2008 RFIC Symposium Student Paper Contest

Each year, RFIC Symposium holds a student paper contest. The criteria for student papers are listed in the Call for Paper. After the paper review process is completed, each technical program subcommittee recommends a maximum of two student papers as the finalists. A student paper contest committee consisting of one representative from each subcommittee is then formed to review all the finalists. Three Best Student Papers are chosen to receive the awards in the RFIC Plenary Session. This year, the RFIC Plenary Session will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) Room A411 at 5:30PM on Sunday, June 15, preceding the RFIC Reception.

This year, a total of 17 finalists were recommended by the technical program committee:

• Stephane Bronckers (Advisor: Yves Rolain，Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• Jun-Gi Jo (Advisor: Changsik Yoo，Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)
• Sean T. Nicolson (Advisor: Sorin P. Voinigescu，University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
• Adam Hart (Advisor: Sorin P. Voinigescu，University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
• Fred Tzeng (Advisor: Payam Heydari，University of California, Irvine, CA， USA)
• Takao Kihara (Advisor: Toshimasa Matsuoka，Osaka University， Osaka， Japan)
• Belal M Helal (Advisor: Michael Perrott，Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
• Chao-Ching Hung (Advisor: Shen-Iuan Liu，National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
• Hao Su (Advisor: Hong Wang，Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Frank Zhang (Advisor: Peter Kinget，Columbia University, New York, USA)
• Byung-Wook Min (Advisor: Gabriel M. Rebeiz， University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• Tim LaRocca (Advisor: Mau-Chung Frank Chang，University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
• Yanjie Wang (Advisor: Ali M. Niknejad and Vincent Gaudet，University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
• Jaehyouk Choi (Advisor: Joy Laskar，Georgia Institute of Technology， Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
• Anuranjan Jha (Advisor: Peter Kinget，Columbia University, New York, USA)
• Ehsan Adabi (Advisor: Ali Niknejad，University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
• Amin Arbabian (Advisor: Ali Niknejad，University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)

Congratulations to the 17 finalists! The three finalists of the 2008 Best Student Paper Awards will be announced in Atlanta at the RFIC Symposium. The awards ceremony will take place at the beginning of the RFIC Plenary Session which will start at 5:30pm on Sunday, June 15 2008. Each winner will receive a plaque and a check. I encourage all the finalists and their advisors to share this exciting moment made possible by all of your hard work .

The committee thanks all the student authors for your contributions. We look forward for more students participating in this contest in the future RFIC Symposia.

Yuhua Cheng
Student Paper Chair
2008 RFIC Symposium