Reviewer of the Month
Here we acknowledge some of the researchers who have provided outstanding peer review contributions to Communications Engineering, in the opinion of the editorial team. This list is arranged by year of nomination, updated monthly, and all referees listed have consented to being named.
Our featured reviewers are those who have:
- made a significant and positive contribution to the peer review process, regardless of whether the paper was eventually accepted by the journal;
- demonstrated professionalism and compassion in their reviews; and
- provided comments that help the authors to improve their work.
For every named referee there are countless more who have made similar contributions to the manuscripts which they reviewed for us. We regret that we cannot recognize each of them publicly here. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has taken the time and effort to contribute to and support the peer review process. Each has contributed to the high quality of the papers published in Communications Engineering.
May 2024
David Mayerich
David Mayerich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. His research focuses on designing optical techniques for large-scale three-dimensional microscopy, as well as algorithms and analytical techniques for processing the resulting data.
April 2024
Daniel Fu
Dr. Daniel Fu is a postdoctoral scholar specializing in computational methods that utilize self-assembly. He is currently at Duke University, where his research focuses on algorithmic approaches for generating nanostructures and performing molecular-scale computations using DNA.
March 2024
Perla Maiolino
Perla Maiolino is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Science at university of Oxford and the PI of the Soft Robotics Lab at the Oxford Robotics institute. Her research focuses on development of technological solutions for providing robots with sense of touch and soft and compliant bodies, tactile based control and tactile perception for robots.
February 2024
Jaka Tušek
Dr. Jaka Tušek is an Assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. His research focuses on caloric solid-state cooling and heat-pumping utilizing ferroic materials. His research also delves into thermal effects in shape memory alloys, with a recent emphasis on advancing elastocaloric technology.
January 2024
Nader Shakibay Senobari
Dr. Nader Shakibay Senobari, a distinguished postdoctoral scholar specializing in Machine Learning, concurrently holds a lectureship in Artificial Intelligence at UC Riverside. His research focuses on the application of advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence methodologies to time series analysis, with a specific emphasis on seismic data analysis.
December 2023
Chunxu Qu
Dr. Chunxu Qu is a professor from Dalian University of Technology in China, with expertise in the field of structural dynamic analysis. His research focus utilizes from monitoring and data vibrating tests to accurately identify the modal properties of structures. He is also dedicated to developing advanced techniques for controlling structural vibrations.
November 2023
Simon Rommel
Dr. Simon Rommel is an Assistant Professor in the Quantum and Terahertz Systems team at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His research focusses on photonics-driven millimetre and THz frequency communications and sensing systems as well as quantum secure communications, for which he leads the deployment of a field-deployed testbed.
October 2023
Carlo Masone
Carlo Masone is an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is a member of the VANDAL Laboratory, working at the intersection between robotics, AI and computer vision and developing control and perception algorithms with the goal of increasing the autonomy of robots and intelligent agents.
September 2023
Tom Whale
Dr Whale is a lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. He works on understanding water ice formation in the contexts of environmental science and low-temperature biology through a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches.
August 2023
Dr. Yuxiao Yang
Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University, China. His research focuses on designing closed-loop brain-machine interface (BMI) systems for neural decoding and control, aiming to provide new therapies for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.
July 2023
Dr. Yu Takahashi
Dr. Takahashi is a navigation engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at NASA. His interests focus on orbit determination of interplanetary spacecraft to ensure the safety for NASA missions around planets and asteroids.
June 2023
Dr. Megan O. Hill
Dr Hill’s research focuses on the use of advanced X-ray characterisation methods to probe nanoscale phenomenon in thin films and nanostructures. This includes in-situ or operando characterisation of semiconductors, metal-oxides, and other functional materials with applications in energy and low-power computing.
