Ziping Zhao

Education

• September, 2014 ~ August, 2019
  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  (exchange student at the University of Minnesota)
  Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering (DSAI Concentration)
  

• September, 2010 ~ June, 2014
  Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  B.Eng. with Honours in Electronics and Information Engineering
  

Professional Activities and Service

• Technical Reviewer for Journals

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research

  • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research

  • Transactions on Signal Processing

  • Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

  • Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

  • Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

  • Transactions on Image Processing

  • Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

  • Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

  • Transactions on Automatic Control

  • Transactions on Big Data

  • Transactions on Networking

  • Transactions on Communications

  • Transactions on Wireless Communications

  • Transactions on Radar Systems

  • Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

  • Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

  • Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

  • ACM Computing Surveys

  • Open Journal of Signal Processing

  • Signal Processing Letters

  • Wireless Communications Letters

  • Signal Processing

  • Machine Learning

  • Neural Networks

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Quantitative Finance

  • Automatica

  • Neurocomputing

  • ...

• Technical Reviewer and PC Member for Conferences/Workshops

  • ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, AISTATS, UAI

  • AAAI, KDD, IJCAI, IJCNN

  • IEEE ISIT, ICASSP, Asilomar, Allerton, GlobalSIP

  • IEEE ITW, SSP, CAMSAP/SAM, SPAWC, MLSP

  • EURASIP-EUSIPCO, APSIPA-ASC

  • ...

Honors and Awards

• Best Student Paper Award Candidate (Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Track) at IEEE ICASSP 2026 for Zhexian Yang, Barcelona, Spain, 2026

• Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention at IEEE SAM 2024 for Quan Wei, Corvallis, OR, USA, 2024

• Best Student Paper Award (Signal Processing Theory and Methods Track) at IEEE ICASSP 2023 for Quan Wei, Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023

• Top 3% Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP 2023 for Zepeng Zhang and Quan Wei, Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023

• Best Student Paper Award Finalist at IEEE SPAWC 2021 for Zepeng Zhang, Lucca, Italy, 2021

• Best Student Paper Award Finalist at IEEE SAM 2020 for Yangzhuoran Fin Yang, Hangzhou, China, 2020

• Overseas Research Awards to the University of Minnesota, HKUST (2019)

• IEEE SPS Student Travel Grant, IEEE GlobalSIP 2017 (2017)

• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPF), Hong Kong (2014-2018)