Technical Symposia 1

Communication Signal Processing


1. Symposium Chairs:
Assoc. Prof. Li Zhang, University of Leeds, UK
Prof. Tao Zhou, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Assoc. Prof. Xiaosi Tan, Southeast University, China


2. Topics:
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

▪ Modulation and Channel Coding
▪ Communication and Broadband Networks
▪ Multimedia Communications
▪ Signal Processing for Internet and Wireless Communications
▪ Data Communications
▪ RF and Wireless Communications
▪ Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
▪ Signal Processing in Mobile Communications
▪ Signal Processing in Optical Communications
▪ Next Generation Mobile Communications
▪ 5G Communications and Networks
▪ Signal Processing in Software Radio Realization
▪ Satellite Communication
▪ Multirate Signal Processing in Communications


3. Introduction of Symposium Chairs

Assoc. Prof. Li Zhang, University of Leeds, UK

Dr. Li Zhang is an Associate Professor and leads the Wireless Communication Group at the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK. Her research interest is focused on wireless communication techniques, such as massive MIMO, mmWave communications, UAV aided networks, Device to Device communications, 5G and beyond techniques and high-speed rail communications etc. She has served as a member of the prestigious UK EPSRC Peer Review College since 2006, and regularly helps in reviewing grant applications from different countries and book proposals for several publishers. She has been the PI for 11 grants which have a combined value of £850,000 and has participated in 5 large-scale research grants with a total value of £9.5M. She has published more than 140 peer reviewed papers. In 2005, she received a Nuffield award. In 2006, she became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2011, she received recognition as an IEEE exemplary reviewer and in 2012 she was promoted to senior IEEE member.



Prof. Tao Zhou, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Tao Zhou received the B.E. degree from Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China, in 2009 and Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2016. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visiting Ph.D. student in the Centre for Communication Systems, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, U.K. Since 2022, he has been a full Professor of the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. He has authored one academic book and over 80 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include channel measurement and modeling, artificial intelligence for wireless communications, and 5G/6G key technologies. Dr. Zhou is a Senior Member of IEEE, Chinese Institute of Electronics, and China Institute of Communications. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, an Academic Editor of International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, a Guest Associate Editor of Radio Science, and a Guest Editor of Symmetry. He has served as a TPC Member for IEEE ICC 2020, IEEE VTC 2019 Fall, and IEEE ICCC 2021, a Session Chair for WCSP 2020, and a Technical Symposia Chair for ICSPS 2022.



Assoc. Prof. Xiaosi Tan, Southeast University, China

Xiaosi Tan received her B.S. degree from Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University. In 2017, she joined the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where she is currently an Associate Professor. She also holds a joint research appointment with Purple Mountain Laboratories.
Her research focuses on efficient algorithms and VLSI architectures for B5G/6G baseband signal processing, including massive MIMO detection, channel coding and decoding, and machine learning-aided wireless communication systems. She has co-authored more than 50 papers in leading IEEE journals and conferences in these areas, and has led or participated in multiple research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She serves as a member of the Applied Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the Circuits and Systems for Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She also actively serves as a reviewer for numerous IEEE journals and flagship conferences.