2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Young Professional of the Year Award Announced!!
The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Young Professional of the Year Award is to recognize one Young Professional (YP) member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for significant service to AP Society during the one-year term as IEEE AP-S Young Ambassador. This award consists of US$2,000 cash honorarium as well as a plaque and/or certificate to be given during the Awards Ceremony at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas & Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, 12 - 18 July 2025, Ottawa, Canada.
This year AP-S is pleased to announce Dr. Lei Guo of Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China as the 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Young Professional of the Year Awardee!!
Dr. Lei Guo received the B.Eng. degree in communication engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2016. From 2016 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral research fellow with City University of Hong Kong, China and Poly-Grames Research Center, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. She is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
She has authored/ co-authored more than 60 articles, and holds 12 patents including 6 US patents and 6 Chinese patents. She received the Student Best Paper Award in iWEM-2015 and her student won the Third-Place Prize in IEEE MTT-S FLASH Competition. She served as the organizing committee member in multiple international conference, e.g. 2018 IEEE MTT-S WPTC, 2022 ICMMT, 2023 MTT-S IWS, 2024 MTT-S IWS, and etc. She has continuously contributed to organizing women special sessions and activities for the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation (OJAP) and the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP). She served as a Guest Editor for special issues in IEEE OJAP (2021), IEEE MTT (2023), and IEEE AWPL (2024). She also takes lead in the launch of a WeChat Channel in China, for the promotion of IEEE TAP in China. Dr. Guo is now serving as an Associate Editor for both IEEE TAP and IEEE OJAP. She was recognized as the Outstanding Associate Editor for OJAP in 2024, and was selected as AP-S Young Professional Ambassador for the same year. Her current research interests include wireless energy harvesting techniques, dielectric resonator antennas, millimeter-wave antenna arrays, and wireless sensing technologies.