Chan Hwang See
chan hwang see

Dr Chan Hwang See BEng(Hons) PhD PGCHE CEng FIET SMIEEE FHEA

Associate Professor

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  C.See@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Chan H. See received a first class B.Eng. Honours degree in Electronic, Telecommunication and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bradford, UK. Currently, He is an Associate Professor in School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, UK. Previously, he was head of Electrical Engineering & Mathematics within the School of Engineering and the Built Environment from 2019 to 2022. Prior to joining Napier, he was a Senior Lecturer (Programme Leader) in School of Engineering, University of Bolton, UK. He led the development of the new BEng (Hons) Electrical & Electronic Programme and two Degree Apprenticeships, i.e. Electrical/Electronic Technical Support Engineer and Embedded Electronic Systems Development Engineer, as well as to set up new electrical & electronic laboratories within the National Centre for Motorsport Engineering (NCME). All these programmes are accredited by the IET under his leadership. His teaching covers embedded systems, instrumentation Systems, Communication Electronics, Mobile and microwave communications, and Wireless Sensors and IoT.
His research interests cover Internet of Things (IoTs), wireless sensor network system design, acoustic/microwave sensors, antennas, microwave wireless power transfer, computational electromagnetics, and microwave circuits. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 140 conference papers. He is a co-author for one book and five book chapters. He was named in the recent 2022 edition of the Stanford University list of World Top 2% Scientists.
Dr. See was awarded a IEEE Malaysia AP/MTT/EMC Joint Chapter- Best Paper Award in 2020. He was also a recipient of two Young Scientist Awards from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI, US) and Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC, Japan) in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He was awarded a certificate of excellence for his successful Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Yorkshire Water on the design and implementation of a wireless sensor system for sewerage infrastructure monitoring in 2009. Dr. See is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). He is also a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a full member of the EPSRC Review College, an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and an Editor for Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Scientific Reports, Peerj Computer Science, PLOS ONE and Wireless Power Transfer journals. According to Web of Science, he has completed over 480 verified reviews and over 220 verified editor records.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • “Communications” Topical Advisory Panel Member of MDPI Sensors Journal,
  • MDPI Sensors Journal, Conference Board Committee Member

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Technical Programme Committee for 2nd International Multi-disciplinary Conference-Integrated Sciences and Technologies,2021
  • Technical Programme Committee Member for SCOReD 2021 Conference in Malaysia
  • Technical Programme Commitee: 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference
  • Technical reviewer member for European Conference on Antenna and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 to 2022
  • Technical reviewer member for the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference 2012
  • Technical reviewer member for International Workshop on Energy Efficient and Reconfigurable Transceiver, 2010 to 2017
  • Technical reviewer member for the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference 2008

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue “Antenna Design for Future Transceivers”, Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
  • Editorial Board Member of Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
  • Associate editor for Frontiers in Antennas and Propagation Journal
  • Associate Editor for Nature Scientific Reports
  • Guest Editor (Lead) for Special Issue in MDPI Future Internet Journal- "6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges II"
  • Academic Editor for Wireless Power Transfer (Hindawi) Journal
  • Academic Editor for PLOS One Journal
  • MDPI Antenna Topic Board Editor
  • Guest Editor for Special Issue in MDPI Sensors Journal- "AI-Enabled Low Power Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices"
  • Editor for PeerJ Computer Science Journal
  • Guest Editor for Special Issue “RF/Microwave Circuits for 5G and Beyond”, Electronics, MDPI,
  • Guest Editor (Lead) for Special Issue in MDPI Future Internet Journal- "6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges"
  • MDPI Electronics Journal Topic Editor
  • Guest Editor (Lead) for Special Issue in MDPI Electronics Journal- "Design and Theoretical Study of New Antennas"
  • Guest Editor for International Journal of Antennas and Propagation- Special Issue "Antennas for Emerging 5G Systems”
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Access Journal

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Certificate of Excellence for a International conference paper
  • IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Malaysia Joint Chapter: Best Paper Award 2020
  • Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
  • Jenkinson Research Awards Winner
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy
  • International Young Scientist Award
  • URSI International Young Scientist Award
  • KTP Certificate of Excellence

 

Grant Reviewer

  • EPSRC Full College membership
  • Dutch Research Council (NWO) Proposal
  • EPSRC Associate College Membership
  • EPSRC (Call: Properity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business & University) Proposal
  • EPSRC (Call: Software for the future) Proposal
  • EPSRC Standard Proposal

 

Invited Speaker

  • MiNT-SRC International Seminar Series 4 in Malaysia: Design of Sensors and Antennas in Challenging Water Utility Environments

