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+## 2024, Richard B. Schulz Award for the Best Transactions Paper in IEEE TEMC (2nd Place) + +Our paper, Predicting Statistical Wave Physics in Complex Enclosures: A Stochastic Dyadic Green's Function Approach, received 2023 Richard B. Schulz Best Transactions Paper (Honorable Mention) at IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility (IEEE T-EMC). + +The [Richard B. Schulz Award](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7870609 +) recognizes the outstanding paper published in the IEEE T-EMC, with two papers selected each year: the Best Transaction Paper, and the Honorable Mention Transaction Paper (HMTP), which represents the second best Transaction paper. + +This paper is selected from 208 papers published in 2023 IEEE T-EMC through a rigorous review and consideration of the editorial board. The award will be presented at the annual IEEE EMC+SIPI Symposium during the Awards Luncheon. + +The work is in collaboration with Profs. Steven Anlage and Thomas Antonsen at University of Maryland, and Drs. Zachary Drikas and Bisrat Addissie at Naval Research Laboratories. +we extend our sincere appreciation to our sponsors from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for their support and funding. + ## 2024, Student Fellowships and Awards +{:.textCol} Four members of our group had the pleasure to receive fellowships and awards for their outstanding research. On the left, Incheol (Aiden) Jung received the [James M. Henderson Fellowship](https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/grad/fellowships/henderson). In the center, Gonzalo Núñez Muñoz received the [A.R. "Buck" Knight Fellowship](https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/grad/fellowships/knight). On the right, Qi Jian Lim received the [Raj Mittra Outstanding Research Award](https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/grad/awards/mittra). Ge Cao (not in image) also won the Promise of Excellence Fellowship. Congratulations to all of them! +{:.imgCol} ![Fellowships](/assets/images/news/fellowships.jpg) ## 2024, IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Zhen Peng is honored to serve as an IEEE Antennas and Propagation (AP-S) Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2024-2026. The IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) provides experts, the Distinguished Lecturers (DLs), who are financially supported to visit active AP-S Chapters around the world and give lectures on topics of interest and importance to the antennas and propagation community. +Titles of talks are: (1) Physics-oriented Statistical Wave Analysis Integrating Order and Chaos, (2) Domain Decomposition Methodology for Solving Maxwell’s Equations at Scale, (3) Empowering Smart Radio Environments with Quantum Computing and Optimization. + ## 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. +{:.textCol} +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, Gabriele Gradoni at the University of Surrey, and GreenerWave. +{:.imgCol} +![Experimental Demo at Brooklyn 6G Summit](/assets/images/news/Brooklyn6G.JPEG) ## 2023, Best Student Paper Award (2nd prize) at NEMO'2023 Charles Ross received the Best 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”. @@ -71,10 +91,14 @@ Congratulations to Qi Jian Lim for being selected as one of the eight awardees o ## 2022, Best Electromagnetics Paper Award at 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation -Our Paper “Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” (Qi Jian Lim, Charles Ross, Gabriele Gradoni, and Zhen Peng) received the Best Electromagnetics Paper Award at the 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP2022).  +{:.textCol} +Our Paper “Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” (Qi Jian Lim, Charles Ross, Gabriele Gradoni, and Zhen Peng) received the Best Electromagnetics Paper Award at the 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP2022).

