Department of Electronic Engineering, CityU HK

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MEI, Kenneth Kwai-Hsiang
B.Sc.(EE), M.Sc.(EE), Ph.D., Wiscosin, MemURSI/USNC, FIEEE

Professor (Chair) of Applied Electromagnetics

Room: G6357 Tel: (852) 2788-7769 Fax: (852) 2788-7791 Email: eekkmei@cityu.edu.hk
Professor Mei was born in Shanghai. He attended the Taiwan University as a student in the Department of Physics for a year before moving to Madison, Wisconsin of the USA. He went on to obtain bachelor, master and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wisconsin in 1962. He joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley in 1962 as an acting Assistant Professor. In 1973 he became a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley. In 1992 he was also appointed as Professor of Buddhist Studies. He became an emeritus Professor at Berkeley in 1994 and came to the City University first as a visiting Professor and now as a permanent member of staff.

Prof. Mei is an innovator in the area of field computation. His Ph.D dissertation is a pioneering work on the numerical solutions of integral equations, which is now widely known as the method of moment (MOM). He received the best paper award of the IEEE Transactions on Antennae and Propagation in 1967. In 1994 he pioneered the application of finite difference and finite element methods to antennae and scattering problems. He invented the unimoment method to terminate the FD/FE meshes, and received an honourable mention in the best paper award section of the IEEE Transactions on Antennae and Propagation in 1974. Since mesh termination is the most serious problem in the differential equation approach to numerical solutions in the open region, he has been working on this problem since 1974. He invented the superabsorption method in 1989 and the measured equation of invariance (MEI) in 1992. The MEI method has so drastically reduced computational effort that many previously difficult large problems that were resolvable only with the service of a supercomputer, can now be solved by a personal computer using the MEI method.

Prof. Mei has published more than 120 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. He has been a fellow of the IEEE since 1979.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Electromagnetic Theory, Antenna Theory and Computational Electromagnetics

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. K. K. Mei, "Comments on `A theoretical and numerical analysis of the measured equation of invariance,'" IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 43, no. 10, Oct. 1995.
  2. K. K. Mei, "A new approach to quasi-static analysis with application to microstrip," IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 302-304, 1993.
  3. K. K. Mei, Hong Wei, and Yaowu Liu, "Application of the measured equation of invariance to solve scattering problems involving a penetrable medium," Radio Science, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 897-906, Jul.-Aug. 1994.
  4. K. K. Mei, "Measured equation of invariance - a new concept in field computation," IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 320-328, Mar. 1994.
  5. K. K. Mei, "Fidelity, elegance and reach of field computation mehtods," URSI Taiwan Meeting, Keynote Speech, Conference Digest, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Aug. 1995, p. 3.
  6. K. K. Mei, "On the question of invariance of the measured equation of invariance," ICRS '95, URSI, China Keynote Speaker, Conference Digest, Beijing, China, Aug. 1995, p. 5.
  7. K. K. Mei, "Confirming the invariance of the measured equation of invariance," IEEE/URSI Joint Symposium, URSI/USNC Digest, Newport Beach, CA., Jun. 1995, p. 36.
  8. K. K. Mei and Y. Liu, "On time domain measured equation of invariance," IEEE APS/URSI Symposium, URSI Digest, Seattle, Washington, Jun. 1994, p.161.
  9. K. K. Mei, Prouty, Schwarz, Pous, and Liu, "Application of the measured equation of invariance to structures on planar dielectric media," IEEE AP-S/URSI, URSI Digest, Seattle, Washington, Jun. 1994, p. 162.
  10. K. K. Mei, Prouty, Schwarz, Pous, and Liu, "Microstrips antennas and discontinuites using the measured equation of invariance," 1994 IEEE MTT-S Symposium Digest, San Diego, CA., May 1994, pp. 595-598.
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