IEEE ANTEM 2025
July 20 - 23, 2025 | St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
America/St_Johns
M1-Hardware Design
Monday, July 21 | 09:30 - 10:30 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD
09:30 — Reflection Phase Shifter for Phased Array Antennas With Digitally Tunable
Capacitors
John Mortensen, Dubari Borah, Ts Kalkur
09:45 — Asymmetric Transmissive Chiral Metasurface Enabled Triple-Band Circular
Dichroism Muhammad Noman, Farooq A Tahir, Jalil ur Rehman Kazim, Muhammad Ali Imran, Qammer
Abbasi
10:00 — Crossguide Coupler Design Using Deep-Learning Model Nadine
Issa,
Sahra Mohamed, Mahmoud Gadelrab Ahmed Gadelrab, Shoukry Shams, Mahmoud Elsaadany
10:15 — Design and Packaging Analysis of a Ku Band High Gain GaAs MMIC
LNA Mingye Fu, Nianhua Jiang, Jens Bornemann, Adam Densmore, Quanyuan Feng
M2-Radar Applications
Monday, July 21 | 09:30 - 10:30 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD09:30 — A New Algorithm for Significant Wave Height Estimation From X-Band Radar
Images Zhiding Yang, Weimin Huang
09:45 — Digital Twin System for Realistic Radar Optimization in Healthcare
Monitoring Sebastian Ratto, Ahmed N. Sayed, Abdelrahman Elbadrawy, Arien Sligar, Omar Ramahi,
George
Shaker
10:00 — Decoder-Free Transformer-Based Track Prediction for Compact High-Frequency
Surface Wave Radar Xiaotong Li, Weifeng Sun, Yonggang Ji, Weimin Huang
10:15 — An Improved Sea Clutter Suppression Method for Shipborne
HFSWR Jianqiang Guo, Hui Zhang, Weimin Huang
M3-Antenna Design I
Monday, July 21 | 11:00 - 12:00 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD11:00 — Deep Learning-Based Modeling and Inverse Design for Vector Graphics-Based
Planar Antenna Structures Chandan Roy, Ming Jian, Peyman Neshaastegaran, Wenyao Zhai
11:15 — Dual-Band Non-Resonant Partially Reflective Surface Antennas With
Reflection
Phase Manipulation Xiaodong Zheng, Yuehe Ge, Zhizhang (David) Chen
11:30 — Dual-Polarized Waveguide-Based Array Antenna for D-Band
Applications Mehri Borhani-Kakhki, Hari Krishna Pothula, David Wessel
11:45 — A Compact Single-Layer Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna for 5G Vehicular
Communication Maryam Faizi Khajeim, Rashid Mirzavand
M4-Ocean Remote Sensing Experiments and Contamination
Monday, July 21 | 11:00 - 12:00 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD11:00 — Retrieval of Oil-Water Mixing Ratios in Marine Oil Spills Using a
GA-Optimized BP Neural Network Honglei Zheng, Chunyu Gou, Yunhua Wang, Weimin Huang
11:15 — Experimental Study on Doppler Characteristics of Sea Echoes at Different
Radar Bands Pengbo Du, Yunhua Wang, Yushi Zhang, Honglei Zheng, Yanmin Zhang, Jianbo Cui
11:30 — Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of Sea Surface Chlorophyll
Concentration
on GNSS-R Data Xin Qiao, Weimin Huang
11:45 — Application of C-Band Radar in Monitoring Diesel-Contaminated Sea Ice at
the
Churchill Marine Observatory Mahdi Zabihi Mayvan, Durell Desmond, Agoston Fischer, Dustin
Isleifson
M5-Antenna Design II
Monday, July 21 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD14:00 — Support Vector Regression for Gain and S11 Prediction: a Low-Complexity
Solution for Antenna Design Muhammad Kamran Shereen, Xiaoguang Liu, Xiaohu Wu
14:15 — Decoupling Surface for Mutual Coupling Reduction in a Tapered-Slot
Arrayuction in a Tapered-Slot Array Alexander Mackay, George V. Eleftheriades
14:30 — Dielectric Resonator Antenna in a Shape of Horizontal Cylinder Placed on
Conducting Surface Žilvinas Kancleris, Justina Zemgulyte, Modestas Sadauskas, Karolis Ratautas,
Anatolii Belous, Oleg V'yunov, Paulius Ragulis
14:45 — A Dual-Band Reconfigurable Antenna Optimization Using Machine Learning
Techniques Masoud Salmani Arani, Reza Shahidi, Lihong Zhang
M6-Remote Sensing Payload Design and Imaging
Monday, July 21 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD14:00 — A Ku-Band Passive Microwave Radiometer Payload for Sea Ice Remote Sensing
CubeSat Mission Fatiah Balogun, Bashar Ali Farea Esmail, Dustin Isleifson
14:15 — Development of a Software-Defined-Radio-Based Radar Platform for Snow
