Success Stories
University of New Mexico Excellence Recognized
2019-2020
2019 “Physics-Oriented Statistical Analysis of Information Transmission in Wave-Chaotic Environments” received honorable mention award at 2019 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition (Shen Lin and Zhen Peng).
2019 3rd place in the student paper competition, “Physics-Informed Deep Neural Networks for Transient Electromagnetic Analysis,” 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization, Boston, USA, May 29-31, 2019 (Oameed Noakoasteen, Shu Wang, and Zhen Peng).
2019 1st place in the student paper competition – “Platform-Aware In-situ Antenna and Material Analysis and Design,” 2019 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium, Miami, Florida, USA, April 14-18, 2019 (Shu Wang, Brian MacKie-Mason, and Zhen Peng).
2019 Best paper award at IEEE 28th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging Systems (EPEPS) – “A Novel Space-Time Building Block Methodology for Transient Electromagnetic Analysis” (S. Wang and Z. Peng).
2019 IEEE EMC Symposium Best Paper Award – “A Novel Statistical Model for the Electromagnetic Coupling to Electronics Inside Enclosures” (Shen Lin, Zhen Peng, Edl Schamiloglu, Zachary B. Drikas, and Thomas Antonsen).
2020: Sameer Hemmady, awarded Albuquerque’s Forty under 40 award, for his contributions to shaping Albuquerque’s STEM community.
Payman Zarkesh-Ha 2019: Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico
Payman Zarkesh-Ha 2019: STC.UNM Creativity Award
Edl Schamiloglu 2019: STC.UNM Creativity Award
Edl Schamiloglu 2019: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s 2019 Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award for Contributions to Experimental Nuclear and Plasma Science (Inaugural Recipient)
2018-2019
2018 “A Stochastic Green’s Function - Integral Equation Method for Communication in Diffusive Multipath Environments,” received Best Paper Award at International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) and IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC) (Shen Lin, Evelyn Dohme and Zhen Peng).
2018, 1st place in the student paper competition, “A Space-Time Domain Decomposition Method for High-fidelity Electromagnetic Simulation,” 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium (Shu Wang and Zhen Peng).
2018 “First-Principles Statistical Model of Communication Through Wave-Chaotic Environments” received honorable mention award in Student Paper Competition at 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Shen Lin and Zhen Peng).
2018 27th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and System Best Student Paper Finalist, “Parallel-in-Space-Time Analysis of Electromagnetic Interference in Electronics” (Shu Wang and Zhen Peng).
2018 “Quantitative Statistical Analysis for Wave Propagation in Chaotic Environments: A Stochastic Green’s Function - Integral Equation Method” Student Paper Competition Finalist in 2nd International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Atlantic Radio Science Meeting (Shen Lin, Zhen Peng and Thomas Antonsen)
Min Zhou: Best Student Paper Award (BSPA) at the AMEREM Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, Aug 27-31, 2018.
2017-2018
Zhen Peng received the following honors in 2017-2018:
2018, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Project Title: CAREER: Physics-Oriented Statistical Wave Analysis Integrating Order and Chaos
2018, Best Transaction Paper Award - IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
2017, IEEE Albuquerque Section’s Outstanding Young Engineer Award
2017, 21st IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI2017) Young Investigator Training Program Awardee
2017, 26th Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and System Best Paper Award, “A Novel Stochastic Wave Model Statistically Replicating Reverberation Chambers”
Payman Zarkesh-Ha received the following honor in 2017-2018:
Recipient of 2017 Innovation Award from STC at UNM, April 2017
Edl Schamiloglu received the following honor in 2017-2018:
2017: University of New Mexico Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award
Edo Waks elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Thomas Antonsen was promoted to Distinguished University Professor
Ed Ott was awarded the 2017 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal at the European Geosciences Union Meeting in Vienna, Austria, April, 2017, and gave the 2017 Jurgen Moser Award Lecture at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Meeting in Snowbird, Utah, May, 2017
Zhen Peng (UNM) receive 5 honors in 2016-2017:
• 2017 Young Investigator Training Program Awardee of the 21st IEEE Workshop of Signal and Power Integrity
• 2016, International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference Young Scientist Award
• 2016 University of New Mexico ECE Department’s Distinguished Researcher Award
• 2016 Young Investigator Training Program Awardee of the 20th IEEE Workshop of Signal and Power
Integrity
• 2016 Best Poster Paper Award of the 20th IEEE Workshop of Signal and Power Integrity
Edl Schamiloglu (UNM) received a 2016 Institute of Physics (UK) Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Edl Schamiloglu was awarded the 2015 IEEE NPSS PPST Peter Haas Award in June 2015 “For research in the area of pulsed power, beams, and microwaves, and for his dedicated service to the current and future pulsed power community through his leadership and educational endeavors.”
