BIOGRAPHY

Li-Hsiang Shen received Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2020. Since February 2024, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University (NCU), Taoyuan, Taiwan. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Next Generation Wireless Research Group of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Southampton, U.K. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Postdoc with ECE, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. In 2023, he was a Visiting Scholar with California PATH, Berkeley DeepDrive, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), USA. His research interests include wireless broadband (5G/6G), space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), low Earth orbit (LEO), reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and machine and deep learning for wireless networks. 

    He was the recipient of Ph. D Scholarship from NCTU and from Industry-Academic Elite Program in 2015-2019. He was rewarded the first prize of Broadcom Foundation Asia Pacific Workshop in 2019. In 2021, he was rewarded IEEE Best PhD Thesis Award, NYCU Outstanding Ph.D. Research, and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of Taiwan. In 2022, he was rewarded National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) FutureTech Award, NSTC Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, and NSTC Postdoctoral Research Award. In 2023-2024, he was rewarded Wen-Yuan Pan Foundation Exploration Research Award, and NCU Rising Stars twice.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks

• Multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (MF-RIS/STAR-RIS)

• Integrated sensing, computing and communications (ISAC/ISCC/IS3C)

• AI/ML, deep learning and convex optimization

• Millimeter wave, THz communications

• Wireless local area networks WLANs (802.11 series)

• Advanced multiple access and transmissions

CURRENT AFFILIATION

Feb. 2024 – Present           

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Engineering (通訊工程學系)

National Central University (國立中央大學), Taoyuan 320317, Taiwan, R.O.C.

EDUCATION

2015 Sep. – 2020 Oct.

National Chiao Tung University (國立交通大學), Taiwan, R.O.C.

Ph.D. Institute of Communications Engineering (逕博 Direct Admission to Ph.D. Programs)

Thesis: Millimeter Wave Beamforming Techniques and Radio Resource Management in Next Generation Wireless Networks

Advisor: Professor Kai-Ten Feng

2012 Sep. – 2015 Jun.

National Chiao Tung University (國立交通大學), Taiwan, R.O.C.

B.S.  Electrical and Computer Engineering (3-Year Early Graduation)

Emphasis: Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 

Jun. 2025 – Aug. 2025

Visiting Scholar, Host Advisor: Prof. Wei Yu

Information Theory and Wireless Communications Group, University of Toronto, (多倫多大學) Toronto, Canada

Mar. 2023 – Jan. 2024

Visiting Scholar, Host Advisor: Prof. Ching-Yao Chan

California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD), (柏克萊加州大學) Berkeley, USA

Jan. 2021 – Nov. 2023       

Postdoctoral Researcher, Host Advisor: Prof. Kai-Ten Feng

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (電機系)

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (國立陽明交通大學), Taiwan, R.O.C.

Aug. 2019 – Dec. 2019

Visiting Scholar, Host Advisors: Prof. Lajos Hanzo, Lie-Liang Yang

Next-Generation Wireless (NGW) Group, University of Southampton (南安普敦大學), UK

Aug. 2018 – Dec. 2018

Visiting Scholar, Host Advisors: Prof. Lajos Hanzo, Lie-Liang Yang

Next-Generation Wireless (NGW) Group, University of Southampton (南安普敦大學), UK

AWARDS/HONORS

2025

• Wen-Yuan Pan Foundation Exploration Research Award (潘文淵文教基金會考察研究獎助), University of Toronto (UofT) Jun. - Aug.(NTD$270,000 Funding)

• Reward for NCU Rising Stars (114年國立中央大學新聘教研人員)

2024

• Reward for NCU Rising Stars (113年國立中央大學新聘教研人員)

• Best Award for Research and Development Substitute Services (績優研發替代役)

2023

• NSTC Postdoctoral Research Award (111年度博士後研究人員學術研究獎): "Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for Multi-Numerology Enabled Hybrid Services in B5G Wireless Mobile Networks"

2022

• MoST FutureTech Award (未來科技獎 Accept Rate: 13%): "i-Dris: Intelligent Rapid Deployment for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface in Millimeter Wave Communication System"

• NSTC Funding (千里馬計畫) (2023-2024) for Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program: California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) (NTD$1,300,000 Funding)

• Received Candidate Position for Assistant Professor in National Central University (NCU) (Start from 2024)

• Best Award for Research and Development Substitute Services (績優研發替代役)

2021

• Advise PhD Student to Achieve IEEE Taipei Chapter PhD Thesis Award (榮獲 2020 IEEE台北分會博士論文獎, 參賽主題：次世代毫米波網路之波束成形及無線電資源管理)

• Outstanding Graduate Student - Ph. D Research (傑出人士榮譽獎), National Chiao Tung University

• Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China (斐陶斐榮譽會員)

2019

• International Short-term Research Visit Scholarship (Southampton, UK)

• Broadcom Foundation: Asia Pacific University Student Research Workshop (APW) for Smart City (智慧城市競賽) – 1st Prize Team Award.

