STUDENT DAY
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Free Engineering Event for Students
During AMTA Student Day, students will participate in presentations and discussions on antenna measurement technology, culminating in a field trip to Silicon Labs in downtown Austin, just a short walk from the Hyatt Regency Austin. There, students will experience real-world antenna measurements in a state-of-the-art laboratory environment. An exciting team design and measurement competition will put their skills to the test, with prizes awarded to the winning team. Students will also tour the vendor exhibit hall, view technology demonstrations, and connect with industry professionals. Since many exhibiting companies are actively recruiting science and technology talent, students are encouraged to bring several copies of their current résumé to share with potential employers. Please see the Agenda and Student Day Guest Speaker information below for details about this unique educational and career-development opportunity. Since its introduction at AMTA 2005, the popular Student Day program has continued AMTA’s tradition of helping students build the knowledge, connections, and experience needed for the next phase of their careers.
AMTA 2026 Student Day Agenda
| TIME | EVENT |
| 11AM-11:20AM | Students Arrive |
| 11:20AM-12:00PM | Lunch |
| 12:00PM-2:05PM | Antenna Measurement System Educational Module by Andy Chung, ETS-Lindgren |
| 2:05PM-3:30 PM | Field Trip to Silicon Labs |
| 3:30PM-5:00PM | Exhibitor Tours/Attend Conference Papers |
| 5:00PM-5:30PM | Networking Break |
| 5:30PM-6:30PM | Dinner (Including Guest Speaker Dr. Galiffi) |
| 6:30PM-7:00PM | Student/Member Mixer Questions and Answers |
| 7:00PM | Students Depart |
A highlight of the AMTA Student Day program will be a visit to nearby Silicon Labs. For nearly three decades, Silicon Labs has been building an unprecedented platform to support the broadest set of wireless technologies, standards, and ecosystems in the world. Their platform provides industry-leading compute, wireless performance, and energy efficiency with the highest levels of IoT security to help developers and device manufacturers streamline and accelerate product designs. Students will see a working lab established to support the company’s international customers and witness a real-world application of testing a wireless device for performance verification.
2026 Student Day Training Module
Andy Chung
Director Wireless Solutions
ETS-Lindgren
www.ets-lindgren.com
Antenna Measurement System Training Module
The module is a structured training program designed to take students from the theoretical fundamentals of antenna measurement through a practical, hands-on demonstration using an antenna measurement system and antenna measurement software. This flow is optimized to build context sequentially, ensuring that by the time students touch the hardware, they understand both the “why” (the test methodologies) and the “how” (the software and physical setup).
Andy Chung, Director of Wireless Solutions, ETS-Lindgren, began his career at ETS-Lindgren Taiwan in 2009 as an RF Engineer. Today, he is responsible for wireless solution development and supports the engineering community in navigating technical challenges related to Antenna Pattern Measurement (APM) and wireless Over-the-Air (OTA) testing. With a focus on practical applications and evolving industry standards, including CTIA test plans, Andy is dedicated to collaborating with industry peers to advance antenna calibration and measurement methodologies.
AMTA 2026 Student Day Guest Speaker
Emanuele Galiffi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Silicon Labs Endowed Faculty Fellow
Chandra Family Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
www.galiffilab.org
Next-Generation Electromagnetic Control with Metamaterials
Abstract: Metamaterials are artificial structures endowed by their multiscale engineering with electromagnetic properties that vastly surpass those found in natural materials. Since their conception in the early 2000’s, driven by the potential to achieve a variety of exotic wave effects, ranging from cloaking to negative refraction and subwavelength resolution, this research area has stimulated a tremendous effort to manipulate electromagnetic radiation in new ways, from perfect funneling of waves in epsilon-near-zero and topological metamaterials to one-way propagation in magnet-free nonreciprocal devices for full-duplex communications. In this tutorial talk, I will present an overview of the exciting field of microwave metamaterials, highlighting its recent advances, current applications, and promises for future avenues in electromagnetics and antenna measurements.
Prof. Emanuele Galiffi received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Imperial College London in 2016, where he subsequently completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Sir John Pendry. For his doctoral research, he was awarded the Johnson Matthey PhD Thesis Prize and a 2020 EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. He was subsequently awarded a prestigious three-year Junior Fellowship from the Simons Society of Fellows, through which he joined Prof. Andrea Alù’s group at the Advanced Science Research Center of the City University of New York in 2021. He later began a tenure-track appointment at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests span fundamental and applied electromagnetics and photonics, with a particular focus on metamaterials exhibiting extreme electromagnetic properties, including time-varying, singular, epsilon-near-zero, and highly anisotropic structures. He has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Science, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, and PNAS. His work has received approximately 4,000 citations. For his work on electromagnetic phenomena in time-varying media, he received the 2026 URSI Santimay Basu Award in Radio Science, the 2026 Nanophotonics Early Career Award, and the 2025 SPIE Advanced Photonics Young Innovator Award.
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