12th IET colloquium on antennas, wireless and electromagnetics (CAWE)
Annual Colloquium
About
The colloquium this year is kindly being hosted by the Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) at Queens University Belfast.
This one-day free-to-attend event brings together early career and experienced research scientists, engineers, and technologists, to share, discuss and debate their latest technical knowledge about antennas, propagation and wireless and electromagnetics in an informal colloquium style event.
The frequency bands of interest range from VLF to free space optics and radio applications ranging from underwater radio systems to space-based systems.
The colloquium provides an opportunity for early-stage researchers (such as final year apprentices, MSc and PhD students, research assistants, as well as experienced researchers, and researchers about to start a new project, to gain presentation experience and inform the wider community of their work. The colloquium will also provide an opportunity for young and experienced researchers to network with the antennas and propagation community.
Three keynote presentations will be given and there will be an opportunity to present a poster and view some posters from QUB-CWI students as well as the opportunity to visit a CWI Laboratory.
Keynote speakers
- Scenarios, challenges and advance in wireless power transfer
Dr Neil Buchanan, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Wireless Innovation, Queens University Belfast. - Exploiting your research
Dr Anil Shukla FIET, Senior Fellow, QinetiQ - Generation after next future systems architect what is it and how to become one
- Dr Philip Catherwood, Senior Future Systems Architect, Thales
If you are planning to fly to Belfast, please note that the venue is nearest to Belfast City Airport (George Best).
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
15 May 2024
9:30am - 4:30pm
Organiser
- Antennas and Propagation TN
Speakers
Dr Neil Buchanan
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Wireless Innovation - Queens University Belfast
Neil’s research interests include Wireless power transfer, self-steered (retrodirective) antenna systems and tracking antennas for space applications. He is currently a Principal Investigator on the space solar wireless power transmission project “CASSIOPeiA Antenna with Steering Scaled Indoor Experiment (CASSIE)” which is funded by the UK Government Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, UK Space Agency and project managed by Satellite Applications Catapult.
He has also concluded a large grant funded by EPSRC with the aim of providing wireless power transmission to drones via retrodirective thinned arrays. He has successfully completed five ESA funded projects in the areas of retrodirective antennas for Satcom and launch vehicle antennas. He has published over 100 papers and was awarded the GSMA “Mobile World Scholar Award” Gold prize, presented at the 2018 Mobile World Congress, for outstanding research into 5G self-steered antenna technologies.
He is also a previous holder of the ESA Young Antenna Engineer Prize in Oct 2010 for outstanding work in retrodirective Satcom antennas. He is passionate about commercialization of research and has held CTO positions in university spin out companies, winning a local entrepreneurial award (Northern Ireland Science Park 25k awards) in 2011 for “Flish, the flat satellite dish company”.
Dr Anil Shukla
Senior Fellow - QinetiQ
Anil Shukla (FIET) is a QinetiQ Fellow and a Research and Innovation leader in radio systems, RF technologies, propagation and spectrum regulation. His expertise ranges from medium-wave systems to mm-waves systems and his current research interests include: “Operating Radio Systems in Difficult Environments“, “Physical Layer Security and Resilience,” and “Cognitive / Intelligent Radios.”
At QinetiQ, he manages a wide range of research activities related to communications and networks for systems operating from underwater to space.
He is a sub-editor of the IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation Journal and the Chair of the IET Antennas and Propagation Technical Network.
Dr Philip Catherwood
Senior Future Systems Architect - Thales
Dr Phil Catherwood currently works as a Senior Future Systems Architect with Thales, developing datalinks for generation-after-next defence solutions.
He has spent 30 years in industry and academia, and has previously worked at Sensata as the Manager for the Wireless development group and then the Manager for Battery Management Systems, and previously as Principal Systems Architect and the leader of the Wireless Centre of Excellence.
