Dr Li X Zhang

Profile

Dr. Li Zhang is an associate professor in communications at the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds since Aug. 2004. Between Mar. 2003-Aug.2004, she was a Postdoctoral research fellow in the Communication Research Group at the University of York. and then a research engineer in ECIT, Queen’s University, Belfast. She did her PhD in Communications at the University of York from 2000 to 2003. Her current research interest is focused on wireless communications and signal processing techniques, including massive MIMO, mmWave and THz commuications, Heterogeneous Network, D2D communications, UAV networks and 5G/6G systems etc. She is an associate editor of IEEE journals and has served on the Technical Programme Committees of most major IEEE conferences in communications since 2006. She is a member of the  EPSRC Peer Review College since 2006 and regularly helps reviewing grant applications in different countries and book proposals for a number of publishersr. In 2005, she received a Nuffield award for a newly appointed lecturer. In 2011, she was awarded as IEEE exemplary reviewer and in 2012 she was promoted as senior IEEE member.

Responsibilities

• PGT tutor
• School International Lead

Research interests

• FPGA implementation of iterative joint synchronization and turbo decoding technique, supported by Nuffield grant, 2005 ~ 2007
• Wireless Communications for Medical Care, supported by Royal Society, 2006.
• Link adaptation methods for future generation wireless MIMO systems, supported by Royal Society, 2006 ~ 2007
• Synchronisation in OFDMA and MIMO OFDMA Systems, supported by EPSRC, 2007 ~ 2010
• Synchronisation for Femtocell Networks
• " Emergency lighting testing system utilising Modern Data Communication Techniques", Knowledge Transfer Project, 2009~2011
• "Cross-layer adaptive OFDM for powerline communications", Industry Project funded by Yorkshire Forward and Pace plc, 1st May 2009~30th of April. 2011
• "Powerline communications", Industry Project funded by Yorkshire Forward and Pace plc, 17th Sept 2009~30th of May 2011
• "Interference analysis and mitigation for Wireless Healthcare", funded by Royal Society, Aug. 2010
• ''Synchronisation and interference mitigation for Heterogeneous Networks'', Industrial project funded by Shandong Academy of Information and Communication Technology (SAICT) and Shandong GuoWei Satellite Communications ltd, Nov. 2012- Nov. 2015
• Self-organising Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
• Handover, interference mitigation and resource allocation techniques for Heterogeneous Networks
• Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO and mmWave Massive MIMO Systems
• Hybrid precoding schemes for mmWave Massive MIMO systems
• Spatial Modulation for Massive MIMO systems
• Resource allocation for D2D networks 
• Handover techniques for High Speed Rail System
• EMI and IEMI problems for High Speed Rail Communication Systems
• Coverage Analysis and Handover techniques for UAV-asisted networks
• 5G/6G networks

Qualifications

• BEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, BUAA, China
• MSc in Communications, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, BUAA, China
• PhD in Communications, University of York, York, UK

Professional memberships

• IEEE Senior Member
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy
• EPSRC Peer Review College

Student education

Module leader of ELEC2430 ‘Communications Theory’

PhD supervision

MSc and BEng individual project supervision

Research groups and institutes

• Institute of Communication and Power Networks

Current postgraduate researchers

• Jihai Zhong
• Yejing Fan
• Maha Alruwaili
• Mr Xingyu Chen
• Miss Yanyan Ge
• Yingqi Zhu
• Yuzhe Wang