Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

• INTO Advisor, 2011-Present
• Stage II Tutor, 2011-Present
• Teaching Lead, 2010-2011
• Member of School Teaching and Learning Committee (STLC), 2010-Present
• Member of School Teaching Initiatives Group (TIC), 2010-Present

Qualifications

• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, PhD in Communications Engineering, 2002-2005
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, BEng (1st Class Honours) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, 1998-2002
• Tsinghua University, China, Enrolled in BEng in the School of Mechanical Engineering, 1997 (Awarded Singapore Government Scholarship and transferred to Singapore for Higher Education)

Previous Positions

• Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Computer Networking and Communications Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Greenwich, UK, 2007-2010
• Research Fellow, Singapore-University of Washington Alliance (SUWA) in Bioengineering, Nanyang Technological University and University of Washington at Seattle, 2005-2007
• Image Computing Systems Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington at Seattle, USA, Visiting Research Scholar, 2006

Memberships

IEEE; IEEE Communications Society

Honours and Awards

• University of Greenwich Promising Researcher Fellowship 2010
• University of Greenwich Early Research Excellence Award 2009
• Best Paper Award, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China, 2008
• IEEE Communications Society student travel grant to attend IEEE GLOBECOM 2004
• Research scholarship for postgraduate study from School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2002
• Scholarship for undergraduate study in Singapore from Ministry of Education, Singapore, 1997

Languages

English, Chinese

Research Interests

Wireless Solutions for Healthcare (WISH):

• Biomedical electromagnetic imaging including: microwave systems for contrast-agents-assisted biomedical imaging; advanced signal processing for microwave cancer detection and lesion classification; waveform design for microwave medical imaging; broadband and compact antenna design for near-field imaging; tissue phantom manufacturing and measurements
• Nano-inspired applications of electromagnetics in medical imaging, sensing, therapy and infomation processing
• Channel modeling, system design, and information processing for cognitive joint radar-radio-sensor systems in wireless medical networks 

Wireless Channel Characterization:

• Spatio-temporal wireless network channel models for emerging networking paradigms such as radar, relay, sensor, and mobile ad hoc networks
• Wireless channel models for various data transmission schemes with different bandwidths, antenna patterns, channel variations, and environments of operation

Wireless Communication Theory:

• Relay and sensor network tomography
• Channel capacity of correlated relay networks
• Diversity and degrees-of-freedom for multiple-antenna systems
• Diversity analysis for distributed antenna systems
• Diversity analysis for cooperative wireless networks

Others:

• Any other fun stuff related to fusion of biomedical and communication technologies

Postgraduate Supervision

I am currently acting as the main supervisor for the following PhD students:

• Mr Yogesh Nijsure (Topic: Cognitive Joint Radar-Radio Systems; Mr Nijsure has completed his study and is currently working as a Research Fellow in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Mr Akinola Eesuola (Topic: Antenna and Tissue Phantom Design for Microwave Medical Imaging Systems)
• Mr Syed Wakil Ahmad (Topic: Signal Processing for Contrast-Enhanced Microwave Medical Imaging Systems) 

Postdoc Supervision

• Dr Olumide Ogunlade (Topic: Contrast-Enhanced Microwave Breast Cancer Detection; Dr Ogunlade is currently working as a Research Fellow in University College London)

