About Hanguang Liao Hanguang Liao Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering printed antenna design fabrication Articles Related News November 2025 Innovative silver-ink formulation from KAUST IMPACT Lab wins Best Technical Paper Award at IEEE IMAS 2025 3 min read · Wed, Nov 19 2025 Awards News KAUST IMPACT Lab wins Best Technical Paper at IEEE-IMAS 2025 for sustainable, material-efficient 3D printing using custom silver ink. October 2025 IMPACT Lab Team (Vaseem, Hanguang) Wins Best Technical Paper Award at IEEE-IMAS 2025 1 min read · Wed, Oct 29 2025 News IMPACT Lab team has won the Best Technical Paper Award at IEEE International Microwave and Antenna Symposium (IMAS 2025). The paper, first authored by Mohammad Vaseem, and co-authored by Hanguang Liao and Atif Shamim is titled “Additive Manufacturing of RF Components with Stereolithography (SLA) and Silver Ink: A Material Efficient Approach”. This paper presents a novel method for fabricating radio-frequency (RF) components using additive manufacturing. The work highlights a sustainable and material-efficient approach combining SLA-based 3D printing and conductive silver inks and reflects the July 2024 ECE Students Win Second Place Prize in IEEE IMS Student Design Competition 2024 in Washington DC 1 min read · Thu, Jul 25 2024 News The team comprising of students from IMPACT Lab (Hanguang Liao, Ruiqi Wang, and Yiming Yang) have won the Second Place Prize in the The IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Student Design Contest (SDC) in Washington DC, USA. IMS is the largest and most prestigious gathering of microwave professionals in the world, held by the microwave society, IEEE MTT-S. Every year, IMS hosts the SDC which is designed to encourage students to solve practical problems in an innovative fashion. This year 45 teams participated in the SDC, 8 teams reached the final stage and the IMPACT Lab KAUST team won August 2022 KAUST students' research wins first place at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022 2 min read · Mon, Aug 22 2022 Awards News RFICs sensors Antennas Hanguang Liao and Yiming Yang from the KAUST IMPACT Lab won first place in the 2022 IEEE AP-S Student Design Contest at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022), held in July in Denver. May 2022 Our Team “SAVER” has made it to the finals of the 2022 APS Student Design Contest 1 min read · Sun, May 15 2022 News IEEE APS is organizing the 13th Annual Student Design Competition this year in Denver. The topic for this year is “Miniaturized Antennas in IoT Applications”. Out of 30 submissions, only 6 teams have been selected as finalists in the competition. KAUST IMPACT Lab team, in collaboration with KU Leuven and UESTC, has qualified for the finals. IMPACT Lab’s students, Hanguang Liao and YIming Yang, KU Leuven Student Yuke Li, and UESTC student Zhengliang Yao, form the team. The team's name is SAVER, which stands for Small Antenna for Vital Emergency Response. The team is presenting a SAVER system September 2021 Su's Near Isotropic Antenna on Package work is one of the top accessed papers of IEEE TAP 1 min read · Thu, Sep 2 2021 News Near isotropic antenna on package work appeared in the top accessed documents of IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation for the month of July 2021. The paper "Antenna-on-Package Design: Achieving Near-Isotropic Radiation Pattern and Wide CP Coverage Simultaneously" co-authored by Zhen Su, Kirill Klionovski, Hanguang Liao, and Atif Shamim has garnered considerable attention in the antenna community and is being advertised by the IEEE TAP official social channels. Following are the links: Linkedin Twitter Facebook April 2021 Hanguang, Zulma, and Yiyang's Master Thesis Defenses 1 min read · Thu, Apr 22 2021 News Three M.S. students of IMPACT Lab-Hanguang Liao, Zulma Lopez, and Yiyang Yu-have successfully defended their master theses. Hanguang's thesis is entitled "Antennas on Floating Transceivers for Internet of Sea Applications", where several state of art antenna designs are proposed, including small quasi-isotropic antenna, large frequency ration dual-band microstrip antenna, and high aperture efficiency GPS antenna array. Hanguang has produced a high-quality Master's thesis and presentation, and he was highly praised by the committee members. Zulma's thesis aims to investigate various
Innovative silver-ink formulation from KAUST IMPACT Lab wins Best Technical Paper Award at IEEE IMAS 2025 3 min read · Wed, Nov 19 2025 Awards News KAUST IMPACT Lab wins Best Technical Paper at IEEE-IMAS 2025 for sustainable, material-efficient 3D printing using custom silver ink.