Zhen Peng was bestowed two honors from the 20th IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI2016) - The SPI 2016 Best Poster Paper Award (the paper by Shen Lin, Hong-Wei Gao, and Zhen Peng has received the best poster paper award from 20th IEEE Workshop on Signal Integrity and Power Integrity. The title of the paper is “High-Fidelity, high-performance full-wave computational algorithm for intra-system EMI analysis of IC and electronics”; Dr. Peng was also selected as an Awardee of 20th IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI2016) Young Investigator Training Program. It is a research award to support participation to the conference, as well as travel costs, lodging and meals for a one-month visiting period in one of the research centers in Italy. Dr. Peng was hosted by Prof. Maurizio Bozzi and Prof. Luca Perregrini at the University of Pavia, Italy. The research work investigated the boundary integral-resonant mode expansion (BI-RME) method and its application to signal integrity problems of IC and electronics.
Dr. Zhen Peng was awarded The University of New Mexico (UNM) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) 2016 Distinguished Researcher Award. This award honors a Professor in the ECE department who has performed exceptionally well in the year of 2015-2016.
Dr. Zhen Peng was awarded The Early Career Award by the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) at its Conference in March 2016 in historic Williamsburg, Virginia. This award honors achievements and contributions in the field of computational electromagnetics by a researcher who is under 35 years old.
Ganesh Balakrishnan was awarded the American Vacuum Society North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference Young Investigator Award, October 2015.
Success Stories
University of Maryland Excellence Recognized
Edward Ott (UMD) received three major honors during 2016-2017:
• 2016 Citation Laureate in Physics (Thompson-Reuters) [for “a control theory of chaotic systems”]
• 2017 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal [for “pioneering contributions to the theory of chaos”]
• 2017 Jurgen Moser Award [for “seminal work in chaos theory and the dynamics of
physical systems”]
Tom Antonsen (UMD) received the 2016 IEEE John R. Pierce Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics
University of Maryland Gemstone Team TESLA had a very successful time at the 2016 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference May 5-6, 2016 in Aveiro, Portugal. This international conference brought together the leading experts in the emerging technology of providing wireless power to everything from TV remotes and cell phones to electric vehicles. Two undergraduate students, Frank Cangialosi and Scott Roman represented the 10-member team at the conference. Both gave invited talks and together with their Mentor Prof. Steven Anlage (CNAM/Physics and Faculty Affiliate in ECE) presented a poster on their concept for a wireless power transfer system based on time-reversed electromagnetic waves.
Gemstone Team TESLA has spent the last 3 years investigating basic questions related to a radical new method to deliver wireless power to devices in an enclosed environment. Their idea is to harness the time-reversal properties of wave propagation to deliver microwave energy to a precise location in space. This energy is then rectified and used to power the device. Team TESLA has carried out a series of experiments and simulations to show that this technology is feasible, and they have developed new ideas to overcome some of the challenges that the technology faces.
The talks (and associated papers and US patent applications) were:
Time Reversed Electromagnetic Wave Propagation as a Novel Method of Wireless Power Transfer, by Frank Cangialosi, Tyler Grover, Patrick Healey, Tim Furman, Andrew Simon, Steven M. Anlage. This work has resulted in an invention disclosure PS-2016-011 made to the UMD Office of Technology Commercialization on 14 February, 2016. “Method of Delivering Power to a Moving Target Wirelessly via Electromagnetic Time Reversal”. A provisional US Patent Application was filed on 25 April, 2016, Application No.: 62/327,346.
Selective Collapse of Nonlinear Time Reversed Electromagnetic Waves, by Scott Roman, Rahul Gogna, Steven Anlage. This work has resulted in an invention disclosure PS-2016-012 made to the UMD Office of Technology Commercialization on 14 February, 2016. “Selective Collapse of Nonlinear Time Reversed Electromagnetic Waves”. A provisional US Patent Application was filed on 25 April, 2016, Application No.: 62/327,349.
The poster presentation was entitled Time-Reversed Electromagnetic Wave Propagation as a Novel Method of Wireless Power Transfer, by Frank Cangialosi, Anu Challa, Tim Furman, Tyler Grover, Patrick Healey, Ben Philip, Scott Roman, Andrew Simon, Liangcheng Tao, and Alex Tabatabai. Mentor: Dr. Steven M. Anlage.
Team TESLA won the Best Paper Award for the entire conference (about 200 papers). The award includes a framed certificate, a book from Cambridge University Press, and a €400 cash award.
