About me
Welcome to my site!
I am Yi Zhang, a wireless system engineer at Apple in Bay Area.
I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2021. My dissertation supervisors are Prof. Robert Heath and Prof. Sanjay Shakkottai. The title of my Ph.D. dissertation is "Intelligent Millimeter-wave Link Configuration and Deep Learning-Based Receiver Design".
My research interest focuses on wireless PHY/MAC design, WLAN/Cellular, signal processing, deep learning, and reinforcement learning (DRL and bandit).
Here is my Google Scholar.
Me at UT EER Lobby 2017
News!
[11/01/2021] I joined Apple wireless team in the bay area!
[09/28/2021] I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation!
[07/26/2021] Our paper "MmWave Codebook Selection in Rapidly-Varying Channels via Multinomial Thompson Sampling" was recognized as the Best Paper Award Runners-Up at ACM MobiHoc 2021. [WNCG NEWS]
[04/04/2021] Our paper "DeepWiPHY: Deep learning-based receiver design and dataset for IEEE 802.11ax systems" was highlighted in the "Cisco: Telemetry and AI/ML-Driven Wireless Advances" from Cisco Blogs.
[07/02/2019] Our paper "Side-information-aided Non-coherent Beam Alignment Design for Millimeter Wave Systems." was recognized as the Best Paper Award Finalists at ACM MobiHoc 2019.
Educations
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisors: Prof. Robert Heath and Prof. Sanjay Shakkottai
GAP: 3.95/4.0
M.S. in Information and Communication Engineering (Dual Master Degree program)
Advisors: Prof. Hui-Ming Wang & Prof. Qinye Yin
GPA: 90.77/100 Ranking: 1/96
Diplôme d'Ingénieur with a minor Virtual Reality (Dual Master Degree program)
Advisor: Prof. Guillaume Moreau
GPA: 17.69/20
B.S. in Information Engineering
GPA: 90.09/100 Ranking: 1/156
Core Courses
Mathematics:
Advanced Mathematics
Probability and Stochastic Processes
Convex Optimization
Numerical Analysis
Advanced Probability
Electrical Engineering:
Wireless Communications
Signals and Systems
Digital Signal Processing
Estimation Theory
Analysis & Design of Communication Networks
Computer Science:
Online learning
Data Mining
Algorithm and Programming (Java, Python, C/C++, Matlab)
Data Structure and Algorithms
Computer Science for Virtual Reality Engineering
Peer Reviewer
IEEE JSAC
IEEE Trans. on Communications
IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications
IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
IEEE Access
IEEE ICC/Globecom
Languages
English:
GRE: V153+Q170+AW3.5
TOEFL: R29+L28+S22+W27French:
Dalf C1, Professional working proficiencyChinese:
Native Speaker