Sheng Zhou

Sheng Zhou

Associate Professor

Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

Biography

Dr. Sheng Zhou received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. From January to June 2010, he was a visiting student at the Wireless System Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA. From November 2014 to January 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher in Central Research Lab of Hitachi Ltd., Japan. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2011, first as a postdoctoral scholar, then as an Assistant Professor in 2013, and became a tenured Associate Professor in 2019. His current research interests include mobile edge intelligence, vehicular networks, and green wireless communications.

He received the 2024 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Asia-Pacific Board Outstanding Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE ComSoc Wireless Technical Committee Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board Outstanding Young Researcher Award. He is co-recipient of the China Institute of Communications Science and Technology award (First class in 2019 and Second class in 2024). He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE/CIC China Communications in 2023 and Journal of Communications and Information Networks in 2019. For conferences, he is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award from the IEEE/CIC Int’l Conf. Commun. China (ICCC'20), Asia-Pacific Conf. Commun. (APCC) in 2013, the 2013 IEEE Int’l Conf. Wireless Commun. Signal Processing (WCSP'13), the 25th Int’l Tele-Traffic Congress (ITC'13), and etc.

He served or is serving as an editor for IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., IEEE Wireless Commun. Letters, and Journal of Commun. and Information Networks. He served as a Guest Editor for feature topics of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (in 2020) and IEEE/CIC China Communications (in 2020 and 2013). He is serving as the Track/Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (Globecom'18) and IEEE/CIC Int’l Conf. Commun. China (ICCC'18). He served as the Track/Symposium Co-Chair of many leading conferences of IEEE ComSoc.

Education

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, 2005–2011

Tsinghua University

Visiting Student in Electrical Engineering, 2010–2010

Stanford University

B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering, 2001–2005

Tsinghua University

Research Interests

  • Mobile Edge Intelligence
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Green Wireless Communications
  • Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks

Academic Appointments

  • Tenured Assoc. Prof., Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (Jan. 2019–present)
  • Associate Professor, Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (Jun. 2016–Jan. 2019)
  • Assistant Professor, Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (Jul. 2013–Jun. 2016)
  • Postdoc Scholar, Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (Jul. 2011–Jun. 2013)
  • Visiting Researcher, Central Research Lab, Hitachi Ltd., Japan (Nov. 2013–Jan. 2014)

Awards and Honors

  • IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board Outstanding Paper Award (2024), for the paper “Joint Device Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Latency Constrained Wireless Federated Learning” (W. Shi, S. Zhou, and Z. Niu)
  • China Institute of Communications Science and Technology Award, Second Class (2024), for the project “Wireless Communications with Dynamic Energy Supply: Theory and Methods”
  • China Institute of Communications Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Advisor (2023)
  • IEEE/CIC China Communications Best Paper Award (2023), for the paper “Energy-optimal computation offloading with delay constraints in mobile edge computing systems with heterogeneous clouds” (T. Zhao, S. Zhou, L. Song, Z. Jiang, X. Guo, and Z. Niu)
  • China Institute of Electronics Outstanding Scientist & Technological Worker (2022)
  • IEEE ComSoc Wireless Commun. Tech. Committee Outstanding Young Researcher (2020)
  • IEEE/CIC Int’l Conf. Commun. China (ICCC'20) Best Paper Award (2020), for the paper “Cluster-Based Cooperative Digital Over-the-Air Aggregation for Wireless Federated Edge Learning” (R. Jiang and S. Zhou)
  • China Institute of Communications Science and Technology Award, First Class (2019), for the project “Energy Efficiency Theory and Resource Optimization Method for Hyper-Cellular Networks”
  • Journal of Communications and Information Networks Best Paper Award (2019), for the paper “Data-driven user complaint prediction for mobile access networks” (H. Pan, S. Zhou, Y. Jia, Z. Niu, M. Zheng, and L. Geng)
  • Tsinghua University “Good Mentor and Helpful Friend” Award (2018)
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Top Editor Award (2018)
  • Tsinghua University “Advanced Individual for Year 2017–2018” Award (2018)
  • IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board Outstanding Young Researcher (2017)
  • Asia-Pacific Conf. Commun. (APCC'13) Best Paper Award (2013), for the paper “Joint Optimization of Frequency Allocation and User Association with Differentiated Service in Hyper-cellular Networks” (S. Zhang, S. Zhou, Z. Niu)
  • IEEE Int’l Conf. Wireless Commun. Signal Proc. (WCSP'13) Best Paper Award (2013), for the paper “Recursive Geometric Water-filling for Wireless Links with Hybrid Energy System” (P. He, L. Zhao, S. Zhou, Z. Niu)
  • 25th Int’l Tele-Traffic Congress (ITC'13) Best Student Paper Award (2013), for the paper “Optimal Wake-up Mechanism for Single Base Station with Sleep Mode” (X. Guo, S. Zhou, Z. Niu, P.R. Kumar)

