Zhisheng Niu

Zhisheng Niu

Professor

Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

Biography

Zhisheng Niu received his B.E. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, China, in 1985, and his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. After working at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan (1992–1994), he joined Tsinghua University in 1994 as a Lecturer, became an Associate Professor later that year, and has been a Professor since 1999. He served as Deputy Dean for Research, School of Information Science and Technology (2004–2016), Deputy Head for Research, Department of Electronic Engineering (2003–2004), Deputy Director of the University Office of Science and Technology (2000–2002), and Chair of Graduate Students Affairs, Department of Electronic Engineering (1998–2000).

Education

Ph.D. in Information Engineering, 1992

Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

M.E. in Information Engineering, 1989

Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

B.E. in Communication and Control, 1985

Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Research Interests

  • Green Wireless Communications
  • Queueing Theory and Traffic Engineering
  • Network Resource Optimization
  • Mobile Edge Computing

Professional Working Experience

  • Professor (11/1999–present), Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
  • Deputy Dean (2004–2016) for Research, School of Information Science and Technology
  • Deputy Head (2003–2004) for Research, Department of Electronic Engineering
  • Deputy Director (2000–2002), University Office of Science and Technology
  • Associate Professor (12/1994–11/1999), Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
  • Chair (1998–2000) of Graduate Students Affairs, Department of Electronic Engineering
  • Lecturer (04/1994–12/1994), Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
  • Researcher (04/1992–03/1994), Dept. of Integrated Communication Networks, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan

Professional Visiting Experience

  • Distinguished Visiting Scholar (02/2023 – 04/2023, 10/2023 – 02/2024), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China
  • Visiting Scholar (05/2023 – 06/2023), Hamburg Univ. of Technology, Germany & Chalmers Univ., Sweden
  • Distinguished Visiting Fellow (11/2014 – 12/2014), Ming-Hsieh Institute, Univ. of Southern California, USA
  • Visiting Scholar (09/2014 – 10/2014), Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
  • Visiting Scholar (01/2002 – 02/2002), Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Polytechnic Univ., USA
  • Visiting Scholar (01/2001 – 02/2001), National Saga University, Japan
  • Visiting Senior Researcher (02/1997 – 02/1998), Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan
  • Visiting Researcher (10/1995 – 02/1996), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Awards and Honors

  • IEEE Fellow (Class of 2012, “for contributions to collaborative radio resource management in wireless networks”)
  • IEICE Fellow (Class of 2007, “for contributions on network engineering and IEICE globalization”)
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2012–2015), IEEE ComSoc
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2014–2018), IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
  • 2nd Prize, Natural Science Award (2024), China Institute of Communications (CIC), for the research on “Wireless Communication under Dynamic Energy Supply: Theory and Methods”
  • 2nd Prize, Science and Technology Advancement (2022), Beijing Science and Technology Award
  • 2nd Prize, Science and Technology Advancement (2022), China Institute of Electronics (CIE)
  • 1st Prize, Natural Science Award (2019), China Institute of Communications (CIC)
  • Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences (2019), IEEE ComSoc
  • Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award (2018), IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC)
  • Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2012), The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications, Japan, for the research on “Energy Saving Technologies in Green Cellular Networks”
  • Outstanding Contribution (2011), IEEE Standard Association, for the development of “IEEE Standard 1888-2011 for Ubiquitous Green Community Network Control Protocol”
  • Distinguished Young Scholar Award (2009), Nature Science Foundation of China, for the research “Collaborative Radio Resource Management in Dense Wireless Networks”
  • Award for Electronic Sci. & Tech. Advancement (2008), Chinese Institute of Electronics, for the research on “Game-Theoretical Approach and Optimization for Multi-Dimensional Radio Resource Allocation”
  • Outstanding Paper Award (2024), IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, for the paper “Joint Device Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Latency Constrained Wireless Federated Learning” (W. Shi, S. Zhou, Z. Niu, M. Jiang, L. Geng)
  • Best Paper Award (2023), Chinese Institute of Communications & IEEE ComSoc, for the paper “Energy-optimal and delay-bounded computation offloading in mobile edge computing with heterogeneous clouds” (T. Zhao, S. Zhou, L. Song, Z. Jiang, X. Guo, and Z. Niu)
  • Excellent Paper Award (2023), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) & Tsinghua University Press, for the paper “Space-air-ground integrated vehicular network for connected and automated vehicles: Challenges and solutions” (Z. Niu, X. Shen, Q. Zhang, Y. Tang)
  • Best Paper Award (2019), Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN), for the paper “Data-Driven User Complaint Prediction for Mobile Access Networks” (H. Pan, S. Zhou, Y. Jia, Z. Niu, M. Zheng, L. Geng)
  • Best Paper Award (2017), IEEE ComSoc Green Communications & Computing Technical Committee, for the paper “Energy Efficient Optimization for Computation Offloading in Fog Computing System” (Z. Chang, Z. Zhou, T. Ristaniemi, Z. Niu)
  • Outstanding Paper Award (2013), IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, for the paper “Cell Zooming for Cost-Efficient Green Cellular Networks” (Z. Niu, Y. Wu, J. Gong, Z. Yang)
  • Best Paper Award (2013), IEEE WCSP, for the paper “Recursive Geometric Water-filling for Wireless Links with Hybrid Energy System” (P. He, L. Zhao, S. Zhou, Z. Niu)
  • Best Student Paper Award (2013), ITC25, for the paper “Optimal Wake-up Mechanism for Single Base Station with Sleep Mode” (X. Guo, S. Zhou, P. R. Kumar, Z. Niu)
  • Best Paper Award (2013), APCC, for the paper “Joint Optimization of Frequency Allocation and User Association with Differentiated Service in Hyper-cellular Networks” (S. Zhang, S. Zhou, Z. Niu)
  • Best Paper Award (2011), IEEE ICCT, for the paper “A Traffic-Aware Dynamic Energy-Saving Scheme for Cellular Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic” (J. Wu, Z. Yang, S. Zhou, Z. Niu)
  • Best Paper Award (2009), APCC, for the paper “Interference-Aware Relay Selection for Multiple Source-Destination Cooperative Networks” (J. Xu, S. Zhou, Z. Niu)
  • Best Paper Award (2007), APCC, for the paper “Random Graph Theory based Connectivity Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks with Rayleigh fading channels” (J. Dong, Q. Chen, Z. Niu)

