About Me

Yijie (Lina) Mao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. She received the B.Eng. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from the Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom) in 2014. She received the Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department from the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) in 2018. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) from Oct. 2018 to Jul. 2019 and a postdoctoral research associate with the Communications and Signal Processing Group (CSP), Department of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Imperial College London (London, United Kingdom) from Aug. 2019 to Jul. 2021. Her research interests include the design of future wireless communications, such as MIMO communication networks, interference management, and rate-splitting multiple access. She receives the Best Paper Award of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2022. She is currently serving as a guest editor for a special issue of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. She has been a workshop co-chair for 2022 IEEE ICC, 2022 IEEE WCNC, 2021 IEEE ICC, 2021 IEEE WCNC, 2020 IEEE ICC and 2020 IEEE PIMRC, and she has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of many symposia on wireless communication for several leading international IEEE conferences.