Short Bio

Wei Wang is a Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. His research interests include millimeter-wave communications and machine learning for wireless communications. Dr. Wang was a recipient of the 2023 IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Young Researcher Award and the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE ICCC 2016 and 2024. He serves as an Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING and previously served as an Editor for IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He also served as Co-Chair for multiple symposia and workshops at major IEEE conferences.

Research Interests

• Advanced modulation techniques for 6G communications
  Exploring the practical applications of vector-OFDM, a.k.a., OTFS, and advancing innovations in 6G waveforms.
  
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in wireless communications
  Exploiting the spatial signatures of wireless channels using deep learning technologies to self-cluster, auto-encode, and auto-decode the massive data of wireless channels.
  
• Intelligent reflecting surfaces assisted wireless communications
  Creating smart radio environment using intelligent reflecting surfaces and reinforcement learning technologies.
  
• UAV communications
  Integrating wireless sensing with air navigation for the smarter control of UAV flight and communications in urban cellular networks.
  
• Joint localization and millimeter wave communications
  Embracing localization with mmWave communications to build the dual-function (positioning & communications) infrastructures for urban IoT.
  

Research Projects

• Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, 2026-2029.
  
• Natural Science Foundation of China Project For Young Researcher, 2023-2025.
  
• National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2023-2025.
  
• National Young Talents Program, 2023-2025.
  

Academic Services

• Editor: IEEE Transacitons on Mobile Computing, 2025-present.
  
• Editor: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2019-2023.
  
• Symposium co-chair: Signal Processing for Communications (SPC) Symposium, IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, 28-30 Jul. 2021, Xiamen, China.
  
• Track co-chair: AI for wireless communications track in National Artificial Intelligence Challenge (NAIC), 2021-2023. [Media Report]
  
• Workshop co-chair for “Radio Map for 6G Communications” in IEEE VTC2024-Spring, Singapore.
  
• Symposium co-chair: AI Enabled Wireless and Networking Symposium, IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, 7-9 Aug. 2024, Hangzhou, China
  
• Symposium co-chair: Convergence of Sensing, Communication, and Computing Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, October 24-26, 2024, Hefei, China
  
• Regular reviewer for IEEE TWC, IEEE TCOM, IEEE JSTSP, IEEE TSP, IEEE TVT, IEEE WCL, IEEE CL, etc.
  
• TPC member for IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, IEEE ICCC, IEEE WCSP, IEEE APCC, etc.
  

Awards

• IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, Best Paper Award, 2024.
• IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2023.
• Rank 5th out of 334 teams （sole participant of the team） in the online AI competition “AI-based Channel State Information Feedback” organized by IMT-2020(5G) Promotion Group and OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., 2021.
  
• Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2017-2019.
  
• Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2017.
  
• Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW, 2017.
  
• IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, Best Paper Award, 2016.