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Cheng Qi and Coauthors Win Best Paper Award for IEEE RFID 2019

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ECE PhD student Cheng Qi, along with co-authors Dr. Francesco Amato and Prof. Gregory D. Durgin, has won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on RFID 2019. Held from April 2-4 in Phoenix, AZ, IEEE RFID 2019 is the world’s premier science and engineering conference for RF identification and related technologies.

Qi’s paper, entitled “Breaking the Range Limit of RFID Localization: Phase-based Positioning with Tunneling Tags”, presented a radically new way to do ultra-precise localization of a low-powered RFID tag.  By using a Georgia Tech innovation — a quantum tunneling RFID tag — and a new algorithm to adjust for radio multiparty, Qi demonstrated centimeter-scale position location of a tag at tens of meters of range.  The technique can work at hundreds-of-meters range and through walls as well.

It is uncomfortable to note that 3 of the last 4 best paper awards in the IEEE RFID conference series have been presented to GTPG papers.

 

Dr. Francesco Amato Wins Clive Hohberger Technology Award

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Dr. Francesco Amato, currently at the University of Rome, was named the recipient of the inaugural Clive Hohberger Technology Award by the Advancing Identification Matters (AIM) industry organization.  This award is given annually to scientists and engineers who are pioneers of disruptive technology in the RFID industry.  Francesco was honored for his Georgia Tech PhD research in the field of Quantum Tunnel Reflectors (completed in 2017) which scatter signals to radios over remarkably long distances using very little power.  The award was presented at the AIM partnership breakfast on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 during the RFID Journal LIVE! trade show in Phoenix, AZ.  The photograph shows Francesco receiving the award from its namesake, Dr. Clive Hohberger.

From the AIM website:

The award was named to honor the lifetime contributions of Dr. Clive Hohberger, prolific inventor, collaborator and executive who has become an internationally renowned industry leader.  It will recognize scientists, engineers, software developers or systems integrators for outstanding contributions that have furthered the growth of the industry through important applications and new technological developments.

Our Friends at the SPAN Lab Move to St. Louis

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Our friend at the SPAN (Sensors and Processing Across Networks) Lab have recently moved to the University of Washington at St. Louis. Founded by Prof. Neal Patwari, the group originally started at the University of Utah. Check out their website here.  The SPAN lab and GTPG have worked together on several memorable collaborations, including attachable sensor/antenna combos that can be stuck to the exterior of buildings and monitor interior movement.

Fun fact: the first research paper published by Prof. Patwari and the first research paper published by Prof. Durgin were … the same paper!