Speaker
Antenna Systems Architect,
Qualcomm
Kevin R. Boyle received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from City University, London in 1989, a M.Sc. (with distinction) in Microwaves and Optoelectronics from University College, London in 1997 and the Doctor of Technology degree from Delft University of Technology in 2004.
He was with Marconi Communications Systems Ltd., Chelmsford, England until to 1997, working on all aspects of antenna system design. He joined Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, England in 1997 (which became NXP Semiconductors Research in 2006) where he was a Principal Research Scientist and a Project Leader for antenna and propagation related activities.
In 2008 he joined EPCOS working as an Antenna Systems Architect. His areas of interest include antenna design for mobile communication systems, adaptive RF systems, diversity, propagation modelling and related areas of mobile system design. He now works at Qualcomm.
Dr. Boyle has actively participated in COST 259 and COST 273, is a member of the IEE and a Chartered Engineer. He has published more than twenty papers in refereed international journals and conferences, has contributed to two books and holds fifteen patents.
Speaker
Professor of Wireless Engineering
BSc (Wuhan), MSc (Nanjing), DPhil (Oxford), FIEEE, FIET, CEng
Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics
University of Liverpool
Yi received BSc in Physics (Wuhan, China), MSc (Eng) in Microwave Engineering (Nanjing, China), and DPhil in Communications and Electromagnetics from the University of Oxford, UK in 1994.
His research interest has been in the areas of radio communications, applied electromagnetics, radar, antennas and radio propagation.
His experience includes 3 years spent with NRIET (Nanjing, China) as a Radar Engineer and various periods with the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, and Essex at the UK as a member of research staff. He worked as a Research Fellow at British Telecom Labs in 1994, and then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, the University of Liverpool, UK as a Faculty in 1995, where he is now the Head of High Frequency Engineering Research Group and MSc Programme Director.
Prof Huang has published over 300 refereed papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings, and is the principal author of the popular book Antennas: from Theory to Practice (John Wiley, 2008).
He has received many research grants from research councils, government agencies, charity, EU and industry, acted as a consultant to various companies, and served on a number of national and international technical committees (e.g. EPSRC) and been an Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor or Guest Editor of four international journals.
He has been a keynote/invited speaker and organiser of many conferences and workshops (e.g. IEEE iWAT 2010, WiCom 2010, LAPC 2012 and EuCAP2018). He was the Leader of Focus Area D of European COST-IC0603 (Antennas and Sensors) and is the UK and Ireland delegate to EurAAP (2016-2020), a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Fellow of IET. Yi has recently been selected as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
