Electronic Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Prof ZHU, Anding 祝安定

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Prof ZHU, Anding 祝安定

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BE, ME, PhD, IEEE Fellow
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Research Interests:

High-frequency nonlinear system modelling and device characterisation; energy-efficient RF circuits and systems; RF power amplifier and MMIC design; intelligent RF system architectures; digital signal processing and nonlinear system identification; and design automation for RF and microwave electronics.
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hyperlink http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/FutureRF/

 

Biography

Anding Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, in 2004. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to joining CUHK in 2026, he was a Full Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UCD, where he led the RF & Microwave Research Group.

His research focuses on developing energy-efficient, linear, and intelligent RF and microwave circuits and systems for next-generation wireless communications, spanning advanced RF power amplifiers and MMICs, nonlinear modelling and digital signal processing, and AI/ML-assisted RF design and optimization. He has published more than 220 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research has been supported by various funding agencies and programmes, including Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the European Research Council (ERC), the European Space Agency (ESA), Enterprise Ireland (EI), and industry.

Prof. Zhu has held visiting research appointments at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He spent sabbatical periods at Stanford University in 2013 and the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2024 to 2025.

Prof. Zhu is an IEEE Fellow and currently serves as President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S). He has held numerous leadership positions within IEEE MTT-S and has contributed extensively to international professional societies, technical publications, and conferences.

Awards and Honours

  • IEEE Fellow, Class of 2022
  • IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, 2021
  • IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award, 2024
  • ERC Grantee, 2025

Professional Activities

  • President, IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), 2026
  • President-Elect, IEEE MTT-S, 2025
  • Elected Member, IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee (AdCom), 2019–2026
  • Chair, IEEE MTT-S Budget Committee, 2025
  • Chair, IEEE MTT-S Technical Coordination & Future Directions Committee, 2023–2024
  • Chair, IEEE MTT-S Electronic Information Committee, 2019–2022
  • Chair, IEEE MTT-S Microwave High-Power Techniques Committee (TC-12), 2020–2021
  • Secretary, IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee, 2018
  • Member, IEEE Future Directions Committee, 2020–2023
  • Chair, Engineering and Computer Sciences Committee, Royal Irish Academy, 2022–2026
  • Track Editor, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2019–2022
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2014–2026

Selected Research Projects

ERC Synergy Grant — DISRUPT

Prof. Zhu is a Principal Investigator of DISRUPT, a €10 million European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project in collaboration with TU Delft, the Netherlands and Fraunhofer IAF, Germany. The project aims to develop fully digital CMOS-controlled GaN MMIC RF power-generation technologies for substantially reducing the energy consumption of next-generation wireless networks. 

Research Group

FutureRF Lab: From Physics to Intelligence

FutureRF Lab develops next-generation RF and microwave technologies by bridging electromagnetic and device physics, RF circuits and systems, digital signal processing, and intelligent design and control. 

Selected Recent Publications

  1. H. Jia, R. Liu, L. Qi and A. Zhu, "A 26–28 GHz Quadrature-Phase Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier With Inherent Gain Compression Elimination," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Early Access, July 2026, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2026.3711938. 
  2. J. Chen, J. Pang, R. Gao, S. Liu, G. Zhang and A. Zhu, "Fully Integrated GaN Three-Stage Doherty Power Amplifier Based on Continuous Mode for 6G Broadband Application," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 74, no. 7, pp. 6208-6220, July 2026, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2026.3685688. 
  3. C. Chu, J. Pang, Y. Guo, L. Qi and A. Zhu, "A 3.6–7.4-GHz GaN MMIC Power Amplifier Using Hybrid Impedance Selection With Continuous-Mode and Harmonic Load-Pull for Octave Bandwidth," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 4073-4083, June 2026, doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2026.3662580.
  4. R. Liu, H. Jia, L. Qi and A. Zhu, "A 24–28-GHz Single-Chip GaN MMIC T/R Front-End Using Doherty Power Amplifier as Embedded Switches in Rx Mode," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 1949-1960, May 2026, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2025.3599397. 
  5. R. Liu, H. Jia, Q. Wu, J. Xia and A. Zhu, "A Hybrid-Biased Dual-Band GaN MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier for 6G FR3," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 1507-1517, Feb. 2026, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2025.3634158.
  6. Q. Wu, R. Liu and A. Zhu, "Digital Predistortion Model Extraction Using Reinforcement Learning Without Time-Domain Output Signal Acquisition," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 10109-10119, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2025.3598623. 
  7. R. Liu, H. Jia, Q. Wu and A. Zhu, "An Efficiency-Enhanced GaN MMIC Sequential LMBA Using Offset-Line-Based Harmonic Impedance Tuning for 6G FR3 Applications," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, vol. 35, no. 11, pp. 1827-1830, Nov. 2025, doi: 10.1109/LMWT.2025.3597470.
  8. H. Jia, L. Jiang, X. Yin Zhang, Y. Wang and A. Zhu, "An Ultracompact Bidirectional CMOS Gate-Switching Cascode Amplifier for Millimeter-Wave Transceiver Front End," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 3907-3918, July 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3518207.
  9. S. Veisee, R. Liu and A. Zhu, "An Efficiency-Enhanced GaN MMIC Nonuniform Distributed Power Amplifier Using a Modified Gate Line Structure," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3503-3513, June 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3499753. 
  10. R. Liu, H. Jia, L. Qi and A. Zhu, "A 24-to-30-GHz GaN MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier Using Reduced Peaking Intrinsic Output Impedance for Bandwidth Extension," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 362-365, March 2025, doi: 10.1109/LMWT.2025.3528628. 
  11. H. Jia, R. Liu, Q. Wu and A. Zhu, "A 26-GHz GaN MMIC Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier With Miniaturized Dual-Loop Coupler," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 530-539, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3421941. 
  12. H. Yin and A. Zhu, "Combined Kernel Function and Coefficient Sharing for Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers With Dynamic Resource Block Allocation," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 14-25, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3450718. 
  13. R. Liu, L. Qi and A. Zhu, "A Linearity-Improved 24–29-GHz GaN MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier With Reconfigurable Self-Adaptive Peaking Gate Bias Network," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 72, no. 12, pp. 6845-6856, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3409944. 
  14. J. Pang et al., "Dual-Mode Three-Way Doherty Power Amplifier With Extended High-Efficiency Range Against Load Mismatch," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. 4058-4067, July 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3344431. 
  15. H. Yin and A. Zhu, "Iterative Multimetric Model Extraction for Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers Using Enhanced Quadratic SPSA," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 1503-1514, March 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3305181.
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