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Yong Zeng (Professor, PhD Advisor, Highly Cited Researcher)
National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory
Southeast University, China
Email: yong_zeng@seu.edu.cn
News:
[2024/04] I was recognized as "6G Rising Star" Young Scholar, Global 6G Conference 2024.
[2024/04] Our paper titled "A Tutorial on Near-Field XL-MIMO Communications Towards 6G " has been accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Available online at https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11044 .
[2024/03] I was listed as 2023 Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researchers
[2024/03] I was recognized as 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar (Top 8) in Internet of Things for the fourth consecutive year (2021-2024).
[2024/01] Our paper titled "A Tutorial on Environment-Aware Communications via Channel Knowledge Map for 6G" has been accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Available on arXiv2309.07460v2.
[2024/01] I was appointed as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.
[2023/12] My co-authored paper in IEEE Wireless Communications 2020 won the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Region 2023 Outstanding Paper Award.
[2023/11] I was listed as 2023 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science.
[2023/11] I was selected to 2023 Stanford's list World Top 2% scientists in both “Career-Long Achievement” and “Single Year Achievement” categories
[2022/11] I was listed as 2022 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science.
[2022/01] I was listed as 2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar in Internet of Things.
[2021/11] I was listed as 2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science.
[2021/09] My co-authored paper entitled "Wireless communications with programmable metasurface: Transceiver design and experimental results" won the China Communications Best Paper Award.
[2021/06] The paper co-authored with my PhD student entitled "How does performance scale with antenna number for extremely large-scale MIMO?" won the IEEE ICC 2021 best paper award.
[2021/06] We are organizing a Feature Topic (FT) on "Aerial Communications" at IEEE Communications Magazine. Manuscript submission deadline Oct. 1, 2021.
[2021/01] Our edited book "UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond" has been published by Wiley.
[2020/11] I was listed as 2020 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science.
[2020/10] We are organizing a special issue on "Improper Gaussian Signaling and Asymmetric Discrete Constellations for Future Communication Networks" at Frontiers in Communications and Networks Journal. Manuscript submission deadline: April 10, 2021
[2020/05] Our paper "Energy-Efficient UAV Communication with Trajectory Optimization” received the 2020 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.
[2020/05] Our paper "Placement Optimization of UAV-Mounted Mobile Base Stations” received the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter & Wireless Communications Letter
[2020/05] I will serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (OJVT).
[2020/03] I serve as a vice chair for IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board (APB) Information Services Committee (ISC).
[2020/03] Call for papers: JSAC special issue on “UAV Communications in 5G and Beyond Networks”, Submission deadline: Oct. 1, 2020.
[2020/03] Call for papers: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society speical issue on "Aerial Wireless Networks: Drones forCommunications and Communications for Drones", Submission deadline: Sept. 1, 2020.
[2020/02] We are very pleased to launch the IEEE ComSoc Aerial Communications Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI), and I will serve as Special Issues and Publications Officer.
[2019/12] I gave a tutorial together with Professor Rui Zhang on UAV communications at IEEE Globecom 2019.
[2019/11] I was listed as 2019 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science.
[2019/11] I gave a talk on UAV communications at Nanjing University and University of Science and Technology of China.
[2019/09] I was appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Communicaitons Letters.
[2019/06] I joined Southeast University, China.
[2019/05] Together with Prof. Rui Zhang, I gave a tutorial at ICC2019, Shanghai, China, entitled "Accessing from the Sky: UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond". Tutorial slides available here.
[2019/05] I was named as 2018 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Exemplary Reviewer
[2018/12] I received the Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA).
[2018/12] I received the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award for "contributions to research on UAV communications".
[2018/08] Our proposal for 2nd Workshop on "Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond" has been accepted by ICC2019, Shanghai, China. Paper submission deadline: January 25, 2019.
[2018/06] Together with Prof. Rui Zhang, I will give a tutorial in Globecom 2018 entitled "Integrating UAVs into Cellular: Enabling Technologies and Research Challenges".
[2018/05] Call for Papers: IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) Workshop on "Integrated Aerial and Terrestrial Communication Systems" in Beijing, China, August 16-18, 2018 (Submission Deadline: June 7, 2018)
[2018/05] I was appointed as Publicity Co-chairs for the 16th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (IEEE ICCS), to be held in Chengdu, China. Click here for Call For Papers.
