Prof. Yi Huang received a BSc in physics (Wuhan, China), an MSc (Eng) in microwave engineering (Nanjing, China), and a DPhil in communications from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1994. He has been conducting research in the areas of antennas, radio propagation, radar, wireless communications, energy harvesting, and applied electromagnetics since 1987. His experience includes 3 years with NRIET (China) as a radar engineer and various periods with the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, and Essex as a member of research staff. He worked as a research fellow at British Telecom Labs in 1994, then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics at the University of Liverpool as a Lecturer in 1995. He was the MS Programme Director and Deputy Head of Department (2015-2023) and is now a Chair in Wireless Engineering and Head of the High-Frequency Engineering Research Group. He has received over 10 awards (e.g. the IET Premium Award 2022 for Best Paper, EuCAP2023 Best Antenna Paper, the IET Innovation Award 2018, and BAE Systems Chairman's Award 2017). He is, at present, an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation, a College member of EPSRC, a member of the New Technology Directions Committee, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE AP-S, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and a Fellow of IEEE (FIEEE).
Prof. Ta-Jen Yen received his Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from UCLA. Dr. Yen joined the Department/Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), in 2005, then served as a director of the Division of Student Activities, a director of the Division of Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing, and Chair of the MSE. Currently, Prof. Yen is a Vice President of Global Affairs, the youngest director of the Material Research Society, and executive director of TISA in Taiwan. Recently, Prof. Yen received several awards, such as Excellent Young Scholar from the CoE and NTHU Excellent Young Scholar projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan; Excellent Teaching Award of CoE and NTHU (2009); Excellent Teaching Award of the Engineering College of NTHU (2012); and the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award of MOST, Taiwan. Currently, Prof. Yen's research focuses on metamaterials, plasmonics, nanodevices, biomedical photoelectrical detection, etc.
