个人简介

About Dr. Xiulong Bao is a Senior Research Associate with the organization of Electronic and Communications Engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He received the B.Sc. in Physics from the Huaibei Coal Industry Teachers’ College, Anhui Province, China in July 1991. He was awarded a M.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in "Electromagnetic Field & Microwave Technology" from [external]Southeast University, Nanjing, China in April 1996 and April 2003, respectively. From 1996 to 1998, he was a lecturer with the Nanjing Forestry University’s organization of Information and Science Technology, where he taught general physics and microwave engineering. As a senior researcher undertaking his Ph.D. at the Key State Laboratory for Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, he joined two National Natural Science Foundation of China projects; The “Investigation on the Antenna and Microwave Circuit based on Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Structure” and “Computation of the RCS for Large Irregular Objects using Generalized Multipole Technique (GMT)/ Physical Optics (PO) hybrid Method”. In addition, he contributed to an international Chinese-Singaporean project with Prof. Le-Wei Li, National University of Singapore on the “Investigation of the Basic Theory of a Complex Medium PBG Structure”. Dr. Bao proposed and implemented numerical calculations with a Pseudospectral Time-Domain (PSTD) method and a non-Yee Higher Order Finite Different Time Domain (FDTD) method to calculate the dispersion characteristics of the structure. His contributions produced more effective performance analyses of complex medium PBG structures while reducing computational resources and times by over 50%. He joined the Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in 2003 to work on a Chinese 863 National Plan project on “Design of 35GHz Radar System Based on Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Technology”. The project was in collaboration with the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology within the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He led the initial system design and was responsible for the design and delivery of a compact 2×2 and 4×4 element 35 GHz antenna array. The principle innovations related to size reduction with enhanced gain using via pins in close proximity to the resonant patches. In addition, he co-supervised two M.Sc. students on a circularly polarized antenna for the Chinese Satellite Positioning System and a compact dual-frequency handset PIFA antenna. The outcomes were subsequently exploited in commercial handheld applications by two Chinese companies. In 2005, he joined Dr Max Ammann and the DIT’s Antenna and High Frequency Research Centre as a Research Associate. The €550,000 research program was part of the SFI CSET Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR) which is a campus-industry partnership that facilitated DIT’s provision of antennas to Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland (Maynooth) in conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Innovations (Ireland). He received the CTVR 2006 Achievement Award for his contributions to the design of miniaturized antennas for various wireless communications systems and he was promoted to Senior Research Associate in 2007. His broad research interests include analysis and design of various small and circularly polarized antennas, such as GPS antennas, multiple-band antennas, RFID antennas, a DTV antenna, handset antennas, Ultra Wideband (UWB) antennas and the design and application of metamaterial/EBG structures. He is also active in the study of electromagnetic scattering, electromagnetic numerical computation (FDTD, PSTD, FDFD and MOM methods) and the study of electromagnetic wave propagation and antenna theory. Awards SFI best paper award at the 2009 China Ireland International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies for the paper titled Design of Compact Annular-Ring Patch Antennas for Circular Polarization.