Sunshine Leeuwon, an undergraduate in Texas ECE, has been selected to receive a prestigious MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society.

The IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (formerly the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) (MTT-S) is a transnational society with more than 13,000 members and 200 chapters worldwide. Our society promotes the advancement of microwave theory and its applications, including RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz technologies.

The award will be presented at the International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco in June 2025.

Sunshine joined Texas ECE in Fall 2021 and will graduate in Spring 2025. Her research focuses on developing physics-augmented AI/ML techniques for the design of microwave and RF circuits, particularly emphasizing the inverse design of multi-layer transformer coils. The approach integrates RF-specific physics to optimize and automatically generate circuit layouts, aiming to enhance efficiency and innovation in high-frequency signal processing. Her research was supervised by Prof. Sensen Li. Sunshine intends to pursue her work in graduate school after graduating.