 

Media Activity

  • Scientific Comments on a published article (electricity generator backpack) in newscientist.com

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE), US
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) from Engineering Council, UK

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Title: Spatially Optimum, Bandwidth- and Energy-Efficient Antenna Array Topologies for Future Wireless Networks, PhD, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Title: Wearable Devices for Supporting Frail Individuals to Live Independently, PhD, Queen Margaret University, UK
  • Respiratory Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensors, MRES, University of Chester, UK
  • Design and implementation of a wheelchair ergometer for interactive, entertaining rehabilitation and data capture, MRES, University of Hull, UK
  • Efficient Surrogate Model-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Electromagnetic Design Automation with Applications, PhD, Wrexham Glyndwr University and University of Chester
  • Novel Multi-Polarised Mobile communication Antennas Using Classical and Efficient Design Automation Approaches, PhD, Wrexham Glyndwr University, UK

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Research Fellow in School of Engineering, University of Bolton
  • Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, UK

 

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High performance antenna-on-chip inspired by SIW and metasurface technologies for THz band operation

Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Rajaguru, R. K., Iqbal, A., Al‑Hasan, M., See, C. H., & Falcone, F. (2023)
High performance antenna-on-chip inspired by SIW and metasurface technologies for THz band operation. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-27364-8
In this paper, a high-performance antenna-on-chip (AoC) is implemented on gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafer based on the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) and metasurface (MTS)...

Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Devices

Journal Article
A. Althuwayb, A., Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Rashid, N., Kaaniche, K., Ben Atitallah, A., … Falcone, F. (in press)
Metasurface-Inspired Flexible Wearable MIMO Antenna Array for Wireless Body Area Network Applications and Biomedical Telemetry Devices. IEEE Access, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3233388
This article presents a sub-6GHz ISM-band flexible wearable MIMO antenna array for wireless body area networks (WBANs) and biomedical telemetry devices. The array is based on ...

Computer Vision Based Kidney’s (HK-2) Damaged Cells Classification with Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator (FPGA)

Journal Article
Ghani, A., Hodeify, . R., See, C. H., Keates, S., Lee, D., & Bouridane, A. (in press)
Computer Vision Based Kidney’s (HK-2) Damaged Cells Classification with Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator (FPGA). Electronics,
In medical and health sciences, detection of cell injury plays an important role in diagnosis, personal treatment and disease prevention. Despite recent advancements in tools ...

Editorial: 6G Wireless Communication Systems- Applications, Opportunities and Challenges

Journal Article
Anoh, K., See, C. H., Dama, Y., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Keates, S. (2022)
Editorial: 6G Wireless Communication Systems- Applications, Opportunities and Challenges. Future Internet, 14(12), Article 379. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi14120379
As the technical specifications of the 5th Generation (5G) wireless communication standard are being wrapped up, there are growing efforts amongst researchers, industrialists ...

Review on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Sensor Node Localization in Wireless Networks: Soft Computing Approaches

Journal Article
Annepu, V., Rani Sona, D., C.V., R., Alibakhshikenari, M., A. Althuwayb, A., Alali, B., …Falcone, F. (in press)
Review on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Sensor Node Localization in Wireless Networks: Soft Computing Approaches. IEEE Access,
Node positioning or localization is a critical requisite for numerous position-based applications of wireless sensor network (WSN). Localization using the unmanned aerial vehi...

Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones

Journal Article
Ojaroudi Parchin, N., S.I. Amar, A., Darwish, M., H. Moussa, K., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., … Mohamed, H. G. (in press)
Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones. IEEE Access, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3227199
In this manuscript, a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array system with identical compact antenna elements providing wide radiation and diversity function is int...

Preparation of flexible dielectric nanocomposites using nanocellulose and recycled alum sludge for wearable technology applications

Journal Article
Sun, D., Saw, L., Onyianta, A., 'rourke, Lu, Z., Wilson, C., …Shyha, I. (2022)
Preparation of flexible dielectric nanocomposites using nanocellulose and recycled alum sludge for wearable technology applications. Materials, Methods & Technologies, 16, 149-159
With the rapid development of wearable technology, flexible dielectric materials with environmental-friendly, low-cost and high-energy efficiency characteristics are in increa...

Low-Loss and Dual-Band Filter Inspired by Glide Symmetry Principle Over Millimeter-Wave Spectrum for 5G Cellular Networks

Journal Article
Karamirad, M., Pouyanfar, N., Alibakhshikenari, . M., Ghobadi, . C., Nourinia, . J., See, C. H., & Falcone, F. (in press)
Low-Loss and Dual-Band Filter Inspired by Glide Symmetry Principle Over Millimeter-Wave Spectrum for 5G Cellular Networks. iScience,
This paper focuses on designing a dual-band, bandpass filter configuration inspired by glide-symmetric structures in a single plane. Geometry configuration of Elliptical slots...

