CSR seminar - 8th April 2026
When: Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Graduate Centre: GC222
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming CSR seminar delivered by Hao Jiang. The details are listed below.
Title: Segmented Waveguide-Enabled Pinching-Antenna System (SWAN) for Wireless Communications
Abstract: Over the past decades, multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technology has played a pivotal role in telecommunications, providing fast and ubiquitous global connectivity. By allowing antenna elements to be repositioned, MIMO technology has increased flexibility by treating wireless channels as tunable parameters, as exemplified by fluid antenna (FA), movable antenna (MA), and pinching-antenna systems (PASS). As an advanced form of PASS, the segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed, in which a segmented waveguide composed of multiple short dielectric waveguide segments is employed to radiate or receive signals through the pinching antennas (PAs) deployed on each segment. In addition to enabling both small- and large-scale fading reconfigurability, SWAN offers several advantages over conventional PASS, including preserving uplink-downlink duality, mitigating in-waveguide propagation loss, and improving waveguide maintainability. Furthermore, the flexibility of the segmented layout enables SWAN to integrate with various connection topologies between segments and RF chains, thereby facilitating multiple beamforming architectures and transmission protocols. This presentation will introduce SWAN's features, present several case studies, and highlight promising future directions for SWAN-enabled communications.
Bio: Hao Jiang earned his B.S. and M.Eng degrees from Nankai University (NKU), China. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, U.K. His current research interests encompass near-field communications, beamforming techniques, machine learning, and spectrum sharing. In 2020, he was awarded the Second-Grade Specialized Scholarship for Excellent Freshmen and was recognized as a Distinguished Graduate of NKU in 2023.