International Collaborative Partner (ICP)


Name Prof. Chen Zhi Ning
Qualification PhD, Uni of Tsukaba, Japan (2003)
PhD, Institut of Communications Engineering, China (1993)
M.Eng, Institute of Communications Engineering, China (1988)
B.Eng, Institute of Communications Engineering, China (1985)
Organization National University of Singapore
Email chenzn@nus.edu.sg
URL NIL
UTAR Contact Person Prof Dr Lim Eng Hock, limeh@utar.edu.my


Employment
  • National University of Singapore -Professor and Program Director (industry)
  • Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  • Tohoku University, Japan- Senior Visiting Professor
  • “Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes”, UMR8506 CNRS-SupelecUniversity Paris Sud, in Gif-sur-Yvette, France- Senior DIGITEO Guest Scientist
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA- Academic Visitor
  • University of Tsukuba, Japan- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow & JSPS Invitation Fellowship (senior level)
  • City University of Hong Kong, China- Research Fellow , Senior Research Associate and Research Assistant/Associate
  • Southeast University, China- Associate Professor, Postdoctoral Fellow and Changjiang Chair Professor
  • Institute of Communications Engineering, China-Associate Professor, Lecturer and Teaching Assistant
Research Expertise
  • Antennas and Passive Components at mmW/sub-mmW and THz
  • Antennas & RF Transmission on/in Human Body for Medical & Healthcare :
  • Antenna Modeling, Design, and Measurement
  • Wireless Communications
  • Microwave Engineering
  • Applied/Computational Electromagnetics
Professional Membership
  • 2018 - 2020 Delegate of Asia-Pacific Region of European Association of Antennas andPropagation (EurAAP)
  • 2016 - Member of IEEE 5G Initiatives
  • 2016 - Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Council on RFID
  • 2015 - Vice President of the IEEE Council on RFID
  • 2015 AP-S representative in the IEEE Technical Committee on RFID
  • 2014 since 2010: Member of Fellow Committee of IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society
  • 2014 since 2011: Member of Awards Committee of IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society
  • 2011 since 2008: Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (still serving)
  • 2011 since 2008: Member of New Technology Directions of IEEE Antenna
Publications
  • Books
    • Handbook of Antenna Technologies by Zhi Ning Chen (Chief Editor) published by Springer in Sept 2016 (76 chapters, 3475 pages)
    • Antennas for Fixed Base Stations in Wireless Communications edited by Zhi Ning Chen and Kwai-Man Luk, published by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, USA in June 2009 (372 pages)
    • Antennas for Portable Devices edited by Zhi Ning Chen, published by John Wiley Sons, Inc. UK in February 2007 (290 pages) (also in Chinese in 2016)
    • UWB Wireless Communication Systems edited by Huseyin Arslan, Zhi Ning Chen, Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. USA, in September 2006 (500 pages) (also in Russia in 2012)
    • Broadband Planar Antennas: Design and Applications authored by Zhi Ning Chen and M. Y. W. Chia and published by John Wiley & Sons, UK in February 2006 (243 pages)
  • Chapters in Books
    • Omnidirectional Antennas (Handbook of Antenna Technologies) by X. Qing, Z. N. Chen edited by Z. N. Chen published by Springer References in 2016
    • Antenna Measurement Setups – Introduction (Handbook of Antenna Technologies) by X. Qing, Z. N. Chen edited by Z. N. Chen published by Springer References in 2016
    • Implanted antennas and RF transmission in through-body communications (Electromagnetics of Body-Area Networks: Antennas, Propagation, and RF Systems) by T. S. S. See, X. Qing and Z. N. Chen) edited by Douglas Werner & Zhihao Jiang published by Wiley/IEEE Press in 2016
    • UltraWideband Communications: Novel Trends - Antennas and Propagation (Chapter 10 Characteristics of an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Butterfly-Shaped Monopole Antenna by Qiubo Ye, Zhi Ning Chen and Terence S. P. See) edited by Mohammad Matin published by InTech in 2011
    • Microstrip and Printed Antennas: New Trends, Techniques and Applications (Chapter 10 Printed UWB Antennas by Z. N. Chen, X. Qing, and S. P. T. See) edited by D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. UK in 2010
    • Ultra-wideband Antennas and Propagation for Communications, Radar and Imaging (Chapter 7.3 contributed by Z. N. Chen) edited by B. Allen published by John
      Wiley & Sons, Inc. UK in September 2006
    • Antennas Engineering Handbook 4th Edition (Chapter 37 contributed by Z. N. Chen) edited by J. Volakis, published by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, USA in June 2007
    • Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 7 (Chapters 39 & 41 contributed by Z. N. Chen & X. Qing) edited by F. Sabath, E. L. Mokole, U. Schenk, and D. Nitsch, published by Springer
    • Small Antennas (Translated from English to Chinese by Z. N. Chen) published by Chinese Publisher in 1992
  • Papers
    • F. H. Lin and Z. N. Chen, “A Method of Suppressing Higher-Order Modes for Improving Radiation Performance of Metasurface Multiport Antennas Using Characteristic Mode Analysis”, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., revision submitted in Jan. 2018.