IMPACT Lab Team (Vaseem, Hanguang) Wins Best Technical Paper Award at IEEE-IMAS 2025 1 min read · Wed, Oct 29 2025 News IMPACT Lab team has won the Best Technical Paper Award at IEEE International Microwave and Antenna Symposium (IMAS 2025). The paper, first authored by Mohammad Vaseem, and co-authored by Hanguang Liao and Atif Shamim is titled “Additive Manufacturing of RF Components with Stereolithography (SLA) and Silver Ink: A Material Efficient Approach”. This paper presents a novel method for fabricating radio-frequency (RF) components using additive manufacturing. The work highlights a sustainable and material-efficient approach combining SLA-based 3D printing and conductive silver inks and reflects the
ECE Students Win Second Place Prize in IEEE IMS Student Design Competition 2024 in Washington DC 1 min read · Thu, Jul 25 2024 News The team comprising of students from IMPACT Lab (Hanguang Liao, Ruiqi Wang, and Yiming Yang) have won the Second Place Prize in the The IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Student Design Contest (SDC) in Washington DC, USA. IMS is the largest and most prestigious gathering of microwave professionals in the world, held by the microwave society, IEEE MTT-S. Every year, IMS hosts the SDC which is designed to encourage students to solve practical problems in an innovative fashion. This year 45 teams participated in the SDC, 8 teams reached the final stage and the IMPACT Lab KAUST team won
KAUST students' research wins first place at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022 2 min read · Mon, Aug 22 2022 Awards News RFICs sensors Antennas Hanguang Liao and Yiming Yang from the KAUST IMPACT Lab won first place in the 2022 IEEE AP-S Student Design Contest at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022), held in July in Denver.
Our Team “SAVER” has made it to the finals of the 2022 APS Student Design Contest 1 min read · Sun, May 15 2022 News IEEE APS is organizing the 13th Annual Student Design Competition this year in Denver. The topic for this year is “Miniaturized Antennas in IoT Applications”. Out of 30 submissions, only 6 teams have been selected as finalists in the competition. KAUST IMPACT Lab team, in collaboration with KU Leuven and UESTC, has qualified for the finals. IMPACT Lab’s students, Hanguang Liao and YIming Yang, KU Leuven Student Yuke Li, and UESTC student Zhengliang Yao, form the team. The team's name is SAVER, which stands for Small Antenna for Vital Emergency Response. The team is presenting a SAVER system
Su's Near Isotropic Antenna on Package work is one of the top accessed papers of IEEE TAP 1 min read · Thu, Sep 2 2021 News Near isotropic antenna on package work appeared in the top accessed documents of IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation for the month of July 2021. The paper "Antenna-on-Package Design: Achieving Near-Isotropic Radiation Pattern and Wide CP Coverage Simultaneously" co-authored by Zhen Su, Kirill Klionovski, Hanguang Liao, and Atif Shamim has garnered considerable attention in the antenna community and is being advertised by the IEEE TAP official social channels. Following are the links: Linkedin Twitter Facebook
Hanguang, Zulma, and Yiyang's Master Thesis Defenses 1 min read · Thu, Apr 22 2021 News Three M.S. students of IMPACT Lab-Hanguang Liao, Zulma Lopez, and Yiyang Yu-have successfully defended their master theses. Hanguang's thesis is entitled "Antennas on Floating Transceivers for Internet of Sea Applications", where several state of art antenna designs are proposed, including small quasi-isotropic antenna, large frequency ration dual-band microstrip antenna, and high aperture efficiency GPS antenna array. Hanguang has produced a high-quality Master's thesis and presentation, and he was highly praised by the committee members. Zulma's thesis aims to investigate various
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