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Overview

Matthew R. McKay is a researcher affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their work spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine and engineering.

Their research includes significant contributions to infectious diseases, electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, and immunology. McKay's studies mainly address SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, advanced wireless communication technologies, quantum information and cryptography, hepatitis C virus research, immunotherapy and immune responses, as well as monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

Notable published papers include the following:

  • Preliminary Identification of Potential Vaccine Targets for the COVID-19 Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Based on SARS-CoV Immunological Studies (2020) published in Viruses
  • Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided MISO Communications: From LMMSE to Deep Learning Solutions (2021) published in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • SARS-CoV-2 T Cell Responses Elicited by COVID-19 Vaccines or Infection Are Expected to Remain Robust against Omicron (2022) published in Viruses
  • Vaccinia-Virus-Based Vaccines Are Expected to Elicit Highly Cross-Reactive Immunity to the 2022 Monkeypox Virus (2022) published in Viruses
  • In silico T cell epitope identification for SARS-CoV-2: Progress and perspectives (2021) published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Ahmed Abdul Quadeer
  • Syed Faraz Ahmed
  • Neel Kanth Kundu
  • Muhammad Saqib Sohail
  • John P. Barton

Common publication venues for McKay's research include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Viruses

McKay's work covers diverse areas in the following main fields of study:

  • Medicine
  • Engineering

With a strong emphasis on subfields, the research addresses:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Molecular Biology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Immunology

Major topics of McKay's scientific contributions revolve around:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

Best Publications

  • Secure Transmission With Artificial Noise Over Fading Channels: Achievable Rate and Optimal Power Allocation

    Xiangyun Zhou;M R McKay

  • Performance Analysis of MIMO-MRC in Double-Correlated Rayleigh Environments

    M.R. McKay;A.J. Grant;I.B. Collings

  • Rethinking the Secrecy Outage Formulation: A Secure Transmission Design Perspective

    Xiangyun Zhou;M R McKay;B Maham;A Hjørungnes

  • Ergodic Capacity Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Dual-Hop Systems

    Shi Jin;Matthew R McKay;Caijun Zhong;Kai-Kit Wong

  • General capacity bounds for spatially correlated Rician MIMO channels

    M.R. McKay;I.B. Collings

  • On the Design of Artificial-Noise-Aided Secure Multi-Antenna Transmission in Slow Fading Channels

    Xi Zhang;Xiangyun Zhou;M. R. McKay

  • Adaptive MIMO Transmission for Exploiting the Capacity of Spatially Correlated Channels

    A. Forenza;M.R. McKay;M.R. McKay;A. Pandharipande;R.W. Heath

  • Error probability and SINR analysis of optimum combining in rician fading

    M. Mckay;A. Zanella;I. Collings;M. Chiani

  • On the condition number distribution of complex wishart matrices

    Michail Matthaiou;Matthew R Mckay;Peter J Smith;Josef A Nossek

  • Statistical Eigenmode Transmission Over Jointly Correlated MIMO Channels

    Xiqi Gao;Bin Jiang;Xiao Li;A.B. Gershman

  • MIMO multichannel beamforming: SER and outage using new eigenvalue distributions of complex noncentral Wishart matrices

    Shi Jin;M.R. McKay;Xiqi Gao;I.B. Collings

  • Sum Rate Analysis of ZF Receivers in Distributed MIMO Systems

    M. Matthaiou;Caijun Zhong;M. R. McKay;T. Ratnarajah

  • Adaptive MIMO transmission techniques for broadband wireless communication systems [Topics in Wireless Communications]

    Chan-Byoung Chae;Antonio Forenza;Robert W Heath;Matthew McKay

  • Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided MISO Communications: From LMMSE to Deep Learning Solutions

    Neel Kanth Kundu;Matthew R. McKay

  • Achievable Sum Rate of MIMO MMSE Receivers: A General Analytic Framework

    M.R. McKay;I.B. Collings;A.M. Tulino

  • Capacity and performance of MIMO-BICM with zero-forcing receivers

    M.R. McKay;I.B. Collings

  • Enhancing Secrecy With Multi-Antenna Transmission in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

    Xi Zhang;Xiangyun Zhou;Matthew R. McKay

  • Open-Loop Spatial Multiplexing and Diversity Communications in Ad Hoc Networks

    R H Y Louie;M R McKay;I B Collings

  • Power Allocation Schemes for Multicell Massive MIMO Systems

    Qi Zhang;Shi Jin;Matthew McKay;David Morales-Jimenez

  • Eigen-Based Transceivers for the MIMO Broadcast Channel With Semi-Orthogonal User Selection

    Liang Sun;Matthew R McKay

  • Asymptotic SER and Outage Probability of MIMO MRC in Correlated Fading

    Shi Jin;M.R. McKay;Xiqi Gao;I.B. Collings

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain B. Collings
Iain B. Collings Macquarie University
Shi Jin
Shi Jin Southeast University
Xiqi Gao
Xiqi Gao Southeast University
Kai-Kit Wong
Kai-Kit Wong University College London
Caijun Zhong
Caijun Zhong Zhejiang University
Xiangyun Zhou
Xiangyun Zhou Australian National University
Robert W. Heath
Robert W. Heath University of California, San Diego
Xi Zhang
Xi Zhang Texas A&M University
Khaled Ben Letaief
Khaled Ben Letaief Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Michail Matthaiou
Michail Matthaiou Queen's University Belfast

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