Editorial

TY - JOUR

T1 - Editorial

AU - Perregrini, Luca

AU - Pedro, Jose Carlos

AU - Chen, Wenhua

AU - Michael Cheng, Kwok Keung

AU - Li, Changzhi

AU - Ma, Kaixue

AU - Momeni, Omeed

AU - Peng, Zhen

AU - Rolfes, Ilona

N1 - Funding Information: Changzhi Li (S’06–M’09–SM’13) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 2009. From 2007 to 2009, he was first with Alereon inc., Austin, TX, USA, and then Coherent Logix inc., Austin, TX, USA, where he was involved in ultra-wideband transceivers and software-defined radio, respectively. In 2009, he joined Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA, as an Assistant Professor, where he became an Associate Professor in 2014. His current research interests include biomedical applications of microwave technology, wireless sensors, and RF/analog circuits. Dr. Li was a recipient of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Tech-nical Achievement Award, the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award, the IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award, the NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award, and the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETICS, RF AND MICROWAVES IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—I: FUNDAMENTAL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS. He served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL ON EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS Special Issue on Wireless Sensing Circuits and Systems for Healthcare and Biomedical Applications in 2017, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES Special Issue on Emerging RF Measurement Techniques and Applications in 2016, and the Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220) Special Issue on Non-Contact Sensing in 2016. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—II: ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING from 2014 to 2015. He served as a TPC Co-Chair for the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference in 2018 and the IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference from 2012 to 2013. Funding Information: Omeed Momeni (S’04–M’12–SM’18) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2002, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2011. From 2004 to 2006, he was an RFIC Designer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA. In 2011, he joined the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. His current research interests include mm-wave and terahertz integrated circuits and systems. Dr. Momeni has served as a Technical Program Committee member for the International Microwave Symposium and the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, an Organizing Committee member for the IEEE International Workshop on Design Automation for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits, and the Chair for the IEEE Ithaca GOLD section. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015, the Professor of the Year 2014 award of the IEEE at UC Davis, the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of the Cornell ECE Department in 2011, the Outstanding Graduate Award of the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage in 2011, the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE Workshop on Microwave Passive Circuits and Filters in 2010, the Cornell University Jacob’s Fellowship in 2007, and the NASA-JPL Fellowship in 2003. Funding Information: Kaixue Ma (M’05–SM’09) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Northwestern Polytech-nical University, Xi’an, China, and the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From 1997 to 2002, he was a Group Leader with the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Xi’an. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Research and Development Manager with MEDs Technolo-gies, Singapore. From 2007 to 2010, he was with Singapore-based public listed company ST Electronics as a Research and Development Manager, a Project Leader, a Technique Manage-ment Committee Member, and a Technique Consultant in 2011. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Senior Research Fellow with NTU and the Millimeter-Wave RFIC Team Leader for the 60-GHz Flagship Chipset Project. From 2013 to 2018, he was a Full Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. Since 2018, he has been the Dean of the School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, where he is also the Director of Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronics Technology. He proposed a new electromagnetic regulation mechanism, a variety of new microwave integrated circuits based on advanced CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, GaAs, and SOI technologies, and a new circuit and system design and implementation platform patented with quasi-planar circuits with embedded air cavity referred to as SISL in publication. The preliminary research and development results were partially transformed into the company’s flagship products sold to Europe and the U.S. or used in China’s on-orbit satellites. He was responsible for designing and implementing the first low-power reconfigurable 60-GHz SiGe millimeter-wave transceiver SOC, packaging and system testing, and completed a high-speed dual-chip wireless communication system. The results were reported by dozens of technology media. He is currently involved in GaAs and silicon-based millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave integrated circuits. He has authored or co-authored 2 books and 220 SCI/EI indexed papers in the fields of microwave, millimeter-wave, and THz integrated circuits and systems related to satellite communications, software radio, and mobile communications, including over 70 IEEE journal articles, 28 IMS papers, and 2 ISSCC papers. Dr. Ma was a recipient of the Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2016, the Emerging Technology Award from the Singapore Information and Communication Technology Association, and ten technique awards including the Best Paper Award. He was the Chairman of the Microwave and Circuit System Committee for the Young Scientists of the Chinese Institute of Electronics from 2016 to 2018 and the IEEE MTT-S R10 Coordinator for China and Singapore. Funding Information: Dr. Chen is a member of the MTT TC-5 Technical Committee, the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technology, and the International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering. He was a recipient of the New Century Excellent Talents of Ministry of Education of China in 2013, the 2014 URSI Young Scientist Award, and the National Science Fund of China for Excellent Young Scholars, which aims to support young scholars who have excellent achievements. He served as the TPC Co-Chair of IWS 2018 and organized several workshops in international conferences. Funding Information: Ilona Rolfes (M’06) received the degree in electrical engineering from Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in 2002. Her doctoral thesis focused on methods for the precise measurement of the scattering and the noise parameters of linear two ports at microwave frequencies. She passed her study project at Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. She was a Scientific Researcher with the Institute for High Frequency Techniques, Ruhr-University Bochum. From 2005 to 2009, she was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany, where she was the Director of the Institute for Radio frequency and Microwave Engineering from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, she received several calls to full professorships, namely, to the University of Stuttgart as the Director of the Institute for High Frequency Techniques and to the Leibniz University Hannover, as the Director of the Institute for Radio frequency and Microwave Engineering, as well as to the Ruhr-University Bochum, where since 2010, she has been the Chair of High Frequency Systems and the Vice Dean for research of her faculty. Her current research interests include high-frequency measurement methods for vector network analysis, material characterization, noise characterization of microwave devices as well as sensor principles for radar systems and radar imaging. Dr. Rolfes is a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes, the Senate Committee and Grants Committee on Collaborative Research Centers of German Research Foundation (DFG), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). She is a Board member of the German IEEE MTT-AP Chapter and she serves as a Reviewer for various IEEE TRANSACTIONS and conferences. She is a Board member of the German VDE-ITG Commission 9.1 “Measurement Techniques for the Information Technology,” and the German Commission for Electromagnetic Metrology of the International Union of Radio Science (U.R.S.I.), and the Vice President of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV, Deutscher Hochschulverband), the main representation of all German university professors with more than 30 000 members. She is a Liaison Officer of the DFG. She was a recipient of the European Microwave Price of the European Microwave Conference 2001, the Dr. Heinrich-Kost Award in 2002, within a research consortium the EEEfCOM Innovation Award in 2009, and the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2011.

PY - 2019/2

Y1 - 2019/2

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061323421&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2890778

DO - 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2890778

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:85061323421

SN - 0018-9480

VL - 67

SP - 475

EP - 479

JO - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

JF - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

IS - 2

M1 - 8635417

ER -