Tim W. C. Brown

University of Surrey, UK

Tim W. C. Brown (Senior Member, IEEE) is a chartered engineer and academic with key interests focusing on intelligent multiple antennas and their interaction with the radio environment. He received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., in 1999 followed by the Ph.D. degree focusing on antenna diversity for mobile terminals in 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

Since 2007 he has returned to the University of Surrey as an academic where he is currently an Associate Professor in RF antennas, and propagation. Since 2018, he has also been Editor in Chief of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journal of Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation while he has also served as an associate editor to the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters from 2016 to 2018.

His most substantial research contributions or interests include antennas and propagation for mobile and satellite communications, antennas for multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO), low electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure mobile terminals. He has published seminal works in the Royal Society Proceedings for the new concept of Linear Angular Momentum Multiplexing (LAMM), which is a promising solution to ensuring seamless gigabit connectivity from trackside to train.

Peiqin Liu

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Peiqin Liu (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. Since September 2019, he has been with National University of Singapore, where he is a Research Fellow. His current research interests include metamaterial and antenna theory, particularly in novel metasurfaces with deep-learning techniques.

Dr. Liu has authored and co-authored more than 30 technical papers published in international journals and conferences and holds 5 granted Chinese patents. He is the recipient of Young Antenna Scientist Award of 2023 Singapore Workshop on Antennas (SWA); Top Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2022 and 2023; Outstanding Reviewer of IEEE Antennas Wireless Propagation Letters in 2023 (the 4th out of 1263); Outstanding Student Paper Award of 2018 Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSQRWC); the Best Student Paper Award of 2017 Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP); the Best Student Paper Award of 2017 National Conference on Antennas (NCANT).

Dr. Liu has been serving on the IEEE Singapore RFID Chapter since 2022, where he serves as the vice chair in 2024. He has been involved in multiple international events as co-chair and technical program committee member. He has delivered 2 invited speeches, 2 short courses, as well as organized 1 special session, and 1 workshop at international academic events.

Shanpu Shen

University of Liverpool, UK

Shanpu Shen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in communication engineering from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, in 2017.

He was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2016. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with HKUST from 2017 to 2018 and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College London, London, U.K., from 2018 to 2020. He was a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST, from 2020 to 2023. He is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, U.K.

His current research interests include RF energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, reconfigurable intelligent surface, Internet-of-Things, MIMO systems, and antenna design and optimization. He is the 2024 IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador.

Son Xuat Ta

Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

SON XUAT TA received the B.Sc. (Eng.) degree in electronics and telecommunications from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam in August 2008, and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ajou University, Korea in February 2016. March, 2016 – February, 2017, he was a post-doctoral research fellow with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University. March, 2017 – August, 2017, he was with the Division of Computational Physics, Institute for Computational Science, and the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. September 2017 – present, he works as a lecturer at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam.

His research interests include antennas, metamaterials, metasurfaces, metamaterial-based antennas, metasurface-inspired antennas, circularly polarized antennas, and millimeter-wave antennas. He has authored and co-authored over 120 technical-journal and conference papers. He has served as a reviewer for over 15 scientific journals. He has been selected as a Top Reviewer for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in 2020-2023.