We proposed a physics-based optimization approach for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, inspired by the quantum mechanical physics of correlated spins. The new idea is grounded on the isomorphism between the electromagnetic scattered power and Ising Hamiltonian. Thereby, the problem of optimizing phase configuration is converted into finding the ground state of the target Ising Hamiltonian. Under this framework, we successfully demonstrated the feasibility of combinatorial optimization for weighted beamforming and diffusive scattering applications. +{:.imgCol} +![EuCAP2022](/assets/images/news/EuCAP2022.jpg) + ## 2022, Best Paper Award Finalist at IEEE EMC Symposium  Our paper, “On the Vectorial Property of Stochastic Dyadic Green’s Function in Complex Electronic Enclosures” entered into the 2022 Best EMC Symposium Paper Finalist in the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity.  @@ -100,10 +124,15 @@ Our Paper “A Novel Space-Time Building Block Methodology for Transient Electr We proposed a space-time building block methodology for efficient time-domain analysis of multi-scale, locally periodic structures. By leveraging the principles of linear superposition and space-time causality in wave physics, the 4D simulation domain is represented by a few space-time building blocks, which are constructed upon 3D spatial unit cell and 1D time unit. The work results in novel time-evolution schemes, which exhibit high-order accuracy and achieve concurrency and parallelism in both spatial and temporal dimensions.  ## 2019, Best Paper Award at IEEE EMC Symposium  -Our paper, “A Novel Statistical Model for the Electromagnetic Coupling to Electronics inside Enclosures” has been selected as 2019 Best EMC Symposium Paper Award in the [2019 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity](https://www.emc2019.emcss.org). It is a joint work with Edl Schamiloglu (UNM), Zachary B. Drikas (NRL), and Thomas Antonsen (UMD).  +{:.textCol} +Our paper, “A Novel Statistical Model for the Electromagnetic Coupling to Electronics inside Enclosures” has been selected as 2019 Best EMC Symposium Paper Award in the [2019 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity](https://www.emc2019.emcss.org). It is a joint work with Edl Schamiloglu (UNM), Zachary B. Drikas (NRL), and Thomas Antonsen (UMD).  +

The work is supported by NSR CAREER Award, and [AFOSR/AFRL Center of Excellence: Science of Electronics in Extreme Electromagnetic Environments](http://ece-research.unm.edu/AFOSR-COE/).  +{:.imgCol} +![Fellowships](/assets/images/news/EMC2019.png) + ## 2019, Honorable Mention Award at IEEE AP-S Symposium Student Paper Competition Shen Lin received the 2019 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium Student Paper Competition Honorable Mention Award. The title of the paper is “Physics-Oriented Statistical Analysis of Information Transmission in Wave-Chaotic Environments”.  diff --git a/research/quantum-optimization-RIS.md b/research/quantum-optimization-RIS.md index 33520b3..67e7396 100755 --- a/research/quantum-optimization-RIS.md +++ b/research/quantum-optimization-RIS.md @@ -30,13 +30,20 @@ We believe that the physics of complex systems fused with quantum computing will #### C. Ross, G. Gradoni, Q. J. Lim, and Z. Peng, “Engineering reflective metasurfaces with Ising hamiltonian and quantum annealing,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 2841–2854, 2022. -### A discussion of quantum-assisted combinatorial optimization for reconfigurable surfaces,: +### A discussion of quantum-assisted combinatorial optimization for reconfigurable surfaces: #### Q. J. Lim, C. Ross, G. Gradoni, and Z. Peng, “Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces,” 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 27 March - 01 April, 2022 (Best Electromagnetics Paper Award). #### 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. +#### E. Colella, L. Bastianelli, M. Khalily, F. Moglie, Z. Peng and G. Gradoni, "Quantum Optimisation of Reconfigurable Surfaces in Complex Propagation Environments," 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP60739.2024.10500955. +#### G. Gradoni, S. Terranova, Q. J. Lim, C. Ross and Z. Peng, "Random Ising Hamiltonian Model of Metasurfaces in Complex Environments," 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Florence, Italy, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10132939. +#### Gradoni, G., Di Renzo, M., Diaz-Rubio, A., Tretyakov, S., Caloz, C., Peng, Z., …Phang, S. (2022). Smart Surface Radio Environments. Reviews of Electromagnetics, 1, 1-42. https://doi.org/10.53792/roe/2022.1/21012 + +### Hybrid Classical-Quantum Computing Framework for RIS-assisted Smart Radio Environments: + +#### C. Ross, G. Gradoni and Z. Peng, "A Hybrid Classical-Quantum Computing Framework for RIS-assisted Wireless Network," 2023 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO), Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 2023, pp. 99-102, doi: 10.1109/NEMO56117.2023.10202166.