2018

• International Short-term Research Visit Scholarship (Southampton, UK)

2015

• Ph. D 4-Year Scholarship of Industry-Academic Cooperation and Technology Development Elite Program (MoE, CSIST) (產學博士獎學金) ($1,200,000 Scholarship)

• Ph. D 1-Year Academic Scholarship from Institute of Communications (逕博獎學金), National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan ($300,000 Scholarship)

2014

• Top 5% Student Award (書卷獎), National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Collaboration

  • Prof. Lie-Liang Yang (University of Southampton, UK): MIMO (2020), THz (2021), Satellite communications (2022-2025)

  • Prof. Zhi Ding (UC Davis, US): Satellite communications (2024-2025)

  • Prof. Kai-Ten Feng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan): 6G/AI (2023-2025)

  • Prof. Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada): RIS (2025-)

    • 2025/Jun.-2025/Aug. Visiting Scholar @ ECE

  • Prof. Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, UK): mmWave, 6G Tutorial (2022), STAR-RIS (2023-2024)

    • 2018/Sep.-2018/Dec. Visiting Scholar @ NGW Group 

    • 2019/Sep.-2019/Dec. Visiting Scholar @ NGW Group

  • Prof. Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London): STAR-RIS (2023) 

  • Prof. Chun-Hung Liu (Texas A&M Math, US): Metasurface (2021), Federated learning (2022), Physical Layer Secrecy (2023)

  • Prof. Sheng-Fuh Chang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan): Metasurface (2021-2024)

  • Prof. Ching-Yao Chan (California PATH, Berkeley DeepDrive, UC Berkeley): AI for vehicular control and communication (2023)

    • 2023/Mar.-2024/Jan. Postdoc @ Berkeley PATH DeepDrive

  • Prof. Ouyang Feng (Johns Hopkins University, US): Satellite communications (2024-2025)

• TPC

  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM2025)

  • IEEE VTS Asia Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium (APWCS2025)

  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2024, ICC2025)

  • IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC2023)

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall, VTC2023-Fall, VTC2024-Spring, VTC2024-Fall)

• Reviewer

  • Journals: 130+ papers

    • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Access, IEEE System Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Sensor Journal, Springer Wireless Networks, Computer Networks, Sensors, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, ACM Survey&Tutorials

  • Conferences: 80+ papers

    • IEEE VTC 2019-spring, 2019-fall, 2021-fall, 2023-fall, 2024-spring, 2024-fall, 2025-fall, 2025-spring

    • IEEE ICC 2023, 2024, 2025

    • IEEE WCNC 2024, 2025

    • IEEE Globecom 2023, 2025

    • IEEE WPMC 2024

    • (TW) NST 2019, 2023

• Conference Attendance

  • 2025 IEEE CCNC (Las Vegas, USA), ICC (Montreal, Canada), PIMRC (Istanbul, Türkiye)

  • 2024 IEEE VTC-Fall (Washington DC, USA), VTC-Spring (Singapore), ICC (Denver, US)

  • 2023 IEEE PIMRC (Toronto, Canada), VTC-Spring (Florence, Italy), WCNC (Glasgow, UK)

  • 2022 IEEE VTC-Fall (Virtual), PIMRC (Virtual), WCNC (Virtual)

  • 2021 IEEE Globecom (Virtual), VTC-Spring (Virtual)

  • Before: 2020 IEEE Globecom (TW); 2019 IEEE VTC-fall (HI, US), NST (TW); 2018 IEEE WCNC (Spain); 2017 IEEE WCNC (SF, CA); 2015 NST (TW)

• Talks/Tutorial

  • 2025/06/17 Univeristy of Toronto (Host: Prof. Wei Yu)

Title: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Assisted Wireless Networks: From Theory to Practice and Its Advances

• 2025/05/21 NTHU CS Seminar (Host: Prof. Jung-Chun Kao)