Esteem Indicators

• Invited Speaker, 41st European Microwave Conference (EuMC 2011), Workshop on "Emerging Microwave, mm-Wave and Terahertz: Applications Sensors and Imaging Systems", Manchester, UK
• Invited Papers, 25th Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2011), 30th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS 2011), 5th and 6th European Conferences on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2011, 2012), 29th Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2011), 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2011), etc.
• Featured Paper in 2011 November issue of IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
• Research on microwave breast imaging featured by London Higher in 2010 as one of the London Universities social engagement case studies
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems (IJUWBCS), Inderscience Publishers, 2008-Present
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Satellite Communications Policy and Management (IJSCPM), Inderscience Publishers, 2009-Present
• Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Application of Ultra Wideband Systems in Biomedicine", IJUWBCS, 2010
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Time Reversal Methods for Microwave Technologies", International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology, Hindawi, 2011
• Publicity Chair, 2007 International Workshop on Cooperative Wireless Communications and Networking (CoNET’07), Jeju, Korea
• Session Chair for "General Track 1: ICT for Life 1", 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2011), Barcelona, Spain
• Technical Advisory Panel Member for IET Wireless Sensor Systems 2012
• TPC Member for many top-tier international conferences: IEEE ICC 2012, 2011, GLOBECOM 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, VTC 2012-Spring, 2009-Fall, PIMRC 2009, ICCS 2012, 2010, 2008, SPACOMM 2011, 2010, 2009, CHINACOM 2010, 2008, etc.
• Regular Reviewer for EPSRC proposals, Wiley-IEEE Press book proposals, IEEE CL, SPL, TAES, Trans. Broadcast., TBME, TCOM, TSP, TVT, TWC, JSTSP, JSAC, Wireless Communications; IEICE TCOM; IET Commun., Image Process., Microw. Antennas Propag.; EURASIP JASP, JWCN; Wiley IJCS, WCMC; Springer WPC, Annals of Telecommun., IJAC; PIER/JEWA; MDPI Sensors; numerous premier international conferences IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, WCNC, ICUWB, etc.
• External Postgraduate Examiner/Supervisor for other universities in UK, Italy, Singapore, etc.

Long Term Academic Visitors

• Dr Panagiotis Kosmas, Lecturer in the School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London, UK
• Professor Ian James Craddock, Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bristol University, UK

Funding (as the PI and Coordinator)

• Discrimination of Breast Lesions Using Ultra-Wideband Microwave Imaging, UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) First Grant Scheme, 2009–2012
• Cognitive-Networks-Enabled Transnational Proactive Healthcare (CoNHealth), EU FP7 Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES), 2012-2016 (CoNHealth involves 8 institutions including Newcastle University, University of Florence, University of Oulu, MIT, Yokohama National University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Xiamen University) 

Undergraduate Teaching

• EEE1005 - Signals and Communications I

Academic Support

• INTO Advisor
• Stage II Tutor 

External Engagement

• Panel member for validation of MSc programme proposal "Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation", London South Bank University
• Invited Guest Lecture for IET Northumbria Network

• Kosmas P, O'Halloran M, Chen Y, Rubaek T. Breast Imaging and Cancer Detection via Microwave Technologies. New York, USA: Springer, 2012. In Press.
• Chen Y, Yuen C, Chew YH. Channel modelling for decentralized wireless relay networks: Information azimuth spectrum and relay network tomography. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2012. In Press.
• Chen Y, Kosmas P. Detection and localization of tissue malignancy using contrast-enhanced microwave imaging: Exploring information theoretic criteria. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2012. In Press.
• Kosmas P, Chen Y. Possibilities for microwave breast tumor sensing via contrast-agent-loaded nanorobots (Invited Paper). In: 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2012). 2012, Prague, Czech Republic. In Press.
• Chen Y, Woo WL, Wang CX. Channel modeling of information transmission over cognitive interrogator-sensor networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2011, 60(1), 2-15.
• Morato M, Chen Y, Yuen C, Lei Z. Decentralized block diagonalization algorithms for distributed MIMO systems. In: 6th International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC). 2011, Hong Kong, China: IEEE.
• Ahmad SW, Chen Y, Kosmas P, Woo WL, Dlay SS. Feasibility study of tumor size classification via contrast-enhanced UWB breast imaging – A complex-domain analysis (Invited Paper). In: The XXX General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS 2011). 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Chen Y. Information-theoretic-criterion-based tumor detection in contrast-enhanced microwave imaging (Invited Paper). In: The 25th Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC). 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
• Eesuola A, Chen Y, Tian GY. Novel Ultra-Wideband Directional Antennas for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection. In: International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI). 2011, Spokane, Washington, USA: IEEE.
• Kosmas P, Chen Y. Performance assessment of DORT-based methods for microwave breast imaging (Invited Paper). In: The 29th Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2011). 2011, Marrakesh, Morocco.
• Hu L, Chen Y, Scanlon W. Received signal strength in large-scale wireless relay sensor network: A stochastic ray approach (Featured Paper). IET Microwave, Antennas & Propagation 2011, 5(14), 1738-1743.
• Chen Y, Kosmas P. Towards an integrated medical imaging-sensing-therapeutic platform using electromagnetically-controlled nanomachines - A preliminary conceptual design (Invited Paper). In: The 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2011). 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
• Eesuola A, Chen Y, Tian GY. Ultra-wideband antennas for in-body communications and imaging – Novel antenna designs and propagation modeling (Invited Paper). In: The 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2011). 2011, Rome, Italy.
• Teo J, Chen Y, Soh CB, Gunawan E, Low KS, Putti TC, Wang SC. Breast tumor classification using ultrawideband early time breast tumor response. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2010,58 8 2604-2613.
• Chen Y, Rapajic P. Decentralized wireless relay network channel modeling: An analogous approach to mobile radio channel characterization. IEEE Trans. Commun. 2010,58 2 467-473.
• Chen Y, Yuen Y, Chew YH. Double-directional information azimuth spectrum and relay network tomography for a decentralized wireless relay network. In: 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications & 2010 International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISITA/ISSSTA).2010,Taichung,Taiwan:IEEE
• Chen Y, Ling C. Effect of correlated Nakagami-m fading on the ε-outage channel capacity in a decentralized two-relay network. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2010, 9(12), 3607-3612.
• Chen Y, Craddock IJ, Kosmas P. Feasibility Study of Lesion Classification via Contrast-Agent-Aided UWB Breast Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2010,57 5 1003-1007.
• Nijsure Y, Chen Y, Rapajic P, Yuen C, Chew YH, Qin T. Information-theoretic algorithm for waveform design within ultra wideband cognitive radar network. In: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB).2010,Nanjing, China:IEEE
• Ogunlade O, Chen Y, Kosmas P. Measurement of the complex permittivity of microbubbles using a cavity perturbation technique for contrast enhanced ultra-wideband breast cancer detection. In: The 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC).2010,Buenos Aires, Argentina:IEEE
• Chen Y, Craddock IJ, Kosmas P, Ghavami M, Rapajic P. Multiple-input multiple-output radar for tissue classification in ultra-wideband breast imaging. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing 2010,4 1 187-201.
• Kosmas P, Laranjeira S, Dixon JH, Li X, Chen Y. Time reversal microwave breast imaging for contrast-enhanced tumor classification. In: The 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC).2010,Buenos Aires, Argentina:IEEE
• Chen Y, Rapajic P. Ultra-wideband cognitive interrogator network: Adaptive illumination with active sensors for target localization. IET Communications 2010,4 5 573-584.
• Chen Y, Teo J, Lai J, Gunawan E, Low KS, Soh CB, Rapajic P. Cooperative communications in ultra-wideband wireless body area networks: Channel modeling and system diversity analysis. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2009, 27(1), 5-16.
• Chen Y, Gunawan E, Low KS, Wang SC, Soh CB, Putti TC. Effect of lesion morphology on microwave signature in 2-D ultra-wideband breast imaging. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2008, 55(8), 2011-2021.
• Chen Y, Gunawan E, Low KS, Wang SC, Soh CB, Putti TC. Time-reversal ultra-wideband breast imaging: Pulse design criteria considering multiple tumors with unknown tissue properties. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2008, 56(9), 3073-3077.