Vaquero	CD Universided de Oviedo
Amir Bahrami	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Anand Kumar	Indian Institute of Science
Arianna Benoni	University of trento
Arkaprovo Das	Penn State University
Arman Afsari	University of Wisconsin
Carissa Roper	University of Wisconsin
Chen Firestein	Ben-Gurion University
Chunmei Liu	Polytechnique Montréal
Edoardo Negri	University of Roma
Elias Le Boudec	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ermanno Citraro	Politechico di Torino
Ghazi Khan	Purdue University
Hao Qin	University College Dublin
Ilir Gashi	Univesita di Siena
Indranil Nayak	Ohio State University
Jawad Ali	King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
Josef Knapp	Technical University of Munich
Junhui Rao	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kapil Gangwar	Cornell University
Kerlos Atia Abdalmalak	Charles III University of Madrid
Kevin Mutai	Tohoku University
Lior Maman	Tel Aviv University
Mettu Goutham Reddy	National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Mingxiang Stephen Li	Adelaide University
Mohamad Gad	Nilu University Egypt
Mykola Khobzei	Chernivtsi National University
Omid Babazadeh Astmal	U. Manitoba
Özgür Eriş	Middle East Tehcnological Institute
Patinavalasa Megh Sainadh	Intdia Institute of Technology
Peize Zhang	Oulu University
Peyman PourMohammadi	Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Romina Kazemivala	McMaster Uni.
Rotem Gal-Katzir	Tel Aviv University
Shen Lin	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Soumik Dey	Indian Institure of Technology Palakkad
Sulayman Joof	Istanbul Technical University
Trung Dung Ha	University of Illinois Chicago
Vasileios Ataloglou	U. of Toronto
Xiaolong You	Adelaide University
Yang Cheng	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Yongjian Zhang	Tsinghua University
Yongzhong Li	U. of Toronto
Youngo Youn	Pohang University of Science and Technology
Yujie Zhang	National University of Singapore

About the Fellowship Program

Description

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) allocated $240,000 for its Fellowship Program in 2023. The program aim is to promote areas of interest to 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 2023-2024 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 a member 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 2023-2024.
Postdoctoral applicants must hold a full-time appointment at an accredited institution for the academic year 2023-2024.
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 2023-2024.
The AP-S Fellowship (APSF) may be held in conjunction with AP-S travel grants and other AP-S 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 2023-2024.
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 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 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 AP-S membership in 2023 (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 project statement describing in detail the project, the applicant's aptitude for successfully carrying the project, and their intent to pursue a career in topics of interest to the AP-S. The statement should be no longer than 2 pages (including figures, not including a reference list of up to 1 page), single column, in a 10pt font size.
- 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 the subject line "APSF'2023: Last Name, First Name - Application" or "APSF'2023: Last Name, First Name - Advisor".

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 June 15, 2023.

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.

2023 Raj Mittra Travel Grant awarded

The 2023 Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) has been established to partially support travel by one Ph.D. level scientist to attend the joint 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, which will be held from July 23–28, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

This year for the IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023 in Portland, RMTG Committee is pleased to announce Dr. Chaoyun Song as the RMTG Awardee!!

Chaoyun Song (IEEE Senior Member, IEEE AP-S Member, IEEE MTT-S Member) received his BEng. MSc (with distinction) and PhD degrees all in electrical engineering and electronics from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, in 2012, 2013 and 2017, respectively.

He is currently an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Engineering at King's College London, UK. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor for 3 years in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

He has authored/co-authored more than 100 papers in leading journals and conference proceedings, including 43 papers in IEEE Transactions. His current research interests include flexible and stretchable electronics, wireless energy harvesting and power transfer, rectifying antennas (rectennas), metamaterials and meta-surfaces, and low-power sensors.

His research has also been featured in highly impactful publications such as the Proceedings of the IEEE, Nano Energy, Nano-Micro Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Materials & Design, and Applied Physics Letters, among others.

He has three ESI Highly Cited Papers published in IEEE TAP (2015, 2016) and IEEE TIE (2017). Additionally, he has filed six US, EU, and UK patents, with one patent being commercialized by start-up company.

Dr. Song has been the recipient of several international awards, including the IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador 2023, the EW BrightSparks Award for Top 30 UK electronic engineers under the age of 30 in 2018, and the winner of the IET Present Around the World Competition in 2016.

He also received the EuCAP 2023 Best Antenna Paper Award out of over 1200 presented papers, and the BAE Systems Chairman's Award in 2017 for his innovation in next-generation global navigation satellite system antennas.

In 2018, he was highly commended in three categories - "Energy and Power" , "Emerging Technologies", and "Young Innovators" - at the prestigious IET Innovation Awards. Dr. Song has served as a regular reviewer for over 30 international journals, including Nature Communications and >15 IEEE transactions and journals.

He has also been a session chair and/or TPC member for EuCAP2018, IEEE AP-S Symposium 2021, IEEE VTC2022-fall, and EuCAP2023. Dr. Song has been a short course lecturer at IEEE AP-S Symposium 2023 and a workshop panelist at EuCAP2023.

He has been a guest editor for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation, Micromachines, ePrime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy.

Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks.