Pioneering New Devices with Advanced Electromagnetic Materials: Smart Contact Lenses and Beyond
Date and Time
Location
Hosts
Registration
-
Add Event to Calendar
- University of Dubai
- Academic City
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- United Arab Emirates 14143
- Building: CEIT Building
- Room Number: CEIT Innovation room
- Contact Event Hosts
- Co-sponsored by University of Dubai
- Starts 30 January 2025 08:00 PM UTC
- Ends 03 February 2025 08:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Alexey Slobozhanyuk
Pioneering New Devices with Advanced Electromagnetic Materials: Smart Contact Lenses and Beyond
Biography:
Alexey Slobozhanyuk is a deep-tech innovator with over 15 years of experience in advanced electromagnetic materials, spanning three continents. As a Scientific Advisory Board member at UAE-based startup XPANCEO, he leads innovation in wireless technologies for the next generation of personal computing devices. Alexey holds a PhD from the Australian National University and has received prestigious awards from SPIE and IEEE. He co-founded one of the world’s leading research schools in nanophotonics and metamaterials at ITMO University, involving 450 researchers, and played a pivotal role in elevating ITMO University’s scientific standing. With over 80 publications (including 8 highly cited articles), 8 patents, and collaborations with Sony, Bosch, and GE Healthcare, Alexey bridges academia and industry.
Artem Vilenskiy
Pioneering New Devices with Advanced Electromagnetic Materials: Smart Contact Lenses and Beyond
Biography:
Artem Vilenskiy is an XPANCEO research engineer and Microwave team leader concentrating on applied and computational electromagnetics problems in the context of high-frequency electronics and antenna design for smart wearable devices. He received a PhD degree in antennas, microwave devices, and their technology in 2014 from Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU). In 2011-2019, he was with Samsung R&D Insitute Russia working on mobile terminal antenna design, wireless power transfer, and array antenna technology. He was a faculty researcher at Antenna Systems Group, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) from 2019 to 2024, with a research focus on millimeter-wave scanning array antennas and front-end integrated circuit design. In 2015-2019, he was also a visiting Associate Professor at BMSTU.