    • F. H. Lin and Z. N. Chen, “Characteristic Mode Analysis of Truncated Impedance Sheet for Modeling and Design of Broadband High-Gain Metasurface Antennas”, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., to be submitted.
    • S. Sithara, W. Liu, and Z. N. Chen, “Wide Bandwidth and High Gain of a Low-Profile Dipole Antenna by Integrating Suspended Metasurface,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., submitted.
    • A. Salih, Z. N. Chen, and K. Mouthaan, “Excitation for Beam Steering of Closely-Spaced Antenna Arrays Using Reverse Scattering Method, ’’ IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., submitted.
    • Y. Luo and Z. N. Chen, “A Gain-Enhancement Method of Binary Array Antenna Using a Ghost Reversal Source,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., submitted.
    • K. Xu, J. Shi, X.-M. Qing, Z.-N. Chen, “A substrate integrated cavity-backed filtering slot antenna stacked with a patch for frequency selectivity enhancement,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.(Submitted date: 2017.10.20, in revision)
    • J. Shi, C. Zhang, Z.-N. Chen, X.-M. Qing, J.-X. Chen, “A planar filtering patch antenna,” IEEE Access. (Submitted date: 2017.11.28, in revision)
    • J.-F. Li, Z. N. Chen, D.-L. Wu, Y.-J. Wu, and G. Zhang. “Dual-Beam Filtering Patch Antennas for Wireless Communication Application,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag , Submitted date: Sep. 2017, in revision.
    • A. Kianinejad, Z. N. Chen, and C.-W. Qiu, “Modeling and implementation of meander spoof plasmon modes for design of highly tunable transmission lines,” IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., under review.2018(4) Z. N Chen, X. Qing, J. Shi, and Y. Zeng, “Review of Zero-Phase-Shift-Line Loop Antennas for UHF Near-Field RFID Readers”, IEEE J RFID, vol. 1, No. 4, pp.245– 252, December 2017 https://doi.org/10.1109/JRFID.2018.2798541
    • A. Kianinejad, Z. N. Chen, and C.-W. Qiu, “Full modeling, loss reduction and mutual coupling control of spoof surface plasmon based meander slow wave transmission lines.” IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., accepted in Feb 2018
    • S. Balon, K. Mouthaan, C. H. Heng, and Z. N. Chen, “An Injection-Locked–based FMCW Transmitter with Synthetic Bandwidth Technique,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, accepted for publication in January 2018.
    • S. Zheng, Y. Chen, Z. Zhang, X. Jin, H. Chi, X. Zhang, and Z. N. Chen, “Realization of beam steering based on plane spiral orbital angular momentum wave,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, online 2017(16)
    • S. Zheng, R. Dong, Z. Zhang, X. Yu, X. Jin, and Z. N. Chen, and X. Zhang, “Non-line-of-sight channel performance of plane spiral orbital angular momentum MIMO systems,” IEEE Access, vol.5, pp.25377-25384, Oct. 2017.
    • Y. Luo, and Z. N. Chen, “Compressed dipoles resonating at higher-order modes with enhanced directivity,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 5697-5701, Nov. 2017.
    • Y. He, Z. Gao, D. Jia, W. Zhang, B. Du, and Z. N. Chen, “Dielectric Metamaterial-Based ImpedanceMatched Elements for Broadband Reflectarray,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 65, no. 12,pp. 7019-7028, 2017.Zhi Ning Chen 陈志
Awards
  • Shortlisted for IET AF Harvey Engineering Research Prize 2015
  • The CST University Publication Award 2015
  • Institute of Engineering Singapore (IES)Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2014
  • Institute of Engineering Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2013
  • ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award 2013
  • Institute of Engineering Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2013
  • Best Paper Award “A 4×4 60-GHz LTCC
  • The CST University Publication Award 2008
  • Shortlisted for ASEAN Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award
  • Institute of Engineering Singapore Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2006
  • Best Poster Award Paper: “Study of human head effects on UWB antenna” at IEEE Intl.
  • Institute for Infocomm Research,Singapore Quarterly Best Paper Award 2004
  • Paper: Considerations for Jiangsu Province Committee of Science and Technology: The Science and Technology Achievement Awards (third class)
  • The Ministry of Defence: The Science and Technology Achievement Awards (second class)