Professional Activities

  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2021–present)
  • Editor, Journal of Communications and Information Networks (2019–present)
  • Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2016–2020)
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Feature Topic on “Age of Information and Data Semantics for Sensing, Communication, and Control Co-Design in IoT” (published in Oct. 2021)
  • Guest Editor, China Communications, Feature Topic on “Time-Critical Communication and Computation for Intelligent Vehicular Networks” (published in Jun. 2021)
  • Guest Editor, China Communications, Feature Topic on “Energy Conservation and Harvesting for Green Communications” (published in Mar. 2014)
  • Vice-Chair, Chapters Coordination Committee, IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Board (2018–2020)
  • Deputy Secretary-General, Technical Committee for Wireless Communications and Spectrum Resources, Communications Society, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) (2016–2020)
  • Symposium/Track Co-Chair:
    • IEEE VTC 2025 Spring, Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services Track
    • IEEE ICNC 2025, Next Generation Networks and Internet Applications Symposium
    • IEEE Globecom 2018, Wireless Communications Symposium
    • IEEE/CIC ICCC 2018, Next Generation Networking Symposium
    • APCC 2017, Wireless Communications Track
    • IEEE PIMRC 2017, Fundamentals and PHY Track
    • IEEE/CIC ICCC 2015, Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
  • Publicity Co-Chair: ITC 2018, IEEE ICC 2016, ITC 2016, IEEE OnlineGreenComm 2014, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2012
  • Workshop Organizer: IEEE WCNC Workshop on Intelligent Computing and Caching at the Network Edge, from 2018 to 2025 consecutively

University Service

  • Head of Institute of Communications, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (Aug. 2023–present)
  • Head of Graduate Students Affairs, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (Aug. 2015–Jul. 2018)

Teaching Experience

  • Communications and Networks (in English) (Undergraduate, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
  • Communications and Networks (Undergraduate, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
  • Introduction to Principles of Communications (Undergraduate, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
  • Selected Topics in Information Networks (Undergraduate, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, with Prof. Jian Wang)
  • Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (Graduate, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2024)

Research Projects

Ongoing Projects

  • China Civil Aviation Technology & Equipment Co., Ltd., “Smart Scheduling System” (Jul. 2023–Mar. 2025, 500K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), “Multi-Scale Perception and Computing with Device-Edge-Cloud Collaboration for Connected Intelligent Driving” (Jul. 2023–Dec. 2024, 1500K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • Toyota, “Vehicular Network Assisted Autonomous Driving” (Jul. 2021–Feb. 2025, 3700K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • Huawei, “Short-Distance Wireless Communications” (Jul. 2020–Dec. 2025, 3780K RMB, Principal Investigator)

