Xiaoqiang Gu

Xiaoqiang Gu (Member, IEEE) was born in Changzhou, China, in 1990. He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2012, the M.Eng. degree in optical engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2020. He is currently a Lecturer with the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. His current research interests include energy-efficient emerging wireless technologies, wireless power harvesting, backscattering, energy-efficient sensing and communications, and nonlinear circuit analysis and design. Dr. Gu is a member of the IEEE MTT TC-25 Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Conversion Committee and TC-26 RFID, Wireless Sensor, and IoT Committee. He was a recipient of the FRQNT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the term 2022–2023, the Mitacs Accelerate Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021, the URSI GASS Young Scientist in 2020, the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award in 2019, the STARaCom Scholarship in 2020, and the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE MTT-S Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC) in 2017. He received the Student Grant of the European Microwave Week in 2019 and the Travel Grant Award of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on 5G Hardware and System Technologies in 2018. He was among the Best Student Paper Finalists at the IEEE MTT-S WPTC in 2018 and 2022. He is a TPC member of multiple IEEE and EuMW conferences and was the Publicity Co-Chair of the IEEE Wireless Power Week in 2022.