Dr. Rui Zhang (Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore) received the B.Eng. (first-class Hons.) and M.Eng. degrees from National University of Singapore and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. He is now a Provost’s Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. His current research interests include intelligent surfaces, reconfigurable antennas, radio mapping, non-terrestrial communications, wireless power transfer, AI and optimization methods.
He has published over 600 papers, which have been cited more than 110,000 times with the h-index over 150 (Google Scholar). He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters / Clarivate Analytics since 2015. He was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Region Best Young Researcher Award in 2011, the Young Researcher Award of National University of Singapore in 2015, the Recognition Award of WTC, SPCC and TCCN Technical Committees of the IEEE Communications Society in 2020, 2021 and 2023, respectively.
He received 18 IEEE Best Journal Paper Awards, including the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (twice), the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award (thrice), the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, etc. He has served as an Editor for several IEEE journals, including TWC, TCOM, JSAC, TSP, etc., and as TPC co-chair or organizing committee member for over 30 international conferences. He served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society. He now serves as an Editorial Board Member of npj Wireless Technology, and the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Award Committee.