
Eng Hock Lim
Title: Design and optimization of Meta-mountable UHF RFID tag antennas Miniaturization techniques for UHF RFID Tag antennas Recent Development of Flexible UHF RFID Tag antennas Prof. Eng Hock Lim Contract: limeh@utar.edu.my University Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia) Biography: Eng-Hock Lim was born in Selangor, Malaysia, in 1974. He received his B. Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from National Taiwan Ocean University in 1997, M. Eng. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University in 2000, and Ph.D. (Electronic Engineering) from City University of Hong Kong in 2007. He served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Antennas and Propagation from 2013 to 2016. Currently, he is also serving as the Associate

Zhi Ning Chen
Title: Metantennas for RFID Systems Prof. Zhi Ning Chen Contract: eleczn@nus.edu.sg National University of Singapore 11 11 Biography: Zhi Ning Chen (M’99–SM’05–F’07) Zhi Ning Chen received his BEng, MEng, and PhD degrees all in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Communications Engineering (ICE), China and his second PhD degree from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, respectively. During 1988–1995, he worked as a Lecturer and later a Professor at ICE as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow and later an Associate Professor at Southeast University, China. During 1995–1997, he joined the City University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant and later a Research Fellow. In 1997, he was awarded the Japan

Nuno Borges Carvalho
Title: Batteryless Wireless Systems – Connecting Information and Energy Transmission Prof. Nuno Borges Carvalho Contract: nbcarvalho@ua.pt Biography: Nuno Borges Carvalho (S’97–M’00–SM’05-F’15) was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1972. He received the Diploma and Doctoral degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013), White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics
Special Issues
The IEEE Journal of RFID is soliciting special issue proposals on topics with broad interest, particularly those related to emerging technologies and applications. A special issue proposal should include the followings: Background and motivation Scope Relevance to RFID Plan for attracting authors Tentative schedule List of guest editors and their bios One page call for papers The special issue proposals are submitted to Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of RFID and will be evaluated by the steering committee of Journal of RFID. Upcoming Special Issues RFID 2020 : IEEE International Conference on Radio Frequency Identification WISEE 2020: IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments Past Special Issues RFID
The First IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI 2021)
Fei-Yue Wang Professor IEEE CRFID Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences General Information Proposed Date: July 15, 2021 – August 15, 2021 (Distributed Hybrid Conference, Physical Opening Ceremony on July 15) Location: Beijing, China Expected: 500 attendees (online), 50 attendees (offline) Support: Sponsor: IEEE Council on RFID Co-Sponsors: Chinese Association of Automation, Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries, Intelligent Vehicles Proving Center of China Conference Agenda: 1-Day Physical Conference, 4 Keynote (Invited Speakers), on July 15 4 Online Sessions, 6 Oral Presentations for each session, 1 for each week 1 Poster Sessions, 100 online posters, lasting for 1 month After the conference, the presentation and poster videos will be saved
Nominations for VP for Finances within the IEEE CRFID (2021-2022 term)
The IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID) Nominations Committee requests nominations for qualified individuals to fill the CRFID VP for Finances position for the 2021-2022 term (renewable once). Self-nominations are allowed. For more information on eligibility and duties, please refer to Article III, Section 8, and Article VI of the CRFID Bylaws. To submit your nomination (of self-nomination) please fill the following form
IEEE RFID 2020 Best Paper Recipient Named
Conference Awards and Finalists: Best Paper Award: “Particle Filter-Based SAR Approach and Trajectory Optimization for Real-Time 3D UHF-RFID Tag Localization”, M. Gareis and P. Fenske (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany), C. Carlowitz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), M. Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany). Best Paper Award Finalists: “5 mm Range 61 GHz System on Chip EPC Gen2 RFID Tag in 22nm FD-SOI Technology”, A. Harutyunyan, M. Landwehr, R. Fiedler, A. Heinig, R. Hildebrandt, H. Holland (Fraunhofer Institute IPMS, Germany). “Particle Filter-Based SAR Approach and Trajectory Optimization for Real-Time 3D UHF-RFID Tag Localization”, M. Gareis and P. Fenske (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany), C. Carlowitz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), M. Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany). “Backscatter
AIM Honors 2020 Industry Leaders
2020 |AIM, the trusted worldwide industry association for the automatic identification industry, providing unbiased information, educational resources and standards for nearly half a century, has announced the group of recipients for the 2020 AIM Awards, which honor excellence and outstanding achievement in the automatic identification and data capture industry. Raymond Delnick of GS1 US was selected as recipient of the Richard Dilling Award. Mark Wheeler of Zebra Technologies was selected as recipient of the Allan Gilligan Award. The award is given to a member of the industry who has made outstanding contributions to the development of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) applications in materials handling and logistics in the supply

RFID JOURNAL AWARDS
2019 RFID Journal – RFID Special Achievement Award to the IEEE Council on RFID for its work in producing the annual IEEE RFID event and promoting the work of RFIDresearchers from around the world.