KCL-WPSE Lab - Professional Activities

Editorial Roles

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, 2022 - present.
Associate Editor, e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, 2023 - 2025.
Guest Associate Editor, special issue on "Artificial Intelligence in Design, Optimization and Measurement of Antennas and Periodic Structures" IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Nov. 2024.
Guest Editor, special issue on "Latest Advances in Energy Harvesting Technology and Devices" Electronics Letters, Jun. 2023.
Guest Editor, special issue on "Antenna-Enabled Sensors and Systems" IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Apr. 2023.
Guest Editor, special issue on "Wireless Power Transfer in Green IoT for Sustainability" e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, Mar. 2023.
Lead Guest Editor, special issue on "Energy Harvesting Antennas and Circuits for Flexible Electronics", Micromachines (SCI-Index, IF=3.523), Mar. 2023.
Guest Editor, special issue on “Wireless Internet of Things: Enabling Future Generation Connectivity and Communications”. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (SCI-index, IF =1.396). Jan. 2020

Awards and Personal Distinction

Best Paper Award 2023 of Proceedings of the IEEE (the first best paper award of this journal)
World’s Top 2% of Scientists, 2022-2023, by Stanford University
Top 5 Featured Articles for all papers published in the Proceedings of the IEEE. Find the certificate here.
EuCAP Best Paper Award 2023 - our work on mmWave WPT has received this prestigious award! The paper is selected from >1400 papers.
Raj Mittra Travel Grant 2023 - Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) has been established to partially support travel by one PhD-level scientist to attend the joint IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting.
IEEE AP-S YP Ambassadors 2023 – The objective of this program is to inspire and inform AP-S Young Professionals on a variety of topics both technical and non-technical to enhance their interest and engagement in the field of Antennas and Propagation by delivering talks at various chapters/sections "on-demand" virtually.
IEEE MTT-S Ambassador– IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), from April 2023
IET Innovation Awards 2018 – Entry title “Ambient Wireless Energy Harvesting”. Top 5 Highly-Commended Awards over more than 350 entries (including some big R&D sectors and companies such as BT, Jaguar and Land Rover etc.) across three categories “Emerging Technology Design”, “Power & Energy” and “Young Innovators”. (Nov. 2018)
EW Bright Sparks Award 2018 –Top 30 Engineers under age 30 in the UK. (With media Interviews) (May 2018)
BAE Systems Chairman’s Award 2017 –Team Winner of the BAE Systems Chairman's Award for the innovation of next-generation GNSS antennas. I was invited to receive the award at BAE Systems Annual Banquet in London (Jan. 2018).
IET Present Around the World Competition (PATW) – Runner-up of UK Final; Winner of Northern Regional Heat and Mersey and West Cheshire Network. Title of my talk: Free energy from the air, let’s get it. (Jul. 2016).
MSc Project Prize of the University of Liverpool – Awarded a prize for the Best MSc Dissertation of the Year from the Department of electrical engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool. (Dec. 2013).

External PhD Examinations

PhD External Examiner (Shangming Mei, York, Jul. 2025)
PhD External Examiner (Grant Gourley, Heriot-Watt, Jun. 2025)
PhD External Examiner (Guanxia Yu, Queen Mary, Feb. 2025)
PhD External Examiner (Zhao Huang, Queen Mary, Feb. 2024)
PhD External Examiner (Zhiyuan Chu, UCL, Oct. 2023)
PhD Examiner Jury Member (Zhensheng, Chen, KU Leuven, Dec. 2023)

TPC and Conference Chairs

TPC Chair, 2024 IEEE International Workshop on Radio Frequency and Antenna Technologies (iWRF&AT), Shenzhen, 31 May - 3 June 2024
TPC Member, The International Telecommunications Conference ITC-EGYPT'2024, 22-25 July, 2024 - ADC, Cairo, Egypt
Session Chair, TU-A5.1P: Wireless Power Transfer with Metasurfaces and Metastructures, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. July 23–28, 2023 Portland, Oregon, USA
Session Chair, TU-A5.2P: Modeling and Simulation of Millimeter Wave Antennas, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. July 23–28, 2023 Portland, Oregon, USA
Short Course Lecturer, SC7: Antenna and Rectenna Design for Wireless Power Transfer and RF Energy Harvesting, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. July 23–28, 2023 Portland, Oregon, USA
Convened Session Chair, TPC member and Local Organizer Team Member, EuCAP 2024, 17th-22nd of March 2024 in Glasgow.
TPC Member, ITC-EGYPT 2023, Air Defense College, Alexandria / Egypt, 18-20 July 2023
TPC Member, IEEE VTC2022-fall, London and Beijing, September 2022
Session Chair, 2022 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS, 21st edition), 9th to the 13th of May 2022 at Calabria Region, Italy.
Session Chair, 2021 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, 4-10 December 2021, at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
Session Chair, the 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP2018). London, UK, 9 – 13 April 2018.
Organizer, the UK/Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre-Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT) 2017, Liverpool, UK, 11-13 September 2017.

Reviewer Roles:

>20 leading journals in Electronics and Energy, >15 international conferences

EPSRC
Nature Electronics
Nature Communications,
Nano Energy,
Advanced Materials
Advanced Sciences
Advanced Functional Materials
Applied Physics Letters,
Physical Review Applied
Advanced Electronics Materials
Scientific Reports,
Proceedings of the IEEE
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics,
IEEE IoT Journal
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
IEEE Access,
IEEE Sensors Journals/Letters,
Sensors (MDPI)
Electronics (MDPI)
Energies (MDPI)
Applied Sciences (MDPI)
IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
Electronic Letters
International Journal on Antennas and Propagation
International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering

Membership of Professional Bodies

Senior Member of IEEE, since 2022 (member since 2016)

Member of IET, since 2016

Member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) since 2016

Member of IEEE Microwave Theory and Technical Society (MTTS) since 2017

Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) since 2016

EPSRC Review College Member since 2023