Professional Activities

  • Senior Editor (2024 – present), IEEE J. Selected Areas in Commun. (JSAC)
  • Senior Editor (2021 – present), IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IoTM)
  • Editor-in-Chief (2020 – 2022), IEEE Trans. Green Commun. & Networking (TGCN)
  • Co Editor-in-Chief (2014 – present), ICT Express, KICS
  • Associate Editor-in-Chief (2012 – 2016), China Communications
  • Area Editor (2016 – 2020), IEEE Trans. Green Commun. & Networking
  • Editor (2009 – 2013), IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine
  • Editor (2005 – 2009), ACM Wireless Networks
  • Guest Editor, Special issue on “Sustainable Green Networking and Computing in 5G Systems: Technology, Economics and Deployment”, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (published in Aug. 2017)
  • Guest Editor (2015–16), Series on Green Commun. & Networking, IEEE JSAC
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Emerging Technologies, IEEE JSAC (published in April 2015)
  • Guest Editor, Special issue on Device-to-Device Communications in Cellular Networks, IEEE JSAC (published in May 2015)
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Green Communication Networks, Computer Networks (published in July 2012)
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Green Radio Communications and Networks, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine (published in Oct. 2011)
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advanced Information and Communication Technologies and Services, IEICE Trans. Commun. (published in Oct. 2009)
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE), EURASIP J. Wireless Commun. and Networking (published in Oct. 2009)
  • Chair (2022–2023), Emerging Technologies Committee, IEEE ComSoc
  • Advisor (2018–2021), Scientific Advisory Board, Academy of Finland Flagship Program “6Genesis (6G-enabled Wireless Smart Society and Ecosystem)”
  • Director (2018–2019), Online Contents, IEEE Communications Society
  • Chair (2014–2015), Emerging Technologies Committee, IEEE ComSoc
  • Director (2010–2011), Conference Publication, IEEE ComSoc
  • Director (2008–2009), Asia-Pacific Region, IEEE ComSoc
  • Chair (2003–2007), IEICE Beijing Section
  • Chair (2001–2008), IEEE ComSoc Beijing Chapter
  • Council member (2009–2010), IEICE, Japan
  • Advisor (2006–2011), International Advisory Committee, NICT, Japan
  • General Co-Chair:
    • 34th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC34), Shenzhen, China, September 2022
    • 1st Global 6G Conference, Beijing, China, September 2020 (General Vice Co-chair)
    • IEEE Infocom'20 Workshop on Age-of-Information, Beijing, China, April 2020
    • IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom'18), Halifax, Canada, Aug. 2018
    • International Conf. on Computer Commun. & Networks (ICCCN'15), Las Vegas, USA, Aug. 2015
    • IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm'14), Nov. 2014
    • International Conference on Communication Technologies (ICCT'11), Jinan, China
    • Intl. Conf. Wireless Commun., Networking, & Mobile Computing (WiCOM'09), Beijing
    • Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'09), Shanghai
  • TPC Co-Chair:
    • 3rd Global 6G Conference, Nanjing, China, March 2022
    • 2nd Global 6G Conference, Nanjing, China, March 2022
    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'20), Seoul, Korea, April 2020
    • The First Workshop on “Sustainable networking through MachIne Learning and Internet of thINGs (SMILING 2019), in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France
    • IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Network (DySPAN'18), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 22-25, 2018
    • Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'17), Perth, Australia, Dec. 2017
    • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-spring 2016), Nanjing
    • International Teletraffic Congress (ITC25, 2013), Shanghai, Aug. 2013
    • Wireless & Optical Communications Conference (WOCC'13)
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC'12)
    • Wireless & Optical Communications Conference (WOCC'10)
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08)
    • Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'04)
  • Symposium Co-Chair:
    • 2023 European Conference on Networking and Communications & 6G Summit (EUCNC/6GSummit'23)
    • 2017 European Conference on Networking and Communications (EUCNC'17)
  • Workshop Co-Chair:
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'20), Dublin, Ireland, 2020
    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'18)
  • Panel Co-Chair:
    • IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom'23) Industry Panels
    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'21)
    • ACM Mobihoc'15
    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'10)
  • Tutorial Co-Chair:
    • IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom'12)
    • IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference (VTC'10-fall)

Graduate Students Supervised

He is currently supervising a research group consisting of 5 Ph.D. and 2 Master students. Since joining Tsinghua University in 1994, he has graduated 34 Ph.D. and 27 Master students in total, among them 9 found faculty positions in the US, Europe, and China, and 4 are international students. He has also collaborated with 7 postdoctoral researchers, 5 of whom found faculty positions after completion.