Biography
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Yijie (Lina) MaoAssistant Professor 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong District Shanghai 201210, China |
Biography
Yijie (Lina) Mao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. She received the B.Eng. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from the Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom) in 2014. She received the Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department from the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) in 2018. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) from Oct. 2018 to Jul. 2019 and a postdoctoral research associate with the Communications and Signal Processing Group (CSP), Department of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Imperial College London (London, United Kingdom) from Aug. 2019 to Jul. 2021. Her research interests include the design of future wireless communications and artificial intelligence-empowered wireless networks. She is a senior member of China Institute of Communications.
Dr. Mao receives the Best Paper Awards of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN) 2022 and IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom) 2023, the Exemplary Reviewers for IEEE Transactions on Communications 2021 and IEEE Communications Letters 2022, 2023. She is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Communications Letters, and the lead guest editor for one special issue of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. She was a guest editor for two special issues of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. She has been a workshop co-chair for 2020-2022 IEEE ICC, 2021-2023 IEEE WCNC, and 2020-2022 IEEE PIMRC, and she has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of many symposia on wireless communication for several leading international IEEE conferences. She has been recognized as the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2023.
Research Projects
Jan. 2023 – Dec. 2025 "Next Generation Multiple Access for Distributed Massive MIMO in 6G," NFSC Young Scientist Fund | Grant No.: 62201347 | PI: Yijie (Lina) Mao
Apr. 2022 – Mar. 2025 "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Rate-Splitting Multiple Access," Shanghai Sailing Program | Grant No.: 22YF1428400 | PI: Yijie (Lina) Mao
Sep. 2021 – Aug. 2024 "Air Interface and Physical Layer techniques for 6G," ShanghaiTech Start-up Research Fund| PI: Yijie (Lina) Mao
Honors and Awards
100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G (awarded by Women in 6G), 2024
World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, 2023
Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters, 2023
Best Paper Award of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) in Edge Learning over 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond Workshop, 2023
Best Paper Award of IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 2023
Outstanding Professor Award of ShanghaiTech, 2022
Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters, 2022
Best Paper Award of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2022
Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021
Shanghai Overseas Talent, 2021
Y S and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship, 2014-2018
Postgraduate Scholarship of the University of Hong Kong, 2014-2018
Undergraduate College Prize of Queen Mary University of London, 2014
Outstanding Graduates of Beijing, 2014
National Scholarship of China, 2013
Municipal Outstanding Student Award of Beijing, 2013
First-class scholarship of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2010-2014