[2018/05] Call for papers: APCC 2018 Workshop on "Wireless Communications with Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer" in Ningbo, China, November 12-14, 2018 (Submission Deadline: June 22, 2018).
[2018/05] The firm deadline for IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issue on "Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond" is May 20, 2018.
[2018/04] The detailed program for ICC 2018 Workshop on UAV-5G is now available here.
[2018/04] The submission deadline for IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issue on "Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond" has been extended to May 15, 2018.
[2018/03] I was awarded as 2017 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Best Reviewer and Exemplary Reviewer.
[2017/12] Call for papers: IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issue on "Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond" (Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018).
[2017/12] Call for papers: China Communications Feature Topic on "Network-Connected UAV Communications"(Submission Deadline: February 15, 2018).
[2017/12] I gave an invited talk in Xidian University and Xi'an Jiaotong University on UAV Communications.
[2017/11] Call for papers: ICC2018 Workshop on "Integrating UAVs into 5G" in Kansas City, MO, USA, May 20, 2018 (Submission Deadline: January 3, 2018).
[2017/08] Our workshop proposal entitled "Integrating UAVs into 5G" co-organized with Prof. Jie Xu has been accepted by ICC 2018 Workshops.
[2017/06] I was promoted to Senior Research Fellow of National University of Singapore.
[2017/06] Call for papers: APCC2017 Workshop on "Wireless Communications with Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer" in Perth, Australia, December 11-13, 2017 (Submission Deadline: 31 July 2017).
[2017/05] Call for paper: IEEE Access Special Section on "Energy Efficient Wireless Communications with Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer". Submission deadline: September 1, 2017.
[2017/04] I received the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award together with Prof. Rui Zhang.
[2017/04] I was appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access.
[2016/10] Prof. Rui Zhang gave a keynote speech at WCSP 2016 for our work on millimeter wave lens MIMO.
[2016/05] I presented our WCL paper "Full-duplex wireless-powered relay with self-energy recycling" in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
[2016/03] I presented our paper "Active eavesdropping via spoofing relay attack" in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Shanghai.
[2016/01] I received the Exemplary Reviewer Award for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
[2015/12] My co-authored paper received the Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing.
[2015/12] I gave an invited talk in Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications on the topic "Millimeter wave communications: hybrid precoding enabled by lens antenna arrays".
[2015/11] I gave an invited talk in South China University of Technology on the topic "Millimeter wave MIMO with lens antenna array".
[2015/06] I presented our paper "Optimized training design for multi-antenna wireless energy transfer in frequency-selective channel'' in ICC, London, UK [slides].
[2015/04] I gave two invited talks in Southeast University and Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China on the topic "Lens antenna array enabled 5G" [slides].
[2014/12] Our paper "Optimal training for wireless energy transfer'' was presented in Globecom, Austin, TX, USA [slides].
[2014/06] My Ph.D. degree was conferred by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Thesis: "Transceiver optimization for multi-user systems: rate improvement and degrees of freedom characterization".
[2013/09] I joined Prof. Rui Zhang's group in National University of Singapore.
[2013/06] I gave an invited talk in National University of Singapore on the topic "Transmit optimization with improper Gaussian signaling in multiuser interference channels" [slides].
Honours and Awards:
"6G Rising Star" Young Scholar, Global 6G Conference 2024.
2021-2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar in Internet of Things
2019-2023 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science
2021-2023 Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researchers
2021 China Communications Best Paper Award (Co-recipient)
2021 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award
2020 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications
2019 Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
2018 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Exemplary Reviewer
2018 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, "for contributions to research on UAV communications"
2017 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Best Reviewer
2017 IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer
2017 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer
2017 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications & Wireless Communications letter Award
Co-recipient of the Best Paper Award in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing
2015 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer
2009-2013 NTU Research Student Scholarship (RSS)
2009 NTU Motorola Foundation Gold Medal
2009 NTU Motorola Book Prize
Academic Year 2007/2008 NTU President Research Scholar
Academic Year 2006/2007 NTU President Research Scholar
Research Interests:
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
Extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) communications
UAV communications
Wireless power transfer
Massive MIMO
Millimeter wave communications
Machine learning for wireless communications
Last updated on 4 Jan. 2024.