Engineering PhD Candidate Receives Top International EMC Awards

Cao Ying – a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a student of Dr Jiang Lijun – received two prestigious awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society on July 28, 2016 in Ottawa, Canada at the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility. She received the 2016 President’s Memorial Award, presented in memory of late eminent members of the EMC Society Guy de Burgh and Bill Kimmel, for her outstanding work relating radiation physics to the electromagnetic compatibility of advanced circuits. Cao also received the 2016 Best Student Symposium Paper Award First Place for her paper titled ‘Top-layer Interconnect Inductive Extraction for the Pre-layout Power Integrity’.

The IEEE EMC Society is the world’s largest organisation dedicated to the development and distribution of information, tools and techniques for reducing electromagnetic interference.