Yankai Ma, born in November 1993, is assistant professor, Doctor of Engineering, Master's Supervisor, and IEEE member. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in June 2017 and directly pursued his Ph.D., completing it in 2022. Following graduation, he worked as a Senior Algorithm Engineer at Huawei Chengdu Research Institute. In 2023, he joined the Department of Electronics in the School of Information Science and Technology at Southwest Jiaotong University. His primary research interests include large-scale array antenna design, irregular array synthesis, and joint design of antennas and channels. He is currently leading a Youth Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a Youth Project funded by the Sichuan Natural Science Foundation, and a Central University Science and Technology Innovation Project, and serves as a main researcher for a major project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published over 20 papers in domestic and international journals and conferences, applied for more than 10 invention patents, and received awards such as the Class B National Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Second Prize.

Publications:

[1] Ma Yankai, Feng Quanyuan, Jin Qiuyan, Xiang Qianyin. Wide-angle scanning design of irregular arrays based on unequal phase feeding[J]. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2024, 72(5):4129-4140（Top access in May 2024）

[2] Ma Yankai, Yang Feng, Chen Kejin, Yang Shiwen, Chen Yikai, Qu Shi-Wei, Hu Jun. An irregular tiled array technique for massive MIMO systems[J]. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022. 21(6): 4509-4521.

[3] Ma Yankai, Yang Feng, Huang Ming, Sun Chao, Chen Yikai, Qu Shi-Wei, Yang Shiwen. A thinned irregular array synthesis approach based on Benders decomposition[J]. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2021, 69(7): 3875-3885.

[4] Ma Yankai, Yang Shiwen, Chen Yikai, Qu Shi-Wei, Hu Jun. High-directivity optimization technique for irregular arrays combined with maximum entropy model[J]. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2021, 69(7): 3913-3923.

[5] Ma Yankai, Yang Shiwen, Chen Yikai, Qu Shi-Wei, Hu Jun. Sparsely excited tightly coupled dipole arrays based on irregular array techniques[J]. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2020, 68(8): 6098-6108.

[6] Ma Yankai, Yang Shiwen, Chen Yikai, Qu Shi-Wei, Hu Jun. Pattern synthesis of 4-D irregular antenna arrays based on maximum-entropy model[J]. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2019, 67(5): 3048-3057.

[7] Ma Yankai, Yang Shiwen, Chen Yikai, Qu Shi-Wei, Hu Jun. An irregular tightly coupled dipole array with wide scanning angles[C]. 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2020, pp. 1-3.

[8] Ma Yankai, Yang Shiwen, Chen Yikai, Qu Shi-Wei, Hu Jun, Rocca Paolo. Design of 4D irregular tiled arrays based on mixed integer second order cone programming[C]. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI), 2020, pp. 711-712.

[9] Ma Yankai, Yang Shiwen. A phase compensation technique for the tradeoff design of irregular phased array[C]. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI), 2021, pp. 783-784.