Thickness Measuement Shaghayegh Shahiri Tabarestani, Dustin Isleifson
14:30 — Range-Azimuth-Velocity Image Generation for Perception Applications in
VTOL
Vehicles Using Echodyne EchoFlight Radar Thakshila Thilakanayake, Oscar De Silva, Thumeera
Wanasinghe Arachchige, George Mann, Awantha Jayasiri
14:45 — Software Defined Noise Radar for Uncrewed Aerial System
Detection Michael Royle, Murilo Teixeira Silva
M7-Antenna Design III
Monday, July 21 | 15:30 - 16:30 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD15:30 — Design of High Frequency Surface Wave Radar Receive Monopole Array
Elements Joe D Craig, Eric Gill, Reza Shahidi
15:45 — Low Profile C-Band Short Backfire Antenna With a Pi-Slot Microstrip Patch
Feed Fatiah Balogun, Dustin Isleifson
16:00 — A Short Backfire Antenna Covered With Metasurfaces for Gain
Enhancement Fahimeh Tavakoli, Dustin Isleifson, Bashar Ali Farea Esmail
16:15 — Wideband Corrugated Horn Design Based on Machine Learning
Technique Aminah Ibrahim, Saphia Mohamed, Mahmoud Gadelrab Ahmed Gadelrab, Shoukry Shams, Mahmoud
Elsaadany
T1-Remote Sensing of Ice
Tuesday, July 22 | 09:30 - 10:30 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD09:30 — Performance Evaluation of Three Deep Learning Models for River Ice
Segmentation From Aerial Images Nima Ahmadian, Matthew Hamilton, Weimin Huang
09:45 — Thin Sea Ice Thickness Prediction Using C-Band Polarimetric Radar and
Physical Observations via Multivariate Random Forest Algorithm Mehran Dadjoo, Dustin
Isleifson
10:00 — Masked Autoencoders for Enhancing SAR Sea Ice Image
Segmentation Haipeng Qin, Xinwei Chen, Muhammad Patel, David Clausi, Linlin Xu, Weimin Huang
10:15 — An Evaluation of Ground Truth Data on GNSS-R Based Sea Ice
Classification Jesse Chen, Weimin Huang
T2-Biomedical and Microwave Imaging
Tuesday, July 22 | 09:30 - 10:30 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD09:30 — Impact of Antenna Design on Image Quality in Breast Microwave
Radar Gabrielle Fontaine, Brooke Loewen, Stephen Pistorius
09:45 — Effect of Conductivity on Beat Frequency Detection in Chirp Pulse
Transmission Imaging Zahra Lasemiimeni, Elise Fear
10:00 — Improving the Use of Multiple Backgrounds for Deep Learning-Enabled
Microwave Imaging Ben J Martin, Keeley Narendra, Colin Gilmore, Ian Jeffrey
10:15 — Assessment of Microwave Breast Imaging System Stability Across CC and MLO
Views Pedram Mojabi, Roger Y. Tsang, Jeemie Bourqui, Elise Fear
T3-CubeSats
Tuesday, July 22 | 11:00 - 12:00 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD11:00 — Low Profile LHCP GNSS-R Array Antenna for the Killick-1 2U
CubeSat Pedram Ghasemigoudarzi, Weimin Huang, Oscar De Silva, Desmond Power
11:15 — Design and Operations of ArcticSat, a Passive Radiometer CubeSat for
Northern Canada Shakiba Mir Ahmadi, Riley Sweeney, Andrew Bowman, Dustin Isleifson, Philip A
Ferguson
11:30 — Stacked Transparent Meshed Patch Antenna for CubeSats Shirin
Ramezanzadehyazdi, Philip A Ferguson, Dustin Isleifson, Lotfollah Shafai, Cyrus Shafai
11:45 — Design of a PE44820 Digital Phase Shifter for a CubeSat Phased Array
Antenna Lanche Linden Grootboom
T4-Mixed Topics
Tuesday, July 22 | 11:00 - 12:00 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD11:00 — Implementing a Graphical User Interface for Backscattering Simulations
From
Multilayered Sea Ice Mohammed Zaid Khan, Durell Desmond, Fahimeh Tavakoli, Alexander Komarov, Gary
Stern, Dustin Isleifson
11:15 — Vessel Trajectory Prediction Based on GAN With Kolmogorov-Arnold Network
and
Conditional Variational Autoencoder Yasi Tian, Hui Zhang, Weimin Huang
11:30 — Exploring the Impact of Roadway Materials on Dynamic Electric Vehicle
Charging Based on Capacitive Power Transfer Vardaan Malhotra, Chris D. Rouse
11:45 — Cost-Effective Measuement Techniques for Accurate Characterization of
Triboelectric Nanogenerators Abel Mwepu Tshimbu, Sophia Zhang, Hamed Nasiri, Ting Zou, Lihong
Zhang
T5-Remote Sensing
Tuesday, July 22 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD14:00 — Remote Sensing for Mining Detection: Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning
