Dr. Ke Wu is the Industrial Research Chair in Future Wireless Technologies and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal (University of Montreal). He has published more than 1,500 technical papers, contributed numerous books and book chapters, and holds over 90 patents. He has played key leadership roles in major international conferences, including serving as General Chair of the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium and General Co-Chair of the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. Dr. Wu was President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) in 2016 and served as the inaugural North American representative to the General Assembly of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). He has received numerous awards and distinctions and has served as an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer. Dr. Wu is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

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Renato Lombardi is Director of Huawei Italy Research Center and Vice President of Huawei’s Microwave Product Line. In these roles, he oversees the research and development of microwave / millimeter-wave technologies for wireless communications and the implementation of innovative mobile broadband backhauling solutions all over the world.

Renato Lombardi joined Huawei in 2008, founding the Huawei Research Center in Milan, Italy. In 2011, he was awarded the title of “Fellow of Huawei for Microwave”.

Renato has more than 30 years of experience in the microwave and millimeter-wave industry. He previously led the Siemens’ Microwave Business and Product Management, and in 2006, was appointed Director of Research and Development.

In 2015 Renato Lombardi has been elected as Chair of the ETSI Industry Study Group mWT (millimeter-Wave Transmission). He serves Member of the Board of the European Microwave Association as an industry representative.

The invited talk start analyzing the most important requirements of mobile networks evolving from 5 to 6G and how those drive the trends and technology for radio access and wireless backhaul products and solutions:
   ▪ Application scenarios and frequency bands for 5G and 6G access and backhaul
      - low bands and medium bands
      - cm-wave and mmw bands
      - sub-THz
   ▪ Massive MIMO architectures comparison
   ▪ How backhaul can meet the demand of capacity and network densification

Industry will face additional challenges to antennas design and fabrication due to the unavoidable need to use high frequencies (starting from above 6 GHz) and antenna architectures that reduce the complexity and the power consumption of the system and the digital processing part. In particular, for high frequency scenarios, the growth of system’s frequency corresponds to a growth of antenna complexity and cost, relative bandwidth and losses. Several challenges impact on the antenna design like sensitivity to manufactory accuracy, high integration level and distribute control points. Moreover, new problems like the harmonized co-channel coexistence between the IMT 5G systems and the fixed-satellite services will challenge the designers like never seen before in the wireless industry.

Research in Advanced Electromagnetism is fundamental to find technical and technology directions to solve the above challenges:
   ▪ Unconventional phased arrays and the use of meta-surfaces to achieve tight emission masks and extended field of view
   ▪ New beamforming techniques without phase shifters that exploit the antenna as additional element to improve performance and efficiency
   ▪ mm-wave and Sub-THz for Sensing and Communication Integration
   ▪ Smart electromagnetic environment to enhance the propagation channel

Jianqing Wang is a Full Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) and Vice Director of Center for Future Communications Research (CeFCom), NITech, Japan. He received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1984, and the M.E. and D. Eng. degrees in electrical and communication engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He was a Senior Engineer with Sophia Systems Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, before joining NITech, Nagoya, Japan, in 1997.

His research interests include electromagnetic compatibility and biomedical communications. He authored Body Area Communications (Wiley-IEEE) in 2012. He received the Technical Achievement Award from IEEE EMC Society in 2019. In 2021, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to EMC of biological and wearable/implant devices. Since 2020, he has been expanding his research area to EMC and international standardization of automotive Ethernet devices and components at CeFCom, NITech, Japan.

This talk will first introduce our developed wearable devices such as a wearable electrocardiogram and a wearable robotic hand by combining vital sensors and human body communication technology, The basic EMI mechanism of external electromagnetic field to wearable devices will be clarified from the viewpoint of conversion from common mode to differential mode, and a countermeasure at the design stage will be shown. Moreover, an immunity test system for wearable devices will also be presented.