Blake Marshall will present his PhD dissertation defense on 21 December 2017 (Thursday) in Van Leer 218 at 2pm. The dissertation is entitled, “Staggered Pattern Energy Harvesting and Retro-directive Backscatter for Passive RFID Tags.” Blake currently works for Apple Computer in the bay area.
Inaugural Issue of IEEE Journal on RFID
The inaugural issue of the IEEE Journal on RFID is here. Browse the issue here. Congratulations to Mike, Raj, Cheng, and Brian for getting papers into this first edition. Special thanks to the guest editor Pavel Nikitin for all the heavy lifting of launching a journal and a special issue all at once!
IEEE RFID 2018 Submission Deadline Extended
New deadline for submitting full papers to IEEE RFID 2018 is extended to 18 December 2017. The conference will be held over April 10-12, 2018, concurrent with RFID Journal LIVE! Prof. Sanjay Sarma from MIT will serve as the General Chair and Prof. Durgin will serve as vice-chair.
PG Alum Launches Idaho’s First Satellite
Lab alumnus Prof. Joshua Griffin and his team at NNU just launched MakerSat-0, Idaho’s very first satellite! Check out the status: MakerSat HomePage
Prop Group member Cheng Qi is helping with their next satellite project, RFSat.