Milestones
Patents filed, papers presented, grants secured and awards won along the way from research to venture.
September 2026
Selected for Venture Kick, Phase I
AwardUMI Technologies was selected for Phase I of Venture Kick, Switzerland's national startup competition, advancing toward the program's later coaching and funding stages.
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Best Student Technical Paper Award, IEEE MTT-S NEMO 2026
AwardPresented three papers at the IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization in Valencia, Spain, covering our Locally Resonant Metamaterial and coaxial SIR filter topologies, with one recognized as Best Technical Paper.
May 2026
IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium (IWS 2026), Shenzhen
ConferencePresented two papers with collaborators at Tianjin University's School of Microelectronics on metal-integrated suspended line (MISL) filter topologies: a vertically integrated metal sheet waveguide dual-band bandpass filter for FR3-band applications, and a multimode-resonator mmWave bandpass filter under mixed boundary conditions.
February 2026
IEEE International Microwave Filter Workshop, Hong Kong
ConferencePresented our Locally Resonant Metamaterial filter work at IMFW 2026, with a new result enabling tunability of the filter order in addition to operating frequency and bandwidth.
2026
SPADEX: second EPFL Enable grant
GrantFollow-on funding from EPFL's Enable program to extend the SPADE technology base.
2026
2nd and 3rd PCT patent applications filed
IPFiled with EPFL's Technology Transfer Office, extending patent coverage across multi-section coaxial Stepped-Impedance Resonator topologies for UHF to X-band, and Locally Resonant Metamaterial topologies (antennas, leaky-wave filtennas and more) for X to Q-band.
2025
Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2025), Jeju Island
ConferencePresented our work on a tunable Locally Resonant Metamaterial filter for space applications to the international microwave engineering community at APMC 2025 in South Korea.
2025
1st PCT patent application filed
IPFiled with EPFL's Technology Transfer Office, covering the tunable, multi-band Locally Resonant Metamaterial topology.
2025
SPADE: EPFL Enable grant
GrantFirst Enable grant supporting development of the SPADE RF filter and diplexer technology.
Learn more →2024
1st place, student antenna competition, JNM 2024
AwardWon the GNSS antenna design competition at the Journées Nationales des Microondes, earning an invited paper for the International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies.
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