| Lecturer Profile |
Steven Gao started his career since 1994 while at China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation (China). Then he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at National University of Singapore (Singapore), a Research Fellow at Birmingham University (UK), a Visiting Research Scientist at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ, Switzerland), a Visiting Fellow at Chiba University (Japan), a Visiting Scientist at University of California at Santa Barbara (US), and a Senior Lecturer, Reader and Head of Antenna and Microwave Group at Northumbria University (UK). Prior to joining Kent as a Professor in Jan. 2013, he was the Head of Satellite Antennas and RF System Group at Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey (UK). He also held short-term visiting appointments at some institutes including as a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University (China) and the University of Calabria (Italy).
He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, General Chair of 2013 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), Chair of Special Session on “Satellite Communication Antennas” in 2012 IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems and Networks, Chair of Workshop on "New Technology Development for Space" in 2015 IEEE Microwave Symposium, etc. He was also a Guest Editor of IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation for Special Issue on "Antennas for Satellite Communication"(2015), and is Associate Editor of Radio Science (US), a member of the editorial boards of International Journal of Space Science and Engineering (US), IET Circuits, Devices and Systems (UK), Chinese Journal of Electronics (China), Chinese Journal of Radio Science (China), and Editor-in-Chief for Wiley Book Series on "Microwave and Wireless Technologies". He is a Plenary Speaker at AES'2014, an Invited Speaker at IEEE IMS'2015 (USA), IWAT'2014 (Sydney, 2014), SOMIRES'2013 (Japan, 2013), APCAP'2014 (China, 2014), etc. He is a Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK.
He has two books including Space Antenna Handbook (Wiley, 2012) and Circularly Polarized Antennas (Wiley-IEEE, 2014), over 250 papers and several patents. He received URSI Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science (URSI), 2002, Japan Society of Promotion Science (JSPS) Fellowship Award, Japan, 2005, Best Paper Award, LAPC, 2012, JSPS Award, Japan, 2013, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Fellow Award, UK, 2013, etc.
Currently he is Principal Investigator for several research projects, including "Millimeter-wave intelligent array antennas for next-generation mobile satellite communications" (FLEXWIN, funded by European Union FP7), “Advanced reflectarray antennas for space-borne synthetic aperture radars” (funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK), “Gallium Nitride integrated millimeter-wave active phased array multi-beam transceivers for SATellites" (GaNSat, funded by European Union FP7 Space Programme), "Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radars onboard micro-satellites constellations "(DIFFERENT, funded by EU FP7 Space Programme), "Adaptive multi-band miniaturized antennas for next-generation smart phones" (funded by industry), etc. His main areas of expertise are in antennas, smart antennas, phased arrays, MIMO, satellite antenna, RF/microwave/millimetre-wave/THz circuits and RF front ends (high-efficiency RF/microwave power amplifiers, filters), satellite communications, wireless power transfer, UWB radars, GNSS reflectometry, synthetic-aperture radars, remote sensing, electromagnetic modelling and small satellites. |
