Student Paper Competition

Presentations will be in room 111A of the Spokane Convention Center on July 4th at 2:00 to 5:00 pm.

Finalists

Analysis of Gain Enhancement in Antenna Arrays Covered with Metamaterial Superstrates Using Transmission Line Modeling
Hussein Attia , Omar Siddiqui, Omar Ramahi
University of Waterloo, Canada

Applications of Periodic Accelerated Cartesian Expansions to the Analysis of Electrically Dense Frequency Selective Surfaces
Andrew Baczewski , Balasubramaniam Shanker
Michigan State University, United States

Potential-Based Volume Integral Equations
Ruinan Chang , Vitaliy Lomakin
University of California San Diego, United States

Optical Nonlinear Metasurfaces Formed by Plasmonic Nanoantennas
Pai-Yen Chen , Andrea Alù
The University of Texas at Austin, United States

On the Effect of Breast Compression and Measurement Setup Configuration in Microwave Tomography for Breast Cancer Detection
Alvaro Diaz-Bolado , Paul-Andre Barriere, Jean-Jacques Laurin
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

Green's Function Theory for Sub-Diffraction Chains
Yakir Hadad , Ben Z. Steinberg
Tel Aviv University, Israel

An Explicit Time-Domain Finite-Element Method That Is Unconditionally Stable
Qing He , Dan Jiao
Purdue University, United States

Hybrid UV/PBTG/SMCG Method Based on NMM3D for 3D Electromagnetic Scattering of Random Rough Surfaces
Shaowu Huang , Leung Tsang
University of Washington, United States

On-Chip Implementation of Compact Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures for 60GHz Applications
Kasra Payandehjoo , Ramesh Abhari
McGill University, Canada

Novel Methods to Analyze and Fabricate Electrically Small Antennas
Carl Pfeiffer , Xin Xu, Stephen Forrest, Anthony Grbic
University of Michigan, United States

A New Leaky-Wave Antenna Design Using Simple Surface-Wave Power Routing Techniques
Symon Podilchak , Yahia M. M. Antar, Al Freundorfer
Queen's University at Kingston, Canada

A Separable Approximation for Convolution with the Retarded Green’s Function and Its Application to Time Domain Integral Equations
Andrew J. Pray , Naveen V. Nair, Balasubramaniam Shanker
Michigan State University, United States

Investigations on a Novel Modified Archimedean Spiral Antenna
Balamurugan Shanmugam , Satish Kumar Sharma
San Diego State University, United States

Analytic Fields of a Focused Beam with Higher-Order Compensations for FDTD TF/SF Formulation
Gurpreet Singh , Eng Leong Tan, Zhi Ning Chen
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Non-Reciprocal Retro-reflective Array for Enhanced Standoff On-Metal Target Tracking and Identification
Jacquelyn Vitaz , Kamal Sarabandi
University of Michigan, United States

Broadband Circular Polarizers Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces
Yang Zhao , Andrea Alù
The University of Texas at Austin, United States


SPC Honorable Mention

Ahmed Akgiray   California Institute of Technology
J. Quinn Bagley   University of Washington
Kenneth Browne   The Ohio State University
Wenwen Chai   Purdue University
Xiaoyu Cheng   University of Florida
David Cure   University of South Florida
Amir Dezfooliyan   Purdue University
Nobuki Hiramatsu   University of Arizona
Erdinc Irci   The Ohio State University
Marc-Andr Joyal   Ecole Polytechnique de Montral
Ali Khoshniat   Utah State University
Dinh Thanh Le   The University of Electro-Communications
Hoseon Lee   Georgia Institute of Technology
Mingjian LI   The city university of hong kong
Xing-Xiang Liu   The University of Texas at Austin
Justin Luther   University of Central Florida
Hassan Mirzaei   University of Toronto
Hamid Moghadas   university of alberta & TRLabs
Georgios Paraschos   University of Massachusetts
Xulin Quan   South China University of Technology
Michael Selvanayagam   University of Toronto
Diane Titz   University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
Takashi Tomura   Tokyo Institute of Technology
E. van 't Wout   National Aerospace Laboratory
Cheng-Hsun Wu   National Taiwan University of Science and Technology




Requirements

Eligible entries in the Student Paper Competition must have only one student author and that student must be the first author. Each additional co-author must submit a signed letter indicating that his/her contribution is primarily advisory. Letters must be in PDF format and must be uploaded at the time the paper is submitted. All Student Paper Competition entries will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. Detailed instructions are available below. For additional information, contact Dejan S. Filipovic at Dejan.Filipovic@colorado.edu.

