Each year, RFIC Symposium holds a student paper contest. The criteria for student papers are listed in the Call for Paper. After the paper review process is completed, each technical program subcommittee recommends a maximum of two student papers as the finalists. A student paper contest committee consisting of one representative from each subcommittee is then formed to review all the finalists. Three Best Student Papers are chosen to receive the awards in the RFIC Plenary Session. This year, the RFIC Plenary Session will be held at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel (WBWH) Grand Ballroom A at 5:30PM on Sunday, June 7, preceding the RFIC Reception.

This year, a total of 14 finalists were recommended by the technical program committee:

• Uwe Mayer (Advisor: Frank Ellinger，Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
• Tobias D Werth (Advisor: Stefan Heinen，RWTH Aachen University, Germany & Ruhr-Universit¨at Bochum, Germany)
• Julie R Hu (Advisor: Brian P. Otis，University of Washington, WA, USA)
• Piljae Park (Advisor: C. Patrick Yue，University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA & ETRI, Korea)
• Zhiyu Ru (Advisor: Eric Klumperink，University of Twente, Netherlands & Queen’s University, Canada)
• Jason W May (Advisor: Gabriel Rebeiz，University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
• Kuang-Wei Cheng (Advisor: David J. Allstot，University of Washington, WA, USA)
• Liuchun Cai (Advisor: Ramesh Harjani，University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
• Arnd W Geis (Advisor: Gerd Vandersteen，IMEC, Leuven, Belgium & Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
• Yoann Tagro (Advisor: Gilles Dambrine，Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, France)
• Himanshu Khatri (Advisor: Lawrence E Larson，University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
• Burak Catli (Advisor: Mona M. Hella，Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA)
• Ali Afsahi (Advisor: Lawrence E. Larson，University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
• Sataporn Pornpromlikit (Advisor: Peter M. Asbeck，University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)

Congratulations to the 14 finalists! The three finalists of the 2009 Best Student Paper Awards will be announced in Boston at the RFIC Symposium. The awards ceremony will take place at the beginning of the RFIC Plenary Session which will start at 5:30pm on Sunday, June 7 2009. Each winner will receive a plaque and a check. I encourage all the finalists and their advisors to share this exciting moment made possible by all of your hard work.

The committee thanks all the student authors for your contributions. We look forward for more students participating in this contest in the future RFIC Symposia.