Published over 90 IEEE journal papers and over 60 IEEE conference papers; holds 21 granted patents; co-authored the book “mmWave Massive MIMO: A Paradigm for 5G” (Academic Press, Elsevier, 2016); received 5 IEEE conference Best Paper Awards; also received the Tsinghua University Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award in 2011, the Beijing Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2012, the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award in 2013, the URSI Young Scientist Award in 2014, the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Best Paper Award in 2015, the Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of China Institute of Communications in 2016, the Electronics Letters Best Paper Award in 2016, the IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award in 2017, the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Outstanding Young Scholars in 2017, the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2017, the 7th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award in 2018, the China Communications Best Paper Award in 2019, the IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award in 2020, the China Communications Best Editor Award in 2020 and 2021, the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2020, the IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize in 2022, the IEEE ICC Outstanding Demo Award in 2022, and the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2023; listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate from 2020 to 2022; elevated as an IEEE Fellow in 2022.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University from 2011 to 2013; Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2016; Associate Professor from 2016 to 2022; and a Professor since 2022.
Education
Received B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2003; M.S. degree (with the highest honor) from the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) in 2006; Ph.D. degree (with the highest honor) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011.
Background
Research areas include massive MIMO, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), millimeter-wave and terahertz communications, machine learning for wireless communications, and electromagnetic information theory (EIT).
Miscellany
Received the First Prize of the 11th Beijing Municipal Young College Teachers' Basic Teaching Skills Competition in 2019; the First Prize of the 6th National Young College Teachers' Basic Teaching Skills Competition in 2023; the first Ph.D. student under his supervision has received the 2018 Tsinghua University Grand Scholarship (the highest award for Tsinghua students), the second Ph.D. student has received the 2019 Paul Baran Young Scholar (the only one student from mainland China up to now), and the first Master student has received the Chinese Institute of Electronics Excellent Master Thesis Award; also guided three undergraduate students to win the National Grand Award of the 16th “Challenge Cup” Technological Innovation Competition (the highest award), and three undergraduate students to receive the Tsinghua University Grand Scholarship in 2014, 2016, and 2021, respectively.