Student Paper Competition Rules and Guidelines

A. Written Submission

1. Only one SPC submission per student is allowed each year.
2. For consideration in the student paper competition, the student must be the only student author and must be first author on the paper. Each other co-author must submit a signed letter indicating that his/her contribution to the paper is primarily advisory. (For example, a paper with a student author and three co-advisors would have three letters submitted from the co-advisors at the time of submission.) The letters must be in PDF format and must be uploaded via this Web site at the time of paper submission.
3. New in 2011. All SPC papers will be judged using a double-blind review process. In double-blind reviews, the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers in addition to the usual practice of having the identities of the reviewers withheld from the authors. Therefore, a student must submit two copies of the SPC paper to the Web site -- one without any identifying information, including authors' names, affiliations, funding sources, etc., and one intended for publication in the Symposium proceedings that includes authors' names and affiliations, etc. Other than the identifying information, the two versions of the paper should be identical. For more information and guidelines regarding the preparation of an SPC paper, please see the following instructions.

B. Preparation and Submission of Papers for Double Blind Review

The double-blind review process requires that each student competitor upload two copies of his or her paper:

Authors should not use excessive self-citation or cite work not currently in the open literature. Work in review or on schedule to be published does not qualify as being in the open literature.

Authors should use care when referring to their own prior work in the submission. For example, authors should not describe their prior work with phrases like:

"Previously [3], we presented an antenna that..."

Instead, authors should refer to their work in the third person, for example:

"Previously, Chen [3] presented an antenna that..."

In this way, the full citation to Chen [3] can still be given, for example:

[3] Chen, J., "Analysis of antenna with ...

Do not leave out any references or use reference listings such as: "[3] Reference deleted for double-blind review" in the submission.

Authors should prepare their submissions (both blinded and regular versions of the paper) using IEEE PDF eXpress as required by the Paper Submission Guidelines.

Failure to meet the above guidelines for double-blind review can lead to automatic disqualification of the paper from the competition. Questions regarding the preparation of papers for double-blind review can be directed to Dejan S. Filipovic at Dejan.Filipovic@colorado.edu

C. Evaluation of Written Submissions

1. Each selected finalist must be registered for the Symposium and must attend and present his/her paper to the judges for award consideration.
2. To ensure a sufficient number of judges, the competition coordinator will assemble a panel of several judges (the exact number to be decided before the competition) from the Society's membership. The coordinator will ensure that not all of the judges are teaching faculty.
3. The competition coordinator will obtain three independent reviews for each submission from a selected panel of reviewers who are experts in the student's field of study and who are not associated with the student in any way. A double-blind review process will be used as described above. At least two of the reviewers must indicate the submission is acceptable for a paper to be accepted.
4. The written submission evaluation criteria are:
  • (a) Quality of written paper (e.g., clarity, organization, figure size, style, etc.)
  • (b) Sufficient depth and breadth of research work
  • (c) Innovation and impact of research work
  • (d) Verification and/or validation of results reported in paper
5. Upon completion of all of the reviews, the competition coordinator will assemble a list of the top papers based solely on the numerical scores obtained in the reviews. Student authors of the top papers will be invited to the poster presentation phase of the contest.

D. Evaluation of Poster Presentations

1. All posters will be presented during a special session to be held on either Monday or Tuesday at the Symposium.
2. The competition coordinator will seek several individuals from the Society's membership who will judge the oral poster presentations. Some of the judges will be past presidents of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and some will be non-teaching faculty. The competition coordinator will determine the exact composition of the judging panel before the presentation session, and will ensure that the expertise of the judging panel reflects the wide range of technical topics across the field of interest of the Society.
3. Each judge will be given a score sheet that lists the names of all presenters. After reviewing all poster presentations, the judges will score the presentations based on the following criteria:
  • (a) Quality of presentation (e.g., clarity, organization, figure size/arrangements, style, etc.)
  • (b) Sufficient depth and breadth of research work
  • (c) Innovation and impact of research work
  • (d) Verification and/or validation of results reported
4. The competition coordinator, with the support of the AP Society Student Paper Competition Committee and the judging panel, will tally the scores submitted by the judges and determine the total score for each competitor. The competitor having the highest total score will be designated the first place winner, the second highest total score will be designated the second place winner, and the third highest score will be designated the third place winner.
5. In the event of a tie for first, second or third place, the competition coordinator, the chair of the Student Paper Competition Committee and the judging panel will meet and make the tie-breaking decisions.

E. Awards

1. With the consent of the judging panel, the competition coordinator will announce the first, second and third place winners at the Symposium's Awards Banquet.
2. A monetary award and a certificate/plaque will be given to each student paper competition winner. The monetary awards are $700 for first place, $500 for second place, and $300 for third place.
3. All applicable taxes are the responsibility of the award recipient. All recipients will be required to complete a United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 or W-9 before award funds can be disbursed.