Weite Zhang, Ph.D.

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Email: zhang.weit3@gmail.com    

About Me

  • Dr. Weite Zhang has been a Senior Engineer at Analog Devices since March 2023. Before that, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Northeastern University. Dr. Zhang's research and work mainly focus on high-capacity wireless communication and sensing systems.
  • He obtained the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in May 2022, the M.S. Degree in Electronics and Science Technology from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in March 2017, and the B.S. Degree in Electronics and Science Technology from Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China, in June 2014.

Oral presentations

  • 11/08/2023: Weite Zhang gave an oral presentation on High-capacity Millimeter-wave Imaging System for On-the-move People Screening, 2023 IEEE Young Professions MTT-S Session, Boston, MA, USA. [LINK]
  • 02/12/2022: Weite Zhang participated in Building Bridges Event - Fall 2022 to show Thermal Acoustic Imaging for Geoscience Applications, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. [LINK]
  • 07/04/2022: Weite Zhang gave an oral presentation on Software-defined Millimeter-wave Radar, 2022 SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, Orlando, FL, USA. [LINK]
  • 03/12/2021: Weite Zhang gave an oral presentation on Advanced Millimeter-wave Imaging Techniques for People Screening, Building Bridges Event - Fall 2021, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. [LINK]
  • 11/07/2019: Weite Zhang gave an oral presentation on Downward-looking Flying Millimeter-wave Radar, 2019 IEEE APS, Atlanta, GA, USA. [LINK]
  • 24/06/2019: Weite Zhang participated in 2019 NU Young Scholars Program as a research advisor of two students to develop Advanced Millimeter-wave Imaging Techniques for People Screening, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. [LINK]
  • 11/07/2018: Weite Zhang gave an oral presentation on Single-frequency Material Characterization of Dielectric Objects, 2018 IEEE APS, Boston, MA, USA. [LINK]
  • 24/05/2016: Weite Zhang gave an oral presentation on MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communication Using Orthogonal Beamforming, 2016 IEEE IMS, San Francisco, CA, USA. [LINK]

Selected journal papers

Software-defined Millimeter-wave Imaging and Sensing

  • W. Zhang and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, "Toward 4-D Imaging of On-the-Move Object at 2500 Volumetric Frames per Second by Software-Defined Millimeter-Wave MIMO With Compressive Reflector Antenna," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 1337-1347, Mar. 2023. [PDF]
  • W. Zhang, Y. Huang, J. Heredia-Juesas and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, "Software-defined Millimeter-wave Multistatic Radar with Space-Time-Coded Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 1620-1629, Mar. 2022. [PDF]
  • W. Zhang, H. Gomez-Sousa, J. Heredia-Juesas and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, "Single-Frequency Imaging and Material Characterization using Reconfigurable Reflectarrays," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 3360-3371, Jul. 2021. [PDF]
  • W. Zhang et al., "Experimental Results of a 3-D Millimeter-Wave Compressive Reflector Antenna Imaging System," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 24-28, Jan. 2019. [PDF]

MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communication

  • W. Zhang et al., "Mode Division Multiplexing Communication Using Microwave Orbital Angular Momentum: An Experimental Study," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 1308-1318, Feb. 2017. [PDF]
  • W. Zhang, S. Zheng, Y. Chen, X. Jin, H. Chi and X. Zhang, "Orbital Angular Momentum-Based Communications With Partial Arc Sampling Receiving," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 1381-1384, Jul. 2016. [PDF]

RF Antennas and Circuits

  • W. Zhang et al., "Four-OAM-Mode Antenna With Traveling-Wave Ring-Slot Structure," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 16, pp. 194-197, May 2017. [PDF]

Selected patents

  • W. Zhang and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, "Millimeter-wave Massive MIMO FMCW Radar with Binary-phase-coded OFDM," WIPO (PCT), WO2023015067A3, May 2023. [PDF]

Selected conference papers

  • W. Zhang, Y. Huang, J. Heredia-Juesas and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, "Millimeter-wave multistatic imaging system using software-defined radios for advanced multiplexing," 2022 SPIE Passive and Active Millimeter-Wave Imaging XXV, vol. 12111, pp. 24-32. [PDF]
  • W. Zhang, J. Heredia-Juesas, M. Diddi, L. Tirado, H. Singh and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, "Experimental Imaging Results of a UAV-mounted Downward-Looking mm-wave Radar," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, pp. 1639-1640. [PDF]
  • W. Zhang and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, "Single-Frequency Material Characterization Using a Microwave Adaptive Reflect-Array," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, pp. 1063-1064. [PDF]
  • W. Zhang, S. Zheng, Y. Hu, X. Jin, H. Chi and X. Zhang, "Multi-OAM-mode microwave communication with the partial arc sampling receiving scheme," 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, pp. 1-3. [PDF]

Awards

  • Dean's Fellowship, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, September 2017.
  • Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Zhejiang Province, China, March 2017.
  • National Scholarship of China, December 2016.

Professonal Experience

Serving as reviewers for various journals and conferences:

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • IEEE Access
  • Electronics Letters
  • IET Communications
  • Applied Physics Express
  • International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering
  • IEEE International Symposia on Antennas and Propagation & USNC-URSI Radio Science Meetings