MrMing Li

Dr. Ming Li received the B.S. degree in electronic information science and technology and the M.S. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Xiamen University, China, in 2015 and 2018, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Global Big Data Technologies Centre (GBTDC), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, in 2023. From February to September 2023, he has been a Research Assistant with GBTDC, UTS, where he has been a postdoctoral research associate since September 2023. His current research interests include antenna array synthesis, multibeam antennas, reconfigurable intelligent surface, and machine learning based antenna design, for 6G wireless communications.

Dr. Li has puslished more than 30 papers in the flagship journals and conferences, inluding IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He holds five patents. He has served as the Local Organising Committee Chair at 2026 IEEE AP-S Young Professionals Symposium. He has also served as a session chair and given invited talks in several international conferences. He serves as a reviewer for a number of flagship journals in the field of antennas and propagation.

Dr. Li has also been actively involved in tutoring and teaching. He has tutored several UTS courses, including Mobile Networking and Embedded Systems. He is a recipient of the UTS 2025 First and Further Year Experience (FFYE) grant for the program "Advancing Authentic Learning Through Forward-Thinking Assessment in the GenAI Era."

Awards:

1. 2026 UTS Early Career Researcher Capability Development Initiative Award ($19,950 funded).

2. Honorable Mention award at the 2026 IEEE AP-S/URSI, Detroit, USA. 

3. 2025 UTS First and Further Year Experience (FFYE) teaching grant.

4. Young Scientist Award at the 2025 URSI Asia-Pasific Radio Science Conference, Sydney, Australia.

5. Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics, Applications and Student Innovation (iWEM), Hong Kong, China.

6. Best Student Paper Award (5th place) at the 2025 IEEE AP-S/URSI, Ottawa, Canada.

7. Honorable Mention Award at the 2022 IEEE AP-S/URSI, Denver, USA.

8. First Prize of Student Paper (1/30 in finalist) at the 2021 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES-China), Chengdu, China.

9. Best Student Paper Award (1st place, 1/24 in finalist) at the 2021 China National Conference on Antennas, Ningbo (NCANT). 

10. Full PhD Scholarship from UTS, 2018.

11. Outstanding Graduate from Xiamen University, 2015: 5% of all graduates