Success Stories
2019-2020
2019 “Physics-Oriented Statistical Analysis of Information Transmission in Wave-Chaotic Environments” received honorable mention award at 2019 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition (Shen Lin and Zhen Peng).
2019 3rd place in the student paper competition, “Physics-Informed Deep Neural Networks for Transient Electromagnetic Analysis,” 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization, Boston, USA, May 29-31, 2019 (Oameed Noakoasteen, Shu Wang, and Zhen Peng).
2019 1st place in the student paper competition – “Platform-Aware In-situ Antenna and Material Analysis and Design,” 2019 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium, Miami, Florida, USA, April 14-18, 2019 (Shu Wang, Brian MacKie-Mason, and Zhen Peng).
2019 Best paper award at IEEE 28th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging Systems (EPEPS) – “A Novel Space-Time Building Block Methodology for Transient Electromagnetic Analysis” (S. Wang and Z. Peng).
2019 IEEE EMC Symposium Best Paper Award – “A Novel Statistical Model for the Electromagnetic Coupling to Electronics Inside Enclosures” (Shen Lin, Zhen Peng, Edl Schamiloglu, Zachary B. Drikas, and Thomas Antonsen).
2020: Sameer Hemmady, awarded Albuquerque’s Forty under 40 award, for his contributions to shaping Albuquerque’s STEM community.
Payman Zarkesh-Ha 2019: Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico
Payman Zarkesh-Ha 2019: STC.UNM Creativity Award
Edl Schamiloglu 2019: STC.UNM Creativity Award
Edl Schamiloglu 2019: IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s 2019 Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award for Contributions to Experimental Nuclear and Plasma Science (Inaugural Recipient)
2018-2019
2018 “A Stochastic Green’s Function - Integral Equation Method for Communication in Diffusive Multipath Environments,” received Best Paper Award at International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA) and IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC) (Shen Lin, Evelyn Dohme and Zhen Peng).
2018, 1st place in the student paper competition, “A Space-Time Domain Decomposition Method for High-fidelity Electromagnetic Simulation,” 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium (Shu Wang and Zhen Peng).
2018 “First-Principles Statistical Model of Communication Through Wave-Chaotic Environments” received honorable mention award in Student Paper Competition at 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Shen Lin and Zhen Peng).
2018 27th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and System Best Student Paper Finalist, “Parallel-in-Space-Time Analysis of Electromagnetic Interference in Electronics” (Shu Wang and Zhen Peng).
2018 “Quantitative Statistical Analysis for Wave Propagation in Chaotic Environments: A Stochastic Green’s Function - Integral Equation Method” Student Paper Competition Finalist in 2nd International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Atlantic Radio Science Meeting (Shen Lin, Zhen Peng and Thomas Antonsen)
Min Zhou: Best Student Paper Award (BSPA) at the AMEREM Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, Aug 27-31, 2018.
2017-2018
Zhen Peng received the following honors in 2017-2018:
2018, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Project Title: CAREER: Physics-Oriented Statistical Wave Analysis Integrating Order and Chaos
2018, Best Transaction Paper Award - IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
2017, IEEE Albuquerque Section’s Outstanding Young Engineer Award
2017, 21st IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI2017) Young Investigator Training Program Awardee
2017, 26th Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and System Best Paper Award, “A Novel Stochastic Wave Model Statistically Replicating Reverberation Chambers”
Payman Zarkesh-Ha received the following honor in 2017-2018:
Recipient of 2017 Innovation Award from STC at UNM, April 2017
Edl Schamiloglu received the following honor in 2017-2018:
2017: University of New Mexico Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award
Edo Waks elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Thomas Antonsen was promoted to Distinguished University Professor
Ed Ott was awarded the 2017 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal at the European Geosciences Union Meeting in Vienna, Austria, April, 2017, and gave the 2017 Jurgen Moser Award Lecture at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Meeting in Snowbird, Utah, May, 2017
Zhen Peng (UNM) receive 5 honors in 2016-2017:
• 2017 Young Investigator Training Program Awardee of the 21st IEEE Workshop of Signal and Power Integrity
• 2016, International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference Young Scientist Award
• 2016 University of New Mexico ECE Department’s Distinguished Researcher Award
• 2016 Young Investigator Training Program Awardee of the 20th IEEE Workshop of Signal and Power
Integrity
• 2016 Best Poster Paper Award of the 20th IEEE Workshop of Signal and Power Integrity
Edl Schamiloglu (UNM) received a 2016 Institute of Physics (UK) Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Edl Schamiloglu was awarded the 2015 IEEE NPSS PPST Peter Haas Award in June 2015 “For research in the area of pulsed power, beams, and microwaves, and for his dedicated service to the current and future pulsed power community through his leadership and educational endeavors.”
