Yikai CHEN

Full-Professor

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China                   

No. 2006, Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone

611731, Chengdu, Sichuan, P. R. China                   

Telephone:           86-28-61830886

E-mail:                  ykchen@uestc.edu.cn

                               ykchen@ieee.org

• EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Electromagnetics and Microwave Technology, 2011, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China.

  Thesis: Studies on the Antenna Arrays Based on Four Dimensional Antenna Theory and Strong Mutual Coupling Effect

• B.S., Electromagnetics and Microwave Technology, 2006, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China.

  Thesis: Application of Differential Evolution Algorithm in Antenna Array Synthesis

• PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Full-Professor                                                                                                                                                                                     August 2015-Present

                Department of Microwave Engineering

                University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

• Research Scientist                                                                                                                                                                      July 2011-July 2015

Temasek Laboratories

National University of Singapore, Singapore 

• RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Computational electromagnetics

• Special interests in frequency-domain methods (MoM and MLFMA) development for the fast analysis of antenna and antenna arrays, and time-domain method (FDTD) development for the analysis of time-domain antenna arrays.

• Tightly coupled wideband phased arrays

• Develop wideband (at least 4:1 bandwidth) and wide-angle (at ±45°) scanning phased array for airborne, satellite, and shipboard applications

• 5G Base station antenna array

• Develop closely packed multiband (3G+4G+5G) MIMO base station antenna array and in-door base station antenna array for 5G high-rate data linking

• Four-dimensional (4D) antenna array

• Theory of 4D array

• Radiation pattern synthesis in 4D antenna array

• Applications of 4D antenna array in radar and communication systems

• Evolutionary optimization algorithm developments

• Differential evolution algorithm

• Particle swarm optimization

• Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition

• Characteristic modes (CM)

• CM theory developments for dielectric objects, dielectric coated conducting bodies, arbitrarily PEC-dielectric composite objects, and objects within multilayer dielectric materials

• CM applications in radiation problems: platform integrated antenna designs, microstrip antenna analysis and design, dielectric resonator antenna analysis and designs, antenna array synthesis.

• CM applications in scattering problems: scattering analysis, controlling, and suppression

• MEMBSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Senior Member, IEEE

• Member, ACES (The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society)

• RESEARCH AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2018 Best Student Paper Award, from the 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium in China (ACES-China 2018), for the paper “A Flush-mounted Ultra-wideband Scanning Phased Array with End-fire Radiation Pattern,” Haotian Li, Yikai Chen, Shiwen Yang

• 2017 Thousand Talents Program Professor of Sichuan Province, issued by the People's Government of Sichuan Province

• 2016 Thousand Talents Program Professor of China, issued by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, P. R. China

• 2015 Hundred Talents Program Professor of UESTC, issued by the UESTC

• 2013 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China, issued by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

• 2013 Excellent Doctorate Dissertation Award of Sichuan Province, PR China, issued by the  Sichuan Provincial Education Department

• 2010 National Excellent Doctorate Dissertation Cultivation Program, sponsored by the UESTC

• 2010 Top-Ten Most-cited Articles Honorary Award, Electromagnetics, 2007-2009

• 2011 Rohde-Schwarz Corporation Scholarship, Rohde-Schwarz Corporation

• 2009 CASC Scholarship, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

• 2008 Tencent Scholarship, Tencent Corporation

• Graduate Scholarship of the UESTC, 2007-2010

• The 1st Grade, 2010

• The 1st Grade, 2009

• The Top Grade, 2008

• The 1st Grade, 2007

• 2006 Distinguished Dissertation Award, for the dissertation entitled “Application of Differential Evolution Algorithm in Antenna Array Synthesis”, UESTC

• PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Associate Editor

• Electronic Letters                                                                                                                                      2018-Present

• Chinese Journal of Electronics                                                                                                                  2016-Present

• Reviewer of 13 journals

• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

• IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

• IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation

• IEEE Access

• IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

• International Journal of Antenna and Propagation

• International Journal of Numerical Modeling

• International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies

• International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering

• Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

• Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

• Progress in Electromagnetics Research

•  TCP Members

• The 2018 IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation

• The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics

• The 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium

• The 2017 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium

• The 2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation

• The 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications

• Special session organizer, chair, and reviewer of many conferences

• The 2018 IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation

• The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics

• The 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium

• 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

• 2018 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP)

• The 2017 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium

• 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP)

• 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

• 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

• The 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications

• The 2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation