Events

Date: 14 April 2026   Time: 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Graduate Centre GC603 + Online

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Synopsis

Data communication, parametric sensing, and power transmission are the three fundamental functions of wireless technology. They have so far been independently enabled by various RF and wireless transceivers. Recent transceiver architecture research has spurred the development of emerging system solutions featuring low-power, self-adaptation and scalable integration. In future intelligent systems, the fusion of multiple wireless functions will categorically create numerous invaluable and lasting benefits in transceiver design frameworks, such as architectural unification, simplification, miniaturization, and reconfiguration, as well as efficiency enhancement, function interplay, and cost reduction. This presentation discusses several emerging advances and developments of multifunction transceivers and system integrations over MHz-through-THz. State-of-the-art linear and non-linear interferometric techniques are reviewed with reference to multi-band and multi-structure transceiver hardware development. Circuit-antenna unification, orthogonal mode control, and virtual transceiver matrix concepts are briefly presented. Theoretical and experimental demonstrations including CMOS ICs are exemplified and contextualized in current wireless system developments, such as 5G/6G, IoT and beyond. Future pertinent research topics are also highlighted.

Biography

Dr. Ke Wu is Industrial Research Chair in Future Wireless Technologies and Professor of Electrical Engineering with Polytechnique Montréal (University of Montreal). He was the Canada Research Chair in RF and millimeter-wave engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Radiofrequency Electronics Research of Quebec, and the Director of Poly-Grames Research Center. He has authored/co-authored over 1500 technical papers, and 26 books/book chapters and filed more than 90 patents. Dr. Wu was the organizer of numerous conferences and events including the General Chair of the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2012). He was the 2016 President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S). He also served as the two-terms inaugural representative of North America in the General Assembly of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). He was the recipient of many awards and prizes including the 2019 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, the 2021 EIC Julian C. Smith Medal, 2022 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Educator Award, 2022 IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award, and the 2025 IEEE MTT-S Pioneer Award. He was an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer. Dr. Ke Wu is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, and the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).