Greetings! My name is Alikhan Umirbayev (Älihan Ömırbai) and I from Almaty, Kazakhstan. I am a first year PhD student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Professor. Ross Murch. I finished a BEng degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering with first-class honours from City University of Hong Kong, where I received 4-year Top Scholarship, and MSc in Telecommunications at the HKUST.

My research interests include antenna design, radio-frequency (RF) circuits, and devices for 5G/6G wireless communication. I am currently working on a Time-Modulated Antenna Array using ESPAR system.

Updates

September, 2024: Received HKUST RedBird PhD Award Program.

July, 2024: Graduated from the HKUST - MSc in Telecommunications. Received MSc Excellent Student Scholarship for outstanding academic performance.

May, 2023: Finished my 1-year internship at HiSilicon, Huawei Hong Kong Research Center as Digital Design & Verification Engineer Intern.

May, 2023: Graduated from CityU - BEng in Electronic and Communication Engineering, first-class honours.

May, 2023: Received a Dean’s List in Semester B 2022-2023

May, 2022: Champion in EE Programming Contest in Semester B 2021/2022

May, 2020: Received a Dean’s List in Semester B 2019-2020

December, 2019: Received a Dean’s List in Semester A 2019-2020

May, 2019: Graduated from Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics in Almaty, majoring in physics, chemistry and mathematics.