Biography

Dr. Jun Zhang received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004, the M.Phil. degree in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009. He is a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Associate Director of the Computer Engineering (CPEG) Program at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include integrated communications and AI, generative AI, and edge AI systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2024).

Dr. Zhang co-authored the books Fundamentals of LTE (Prentice-Hall, 2010), Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks (Springer, 2019), Low-overhead Communications in IoT Networks – Structured Signal Processing Approaches (Springer, 2020), Machine Learning for Low-Latency Communications (Academic Press, 2024), and co-edited the book Fundamentals of 6G Communications and Networking (Springer Cham, 2024). He is a co-recipient of several best paper awards, including the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Katherine Johnson Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 Best Survey Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, and the 2016 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. Two papers he co-authored received the Young Author Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He also received the 2016 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award. He is currently an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (leading the area of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence) and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (leading the area of Distributed Learning and AI at the Network Edge). He served as a symposium co-chair for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2011 and 2026, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021, and a TPC co-chair for The IEEE Hong Kong 6G Wireless Summit 2023, 2024.