Models Manjula Pradeep Ariyarathne Hewa Dewage, Weimin Huang, Thumeera Wanasinghe Arachchige
14:15 — Statistical Analysis of a Different Resolution Sea-Clutter
Database Jianbo Cui, Yunhua Wang, Honglei Zheng, Pengbo Du
14:30 — Impact of Ocean Wave Motion on SAR Imaging With Different Integration
Times Qian Li, Yunhua Wang, Honglei Zheng
14:45 — A Dual-Branch Deep Learning Framework for Wetland Mapping Using Sentinel-1
and Sentinel-2 Mohammad Marjani, Masoud Mahdianpari, Eric Gill, Fariba Mohammadimanesh
T6-Metasurfaces and 5G
Tuesday, July 22 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD14:00 — Yagi MIMO Antenna With High Isolation and Gain at 38 GHz Using
Metamaterials
for Millimetre-Wave Applications Bashar Ali Farea Esmail, Fatiah Balogun, Dustin Isleifson
14:12 — Dual-Band EBG Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna for Integrated
Communication
and Sensing Applications in Mid-Band 5G Lillian J. A. Olule
14:24 — Metamaterial-Inspired Microwave Sensor for Enhanced Liquid
Characterization Amirhossein Yazdanicherati, Mehri Ziaee Bideskan, Zahra Abbasi
14:36 — Concatenated Metamaterial Surfaces Making 5G Mobile Antenna Signals
Strong Jaewon Koh, Woogon Kim, Seongbu Seo, Hongsik Park, Kiyun Kim, Bae Jinwoo, Sungtek
Kahng
14:48 — Dielectric Resonator Antenna Design for 5G mm-Wave Band Masoud
Salmani Arani, Reza Shahidi, Lihong Zhang
W1-Theory and EM Modeling Methods
Wednesday, July 23 | 09:30 - 10:30 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD09:30 — A Conservative Model for Small Electric Field Sources in Analytical RF
Exposure Assessments Sayani Sengupta, Samuel Silberman, Chris D. Rouse
09:45 — A High-Order FEM Solution for a Time-Domain Electromagnetic Geophysical
Forward Solver: Preliminary Results Amirmasoud Amirkabiri, Lucas Banting, Ian Jeffrey, Colin
Gilmore
10:00 — Contact-Separation Triboelectric Nanogenerators With Variable-Angle
Motion:
an Electromagnetic Approach Based on Maxwell's Equations Mina Nazarian Samani, Sima Alidokht,
Heloise Therien-Aubin, Lihong Zhang
10:15 — Plane Waves in Non-Symmetric Monoclinic Media Michael J
Havrilla
W2-Material Characterization
Wednesday, July 23 | 09:30 - 10:30 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD09:30 — Characterization of Dielectric Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals Using
an Optically-Transparent Microstrip Resonator at 5 GHz Bradley C Mee, Stephen M Morris, Steve J
Elston, Justin P Coon
09:45 — Dual-Band Split Ring Resonator Sensor for Independent Simultaneous
Multi-Material Identification Mehri Ziaee Bideskan, Amirhossein Yazdanicherati, Zahra Abbasi
10:00 — Reflected Group Delay for Dielectric Characterization of Microstrip
Substrates Using Coaxial Resonator Gaurav Walia, Paul Laforge
10:15 — Dielectric Characterization Using Reflected Group Delay of Microstrip Ring
Resonator Gaurav Walia, Paul Laforge
W3-Communication and Channel Modeling
Wednesday, July 23 | 11:00 - 12:00 | Room: Salon A&B | Chair: TBD11:00 — On Weighted K-Means User Clustering for Flying Ad Hoc Networks in Disaster
Scenarios Thi My Chinh Chu, Hans-Juergen Zepernick, Alexander Westerhagen
11:15 — Investigation of Ionospheric Scintillation Effects for Satellite
Communications in VHF Band Hongbo Sun, Zhiwei Lin
11:30 — RIS-Aided MIMO Channel Capacity With Near-Field Channel
Model Tamara Abou El Hessen, Daniela Tuninetti, Danilo Erricolo
11:45 — Batch Optimization Solution for One Way Time of Flight UWB-INS
Localization Nushen M Senevirathna, Oscar De Silva, George Mann, Ray Gosine
W4-Drones Flight and Trajectory Systems
Wednesday, July 23 | 11:00 - 12:00 | Room: Concep. Bay S | Chair: TBD11:00 — Adaptive Flight Planning Using Turbulence and Weather
Forecasts Sooraj Sunil Nair, Matthew Hamilton
11:15 — Outage of a NOMA-Based Cooperative UAV Network in Generic Scattering
Environments Thi My Chinh Chu, Hans-Juergen Zepernick
11:30 — An Approach to Filter Elevation Errors in UAV LiDAR Scanning on Open-Pit
Mine Slopes Cui Lin, Steve Zou
11:45 — Electromagnetic Interference of Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle Motors on an
Electromagnetic-Induction Sensor Waymond R Scott, Jr