29 November 2023
Electronics 2023 Young Investigator Award—Winner Announced

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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2023 Young Investigator Award is Prof. Dr. Kai-Da Xu from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
Dr. Kai-Da Xu received his Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, he was an assistant professor at Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. From 2018 to 2019, he was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. In 2020, he joined Xi’an Jiaotong University. From August to September 2023, he was a visiting professor at the Yokohama National University with financial support from the JSPS. He has authored and coauthored over 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and over 50 papers in conference proceedings. He was in the list of “2022 Most Cited Chinese Researchers” announced by Elsevier in March 2023. His current research interests include microwave/millimeter wave/THz devices and antenna arrays. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kai-Da Xu for his outstanding achievements.
As the awardee, Dr. Kai-Da Xu will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2024 in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) after peer review, and an electronic certificate.
On behalf of the Assessment Committee Members—Dr. Giambattista Gruosso, Dr. Xiongfeng Ma and Prof. Dr. George A. Tsihrintzis—we congratulate the winner on his accomplishments. We would also like to thank all of the nominators from various fields of study for their participation as well as all of the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief of Electronics