ZTE Communications ›› 2026, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (3): 1-2.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202603001
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Special Topic on Reconfigurable Antenna Systems for Next-Generation Mobile Communications
Yang Kun, Song Lingyang, Wong Kai-Kit, Zhao Yizhe
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Online:2026-09-25
Published:2026-09-20
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About author:Yang Kun is a Junshi Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Intelligent Software and Engineering and the Director of the Institute of Intelligent Networks and Communications (NINE), Nanjing University, China. His research interests mainly cover wireless communications and networks, and artificial intelligence empowered wireless systems. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed papers and holds 50 granted patents. Since 2019, he has been a judge for the GSMA GLOMO Awards at MWC Barcelona. He received the 2024 IET Achievement Medal and the 2024 IEEE CommSoft TC Technical Achievement Award. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow, and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.
Song Lingyang is a Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, China. His research focuses on cooperative wireless communications and networking. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. He has received 27 IEEE Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize, as well as major honors such as the second prize of the National Natural Science Award and the first prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education. He serves as a Standing Director of the China Institute of Communications, a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Wong Kai‑Kit is a Chair Professor of wireless communications at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK. He previously held appointments at the University of Hong Kong, China, and the University of Hull, UK, as well as visiting positions at Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs and Stanford University, USA. His current research centers on 6G and beyond mobile communications. He is one of the early researchers who proposed multiuser MIMO. His first paper on multiuser MIMO, published at WCNC 2000, is considered the first research paper on this topic. He is a Fellow of the CIC, IEEE and IET. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters between 2020 and 2023.
Zhao Yizhe is currently an associate professor at the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He was selected for the Youth Talent Support Project of the China Association for Science and Technology. His research achievement was selected as one of the Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances in the Internet of Things Sector in China (2025). His research interests include simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, and reconfigurable antenna systems.
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