By Abhaikumar Sakthi, Ramaswami Palaniappan Arjun
The deployment of wireless devices has become a very common practice in many of the technological fields in today’s context. User friendliness and mobility are key factors that are contributing for the increasing usage of wireless devices in various domains ranging from communication, wearable health technology, agriculture and other industrial applications.
In this regard, the IEEE Young Professional chapter of Singapore Section successfully conducted its first event for the year 2016 – A technical talk on “Wireless devices – recent trends and developments” delivered by Prof. Howard Luong from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is a distinguished IEEE Fellow and also a MediaTek endowed visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He currently serves as an editor in the IEEE Virtual Journal on RFIC and also a technical program committee member in various international conferences.
The event was held on the 6th of January 2016 from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The target group for the event was masters and post graduate students, researchers and engineers from various domains of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
The objective behind conducting this talk was to give an insight to the audience about the recent trends and developments of upcoming wireless devices used in mobile communication, Internet of Things (IoT) and bio-medical electronics, from the industrial point of view. The talk highlighted few recent innovations in the areas of IoT, communication and bio-medical electronics that were done in collaboration with HKUST, NTU, MediaTek and A*STAR, Singapore. The audience was encouraged to engage in inter-disciplinary research which is quite essential in the future and also a requirement of semiconductor industries. The talk also focused on the industrial – academic collaborative projects which motivated the students and graduates to pursue their PhD research exploiting multiple disciplines.
Written by,
Abhaikumar Sakthi, Ramaswami Palaniappan Arjun
