During an entertaining conference banquet on September 22 2016, the best paper, best student papers were announced.

Best Paper Award:

1. The Effects of Single Bit Quantization on Direction of Arrival Estimation of UHF RFID Tags

• Jordy Huiting, Andre Kokkeler and Gerard Smit (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Best Paper Honorary Mention:

1.Monopulse Switching to Cancel Phase Offset in Array Antenna Comprising Multiple COTS SDRs

• Masato Miyazawa and Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Yuusuke Kawakita and Haruhisa Ichikawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

2. An Overview on Modular Antennas for Near-Field UHF-RFID Systems

• Andrea Michel and Paolo Nepa (University of Pisa, Italy); Marcos R. Pino (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)

Best Student Paper Award:

1.Differential Topology Rectifier Design for Ambient Wireless Energy Harvesting

• Miaowang Zeng (Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China); Andrey S Andrenko, Xianluo Liu and Bo Zhu (SYSU-CMU Shunde International Joint Research Institute, P.R. China); Zihong Li and Hong-Zhou Tan (Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China)

Best Student Paper Honorary Mention:

1. Sensor Integrated RFID Tags for Sustainable Wearable Electronics Applications

• Ahmed Rasheed (SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering, P.R. China & Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, USA); Emad Iranmanesh (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Andrey S Andrenko (SYSU-CMU Shunde International Joint Research Institute, P.R. China);Kai Wang (SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering, P.R. China)

2.A Low Power High Sensitivity RF Power Detector for Multi-Mode Active Tags

• Hualei Zhang (State Key Lab of ASIC & System, Fudan University, P.R. China); Sizheng Chen, Tao Yang and Xi Tan (Fudan University, P.R. China); Na Yan and Hao Min (State Key Lab of ASIC & System, Fudan University, P.R. China)