News and announcements from 2013–2026.
[2025/10] I received the NTU EEE Young Alumni Excellence Award.
[2025] I was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for the seventh consecutive year (2019–2025).
[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.
[2024/12] I was elevated to IEEE Fellow "for contributions to unmanned aerial vehicle communications and wireless power transfer".
[2024/05] My co-authored paper "Wireless Communications with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Path Loss Modeling and Experimental Measurement" won 2024 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award.
[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].