Short Bio:

Wen-Qin Wang received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Shandong, China, in 2002, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Cheng- du, China, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From March 2005 to 2007, he was with the National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Since September 2007, he has been with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, UESTC, where he is currently a Professor. From June 2011 to May 2012, he was a Visiting Scholar with Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. From December 2012 to December 2013, he was a Hong Kong Scholar with the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. From January 2014 to January 2016, he was a Marie Curie Fellow with the Imperial College London, U.K. His research interests span the area of array signal processing and circuit systems for radar, communications, and microwave remote sensing, whereas four books and over 300 papers have been published.

Title: Intelligent Flexible Conformal Array: Concepts and Applications

Abstract:
Intelligent flexible conformal array allows flexible and structure-adaptive array geometry to provide many promising applications. However, the array deformation may cause irregular, sparse, and coupling effects among complex array elements, which will lead to array manifold distortion, time variation and space variation problems. This talk will introduce the basic principles of intelligent flexible conformal array and discuss the potential applications in radar and communications. Several technical challenges will be pointed out to call for more future investigations.