Biography

Wenfei Yin is an Assistant Professor/Master's supervisor in the School of Computer and Information Science, Hefei University of Technology. He received his PhD degree from the School of Communication, University of Sheffield, UK. In recent years, he has published many academic papers in high level journals (conferences), and has been authorized one invention patent. His research interests include photoconductive terahertz antennas, resonant tunneling diode terahertz antennas, dielectric resonator antennas, ultra-wideband-MIMO antennas, waveguide slot antennas, mobile VTX-VTS antennas, filtering antennas, and shared-aperture antennas.

Scientific research directions (including but not limited to):

1、UWB-MIMO Antenna

This direction is to design multiple antennas to form an ultra-wideband MIMO system, so as to improve the performance of wireless communication system, including antenna configuration and design, power allocation and optimization, antenna unit decoupling, practical application and system integration, hardware implementation and testing.

2、Dielectric resonator antenna

This direction uses the characteristics of dielectric resonators to design and optimize antennas to achieve high performance wireless communications at specific frequencies, including broadband performance extension, multi-band applications, antenna and resonator coupling, size and weight optimization, and multi-polarization method design.

3、VTX-VTS antenna

This irection explores and optimizes the wireless connection research of vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication (V2I), including antenna design and performance optimization, signal processing and algorithms, multi-antenna system integration, practical application and standardization.

4、Filtering Antenna

The direction of the antenna and filter functions into one, in order to achieve a specific frequency range of signal selective transmission and suppression, optimize the performance of wireless communication system research, including frequency selectivity, filter and antenna fusion design, band selectivity and band expansion, antenna radiation characteristics optimization, filter performance and antenna performance balance, multi-frequency band support and other content.

5、Terahertz Antenna

Photoconductive terahertz antenna, resonant tunneling diode terahertz antenna

Main research and teaching projects:

1、National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Research on Energy-efficient Communication Methods of On-chip Networks for Multi-core Systems, 2024.01-2027.12, participant.

2、Enterprise entrusted project, dielectric resonator array antenna research and development, 2023.04-2025.04,presided over

3, Hefei University of Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Teaching Reform Research Project, 2023.04-2025.04,presided over

4, Hefei University of Technology Xuancheng Campus School Teachers and Students Co-creation Project, based on the 5G mobile ultra-wideband MIMO antenna research and development and industrialization, 2020/01-2023/01,presided over.

5、Hefei University of Technology Doctoral Special Research Fund Project, Terahertz Antenna Based on Resonant Tunneling Diode, 2019/04-2021/4, presided over.

Some papers in recent years (SCI/EI):

[1]W. Yin, H. Zhao and Z. Jiang, "Gain-Enhanced Broadband Circularly Polarized Crossed Dipole Antenna," 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM), Shanghai, China, 2019, pp. 1-3.

[2]H. Zhao, Z. Jiang, X. Zhao and W. Yin, "Broadband Circularly Polarized Rectangular Dielectric Resonant Antenna," 2019 Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSQRWC), Taiyuan, China, 2019, pp. 1-4.

[3]S. Huang, H. Zhao, Z. Jiang, W. Yin, Z. Fang and W. Chang, "Circularly Polarized Rectangular Dielectric Resonant Antenna With Sequential Phase Feed," 2019 Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSQRWC), Taiyuan, China, 2019, pp. 1-3.

[4]Z. Jiang，X. Qiao, W. Yin*, X. Zhao, X. Xuan, T. Wan, “A well-conditioned multilevel directional simply sparse method for analysis of electromagnetic problems,” Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements,Vol. 99, 244-247, 2019.

[5]X. L. Xiao, W. Yin, S. Khamas, "Design of Efficient Photomixer-based Terahertz Dielectric Resonator antenna,” The 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, The Copenhagen, 2020. 

[6]X. Li, W. Yin and S. Khamas, "An Efficient Photomixer Based Slot Fed Terahertz Dielectric Resonator Antenna," 2020 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), Bucharest, Romania, 2020, pp. 1-4.

[7]X. Li, W. Yin, S. Khamas, "An Efficient Photomixer Based Slot Fed Terahertz Dielectric Resonator Antenna," Sensors 2021, 21, 876.

[8]W. Yin, S. Chen, J. Chang, C. Li, S. K. Khamas, "CPW Fed Compact UWB 4-Element MIMO Antenna with High Isolation," Sensors 2021, 21, 2688.

[9]X. Zha, C. Li, S. Chen, W. Yin and X. Zhang, "Compact High Isolation CPW Fed 4-Element UWB-MIMO Antenna with Special Isolation Structure," 2022 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS), Wuhan, China, 2022, pp. 465-470.

Authorized invention patents:

1. Yin, Wenfei; Liu, Jian; Cheng, Wen. A UWB positioning antenna and UWB positioning system, Patent of invention, Patent No. ZL202011462134.7

Teaching Achievements:

1. Instructed students to participate in and won 16 awards in AB competitions at provincial level or above, including 3 at national level and 13 at provincial level. As the first instructor, she guided the students to win a gold medal in the provincial competition of "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and as the instructor, she helped the team to win the gold medal in the national competition in the eighth competition, realizing the first gold in the University of Technology. 

2. Guided a total of 8 innovation and entrepreneurship projects for college students, among which 1 project was established at the national level, 3 projects were finalized at the provincial level (1 with excellent finalization), and 4 projects were finalized at the university level (1 with excellent finalization). 

3. Guided a total of 24 students to complete graduation design, of which 2 were awarded excellent thesis, 2022 annual undergraduate graduation excellent instructor.

Enrollment specialties:

Information and Communication Engineering: antenna design and research, microwave devices, etc.