Missouri S&T students, faculty, former faculty and alumni associated with the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory won several awards during the recent Electromagnetic Compatibility Society‘s conference, EMC+SIPI 2023.

Individuals associated with S&T received the following awards and honors during the conference, which was held July 31-Aug. 4 in Grand Rapids, Michigan:

• EMC Society President’s Memorial Award (for outstanding EMC student) – Shengxuan Xia, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering.
• IEEE Fellow Award – Yihong Qi, adjunct faculty.
• Technical Achievement Award – Chulsoon Hwang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
• James C. Klouda Memorial Scholarship Award – Cody Goins, a master’s student in electrical engineering.
• Honored Member Award – Bruce Archambeault, adjunct faculty.
• Best SIPI Symposium Award – Hyunwook Park, postdoctoral fellow, and Chulsoon Hwang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
• Best SIPI Symposium Paper Award honorable mention – Ling Zhang, adjunct professor and PhD EE’21.
• Best EMC Symposium Student Paper Award – Xiangrui Su, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering.
• Best EMC Symposium Student Paper Award honorable mention – Co-advised by James Drewniak, faculty emeritus in electrical and computer engineering, Gang Feng, PhD EE’10, and Yihong Qi, adjunct faculty.
• Best SIPI Symposium Student Paper Award – Emmanuel Olugbade, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, Dr. Hiep Pham, PhD ME’23, Hwang and Jonghyun Park, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
• Best SIPI Symposium Student Paper Award honorable mention – Shengxuan Xia.
• Student EMC Hardware Design Competition – Giorgi Tsintsadze, a master’s student in electrical engineering.
• Herbert K. Mertel Young Professional Award – DongHyun (Bill) Kim, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.

S&T featured three invited papers in the “Exemplary Paper” session.  EMCS invites the authors of this year’s seven finalists for the IEEE Transactions on EMC Best Paper Award whose paper was not followed up with a conference presentation and was chosen by the associate editors. Participants included:

• Francesco de Paulis, multi-year visiting scholar to S&T’s EMC Lab.
• Javad Meiguni, Jianchi Zhou, Giorgi Maghlakelidze, Yang Xu, Hossein Izadi, Shubankhar Marathe, Li Shen and Dr. Daryl Beetner, professor of electrical and computer engineering (and others from outside S&T).
• Ling Zhang, adjunct professor and PhD EE’21, Jack Juang, Zurab Kiguradze, Bo Pu, Shuai Jin, Songping Wu, Zhiping Yang, adjunct professor, and Chulsoon Hwang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, (plus some others).

Five S&T students, faculty, alumni and adjuncts were co-authors of papers that were finalists for one of the two best-paper awards, and five were finalists for the best student-paper awards.