Smart antennas: transforming random scattered fields to controlled signals

马可尼将无线通信商业化，使之成为人类所知的最具颠覆性的技术。一个多世纪前，正是对通信技术的需求催生了我们的电气工程学科，而今天，它仍然是从数学到材料科学等学科研究的主要推动力。在电气工程中，通信是ICT（信息、通信和技术）的基石，它现在塑造了我们做生意和社交的方式。这种影响正在加速，甚至连经济学家都认为，信息通信技术的普及能力是一个国家经济福祉的关键。我的发现研究旨在通过在精心挑选的通信主题中开拓世界优质设计知识，为加拿大创造经济财富。

Marconi’s commercialization of wireless transformed communications into the most disruptive technology mankind has known. It was the demand for communications technology that spawned our discipline of electrical engineering over a century ago, and today it is still a prime driver of research - for disciplines ranging from mathematics to materials science. In electrical engineering, communications is the cornerstone of ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) and it now shapes the way we do business and socialize. This impact is accelerating and even economists concur that pervasive capability in ICT is key to a country’s economic wellbeing. My discovery research is designed to create economic wealth for Canada by pioneering the world’s premium design knowledge in carefully selected topics in communications.