Sheng Zhou – Brief Biography

Sheng Zhou is an associate professor in Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. From January to June 2010, he was a visiting student at Wireless System Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University. From November 2014 to January 2015, he was a visiting researcher in Central Research Lab of Hitachi Ltd., Japan. His research interests include cross-layer design for multiple antenna systems, cooperative transmission in cellular systems, vehicular networks, edge computing, and green wireless communications.

He has been serving as an associate editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters since 2016. He served as the guest co-editor for the IEEE/CIC China Communications feature topic on Energy Conservation and Harvesting for Green Communications (published on March 2014). He served as the publicity chair of IEEE ICCC’12, IEEE Online GreenComm’14 and IEEE ICC’16, the symposium/track co-chair of IEEE/CIC ICCC’15&’18, APCC’17, IEEE PIMRC’17, and IEEE Globecom’18, and etc.

He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Asia-Pacific Conference on Communication (APCC) in 2009 and 2013, the 23th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT) in 2011, the IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP2013), and the 25th International Tele-traffic Congress (ITC) in 2013. He received the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and the 2019 Science and Technology Award (First Class) from China Institute of Communications.

Education

• Tsinghua University                                              2005 – 2011
  Ph.D., Electronic Engineering
  Thesis: Design and Optimization of Base Station Cooperation Schemes under Imperfect Conditions
  Advisor: Professor Zhisheng Niu
  

• Tsinghua University                                              2001 – 2005
  Bachelor of Engineer, Electronic Engineering
  

Work and Visiting Experiences

• Tsinghua University                                              2016 – present
  Associate Professor, Electronic Engineering
  

• Tsinghua University                                              2013 – 2016
  Assistant Professor, Electronic Engineering
  

• Hitachi Ltd.                                                            Nov. 2013 - Jan. 2014
  Visiting Researcher, Network System Devision, Central Research Lab, Hitachi Ltd., Yokohama, Japan.

• Tsinghua University                                              2011 – 2013
  Postdoc Scholar, Electronic Engineering
  

• Stanford University                                              Jan. 2010 - Jun. 2010
  Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford Univ., CA, USA
  Research Project: Energy Efficient Cooperative Communications
  Advisor: Professor Andrea Goldsmith
  

Professional Service

• Associate Editor:

  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2016 – )

  • Journal of Communications and Information Networks (2019 – )

• Guest Editor:

  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on “Age of Information and Data Semantics for Sensing, Communication and Control Co-Design in IoT” (will be published in 2021)

  • China Communications Feature Topic on “Energy Conservation and Harvesting for Green Communications” (published in March. 2014)

• Technical Program Committee (TPC)

  • Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE/CIC ICCC’20

  • Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE/CIC ICCC’19.

  • Symposium Co-Chair, Wireless Communications, IEEE Globecom’18.

  • Symposium Co-Chair, Next Generation Networking, IEEE/CIC ICCC’18.

  • Track Co-Chair, Wireless Communications, APCC’17.

  • Track Co-Chair, Fundamentals and PHY, IEEE PIMRC’17.

  • Publicity Chair, IEEE ICC’16.

  • Publicity Chair, ITC’16.

  • Symposium Co-Chair, Signal Processing for Communications, IEEE ICCC’15.

  • Publicity Chair, IEEE Online GreenComm’14.

  • Publicity Chair, IEEE/CIC ICCC’12.

• TPC member (2012 – )

  • IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, VTC, ICCC, etc.