Title: Empowering Electromagnetics in Healthcare: Advancements in MMIC, Wireless Power Transfer, Antenna Technology, and Wireless Sensing

Speaker: Prof. Yongxin Guo(IEEE Fellow)

Affiliation: City University of Hong Kong

Abstract: Electromagnetics in healthcare has played a crucial role in early diagnosis, long-term monitoring and medical treatment. Numerous applications in medical diagnostics and therapeutics ranging from cardiac pacemakers to emerging devices in visual prosthesis, brain computer interfaces and body area networks have spurred electronic engineers to propose new wireless medical devices. Wireless implantable medical devices (IMDs) provide an opportunity to improve the patient health monitoring and treatment. To extend the lifespan without incorporating a bulky battery and to facilitate the miniaturization of IMDs, the wireless power transfer (WPT) technology and antenna miniaturization and multifunction have played an essential role. On the other hand, smart wireless sensing and modulation have increasingly been adopted in medical applications for monitoring, detecting, tracking and treatment of medical condition developments. In this presentation, advancements in MMIC, WPT, antenna technology and wireless sensing for biomedical applications will be presented.

Biography: 

Dr Yongxin Guo is currently a Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering under the Global STEM Professorship Scheme at the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Dr Guo was a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He has authored or co-authored over 600 international journal and conference papers, 2 books and 4 book chapters. He holds over 60 granted/filed patents in USA, China and Singapore. His current research interests include RF sensing, antennas and electromagnetics in medicine; wireless power for biomedical applications and internet of things; wideband and small antennas for wireless communications; and RF and microwave circuits and MMIC modelling and design. He has graduated 24 PhD students and hosted and supervised more than 110 research staff, visiting PhD students, and visiting scholars at NUS.

Dr. Guo is a Fellow of IEEE and Singapore Academy of Engineering. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwave in Medicine and Biology for the term of 2020-2025. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2022-2024). He received the CityU HK 1st EE Outstanding Alumni Award in 2022. He was the recipient of 2020 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Tatsuo Itoh Prize of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He is serving as IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award Committee and served as the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee for IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2019-2020). Dr Guo was the Chair for IEEE AP-S Technical Committee on Antenna Measurement in 2018-2020. He has served as General Chair/Co-Chair for a number of international conferences/workshops.