Scholar
Yong Zeng, IEEE Fellow
Google Scholar ID: ENldmwIAAAAJ
Southeast University, China; Purple Mountain Laboratories, China
Citations & Impact
Citations
27,741
H-index
65
i10-index
151
Publications
20
Co-authors
32
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2024 for contributions to UAV communications and wireless power transfer
- Co-authored paper 'Wireless Communications with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Path Loss Modeling and Experimental Measurement' won the 2024 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award
- Co-authored paper received the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Region 2023 Outstanding Paper Award
- Paper 'Wireless communications with programmable metasurface: Transceiver design and experimental results' won China Communications Best Paper Award (2021)
- PhD student co-authored paper 'How does performance scale with antenna number for extremely large-scale MIMO?' won IEEE ICC 2021 Best Paper Award
- Paper 'Energy-Efficient UAV Communication with Trajectory Optimization' received the 2020 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications
- Paper 'Placement Optimization of UAV-Mounted Mobile Base Stations' received the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award
- Edited book 'UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond' published by Wiley (2021)
- Multiple tutorial papers accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, including 'A Tutorial on Near-Field XL-MIMO Communications Towards 6G' and 'A Tutorial on Environment-Aware Communications via Channel Knowledge Map for 6G'
- Listed as Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for four consecutive years (2020–2023)
- Included in Stanford’s World Top 2% Scientists list in both 'Career-Long' and 'Single-Year' categories (2023)
- Organized multiple IEEE special issues, e.g., IEEE JSAC on 'UAV Communications in 5G and Beyond Networks', IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on 'Aerial Communications'
Research Experience
- Affiliated with National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China
- Affiliated with Purple Mountain Laboratories, China
- Appointed as Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (since 2024)
- Former Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (OJVT)
- Served as Vice Chair of IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board (APB) Information Services Committee (ISC)
Background
- IEEE Fellow
- Professor and PhD Advisor
- Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2020–2023, consecutively)
- Ranked Top 8 in AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars in Internet of Things (2024)
- Named '6G Rising Star' Young Scholar at Global 6G Conference 2024
- Research interests include UAV communications, wireless power transfer, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), near-field XL-MIMO, and environment-aware 6G communications
