IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador Program
2023 IEEE AP-S YP Ambassadors
Objective of IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador Program is to inspire and inform AP-S Young Professionals (YP) on a variety of topics both technical and non-technical to enhance their interest and engagement in the field of Antennas and Propagation by delivering the talks at various chapters/sections "on-demand" virtually. IEEE AP-S Chapters can reach out to the Ambassadors to schedule their talks.
IEEE AP-S YP Sub-committee chaired by Qammer Abbasi and the members, Nelson Foneseca, Asimina Kiourti, Debdeep Sarkar and Jiang Zhu, selected the following 10 IEEE AP-S YP Ambassadors (class of 2023) based on the qualification criteria. They are sorted according to their last names as below:

Hasan Abbas
Lecturer
James Watt School of Engineering
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Talk 1: Electromagnetic Methods at the Nanoscale – Current State of the art
Talk 2: Application of nanoscale electromagnetics in biomedical applications

Gangil Byun
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering (EE)
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
Talk 1: Huygens’ Metasurfaces for Wide-Angle Refraction: Theory, Design, Analysis, and Physical Implementation
Talk 2: Recent Advances in Display-Integrated Millimeter Wave Antennas

Sumitra Dey
Hardware Development Engineer
Amazon Lab126, California, USA
Talk 1: Relevance of Characteristic Mode Analysis in Plasmonic Material Based Nanoantenna Optimization
Talk 2: Multiscale Modelling of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Nanocomposites: Opportunities and Challenges

Wei Fan
Associate professor | Head of "wireless propagation and over-the-air testing" research group
Department of Electronic Systems
Aalborg University, Denmark
Talk 1: Radio Channel Sounding, Modelling and Emulation for 5G and Beyond Systems
Talk 2: Over-the-air testing (OTA) of 5G radios: Principles and Challenges

Gaurangi Gupta
Post-Doctoral Researcher
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, USA
Talk 1: Innovative Antenna Solutions for Satellite Telecom, Radio Telescope and Radars
Talk 2: Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-side of the Moon

Hui Li
Professor
School of Information and Communication Engineering
Dalian University of Technology, China
Talk 1: Theory of Characteristic Mode and its Application in Antenna Design
Talk 2: Designing Multiple Antennas in Terminal Devices

Saptarshi Mukherjee
Research Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA
Talk 1: Electromagnetic Diagnostics for In-situ Metal Additive Manufacturing
Talk 2: Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation: Breaking the diffraction limits

Syed Akbar Raza Naqvi
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland, Australia
Talk 1: Dielectric Properties of Healthy Human Skin and Challenges towards Dermal Anomaly Detection using Electromagnetic Techniques
Talk 2: Skin Cancer Detection: Feasibility study across the Microwave Frequency band

Adam Narbudowicz
Senior Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin
The University of Dublin, Ireland
Talk 1: Securing IoT: Antennas as Padlocks, Propagation as a Key
Talk 2: Machine learning + mm-Waves = biodiversity sensor

Chaoyun Song
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Department of Engineering
King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
Talk 1: "Magic" Antenna Engineering for Sustainable, Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
Talk 2: How to Address the Net Zero Target via Rectifying Antennas?
Qammer H. Abbasi, SMIEEE, FRET
Chair, IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador Program Sub-Committee
University of Glasgow, UK