About Yiming Yang Yiming Yang Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Antennas Microwave circuits Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Metasurfaces additive manufacturing Yiming Yang is a Ph.D. candidate at the KAUST Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology Research Group under the supervision of Professor Atif Shamim. His research interests include frequency selective surfaces, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and meta-surfaces in combination with additive manufacturing, time modulation, and other fabrication and reconfiguration methods. Articles Related News July 2024 KAUST announces research to enhance Kingdom’s 6G tech ambitions 1 min read · Fri, Jul 26 2024 News Our work on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces has been featured in Arab News. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) provide a solution to signal loss, as urban buildings often contain essential reception stations on their rooftops. RIS are made up of thousands of cells, each typically consisting of layers of metal, insulators, and semiconductors, and are expected to greatly contribute to enabling 6G technology access. KAUST contributes to enhancing the Kingdom’s leadership in developing and adopting 6G communication technologies, attracting global companies to invest in infrastructure 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 Ruiqi and Yiming's RIS work has been featured on IEEE Xplore 1 min read · Thu, Jul 25 2024 News 5G antennas The paper "A Wideband Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 5G Millimeter-Wave Applications" co-authored by Ruiqi Wang, Yiming Yang, Behrooz Makki, and Atif Shamim has garnered considerable attention in the IEEE community. It appeared in the top 1 accessed documents of IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation from March 2024 until June 2025, and has been featured article in IEEE Xplore. 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 2020 Meet KAUST prospective student: Yiming Yang 2 min read · Sun, Sep 6 2020 News Antennas Microwave circuits Yiming Yang is an electronic science and technology graduate who will join KAUST from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Yiming will join KAUST as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate and member of the KAUST Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology Research Group under the supervision of Professor Atif Shamim. After completing his studies, Yiming aspires to be a productive researcher in antenna and microwave circuit design. February 2020 Our Team “Blindsee” has made it to the finals of the 2020 APS Student Design Contest 1 min read · Thu, Feb 27 2020 News FMCW radar IEEE APS is organizing the 11thAnnual Student Design Competition this year in Montreal. The topic for this year is “Radar applications in everyday life”. Out of 30 submissions, only 6 teams have been selected as finalists in the competition. KAUST IMPACT Lab team, in collaboration with UESTC, has qualified for the finals. IMPACT Lab’s students, Haoran Zhang, Heng Wang, and Yiming Yang, and UESTC student Jiahao Zhou, are part of the team. The team's name is Blindseewith a title of A “Light” Beam for the Blind, which investigates the design of a unique wearable radar system that will help the
KAUST announces research to enhance Kingdom’s 6G tech ambitions 1 min read · Fri, Jul 26 2024 News Our work on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces has been featured in Arab News. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) provide a solution to signal loss, as urban buildings often contain essential reception stations on their rooftops. RIS are made up of thousands of cells, each typically consisting of layers of metal, insulators, and semiconductors, and are expected to greatly contribute to enabling 6G technology access. KAUST contributes to enhancing the Kingdom’s leadership in developing and adopting 6G communication technologies, attracting global companies to invest in infrastructure
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
Ruiqi and Yiming's RIS work has been featured on IEEE Xplore 1 min read · Thu, Jul 25 2024 News 5G antennas The paper "A Wideband Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 5G Millimeter-Wave Applications" co-authored by Ruiqi Wang, Yiming Yang, Behrooz Makki, and Atif Shamim has garnered considerable attention in the IEEE community. It appeared in the top 1 accessed documents of IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation from March 2024 until June 2025, and has been featured article in IEEE Xplore.
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
Meet KAUST prospective student: Yiming Yang 2 min read · Sun, Sep 6 2020 News Antennas Microwave circuits Yiming Yang is an electronic science and technology graduate who will join KAUST from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Yiming will join KAUST as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate and member of the KAUST Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology Research Group under the supervision of Professor Atif Shamim. After completing his studies, Yiming aspires to be a productive researcher in antenna and microwave circuit design.
Our Team “Blindsee” has made it to the finals of the 2020 APS Student Design Contest 1 min read · Thu, Feb 27 2020 News FMCW radar IEEE APS is organizing the 11thAnnual Student Design Competition this year in Montreal. The topic for this year is “Radar applications in everyday life”. Out of 30 submissions, only 6 teams have been selected as finalists in the competition. KAUST IMPACT Lab team, in collaboration with UESTC, has qualified for the finals. IMPACT Lab’s students, Haoran Zhang, Heng Wang, and Yiming Yang, and UESTC student Jiahao Zhou, are part of the team. The team's name is Blindseewith a title of A “Light” Beam for the Blind, which investigates the design of a unique wearable radar system that will help the
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