报告题目：From Parametric Studies to Generative AI: The Evolution of Antenna Design

讲座嘉宾：Yi Huang, The University of Liverpool, UK/IEEE Fellow

讲座时间：2026年10月9日（周三）上午 10:00

讲座地点：深圳大学粤海校区电子与信息工程学院——致信楼N710会议室

摘要：Antenna design has traditionally relied on physical intuition, electromagnetic simulation, and extensive parametric studies. Recent advances in artificial intelligence are transforming this approach, enabling faster optimisation, surrogate modelling, inverse design, and, increasingly, the generation of novel antenna geometries.

This talk will review the evolution from conventional simulation-driven design to machine-learning-assisted and generative AI approaches, with examples covering a dielectric resonant antenna (DRA) and a mobile base-station antenna. The opportunities and challenges of AI-driven antenna design will be discussed, including physics integration, data requirements, generalisation, and reliable verification. Finally, future directions towards intelligent and autonomous antenna design will be explored.

个人介绍：

Prof Yi Huang received DPhil in Communications from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1994. He has been conducting research in the areas of wireless communications, applied electromagnetics, radar, and antennas since 1987. His experience includes 3 years spent in China as a Radar Engineer and various periods with the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, and Essex in the UK as a member of research staff. He worked as a Research Fellow at British Telecom Labs in 1994 and then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, the University of Liverpool, UK, as a Faculty member in 1995, where he is now a full Professor in Wireless Engineering, the Head of the High-Frequency Engineering Group.

Dr Huang has published over 500 refereed papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings and authored books on Antennas: from Theory to Practice (John Wiley, 2008, and 2021) and Reverberation Chambers (Wiley 2016, and 2019). He has received over 10 awards (e.g. the IET Premium Award 2022 for Best Paper, EuCAP2023 Best Antenna Paper, the IET Innovation Award 2018, and BAE Systems Chairman's Award 2017) and many research grants from research councils, government agencies, charities, the EU, and industry, acted as a consultant to various companies, and served on a number of national and international technical committees (such as the IET, EPSRC, European ACE, COST-IC0603, and COST-IC1102, and EurAAP) and been an Editor, Associate Editor or Guest Editor of four of international journals (including IEEE AWPL 2016-2022). He has been a keynote/invited speaker and organiser of many international conferences and workshops (e.g. EuCAP2018/2024, IEEE iWAT, WiCom, and LAPC). He was the Editor-in-Chief of Wireless Engineering and Technology and IEEE AWPL, is now an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation, a College member of EPSRC, the UK/Ireland Delegate to EurAAP (2016-2020, 2022-date), a member of IEEE APS New Technology Directions Committee, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE APS, and a Fellow of IEEE.  

More information can be found at: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/yi-huang