Distinguished Prof. Yingjie Jay Guo is the founding Director of Global Big Data Technologies Centre at University of Technology, Sydney. He is also the founding Technical Director of the New South Wales Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) funded by the NSW Telco Authority, and the founding Director of the TPG-UTS Network Sensing Lab.

Real world impact

Currently, in partnership with NSW governments and Australian industry, Jay is leading two multimillion projects on environmental sensing using 5G/6G networks to mitigate the risks of flooding to Australian economy and communities. 

Research Contributions

He is an internationally established scientist with 700+ publications including six books, 350+ IEEE journal papers and 27 granted international patents. Jay has made significant contributions to the research and technology development of communications antenna systems including reconfigurable antennas, hybrid arrays, reflectarrays/transmitarrays and, most recently, multibeam antennas. He is an innovator with strong and sustained global industrial impact. His current research interests include 5G and 6G antennas, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), and in-band full duplex wireless communications systems. He and his students have won over 30 best paper awards at international and national conferences including three flagship antenna conferences, IEEE APS, EUCAP and ISAP. As a recognition to his contributions to the Generalized Joined Coupler (GJC) matrix theory, he won the prestigious IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award in 2023, arguably the highest recognition of journal publications in the field.

Awards and Recognition

Jay is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Engineering (ATSE), a Fellow of Royal Society of New South Wales (RSNSW) and a Fellow of IEEE. He is the recipient of Australia Government Engineering Innovation Award (2012), Australia Engineering Excellence Award (2007) and CSIRO Chairman Medal (2007 and 2012). He was named one of the most influential engineers in Australia in 2014 and 2015, respectively. He was namedAustralia's Research Leader in Electromagnetics by the Australian Research Awards for five consecutive years from 2020. In 2024, Jay was named a highly ranked scholar (0.05% among 30M scholars worldwide in all fields) by ScholarGPS.

Professional Leadership

As a leading scientist, Jay has played leadership services to international and Australian professional and research communities. Examples of his most recent roles include the International Steering Committee Chair (2020-2021), International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP); General Chair, 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation; Member of Standards Australia IoT and Digital Twin Committee, representing Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE); Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation; Member of NSW Circular Precincts & Infrastructure Taskforce; Member of New Zealand MBIE College of Assessors; Member of College of Experts, Australian Research Council (2016-2018). Jay has been on the international advisory/editorial boards of numerous international conferences and academic journals on antennas and electromagnetics, wireless, sensing and big data technologies.

Background & Industry Experience
Jay has over thirty years of international academic, industrial and CSIRO experience. He served as a Research Director at CSIRO for nine years and successfully directed Research and Development programs across a number of fields in ICT including wireless and networking, broadband applications, robotics, sensor networks and big data technologies. Prior to joining CSIRO in August 2005, Jay held a number of senior positions in the European mobile communications industry including Siemens, NEC and Fujitsu Europe for eight years, leading the technology development of 3G and 4G wireless communications systems.