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Yong Zeng (IEEE Fellow, AAIS Fellow)

Professor and PhD Advisor
National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory
Southeast University, China
Purple Mountain Laboratories, China (joint appointment)

yong_zeng@seu.edu.cn · Google Scholar

About

Yong Zeng is a Professor at Southeast University, China, with a joint appointment at Purple Mountain Laboratories. His research focuses on AI-enabled 6G wireless communications, intelligent low-altitude wireless networks, UAV communications and sensing, channel knowledge maps, and integrated sensing and communication.

He received his B.Eng. with First-Class Honors and Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and previously held research appointments at the National University of Singapore and a lectureship at the University of Sydney. He is an IEEE Fellow and an AAIS Fellow, and was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for seven consecutive years (2019–2025).

His honors include the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Awards in Wireless Communications (2024 and 2020), IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Awards (2020 and 2017), and IEEE ICC Best Paper Awards (2026 and 2021). His work combines communication theory, signal processing, and experimental validation, including open-source OFDM-ISAC and channel knowledge map testbeds.

Research Interests

AI-enabled 6G and generative AI for wireless systems
Channel knowledge maps and environment-aware wireless communications
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
Low-altitude wireless networks and UAV communications and sensing
Near-field and extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) communications
Wireless power transfer and millimeter-wave communications

Recent News

[2026] Our work received an IEEE ICC Best Paper Award.
[2026] OpenISAC, our open-source real-time OFDM-ISAC experimentation platform, was published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Project · Code
[2026] I serve as Tutorial Co-Chair for IEEE PIMRC 2026.
[2025] I was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for the seventh consecutive year (2019–2025).
[2025/10] I received the NTU EEE Young Alumni Excellence Award.
[2025] I received the Young Scientist Award of the China Institute of Communications.
[2025] Our work received the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics.
[2024/05] Our work on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces received the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.

Last updated: 18 October 2026.