Invited Talks 6（by two presenters）

Design and Characterization of Cost-Effective Planar Antennas with Steerable Beams: Gap Waveguides, SMT and Random LOS

Biography

Jian Yang (SM’10) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1982, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Nanjing Research Center of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing, in 1985, and the Swedish Licentiate and Ph.D. degrees from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg, Sweden, in 1998 and 2001, respectively.

From 1985 to 1996, he was with the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing, China, as a Senior Engineer. From 1999 to 2005, he was with the Department of Electromagnetics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg, Sweden, as a Research Engineer. During 2005 and 2006, he was with COMHAT AB as a Senior Engineer. From 2006 to 2010, he was an Assistant Professor and, since 2010, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology. His research interests include 60–120-GHz antennas, terahertz antennas, MIMO antennas, ultrawideband (UWB) antennas and UWB feeds for reflector antennas, UWB radar systems, UWB antennas in near-field sensing applications, hat-fed antennas, reflector antennas, radome design, and computational electromagnetics.

Biography

Dr. Andrés Alayón Glazunov (IEEE SM’ 2011) is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He obtained the M.Sc. (Engineer-Researcher) degree in Physical Engineering from Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Lund University, Sweden, during 1988-1994 and 2006-2009, respectively. He has held various positions at research labs in the Swedish telecom industry, e,g., member of the Research Staff at Ericsson Research, Senior Research Engineer at Telia Research, and Senior Specialist in Antenna Systems and Propagation at TeliaSonera. In academia, he has held a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship at the Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND), University of Bedfordshire, UK, and a post-doc position at the Electromagnetic Engineering Lab, KTH-The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Alayón Glazunov has been one of the pioneers in establishing OTA measurement techniques. He has conducted, or is conducting research, in areas related to advanced receiver performance evaluation, applied electromagnetic wave propagation, stochastic channel modelling, smart and MIMO antennas and systems, network optimization, fundamental limitations on antenna-channel interactions, and Over-The-Air (OTA) performance evaluation of wireless devices. He has actively contributed to the European COST Actions 259 and 273. He has contributed to the EVEREST and NEWCOM European research projects as well as to the 3GPP and the ITU standardization bodies.

Alayón Glazunov is the author of various scientific and technical publications. He is the co-author and co-editor of LTE-Advanced and Next Generation Wireless Networks (Wiley 2012).