2022 IEEE AP-S YP of the Year Award Announced
2022 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 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI 2023) to be held during July 23–28, 2023, at the Oregon Convention Center and Hyatt Regency, in Portland, Oregon, USA.
This year AP-S is pleased to announce Prof. Zhijiao Chen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China as the 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Young Professional of the Year Awardee!!
Prof. Zhijiao Chen received the B.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2010, and Ph.D. degree from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in 2014. She joined the School of Electronic Engineering in BUPT as a Lecturer in 2014, and currently is an Associate Professor. She was secondment to Ace-Axis Wireless Technology Laboratories Ltd (Essex, UK) in 2012, and joined Northeastern University (Boston, MA) as a visiting student in 2013. In 2018, she joined the State Key laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter-wave in City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) as a visiting scholar. In 2019, she joined the National Physical Laboratory (London, UK) as a visiting scholar. She received the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Workshop Antenna Technology (IEEE iWAT2013, Karlsruhe, Germany), the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (IEEE APS/URSI 2013, Orlando, FL), the TICRA Travel Grant at European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014, Hague, Netherlands). She has authored/co-authored more than 30 journal articles, one English book and more than 50 conference papers. She serves as the Associate Editor for Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. Her research interests include but not limited to Dielectric Resonator Antennas, Millimeter-wave Antenna Array, Semi-smart Base Station Antennas, and Antennas for Radio Astronomy.