About

Zijian Zhang received his 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, covering hardware architectures, signal modeling, performance analysis, algorithms, and prototypes. He also has a personal interest in wireless localization and robotics.

He has published more than 30 papers in SCI-indexed journals and EI-indexed conference proceedings, including 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 3000 citations on Google Scholar. One article was designated an ESI Hot Paper (top 0.1%) and has received more than 1400 citations; four articles were designated ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%).

He has authored two book chapters and filed 24 Chinese and international patent applications.

He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (2025), Tsinghua Science and Technology Best Paper Award (2024), the Tsinghua Science and Technology Excellent Paper Award (2024), and the National Scholarship (2019, 2024). In 2024, he received the Special Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 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, convex optimization

• Massive MIMO, holographic MIMO (H-MIMO)

• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), 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 research collaborations.

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