Please join us November 4th, for talks presented by Lee Swindlehurst, Zhu Han, and Marco Di Renzo from 10:30am- 1:00pm.
Lee Swindlehurst, UC Urvine, will be presenting a talk titled: Intelligent Reflection and Absorption for Sensing, Interference, and Energy Efficiency
Abstract – Nearly passive metasurfaces have attracted great interest recently given their ability to tune the RF propagation environment and enhance the capabilities of wireless communication systems. Most work on such reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) has focused on designs that (almost) fully reflect all energy that impinges on the surface, in order to maximize performance metrics such as the network sum rate. More recently, focus has shifted to hybrid RIS architectures that sense or at least redirect some of the impinging RF energy in order for the RIS to (1) extract information for local processing (e.g., channel estimation), (2) refract some of it for transmission on the other side of the RIS, or (3) simply to absorb it. In this talk we will examine these alternative architectures and particularly focus on the advantages of partial absorption at the RIS for scenarios requiring interference mitigation.
Bio – Lee Swindlehurst received the B.S. (1985) and M.S. (1986) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University (BYU), and the PhD (1991) degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU from 1990-2007, where he served as Department Chair from 2003-06. During 1996-97, he held a joint appointment as a visiting scholar at Uppsala University and the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. From 2006-07, he was on leave working as Vice President of Research for ArrayComm LLC in San Jose, California. Since 2007 he has been a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California Irvine, where he served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Samueli School of Engineering from 2013-16. During 2014-17 he was also a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Technical University of Munich. In 2016, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). His research focuses on array signal processing for radar, wireless communications, and biomedical applications, and he has over 300 publications in these areas. Dr. Swindlehurst is a Fellow of the IEEE and was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He received the 2000 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Paper Award, the 2006 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communication Theory, the 2006, 2010 and 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Best Paper Awards, the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, and a Best Paper award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications.
Zhu Han, University of Houston, will be presenting a talk titled: MetaSensing: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted RF 3D Sensing using Machine Learning
Abstract – Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) stands out as a novel approach to improve the communication and sensing in the future wireless networks. It is capable to actively shape the uncontrollable wireless environments into a desirable form via flexible phase shift reconfiguration without extra hardware or power costs. To better exploit the potential of such a technique, it is essential to develop distributed configuration, to design new protocols, to explore and implement suitable application scenarios, as well as to perform intelligent control and orchestration. First we provide a general introduction of the intelligent meta-surface along with the state-of-the-art research in different areas. Then we introduce the unique features of intelligent meta-surface which enlighten its broad applications to communication and sensing, in a comprehensive way. Related design, analysis, optimization, and signal processing techniques will be presented. Finally, we explore typical meta-surface applications and discuss implementation issues with an emphasis on high-resolution smart RF sensing. Formalized analysis of several up-to-date challenges and technical details on system design will be provided for different applications.
Bio – Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as well as Computer Science Department at University of Houston, Texas. His research interests include security, wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communication and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia. Dr. Han is an NSF CAREER award recipient 2010. Dr. Han has several IEEE conference best paper awards, and winner of 2011 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and 2016 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the field of Communication Systems (Best Paper Award for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications). Dr. Han is the winner 2021 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He has been IEEE fellow since 2014, AAAS fellow since 2020 and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Han is 1% highly cited researcher according to Web of Science since 2017.
Marco Di Renzo, Paris- Saclay University, will be presenting a talk titled: Communication Models for Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for Wireless Communications
Abstract – A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a planar structure that is engineered to have properties that enable the dynamic control of the electromagnetic waves. In wireless communications and networks, RISs are an emerging technology for realizing programmable and reconfigurable wireless propagation environments through nearly passive and tunable signal transformations. RIS-assisted programmable wireless environments are a multidisciplinary research endeavor. This presentation is aimed to report the latest research advances on modeling, analyzing, and optimizing RISs for wireless communications with focus on electromagnetically consistent models, analytical frameworks, and optimization algorithms. In addition, the interplay between RISs and holographic surface-based transceivers will be discussed with focus on near-field communications in line-of-sight channels.
Bio – Marco Di Renzo is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) of Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. He serves as the Coordinator of the Communications and Networks Research Area of the Laboratory of Excellence DigiCosme, as a Member of the Admission and Evaluation Committee of the Ph.D. School on Information and Communication Technologies, and as the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems at CentraleSupelec. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters, he is a founding member and a Vice Chair of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) on RIS within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and he serves as the Rapporteur of the work item on communication models, channel models, and evaluation methodology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, and AAIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academia Europaea; and a Highly Cited Researcher. Also, he is a Fulbright Fellow and a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor. His recent research awards include the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE COMSOC Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
These seminars will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium while broadcast via Zoom, with time for Q and A to follow.
Zoom ID: 595 955 6744
Passcode: 119921
For more information about this hybrid event, please contact:
Leah Abraha
labraha@gc.cuny.edu