Abstract:
The dawn of the artificial intelligence (AI) era is radically reshaping wireless communication paradigms, driving unprecedented shifts in business requirements and system architectures. Modern AI-driven applications demand extreme metrics, including massive uplink throughput, ubiquitous high-speed coverage, new spectrum utilization, and ultra-massive MIMO scaling up to 256TR. These requirements impose stringent constraints on conventional radio frequency (RF) front-ends and antenna array designs. To bridge this gap, this presentation explores the emerging frontier of “AI for RF and Antenna”, identifying key innovation spaces, opportunities, and technical requirements at the physical and electromagnetic hardware layers. Using concrete industrial examples, we evaluate the tangible value AI delivers in maximizing RF efficiency and dynamic beamforming, balanced against the rigid constraints of model complexity, real-time latency, and hardware boundaries. Finally, we synthesize the open questions facing the wireless sector, offering a structured breakdown of major AI for RF and Antenna challenges that the industry must collaboratively address to unlock next-generation native-AI networks. Biography:
Mr. Erni Zhu received his Bachelor degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2000. Mr Zhu is the Executive Director of the Wireless Technology Lab at Huawei, and a leading wireless technology expert. Since joining Huawei in 2000, he has accumulated over two decades of profound industry experience, having extensively engaged in technical development, chip design, and product delivery within the RF (Radio Frequency) domain for 3G, 4G, and 5G technologies. Currently, Mr. Zhu leads the company's research strategy in advanced wireless and short-range wireless technologies. As one of the core contributors to the landmark project “Technical Innovation and Industrialization of Multi-mode Convergence in Wireless Access Networks (SingleRAN)”, he was awarded the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He holds multiple core invention patents across wireless signal processing, mobile broadband systems, and RF chipsets, and is actively dedicated to driving global industry-academia-research collaborations.
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