ZHOU Liang is a professor and vice president at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. from Paris-Saclay University, France, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2009. Following this, he conducted postdoctoral research at ParisTech in France and the MIT in the USA. From 2010 to 2011, as a Humboldt Scholar, he carried out research at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. He has been honored with titles such as Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education (2020), National Excellent Young Scientist Fund (2013), Humboldt Research Award (2025); His research primarily focuses on multimedia communications and intelligent communications. In recent years, he has published numerous academic papers in journals like Nature Communications, IEEE JSAC. He has led key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as industry-academia collaboration projects with companies like Huawei and ZTE. Currently, he serves as the Chair of the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, Director of the Professional Committee of the China Institute of Communications, and is an editorial board member for academic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Wireless Communications. He is an IEEE Fellow/IET Fellow/BCS Fellow/AAIA Fellow.
