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I²R researcher elevated to IEEE Fellow status
Dr Chen Zhining is one of two A*STAR scientists who have been promoted to the rank of IEEE Fellow, the highest honour bestowed by the Institution of Engineers and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). The promotion takes effect from 1 January 2008. Dr Chen, who heads the RF and Optical research department at I²R, is being recognized for his contributions to small and broadband antennas for wireless applications both academically and in the wireless industry.

The other A*STAR scientist who is accorded the same status is Dr Li Er Ping, from Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC).

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I²R team’s research contribution recognized by China WPAN Standards body
I²R has been awarded “Best Contributing Organisation Award” by the Wireless Personal Area Networks Working Group of China National Information Technology Standardisation (NITS) Technical Committee, for significant contributions to the China WPAN standards in 2007. The team comprises of four researchers - Francois Chin, Peng Xiaoming, Kwok Yuen Sam and Ananth Subramanian.

The two areas of their contributions are:
1) Evaluation and Verification of China-owned PHY solution for CWPAN standard against existing IEEE PHY solution
  I²R is the only organization to conduct the above evaluation and verification. The results were publicised for the IEEE 802.15.4c standard for Alternate PHY for China WPAN and China low-rate WPAN National Standard. The I²R team’s prudent evaluation led to the potential acceptance of dual mode (China-owned PHY solution and existing IEEE PHY solution) in both China low-rate WPAN National Standard and IEEE 802.15.4c Standard.
   
2) Key technical proposal, evaluation and comments to High-Rate UWB China WPAN Standard
  I²R also contributed important/key technical proposals and valuable evaluation and comments to the High-Rate UWB China WPAN Standard, which uses WiMedia high rate UWB Standard as baseline. Specifically, the team has proposed an enhanced synchronisation scheme that enables precision ranging and power saving; and an improved multiple access scheme that can enhance network throughput by three times with only slight increase in hardware complexity.