Yubin Cai

• First low-frequency sub-0.5mm magnetoelectric antenna for wireless power harvesting in injectable deep-tissue implants [paper under review, 1].
• First sub-milimeter sized magnetostrictive antenna that can operate wirelessly inside a living cell [2].
• Invented first ultra-wideband low-frequency electrically small loop antenna for hydrated mineral detection on Mars [3,6,7,8,9].
• Developed and designed novel MRI shimming coil system that significantly enhances imaging resolutions, especially for the human brain that lacks MRI contrasts and for patients with prosthetics or pacemakers [10,11,12].

• Recipient of the MIT Presidential Fellowship Award (2022)
• Recipient of the Distinguished Master’s Thesis Research Award in physical & wave electronics, UCLA (2019)
• Recipient of the National Academy of Sciences travel fellowship (2019)
• Trainee & member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2019)

[1] Y. Cai, B. Joy, B. X. E. Desbiolles, V. Schell, S. Yadav, D. C. Bono, & D. Sarkar (2023). Low-Frequency sub-0.5mm Magnetoelectric Antenna for Wireless Power Harvesting in Injectable Deep-Tissue Implants. Paper submitted for revision.

[2] B. Joy, Y. Cai, D. C. Bono, & D. Sarkar (2022). Cell Rover—a miniaturized magnetostrictive antenna for wireless operation inside living cells. Nature Communications, 13(1), 5210.
[3] S. Sam Kim, E. Ng, J. Oh, Y. Rahmat-Samii, Y. Cai and D. Paige. (2022). Rover-mounted Hydrated Mineral Detector for Mars Exploration: A Preliminary Report. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(6), 144.
[4] S. N. Kajale, S. Yadav, Y. Cai, B. Joy, D. Sarkar. 2D material based field effect transistors and nanoelectromechanical systems for sensing applications. iScience. 2021 Nov 25;24(12):103513.
[5] K. Youssef, G. Schuette, Y. Cai, D. Zhang, Y. Huang, Y. Rahmat-Samii,and L.-S. Bouchard. (2021, May 13). Scalable end-to-end RF classification: A case study on undersized dataset regularization by convolutional-MST. arXiv.org. Retrieved February 8, 2023, from https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12103
[6] Y. Cai, D. Zhang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, “Design of UWB Small Loop Antenna with Continuous Tuning Frequency 1– 10 MHz,” 2019 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), Boulder, CO, USA, 2019, pp. 1-2.
[7] Y. Cai, D. Zhang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, “Mars Exploration: Wideband Frequency Reconfigurable Electrically Small Multi-Turn Loop Antenna Using MEMS Switch,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019, pp. 1543-1544.
[8] Y. Cai, (2019), Design of Electrically Small Loop Antennas with Wide-Band Frequency Tuning Capability to Facilitate Mars Exploration (Master’s thesis). Available from https://escholarship.org/, submission ID: 18384.
[9] Y. Cai and Y. Rahmat-Samii, “RF MEMS Switched Electrically Small Loop Antenna with a Wide-band Frequency Tuning Range of 0.8 – 10MHz for Martian Subsurface Water Detection,” manuscript submitted for review on August 10th, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
[10] Y. Cai, J. Stager, H. Yang, D. Li, and H. Han. “An Analytical Study of the effect of RF Chokes on Sensitivity Loss for ‘iPRES’ Coils at 3T.” The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 28th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Virtual, August 08-13, 2020.
[11] Y. Cai, H. Yang, X. Li, T. Hu, Y. Huang, Y. Shan, M. Lu, W. Liu, D. Li, and H. Han. “Optimization of Multi-Coil Array Design for Efficient Human Brain Shimming at 3T.” The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 28th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Virtual, August 08-13, 2020.
[12] F. M. Serry, Y. Cai, H. Han, et al. “Improving MRI Near Metal with Local B0 Shimming using a Unified Shim-RF Coil (UNIC): First Case Study, Hip Prosthesis in Phantom”. Manuscript accepted. The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 29th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Virtual, May 15-20, 2021.

• Leader of the facilitator team for the MAS.S90 class: Introduction to Media Arts and Sciences. The course helps MAS students obtain the tools, resources, and connections they need to succeed at the lab (2021 & 2022)
• Member of the MIT Chinese Entrepreneur Organization (MIT CEO). Hosted, initiated and organized a number of events and workshops for students that are interested in entrepreneurship to connect with each other and learn new knowledge (2021 & 2022)
• Volunteered for and donated to Northeast Animal Shelter in Massachusetts and No-Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) Animal Shelter in Los Angeles (2017 - 2022)
• Volunteered for World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Shanghai Division. Organized local events, field experiments and remote webinars to teach kids in elementary school knowledge about wildlife protection and bird migration (2010 - 2022).
• Continuously support education in suburban areas of China through the Rural China Education Foundation (RCEF). Tutored students of local schools math, physics and engineering.
• Mentored undergraduate students at MIT to approach research projects and learn engineering skills through the MIT UROP program.
• Helped develop the AEtrium-2.1 System for AEssense Corporation, San Jose. It significantly improves the efficiency of vertical farming in indoors urban settings. The project has so far benefited many high schools in US with daily fresh produce.