👋About

Zijian Zhang received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2020 and 2025, respectively. His research focuses on beyond massive MIMO for future wireless systems, spanning hardware architectures, signal modeling, performance analysis, algorithm design, and prototyping. His personal interests also include wireless localization and robotics.

He has published more than 30 papers in SCI-indexed journals and EI-indexed conference proceedings. Publication venues include IEEE JSAC, IEEE TSP, IEEE TWC, IEEE TCOM, IEEE TITS, IEEE WCL, IEEE CL, IEEE ICC, and IEEE GLOBECOM. His work has received more than 3,000 citations on Google Scholar. One article, cited more than 1,400 times, was designated an ESI Hot Paper (top 0.1%). Four articles were designated ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%).

He co-authored a chapter in Intelligent Surfaces Empowered 6G Wireless Network and is a co-inventor on Chinese and international patent applications. A selection of patent records is available on the Publications page.

He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (2025), the Tsinghua Science and Technology Best Paper Award (2024), the Tsinghua Science and Technology Excellent Paper Award (2024), and the National Scholarship (2019, 2024). He also received Tsinghua University's Special Scholarship in 2024. The scholarship is awarded annually to 10 students from a graduate student body of more than 40,000. He was included in the World's Top 2% Scientists list compiled at Stanford University in 2023 and 2025.

🎓Education & Experience

• B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020

• Second bachelor's degree in Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2025

• Huawei Top Mind program, Huawei, Beijing, China Aug. 2025 - present

🔬Research Interests

• Statistical signal processing, matrix analysis, and convex optimization

• Massive MIMO and holographic MIMO (H-MIMO)

• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and large intelligent surfaces (LIS)

• Ranging, network localization, navigation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and robotics

🌐Academic Service

• Technical program committee member: IEEE GLOBECOM (2022, 2024), IEEE VTC (Fall 2022), and IEEE WCNC (2024, 2025).

• Journal reviewer: Nature Communications, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TIT, IEEE TSP, IEEE JSTSP, IEEE TCOM, IEEE TWC, IEEE Communications Magazine, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, among others.

• Conference reviewer: IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ISIT, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE VTC, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE SPAWC, among others.

✉️Contact

Zijian Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Room 8-212, Rohm Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
zhangzij15@tsinghua.org.cn

He welcomes opportunities for research collaboration.