Title: Optimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Theory to Practice

• • 2025/01/10 IEEE CCNC Tutorial

Title: Generative AI-Driven Convergent Sensing, Localization, and Communication for the 6G Era

• • 2024/12/04 NCU Seminar

Title: AI/ML for Wireless Communications: A Case Study on LEO Satellites and RIS

• • 2024/11/02 NCU EECS Seminar

Title: AI/ML for Wireless Communications: A Case Study on LEO Satellites and RIS

• • 2024/08/23 NSTC B5G/6G Project

Title: AI-Enabled Unmanned Vehicle-Assisted Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Deployment, Prototyping, Experiments, and Opportunities

• • 2024/08/14 ITCom Keynote

Title: Advanced Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting (STAR) Surfaces in Full-Duplex Transmissions

• • 2023/08/08 UC Davis (Host: Prof. Ding Zhi)

Title: AI 6G Wireless Networks: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Networks

• Project Involved (Ongoing / Closed)

  • 2025-2027 Improvement and Promotion Program for Mobile Communications Professional Courses 行動通訊專業課程改進及推廣計畫第二期 (MoE, PI)

  • 2025 Wen-Yuan Pan Foundation Exploration Research Award (Foundation, PI)

  • 2025 3GPP Contribution in the field of ISAC and LEO (Network Operator, Co-PI)

  • 2025-2027 Adaptive Heterogeneous Network and Intelligent Security Technology for Multi-Domain Operations (Ministry of Defense, Co-PI) 

  • 2024-2026 Integrated Sensing, Computing and Communication Resource Management in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Assisted Federated Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks 聯合感測、計算與通訊資源管理技術於可重構智慧表面輔助之聯邦星空地整合網路 (NSTC, PI)

  • 2024-2026 Higher Education Sprout Project (NCU, Co-PI)

  • 2024 Algorithm and Testing Tool Development for AI-assisted Fast RIS Deployment (Far EasTone, Co-PI)

  • 2023-2024 AI for AGV-RIS Deployment and System Integration (Far EasTone, Co-PI)

  • 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program (NSTC/Berkeley, PI)

  • 2022-2024 6G - 3 Dimensions Intelligent Self-organizing Networks and Management System (NSTC, ITRI, Researcher)

  • 2022-2024 Multi-Beam RFIC/Antenna, Baseband, MAC and Networking Designs for LEO Satellite Systems (Foxconn, Researcher)

  • 2022-2024 Adaptive Heterogeneous Network and Intelligent Security Technology for Multi-Domain Operations (Ministry of Defense, Researcher)

  • 2022-2023 O-RAN Architecture Development (Far EasTone, Liteon, Researcher)

  • 2021-2023 AI-Empowered Mobility Optimization for O-RAN (Compal, Researcher)

  • 2021-2022 Direction Finding Frequency Hopping System (CSIST, Researcher)

  • 2021-2022 Edge Intelligence for Underwater Sonar Sensing and Analysis Integration Technology (Ministry of Defense, Researcher)

  • 2021-2024 International Research Cooperation with Evaluating International Academic Prestige (MoE, University of Southampton, Researcher)

  • 2021-2024 B5G/6G 3D Mobile Network Organization and Transmission Technologies with Comprehensive Intelligence (MoST, Researcher) 

  • 2021-2022 AI-Empowered WiFi Self-Adaptive Configuration (Zyxel, Researcher)

  • 2020-2021 Motion Detection Cooperate with Smart Antenna (Zyxel, Researcher)

  • 2020-2021 5G Project AI-Enabled Virtual Channel Emulation and Next Generation Radio Resource Management (MoST, Researcher)

  • 2018-2021 International Research Cooperation with Evaluating International Academic Prestige (MoE, University of Southampton, Researcher)

  • 2019-2021 Next Generation CoMP for 5G NR Networks with Center and Edge Intelligence (MoST, Researcher)

  • 2016-2019 Smart Campus: 3D Communication Network and Technology Application (MoST, Researcher)

  • 2016-2017 5G New Radio and mmWave Systems (Foxconn, Researcher)

  • 2015-2019 Industry-Academic Cooperation and Technology Development Elite Program (MoE, CSIST, Researcher, $1,200,000 NTD)

• Paper Reading Count: 3259

  • 2017: 244

  • 2018: 165

  • 2020: 472

  • 2021: 347

  • 2022: 677

  • 2023: 563

  • 2024: 533

  • 2025: 258