Ran Zhang, Ph.D.

Dr. Ran Zhang (S’11 - M’15 – SM’22) is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA. He received his B.E. degree on Electronic Information Science and Technology in 2016 from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree on Electrical Engineering in 2016 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, under the supervision of Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen and Professor Liang-liang Xie. From 2018 to 2023, Dr. Ran Zhang worked as an assistant professor at Department of Electrical and Engineering, Miami University. From 2015 to 2018, Dr. Ran Zhang worked as a system engineer in Ottawa Research Center, Huawei Technologies, Canada.

Research Interests

• • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Based Communications

             Check out our latest videos on Student Drone Projects! 

• • • [Autonomous and Distributed Multi-drone Platform (Ongoing)]

    • [RoboMaster TT Drone - SmartRecognition and Synchronization]

  • Radio Resource Management in Future Mobile Communication Systems

  • Machine Learning (Deep learning and Reinforcement learning)

  • Channel Coding (Polar Coding) Design for 5G New Radio

  • Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Smart Grid

Opening Positions

• • We have open positions for self-motivated Ph.D. and Master students with strong interests in areas of wireless communications and networking, machine learning, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communications. Graduate applicants please email me your resume with subject “PhD/Master Application_UNCC: Applicant Name” to rzhang8@charlotte.edu , and cc zhangran2006@gmail.com. 

  • Undergraduate students are very welcome to join in the research projects. Paid positions are available.