He holds a PhD in wearable wireless communications from Queen’s University, Belfast and has 35+ publications. He was an academic for 16 years of his career and established the LoRaWAN and Sigfox wireless research networks across Northern Ireland.
Despite his career success, his most valued achievement is having raised 2 wonderful children with his wife.
Programme
09:00-10:00 Registration and Networking with light refreshments (posters set up)
Session 1
10:00-10:10 Welcome – Housekeeping, Aims of Colloquium
Dr Anil Shukla, CAWE Chair and Chair of IET Antennas & Propagation TN
10:10-10:30 Invited Speaker
Scenarios, challenges and advance in wireless power transfer
Dr Neil Buchanan, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI),
Queens University Belfast
10:30-10:45 Presentation 1
Detection of Coexistence Based Joint Radar and Communications Systems
Shreesh Mohalikj, University of Edinburgh
10:45-11:00 Presentation 2
Quantum Machine Learning Applications for 6G: A Channel Estimation Scenario
Trung Duong, Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada and QUB CWI Belfast
11:00-11:30 Mid-morning break with light refreshments – Poster Session - CWI Lab Tour
Session 2
11:30-11:45 Presentation 3
Analysis of Impinging Waves on Slotted Coaxial Cables: Implications for Eavesdropper Antennas
Adam Beacom, QUB CWI Belfast
11:45-12:00 Presentation 4
Joint Super-resolution and Classification of Microwave Radar Images
Rahul Sharma, QUB CWI Belfast
12:00-12:15 Presentation 5
Wireless Power Transfer with High Stability and Reliability
Minzhang Liu, University of Liverpool
12:15-13:40 Lunch – Networking – Poster Session - CWI Lab Tour
Session 3
13:40-14:00 Invited Speaker
Wireless Research in generation after next defence
Dr Phil Catherwood, Senior Future Systems Architect, Thales
14:00-14:15 Presentation 6
Implementing Refractive, Reconfigurable Intelligent Edges for Enhanced Radio Coverage
George Travers, QUB ECIT Belfast
14:15-14:30 Presentation 7
Integrating THz Transceiver Front-End Components in one Device using Spatiotemporal Graphene-Based Waveguides
Leila Yousefi, University of Sussex
14:30-14:45 Presentation 8
Photonics-Enabled THz Meta-Antennas with Electronic Beam Steering Capability for Future Wireless Communications
Mohammad Neshat, QUB CWI Belfast
14:45-15:15 Mid-afternoon break with light refreshments – Poster Session - CWI Lab Tour
Session 4
15:15-15:30 Presentation 9
Study of Reconfigurable Photoconductive Silicon Based RF Antennas
Fatma Elhouni, University of Liverpool
15:30-15:45 Presentation 10
Through-the-Wall Computational Imaging using Single-Pixel Frequency-Diverse Antennas
Maria Garcia-Fernandez, QUB CWI Belfast
15:45-16:00 Invited Speaker
Exploiting your research
Dr Anil Shukla, Senior Fellow, QinetiQ
16:00-16:05 Closing remarks and thanks – Dr Anil Shukla
16:05-16:30 Networking
Poster Sessions
A Metasurface-Augmented Semi-circular Luneburg Lens Antenna for Beamsteering Millimetre-Wave Applications
Bader Saad F Alali, QUB CWI Belfast
Enhanced 3D image reconstruction with dynamic metasurface antennas in near-field microwave imaging
Amir Masoud Molaei, QUB CWI Belfast
Terahertz 3D Holographic Imaging Using Power-Detector Arrays
Mohammad Neshat, QUB CWI Belfast
Frequency-Diverse Bunching Metasurface Antennas for Far-field Microwave Computational Imaging
Mengran Zhao, QUB CWI Belfast
Reconfigurable Metasurfaces for Computational Microwave Imaging
Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, QUB CWI Belfast
Manipulating the Signal Transmission with an Auxiliary Input Signal
Krushna Kanth Varikuntla, QUB CWI Belfast