PhD student
Contact
- Programme: MASc 2022–2024; PhD 2024–2028 (expected)
- Email: y236chen@uwaterloo.ca
About
Yuxuan Chen (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the BASc degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 2022, and the MASc degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2024. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering with the Emerging Radio Systems Group at the University of Waterloo.
His current research focuses on advancing communication systems through the development of high-performance microwave front-ends and intelligent systems.
Research
Research interests
- RF and mixed-signal circuit and system design
- Circuit design automation
- Phased antenna array and beamformer design
- Modelling, calibration and linearization techniques
Research projects
- Microwave circuit design automation
- Phased antenna array calibration
Publications
Journal articles
- Y. Chen, H. Yu, Z. J. Su, S. Boumaiza, “Automated Broadband Power Amplifier Design via Circuit-Graph Evolution and Layout-Aware Synthesis,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, early access, Aug. 2026.
- Y. Chen, M. Abdollah Chalaki, S. Boumaiza, “High-Accuracy, Fast Calibration of Large-Scale Phased Antenna Arrays via Novel Constellation Modeling Method,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 10771–10785, Dec. 2025.
Conference papers
- Y. Chen, M. H. Sahlabadi, S. Boumaiza, “Calibration of Vector-Summing Type Variable-Gain Phase Shifters using Novel Rectangular Constellation Modeling,” 2025 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2025, pp. 480–483, June 2025.
- Y. Chen, S. Boumaiza, “Rapid Calibration of Variable Gain Phase Shifters: A Novel Characterization Approach with Sparse Measurements,” 2024 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2024, pp. 710–713, June 2024.