The IEEE Council on RFID offers a limited edition, print-only collection of Best Papers awarded at our annual conferences for its first 10 years: 2007-2016. For more information, contact Matt LaFleur m.lafleur@ieee.org

Best Paper Award is given to the authors who have presented the most interesting paper in terms of content and impact on RFID technology advancements at a major conference.

Best Student Paper Award is given to the young students who have presented the most interesting paper in terms of content and impact on RFID technology advancements at a major conference.The selection criteria may vary from time to time and are chosen by a jury of industry experts.

2026 IEEE RFID-TA AWARDS

Best Paper Award

Modulated Harmonic Tags at 61/122 GHz for Robust Multi-Target Localization and Navigation
Steffen Hansen, Gunnar Briese, Sönke Kauffmann, Dirk Höning, Irfan Fachrudin Priyanta, Dominic Funke,  Jan Wessel, and Nils Pohl

Best Student Paper Award (1st Place)
Clusterized Tag Positioning in Wideband D-MIMO RFID

Best Student Paper Award (2nd Place)

Voltage Stability of RFID Control Nodes Under Modulated Excitation for Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Devices
Antonio Giordano

Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place ex-aequo)

Matching Topology and Nonlinearity Effects in Dense Parallel UHF RFID Tag Arrays
Wenxuan Yang

Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place ex-aequo)

Bio-Based Antenna for UHF RFID Reader: High Efficiency and Lower Environmental Impact
Justine Lebrun

Best Student Prototype Demo Award

Three-Channel RFID Platform for Breath Monitoring
Federica Pucci

2026 IEEE RFID AWARDS

Best Paper Award

An Always-ON Batteryless RFID Sensor Label Using Digital MEMS Sensor Arrays for Continuous Environmental Monitoring

Navid Yazdi, Casey Wallace, Weibin Zhu

BEST PAPER Honorable Mention

Carrier Cancellation for RFIDs with Augmented CW Used in Passive Integrated Sensing and Communication (PISAC)
Yuchen Jiang,Yulong Liu, Rusong Yang,  Lulu Xu, Terry Tao Ye, Shen Zhen

Best Student Paper Award

ZeroScatterPico: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Backscatter Using Only Raspberry Pi Pico Digital I/O Pins
Stanley Zhang, Kevin J Ho, and Matthew Reynolds

Best Poster Award

BeeSMART: RFID-Enabled Edge System for Context-Aware Beehive Monitoring and Control

Aiden Zhao

2025 IEEE RFID-TA AWARDS

Best Paper Award

Locating RFID Tags Under Snow and Vegetation
Arthur Charléty, Mathieu Le Breton, Morgane Magnier, Eric Larose, Laurent Baillet, Ludovic Moreau Alec van Herwjnen

Best Student Paper Award

An Implantable RFID-Controlled Reconfigurable FSS for Securing Cardiac Devices

Francesco Lestini, Fabiola Bassano, Gaetano Marrocco and Cecilia Occhiuzzi

2025 IEEE RFID AWARDS

Best Paper Award

SenSync: Real-Time and Accurate Passive Setting

Inshan Bansal, Nagarjun Bhat, Agrim Gupta, Harine Govindarajan, and Dinesh Bhardaia

Best Poster Award

FMCW Localization of mmID Tags 

Jimmy G Hester, Skanda Harisha, Aline Eid 

2024 IEEE RFID-TA AWARDS

Best Paper Award

A 2.4 GHz Frequency Selective Backscatter Modulator for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Backscatter
Kevin J Ho, Matthew S Reynolds

Best Student Paper Award

Novel mmWave/5G RFID Architectures for Next Generation of IoT Devices and VR Applications

Theodore W. Callis, Marvin Joshi and Manos M. Tentzeris

2024 IEEE RFID AWARDS

Best Paper Award

Unlocking the Potential of Low-cost High-resolution Sensing with Analog Backscatter
Dilushi Piumwardane, Madhushanka Padmal, Vaishnavi Ranganathan,  Kasun Hewage, Christian Rohner; Thiemo Voigt

Best Poster Award

ZeroScatter BLE: All-Digital, Fully Synthesizable BluetoothLow Energy (BLE) Backscatter Communication in Verilog RTL for FPGA-based Devices

Sara M Reyes, James Rosenthal, Chloe Fong, Matthew Reynolds 

 

2023 IEEE RFID-TA AWARDS

Best Paper Award

Multifunctional MSAW sensor based on Love wave with RFID tags functionalities
Prince Mengue, Laurine Meistersheim, Sami Hage-Ali, Cécile Floer, Sébastien Petit-Watelot, Laurent Badie, Daniel Lacour, Michel Hehn, Omar Elmazria

Best Student Paper Award

Cross-sensitivity of a dual-port potentiometric sensor based on auto-tuning RFID Ics
Francesca M. C. Nanni, Nicoletta Panunzio, Gaetano Marrocco

2023 IEEE RFID AWARDS

Best Paper Award

Exploiting Synergies between Augmented Reality and RFIDs for Item Localization and Retrieval

Tara Boroushaki, Maisy L Lam, Wei-Tung Chen, Laura Dodds, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib 

Best Paper Award Finalists

Ambiguity-Free 3D Millimeter-Precision RFID Tag Localization Inside Building Materials

Guoyi Xu, Edwin Kan 


Software-Controlled Polarization for Longer-Range RFID Reading and Localization

Laura Dodds, Nazish Naeem, Aline Eid, Fadel Adib 


Best Poster Award

Distributed Ambiently Powered in-Network Estimation with Backscatter Sensing

Georgios Perakis, Georgios Apostolakis, Georgios Vougioukas, Aggelos Bletsas

 

2022 IEEE RFID-TA AWARDS

Best Paper Award

Respiration Monitoring using Doppler-Modulated Depolarizing Chipless Tags
Ashkan Azarfar, Nicolas Barbot, Etienne Perret

Best Student Paper Award

Flexible epidermal device for the RFID-based potentiometric sensing of skin parameters
Francesca Nanni, Luca Fiore, Fabiana Arduini, Gaetano Marrocco