Welcome! I am Boya Di, an assistant professor in the School of Electronics at Peking University since Summer 2021. Previously, I was a postdoc researcher in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, working with Prof. Nick Jennings since Aug. 2019.
Intelligent surfaces enabled holographic communications and sensing
Communication, computing, and networking for IoT applications
Multi-access techniques and signal processing for 5G/6G
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s1sqzeoAAAAJ&hl=en
Email: diboya[at]pku[dot]edu[dot]cn
Education
Peking University, Beijing, China 09/2014 - 07/2019
Ph.D in Signal and Information Processing
Advisor: Prof. Lingyang Song
Peking University, Beijing, China 09/2010 - 07/2014
B.S. in Electronics Engineering
IEEE ICCC Best Demo Award, 2024
IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, 2024
IEEE ComSoc Student Competition Honor Mention, 2024 (Mentor)
IEEE ComSoc TCCN Publication Award, 2023
IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2022
IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, 2021
World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020-2022 (single year impact)
ACM N2WOMEN Top 10 Rising Star, 2020
Exemplary Reviewers of IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2020
Best Paper Candidate for European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (<3% selection), 2020
Top Reviewers of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019 (four recepients of the year)
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (中国电子教育学会优秀博士论文奖), China Education Society of Electronics, 2019
Top-100 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (<5% acceptance), Peking University, 2019
Lecture Courses, Peking University
Machine Learning in Electronics, Undergraduate, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025 (24 episodes)
Electronics Engineering and Science Capstone Project, Undergraduate, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023