Recently, we received good news from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) that Assoc Prof. Said Mikki of ZJUI, was awarded the 2023 IEEE AP-S Sergei A. Schelkonuff Transactions Prize Paper Award for the paper "The Shannon Information Capacity of an Arbitrary Radiating Surface: An Electromagnetic Approach" published as the sole author. The paper was published in March 2023 in the journal "IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation", which is one of the most prestigious journals in the field of antenna propagation, and the impact factor of the journal has been increasing continuously in the past three years, it is a TOP journal in SCI Division I with an IF (Impact Factor) of 5.7.

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This paper mainly utilized a cross-disciplinary approach and explore Shannon information-theoretic characterizations of the information capacity limits of generic electromagnetic (EM) surfaces intended for possible use in wireless communication links. The principal task is to first formulate at a general and rigorous level the EM theory of the information that can be extracted from the Maxwellian fields radiated by an arbitrarily shaped continuous surface. This is then followed by a detailed derivation and illustration of practical physics-informed algorithms for computing approximations of the Shannon capacity of surfaces with any given geometry operating in Gaussian channels. The formalism can address both near- field and far-field information capacity scenarios, with a mathematical treatment that includes a complete characterization of the source-field polarization structure, mutual coupling, and interactions.

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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society is one of the major societies under IEEE, and its award of the Sergei A. Schelkonuff Transactions Prize Paper Award was established in April 1958 by the Antennas and Propagation Specialty Group of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) and started to be awarded in 1959, and this award is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of international electromagnetism. The award is selected from the excellent papers published in "IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation" in the last year, and then finalized by the experts from the aspects of innovation, technical contribution and presentation. Said Mikki will attend the IEEE APS 2024 symposium in Florence, Italy from July 14 to July 19, and will be awarded the Prize in the Award Banquet to be held on July 17.

Said Mikki

Said Mikki is currently a Tenure-track Associate Professor at Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI), Haining, Zhejiang, China. He graduated from University of Mississippi, United States, in December 2008 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. From 2009 to 2015, he worked with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada as a research professor. From September 2015 to May 2020, he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut, United States. He published in the areas of fundamental electromagnetic theory, computational methods and optimization techniques in electromagnetics, nano-electrodynamics, metamaterials, antenna near fields, and novel methods for characterizing antenna systems, including antenna synthesis algorithms and designs. In 2016, he published his second book New Foundations for Applied Electromagnetics: Spatial Structures of Fields, Artech House (London and Boston). His current research interests include Electromagnetic Theory and Applications, Multiphysics, Wireless Communications, Computational Methods, Machine Learning and AI, Optimization Methods, Nanotechnology, Antennas and Circuits.

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