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# Group News
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## 2023, Experimental Demo at Brooklyn 6G Summit
Our group conducted a live experimental demo at the Brooklyn 6G Summit. In this demo, we presented a hybrid classical-quantum computing framework for solving the joint channel estimation and optimization problem for RIS-assisted wireless communications. Our demonstration included transmitter and receiver antennas with no line-of-sight link while using an RIS to create a virtual line-of-sight link. The antennas are connected to USRP N210 Software Defined Radio (SDR). An interactive interface is provided to plot in real time the configuration of the RIS, channel gain, received constellation, and decoded message data.
The work is in collaboration with Amitava Ghosh and Frederick Vook in the Radio Interface Group at Nokia Standards, and Gabriele Gradoni at the University of Surrey.
## 2023, Best Student Paper Award (2nd prize) at NEMO'2023
Charles Ross received theBest Student Paper Award (2nd prize) at the IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO). The title of the paper is “A Hybrid Classical-Quantum Computing Framework for RIS-assisted Wireless Network”.
In this paper, we proposed and experimentally validated a quantum-assisted computing framework that allows for ultra-fast optimization of RIS-assisted smart radio environment. By leveraging the computing power of quantum adiabatic evolution and mathematics of tensor contraction, the onsite optimization of RIS configuration can be performed rapidly using only feedback (received power) at wireless endpoints. The outcomes enable the possibility of ultrafast joint channel estimation - optimization in dynamic wireless environments.
## 2023, Dr. Eric K. Walton Graduate Award at ECE Illinois
Charles Ross has been chosen as the recipient of the 2022-2023 Dr. Eric K. Walton Graduate Award. This award is presented to a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who has demonstrated excellence in research in the area of antennae design, radar studies, or radio waves.
## 2023, Young Scientist Award at the URSI GASS 2023
Dr. Shen Lin received a Young Scientist Award at the XXXVth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS 2023). The Young Scientist Awards recognize an international group of individuals making innovative contributions and discoveries in multidiscipline research related to electromagnetic fields and waves.
[Book] Integral Equations for Analysis of Real-life Multi-scale Electromagnetic Problems, Editors: Francesca Vipiana, Zhen Peng, IET Academic Books
[J.2] Q. J. Lim, C. Ross, A. Ghosh, F. Vook, G. Gradoni and Z. Peng, "Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Smart Electromagnetic Environments," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3298134.
[J.4] Q. J. Lim, C. Ross, A. Ghosh, F. Vook, G. Gradoni and Z. Peng, "Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Smart Electromagnetic Environments," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3298134.
[J.1] S. Lin, S. Luo, S. Ma, J. Feng, Y. Shao, Z. B. Drikas, B. D. Addissie, S. M. Anlage, T. Antonsen, and Z. Peng, "Predicting Statistical Wave Physics in Complex Enclosures: A Stochastic Dyadic Green's Function Approach," inIEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 436-453, April 2023.
[J.3] S. Lin, S. Luo, S. Ma, J. Feng, Y. Shao, Z. B. Drikas, B. D. Addissie, S. M. Anlage, T. Antonsen, and Z. Peng, "Predicting Statistical Wave Physics in Complex Enclosures: A Stochastic Dyadic Green's Function Approach," inIEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 436-453, April 2023.
[J.2] J. Tobon, V. F. Martin, A. Serna, Z. Peng, and F. Vipiana, "On the Use of a Localized Huygens Surface Scheme for the Adaptive H-Refinement of Multi-Scale Problems," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3317972.
[J.1] X.-M. Xin, H. -W. Gao, S. Wang, Z. Peng and X.-Q. Sheng, "An Efficient and Effective Preconditioner for the Discontinuous Galerkin Domain Decomposition Method of Surface Integral Equation," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 2367-2371, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/LAWP.2023.3288535.
[C.9] Shen Lin, Yang Shao, Bisrat D. Addissie, Zachary Drikas, and Zhen Peng, “Statistical Characterization of Cavity Quality Factor via the Stochastic Green’s Function Approach”, 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, August 2023.
