ZTE Communications ›› 2025, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 1-2.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202501001

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Special Topic on Native Intelligence at the Physical Layer

  

  • Online:2025-03-25 Published:2025-03-25
  • About author:First author contact:YANG Kun received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Intelligent Software and Engineering, Nanjing University, China. He is also an affiliated professor of University of Essex, UK. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, communication-computing cooperation, and new AI for the wireless. He has published 500+ papers and filed 50 patents. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE WCM, TVT, and TNB). He is a deputy editor-in-chief of IET Smart Cities Journal. He has been a judge of GSMA GLOMO Award at MWC Barcelona since 2019. He was a recipient of 2024 IET Achievement Medal and the 2024 IEEE CommSoft TC Technical Achievement Award. He is a member of Academia Europaea (MAE), a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET and a Distinguished Member of ACM.
    JIN Shi received his BS degree in communication engineering from Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China in 1996, MS degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 2003, and PhD degree in information and communications engineering from the Southeast University, China in 2007. From June 2007 to October 2009, he was a research fellow with the Adastral Park Research Campus, University College London, UK. He is currently with the faculty of the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University. His research interests include wireless communications, random matrix theory, and information theory. He is serving as an area editor for the Transactions on Communications and IET Electronics Letters. He was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and IET Communications. Prof. JIN and his co-authors have been awarded the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in the field of communication theory, the 2024 IEEE Communications Society Marconi Prize Paper Award, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2023 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, a 2022 Best Paper Award, and a 2010 Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
    XIANG Luping received his BE degree (Hons.) from Xiamen University, China in 2015, and PhD degree from the University of Southampton, UK in 2020. From 2020 to 2021, he was a research fellow with the Next Generation Wireless Group, University of Southampton. In November 2021, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and in September 2024, he joined Nanjing University, China as an assistant professor. In 2024, he was honored with the Xiaomi Young Scholar Award, and also co-founded the company Accelercomm. His research interests include native intelligence at wireless communication, end-to-end transmission technology, computer vision, and integrated sensing and communication transmission.