IEEE Finland Section Joint Chapter of AP/ED/MTT hosted Prof. Buon Kiong Lau from Lund University, Sweden, who gave a lecture in our chapter. Lectures were held in Aalto University on Dec. 5, 2011 and there were 26 people (15 guests and 11 IEEE members) in the audience. The lecture took place in Otakaari 5 in the room Netcafe and it was held from 10 am to 11 am. Glögi and gingerbread was offered to the guests.
Prof. Buon Kiong Lau: Design of Mobile Terminal Antennas for 4G and Beyond
In his talk, Prof. Buon Kiong Lau discussed different mobile antenna types, their drawbacks and advantages, future needs for antennas, and potential future antenna solutions. He introduced the theory of characteristic wavemodes and told how it can be used to design multiantenna systems. Finally antenna measurement issues were addressed.
Short bio:
Dr. Buon Kiong (Vincent) Lau is an Associate Professor and a “Docent” with the Communications Group at the Department of Electrical and Information Technology. Since July 2010, he is appointed the Director of Postgraduate Studies at the same department. Dr. Lau obtained the Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Western Australia in 1998. From 1998 to 2002, he did his Ph.D. at Curtin University of Technology, Australia, on the topic “Applications of Adaptive Antennas in 3G Mobile Communication Systems”. From January 2003 to April 2004, he was a Guest Research Fellow at the Department of Signal Processing, Blekinge Institute of Technology. He was a Research Fellow at the Department of Electroscience, Lund University, between May 2004 and May 2007, and later an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Information Technology (formerly Department of Electroscience) between June 2007 and October 2010.
Dr Lau is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and a Guest Editor of the 2012 Special Issue on MIMO Technology for the same journal. He is also the Lead Guest Editor of the 2013 Special Cluster on Terminal Antenna Systems for 4G and Beyond for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He is the chair of Subworking Group 1.1 on “Antenna System Aspects” within EU COST Action IC1004. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Co-chair of Subworking Group 2.2 on “Compact Antenna Systems for Terminals” (CAST) within EU COST Action 2100. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Since 2012, he is the Regional Delegate of European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) for Region 6 (Iceland, Norway, Sweden). He is also a member of the Education Committee in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), where he also the Coordinator of the annual AP-S Student Design Contest (3-year term between 2013-2015).