Principal Investigator
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Profile
YEN-SHENG Chen was born in Taichung, Taiwan. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2007, 2009, and 2012, respectively.
Since 2013, he has been a Faculty Member with the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taipei, where he is currently a Professor and the Associate Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), NTUT. He has participated in a wide range of research projects, including chipless RF identification, transparent antennas and metasurfaces, mm-wave antennas and circuits, RF energy harvesting, antenna array failure correction, antennas for body-centric communications, microwave reconfigurable components, and multiobjective optimization techniques. His recent research interests include chipless sensor networks, high-gain antennas, transparent antennas, and inkjet printing technology.
Dr. Chen was a recipient of the Outstanding Reviewers Award from the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters for the period 2017–2022, the Outstanding Reviewers Award from the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2019–2021, the Future Tech Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2021, the Outstanding Research Award from NTUT in 2019, the Dr. Shechtman Young Researcher Award from NTUT in 2018, the Outstanding Research Award from the College of EECS, NTUT, in 2018 and 2019, respectively, and the Remarkable Teaching Award from the College of EECS, NTUT, in 2020. He is currently the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and the IEICE Communications Express. He has served on the editorial/review boards for many technical journals, transactions, proceedings, and letters.
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Teaching
Linear Algebra (2023)
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Circuit Theory (I) (2013−2023)
This course focuses on the basic concepts of circuit analysis, advanced techniques for circuit analysis, responses of RL, RC, and RLC Circuits, and sinusoidal steady-state analysis. This course is an undergraduate level course, and is offered every semester.OpenCourseWare: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwzTNk6fQHAKjFJnyw6F6Xw
Circuit Theory (II) (2014−2023)
This course focuses on balanced three-phase circuits, two-port network analysis, Laplace transform and its application in circuit analysis, frequency selective circuits, and Fourier series and its application in circuit analysis. This course is an undergraduate level course, and is offered every semester.OpenCourseWare: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwzTNk6fQHAKjFJnyw6F6Xw
Antennas (2018−2023)
This course focuses on antenna fundamentals, circuit parameters, impedance matching networks, radiation parameters, array fundamentals, antenna family, and advanced topics on antenna engineering. This course is a graduate level course, and is offered every semester.OpenCourseWare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42VW-8VFu5E&list=PL68D2uCy1WTMR9iwyjtOZcjGMom4KZEhZ
Introduction to Microwave Engineering (2013−2015)
This course focuses on digital microwave communication systems, transmission line theory, impedance matching, and microwave network analysis. This course is an undergraduate level course.Smart Antenna Systems (2013−2015)
This course focuses on the overview of mobile communications, antenna fundamentals, array fundamental, propagation channel characteristics, basic principles of smart antennas, direction-of-arrival estimation, beamforming techniques, load balancing techniques, and self-organizing networks. This course is a graduate level course.
Introduction to Optimization (2014−2017)
This course focuses on three major parts. The first one is the modeling of a problem. The second part is some popular approaches in EE spheres: evolutionary algorithms and their derivatives. Not only the implementation but also the theorem behind them will be given. The last one is a statistical optimization method called design and analysis of experiments. This course is a graduate level course.
Modeling in Advanced Electromagnetics (2017)
This course encompasses the treatment on the electromagnetics for wireless communication engineering. It includes the physical and mathematical foundations of the theory of advanced electromagnetics, time-harmonic electromagnetic fields, electrical properties of matter, and other novel topics related to modern microwave and millimeter-wave technology. This course is a graduate level course.Sensors and Conversion Techniques (2015)
This course focuses on the introduction of sensors, the measurement system of sensors, and the applications and design of sensors. This course is an undergraduate level course.
First Step to Achieving the Goals of Universities and Engineering Ethics (2016)
Special Projects (2014−2021) -
Research Project
- High-Gain Antennas Covering 650–700 MHz, supported by the Remotek Corp., Taiwan, in 2023.
- Antenna Design for Water-Level Radar, supported by the Micromax International Corp., Taiwan, in 2022.
- Emerging Applications of Inkjet Printing Technology: Medical Wearables, Origami Antennas, Super-Capacity Chipless, and Transparent Metasurfaces, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2022–2024.
- mmWave Glass-Transmitarray Design, supported by the Wistron NeWeb Corp., Taiwan, in 2021 and 2022.
- Real-World Implementation of Chipless RFID Systems: Management Innovations in Academic Libraries and Applications of Internet of Things (4/4), supported by the Pilot Directions for MOST Grant for the Einstein Program, Taiwan, in 2021 and 2022.
- Real-World Implementation of Chipless RFID Systems: Management Innovations in Academic Libraries and Applications of Internet of Things (3/4), supported by the Pilot Directions for MOST Grant for the Einstein Program, Taiwan, in 2020 and 2021.
- Applications of High-Capacity Chipless RFID to Item-Level Tagging, supported by the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, in 2020.
- Design of 28/39 GHz Planar Antenna Arrays, supported by the Auden Techno Corp., Taiwan, in 2019 and 2020.
- Wi-Fi Fingerprint-Based Indoor Positioning using Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing II, supported by the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, in 2019.
- Real-World Implementation of Chipless RFID Systems: Management Innovations in Academic Libraries and Applications of Internet of Things (2/4), supported by the Pilot Directions for MOST Grant for the Einstein Program, Taiwan, in 2019 and 2020.
- Wi-Fi Fingerprint-Based Indoor Positioning using Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing, supported by the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, in 2018.
- Real-World Implementation of Chipless RFID Systems: Management Innovations in Academic Libraries and Applications of Internet of Things (1/4), supported by the Pilot Directions for MOST Grant for the Einstein Program, Taiwan, in 2018 and 2019.
- Design of a 60-GHz Antenna System with InFO AiP and Characterization of RFIC, supported by an industrial project, in 2017 and 2018.
- Design and Measurement of a 60 GHz Antenna System with Antenna in Package, supported by an industrial project, in 2017 and 2018.
- Design and Applications of Origami Antennas, supported by National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, in 2017 and 2018.
- Design and Analysis of a Dual-Fed Dual-Polarized Antenna Array, supported by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2017.
- Novel Rectenna Configurations for Ambient RF Energy Harvesters: Optimized Circuit Design and Scalable Rectenna Arrays, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2016 and 2017.
- Element Failure Detection of Massive Antenna Arrays Using Statistical Methods, supported by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2016.
- Design and Implementation of Optimal Implantable Antennas Using Statistical Multi-Objective Optimization Techniques, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2015 and 2016.
- Development of Wideband MIMO Antennas for 4G LTE Small-Cell Base Stations, supported by the Auden Techno Corp., Taiwan, in 2015.
- A Self-Structuring Impedance Matcher: Development of Prototypes and Algorithms, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2014 and 2015.
- Applications of Pixelated Design Techniques in the Development of Ultra-Wideband Antennas and Imbedded Antennas, supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, in 2013 and 2014.
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Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2014−2023)
- IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2014−2023)
- IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (2016−2023)
- IEEE Access (2017−2022)
- International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (2015−2020)
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2017−2019)
- IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification (2019)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (2017−2018)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2017−2018)
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2018)
- IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (2017−2018)
- Electronics Letters (2016−2018)
- Radio Science (2015−2018)
- Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (2019)
- International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (2018)
- International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (2017)
- ETRI Journal (2017)
- Engineering Optimization (2016)
- International Journal of Electronics and Communications (2016)
- Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (2015)
- Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (2019)