Preparation of Elastomeric Nanocomposites Using Nanocellulose and Recycled Alum Sludge for Flexible Dielectric Materials

Journal Article
Sun, D., Saw, B. L., Onyianta, A. J., Wang, B., Wilson, C., O'Rourke, D., …Lu, Z. (in press)
Preparation of Elastomeric Nanocomposites Using Nanocellulose and Recycled Alum Sludge for Flexible Dielectric Materials. Journal of Advanced Dielectrics, https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010135x22420085

High Gain/Bandwidth Off-Chip Antenna Loaded with Metamaterial Unit-Cell Impedance Matching Circuit for Sub-Terahertz Near-Field Electronic Systems

Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Mariyanayagam, D., Vadalà, V., Naser-Moghadasi, M., See, C. H., … Limiti, E. (2022)
High Gain/Bandwidth Off-Chip Antenna Loaded with Metamaterial Unit-Cell Impedance Matching Circuit for Sub-Terahertz Near-Field Electronic Systems. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 17893. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22828-3
An innovative off-chip antenna (OCA) is presented that exhibits high gain and efficiency performance at the terahertz (THz) band and has a wide operational bandwidth. The prop...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • KTP: Wireless sensors for detecting obstructive sleep apnoea, £170,000, 2018-2020, Co-I, Passion For Life Healthcare (UK) Limited, University of Bolton
  • Feasibility Study of using Zigbee based Wireless sensor network for Agriculture Application, £5000, 2017, PI, University of Bolton and Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola, Nigeria
  • KTP: Development of smart fire protection products capable of sensing and reporting their local environment wirelessly, £93,988, 2016-2017, Co-I, TBA Textiles Limited, University of Bolton
  • TSB Innovative Voucher: Feasibility Study for Sediment Sensors in Storm Water Sediment Interceptor Systems, £5000, 2014, Co-I, Hydro international Ltd,
  • Industrial Research Project: UHF balanced antenna design for a wireless transceiver, £20,000, 2014-2015, PI, WIMAC Ltd
  • Industrial Contract: "EPA US Demonstration Project- Portable Acoustic Sensor", £30,000, 2013, Co-I, University of Bradford
  • Industry funded Research Project: UHF and mobile antennas designs for a wireless lighting system, £30,000, 2012-2014, PI, WIMAC Ltd
  • Industrial contract: “Sewerbatt System Demonstration Project”, £30,000, 2012, Co-I, University of Bradford
  • Industry funded research contract: Antenna Designs for Subsurface Underground Communication Systems, £30,000, 2010-2011, PI, IETG Ltd.
  • Innovative voucher Yorkshire Forward: Feasibility Study of Charging Methods for the B&W Scooter, £5,000, 2010, Co-I, University of Bradford
  • Travel Grant: International Young Scientist Award: Japan Toyama, 2010 Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, £3,000, Oct. 2010, PI, University of Bradford
  • URSI Young Scientist Award:Travel grant, USA Chicago URSI General Assembly, £3,000, Aug.2008, PI, URSI (Union of Radio Science)
  • Industrial Contract: Underground embedded antenna for sewer monitoring system, £5000, 2006, Co-I, University of Bradford
  • Industrial Contract: Feasible study of using wireless sensor technology for sewerage system monitoring, £27,200, 2005-2006, Co-I, University of Bradford

Current Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • MIMO antenna design using Metamaterial, PhD
  • Sensor design and implementation for underground applications. PhD
  • Dielectric antenna design for wireless communication applications, PhD
  • investigation, design and implementation of frequency tuneable antennas for mobile handset and UWB applications, PhD
  • Harmonic rejection antenna design using GA, PhD
  • Design of small compact wideband and ultra-wideband antennas for wireless communications applications, PhD
  • Analysis and solutions for RFID tag and RFID reader deployment in wireless communications applications, PhD
  • UWB Antenna design for breast cancer detection, PhD
  • Modelling the non-uniform current distribution on wire antennas, PhD
  • Antenna array design using genetic algorithms for mobile base stations, PhD
  • Design, model and implementations of EBG and defected ground planes, PhD
  • Design and modelling of Sub-surface Radar for detection of breast cancer, MPhil
  • Design and modelling of dielectric resonator Antennas for mobile handsets, MPhil
  • Quadrifilar antennas for satellite mobile personal handset, PhD