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Wei Zhang (F’15) received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005. He was a Research Fellow at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 2006-2007. He joined the UNSW in 2008 and is currently a Professor at School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. His research interests include 5G and massive MIMO. He is Vice President of IEEE Communications Society.
Currently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Communications and Information Networks and Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2016-2019. He was also the Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Cognitive Radio Series).
Dr. Zhang participates actively in committees and conference organization for the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was Vice Director of IEEE Communications Society Asia Pacific Board in 2016-2021. He served as Chair for IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee in 2019-2020. He also served on the organizing committee of the IEEE ICASSP 2016, Shanghai and the IEEE GLOBECOM 2017, Singapore. He was a TPC Co-Chair of APCC 2017 and ICCC 2019.
He has received several awards for his work, including the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2009, and four best paper awards from international conferences (Globecom2007, WCSP2011, GlobalSIP2014, ICCC 2016, WCSP2019, Globecom2020, APB2020).
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the IET. He is also an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.