Biography

Li Yang (S’15-M’18-SM’23) received the M. Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Macau (UM), Macau, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. His master thesis addressed the design of planar differential dual-band bandpass filters and their co-integration in filter-antenna modules. His doctoral dissertation concerned the synthesis-based design of microstrip-to-microstrip vertical transitions applied to multilayered bandpass filters. From October 2012 to March 2013, he was a Research Assistant with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From March to September of 2018, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UM. He was invited to give two seminars at Shenzhen University, China, and UM, in October 2018 and May 2019, respectively. During his studies at UM, he had been involved in several research projects. Especially, he worked as a main participant in the project “Balanced RF/Microwave Circuits on Hybrid Microstrip/Slotline Structure for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) application” from January 2015 to January 2018, which was recognized with a “Second Prize of Macau Natural Science Award” in 2020.

From November 2018 to February 2020, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Alcala (UAH), Madrid, Spain, where he worked as a GOT ENERGY TALENT (GET)-COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and as the principal investigator of the associated GET-COFUND project as part of the H2020-MSCA-COFUND-754382 programme from March 2020 to March 2022, and now he is a Senior Research Scientist at UAH. His main research interests are the synthesis and design of (i) RF/microwave planar, multilayer, and integrated absorptive/reflectionless filters and circuits, (ii) tunable and reconfigurable filters for energy-efficient RF front-end chains, (iii) reflectionless filtering antennas, (iv) angular-displacement RF sensors, and (v) multifunctional circuits for modern multi-standard and ultra-wideband wireless-communications systems. He has authored or co-authored 49 papers in international journals (36 of them in IEEE) and 35 papers in international conferences/symposia. Among all these publications, he has been first author in 36 (17 without his M.Sc./Ph.D. supervisors), including 6 in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT), 4 in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology/Components Letters (MWTL/MWCL), 2 in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), 1 in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL), and three invited conference papers. Besides, because of the impact of his research works, he has been invited to participate as co-author in the workshop “New Trends in Microwave and mmWave Filters” in European Microwave Week 2021 and the tutorial “Recent Advances in RF/Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Passive Filter Design for 5G and Beyond” in 21st IEEE Interregional NEWCAS 2023. Moreover, his scientific papers have accumulated 843 citations (808 after his PhD/since 2018) with an h-index of 18 and i10-index of 25 (source: Google Scholar). Dr. Yang was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award of the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation 2010 in Macau and the Second Prize of Macau Natural Science Award in 2020. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS-S), and an elected Young-Professional Affiliate Member of IEEE MTT-S Technical Program Committee MTT-5 on “Filters” in 2022 and MTT-4 on “Microwave Passive Components and Transmission Line Structures” in 2023. He has also been elected as an IEEE MTT-S Young Ambassador in 2023. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Access and the Journal of Communication and Information Systems. He will be also an Associate Editor of the IEEE TCAS-II from Jan. 2024. In terms of professional volunteering efforts, he currently serves as an International Journal Technical Reviewer for several prestigious publications (e.g., IEEE TMTT, IEEE MWCL/MWTL, IEEE TCAS-I, IEEE TCAS-II, and IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, etc.) and as a Reviewer or Technical Program Committee Member for various international conferences (e.g., IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium 2019 and 2020, European Microwave Conference 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, and IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023).

Meanwhile, he has been participated in 10 competitive projects (7 Macau FDCT (>1.5 M Euros), 2 national, and 1 industrial from Sweden Research Center (Huawei)). He has cooperated with many renowned professors at universities worldwide, including 5 IEEE Fellows (Prof. Ke Wu at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada, Prof. Lei Zhu at UM, Prof. Roberto Gómez García at UAH, Prof. Dimitrios Pe