Zhen Peng was bestowed two honors from the 20th IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI2016) - The SPI 2016 Best Poster Paper Award (the paper by Shen Lin, Hong-Wei Gao, and Zhen Peng has received the best poster paper award from 20th IEEE Workshop on Signal Integrity and Power Integrity. The title of the paper is “High-Fidelity, high-performance full-wave computational algorithm for intra-system EMI analysis of IC and electronics”; Dr. Peng was also selected as an Awardee of 20th IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI2016) Young Investigator Training Program. It is a research award to support participation to the conference, as well as travel costs, lodging and meals for a one-month visiting period in one of the research centers in Italy. Dr. Peng was hosted by Prof. Maurizio Bozzi and Prof. Luca Perregrini at the University of Pavia, Italy. The research work investigated the boundary integral-resonant mode expansion (BI-RME) method and its application to signal integrity problems of IC and electronics.
Dr. Zhen Peng was awarded The University of New Mexico (UNM) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) 2016 Distinguished Researcher Award. This award honors a Professor in the ECE department who has performed exceptionally well in the year of 2015-2016.
Dr. Zhen Peng was awarded The Early Career Award by the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) at its Conference in March 2016 in historic Williamsburg, Virginia. This award honors achievements and contributions in the field of computational electromagnetics by a researcher who is under 35 years old.
Ganesh Balakrishnan was awarded the American Vacuum Society North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference Young Investigator Award, October 2015.
Success Stories
University of Maryland Excellence Recognized
Edward Ott (UMD) received three major honors during 2016-2017:
• 2016 Citation Laureate in Physics (Thompson-Reuters) [for “a control theory of chaotic systems”]
• 2017 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal [for “pioneering contributions to the theory of chaos”]
• 2017 Jurgen Moser Award [for “seminal work in chaos theory and the dynamics of
physical systems”]
Tom Antonsen (UMD) received the 2016 IEEE John R. Pierce Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics
University of Maryland Gemstone Team TESLA had a very successful time at the 2016 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference May 5-6, 2016 in Aveiro, Portugal. This international conference brought together the leading experts in the emerging technology of providing wireless power to everything from TV remotes and cell phones to electric vehicles. Two undergraduate students, Frank Cangialosi and Scott Roman represented the 10-member team at the conference. Both gave invited talks and together with their Mentor Prof. Steven Anlage (CNAM/Physics and Faculty Affiliate in ECE) presented a poster on their concept for a wireless power transfer system based on time-reversed electromagnetic waves.
Gemstone Team TESLA has spent the last 3 years investigating basic questions related to a radical new method to deliver wireless power to devices in an enclosed environment. Their idea is to harness the time-reversal properties of wave propagation to deliver microwave energy to a precise location in space. This energy is then rectified and used to power the device. Team TESLA has carried out a series of experiments and simulations to show that this technology is feasible, and they have developed new ideas to overcome some of the challenges that the technology faces.
The talks (and associated papers and US patent applications) were:
Time Reversed Electromagnetic Wave Propagation as a Novel Method of Wireless Power Transfer, by Frank Cangialosi, Tyler Grover, Patrick Healey, Tim Furman, Andrew Simon, Steven M. Anlage. This work has resulted in an invention disclosure PS-2016-011 made to the UMD Office of Technology Commercialization on 14 February, 2016. “Method of Delivering Power to a Moving Target Wirelessly via Electromagnetic Time Reversal”. A provisional US Patent Application was filed on 25 April, 2016, Application No.: 62/327,346.
Selective Collapse of Nonlinear Time Reversed Electromagnetic Waves, by Scott Roman, Rahul Gogna, Steven Anlage. This work has resulted in an invention disclosure PS-2016-012 made to the UMD Office of Technology Commercialization on 14 February, 2016. “Selective Collapse of Nonlinear Time Reversed Electromagnetic Waves”. A provisional US Patent Application was filed on 25 April, 2016, Application No.: 62/327,349.
The poster presentation was entitled Time-Reversed Electromagnetic Wave Propagation as a Novel Method of Wireless Power Transfer, by Frank Cangialosi, Anu Challa, Tim Furman, Tyler Grover, Patrick Healey, Ben Philip, Scott Roman, Andrew Simon, Liangcheng Tao, and Alex Tabatabai. Mentor: Dr. Steven M. Anlage.
Team TESLA won the Best Paper Award for the entire conference (about 200 papers). The award includes a framed certificate, a book from Cambridge University Press, and a €400 cash award.