Completed Projects

  • Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Sino-Sweden Collaboration Fund, “Learning based mmWave Vehicular Communications in Dynamic Environments” (Jan. 2021–Dec. 2023, 400K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Excellent Young Researcher Fund, “Green Wireless Communications and Networks” (Jan. 2021–Dec. 2023, 1200K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • OPPO, “Resource Optimization Wireless Federated Learning” (Jan. 2020–Dec. 2022, 800K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), “Coordination of Communication and Computing Resources for Guaranteeing the Task Timeliness in Internet of Vehicles” (Jan. 2019–Dec. 2022, 630K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • UNSW-Tsinghua Collaborative Research Fund, “Intelligent Transportation for Smart Cities based on Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks” (Jan. 2018–Dec. 2019, 150K RMB, Co-Principal Investigator at Tsinghua side)
  • Qualcomm, “QoS-Driven Radio Resource Management for Device-to-Device (D2D) based Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communications” (Jan. 2017–Dec. 2019, 990K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), “Coordinative Energy Management and Resource Optimization for Wireless Networks under Dynamic Energy Harvesting” (Jan. 2016–Dec. 2019, 680K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • Tsinghua EE Chuanxin Fund, “Intelligent Wireless Service under the Energy Timeliness Constraint” (Jan. 2015–Dec. 2016, 50K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • NSFC Young Scholar Project, “Collaboration between Transmission and Storage for Wireless Networks under the Energy Timeliness Constraint” (Jan. 2013–Dec. 2015, 270K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, “Cost Modeling and High Energy Efficiency Transmission Scheme Design for Base Station Cooperation” (Sep. 2012–Jul. 2013, 50K RMB, Principal Investigator)
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China, “Cooperative Environment Sensing for Autonomous Driving on Electric Vehicles” (May 2018–Feb. 2021, 4530K RMB, Co-Investigator)
  • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)-NSFC Partnership Program, “Smart Networking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” (Jan. 2018–Dec. 2021, 4000K RMB, Co-Investigator)
  • NSFC Key Project, “Space-Air-Ground Integrated Inter-Vehicle Network for Immersive Driving Experience” (Jan. 2017–Dec. 2020, 1700K RMB, Co-Investigator, Leader of Sub-Project)
  • Academy of Finland and NSFC Partnership Program, “Software Defined Hyper Cellular Architecture for Green and Smart Service Provisioning in 5G Networks” (Jan. 2015–Dec. 2017, 1000K RMB, Co-Investigator)
  • NSFC Young Scholar Project, “Wireless Resource Management for Diverse Traffics in Cloud Radio Access Networks” (Jan. 2015–Dec. 2015, 80K RMB, Co-Investigator)
  • National Basic Research Program of China, “Fundamental Research on the Energy and Resource Optimized Hyper-Cellular Mobile Communication System” (Jan. 2012–Aug. 2016, 6280K RMB, Co-Investigator, project secretary board member)
  • Intel, “Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Mobile Networking and Computing” (Jul. 2013–Jul. 2018, 750K USD, Co-Investigator)
  • Huawei, “Energy Saving for Communication Systems” (Apr. 2013–Apr. 2014, 200K RMB, Co-Investigator)
  • Hitachi, “Tsinghua-Hitachi Joint Lab on Environment-Harmonious ICT” (Oct. 2010–Sep. 2019, 13000K RMB, Co-Investigator)

Tutorials and Invited Talks

Tutorial

  • Z. Jiang and S. Zhou, “Age of Information Optimizations in Wireless Networks: Concepts, Algorithms and Applications” in IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC'22), Foshan, China, Aug. 2022
  • S. Zhou and C. Huang, “Energy harvesting wireless communications: Resource management and cross-layer design,” in IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC'15), Shenzhen, China, Nov. 2015

Invited Talks at International Conferences/Workshops

  • S. Zhou, “Collaborative Perception under V2X Communication Limitations,” in 2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) workshop on Cooperative Intelligence for Autonomous Driving and Robotics, Milano, Italy, Sep. 2024
  • S. Zhou, “Guarantee the information timeliness in energy harvesting wireless communication systems,” Energy Harvesting Workshop of IEEE WCNC'17, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 2017
  • S. Zhou, “Proactive service provisioning for energy harvesting wireless access networks,” GREENET Workshop of 14th International Symposium and Workshops on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'16), Tempe, AZ, May 2016

Books

Book Chapters

  • Timely Wireless Edge Inference — S. Zhou, W. Shi, X. Huang, and Z. Niu, as a book chapter in Machine Learning and Wireless Communications published by Cambridge Press (edited by Y.C. Eldaer, A. Goldsmith, D. Gunduz, and H.V. Poor)
  • Greening 6G: New Horizons — Z. Niu, S. Zhou, and N. Crespi, as a book chapter in Shaping Future 6G Networks: Needs, Impacts, and Technologies published by Wiley (edited by E. Bertin, N. Crespi, and T. Magedanz)
  • Deep Learning-Based Coverage and Capacity Optimization — A. Marinescu, Z. Jiang, S. Zhou, L.A. Da Silva, Z. Niu, as a book chapter in Machine Learning for Future Wireless Communications published by Wiley (edited by Fa-Long Luo)
  • Toward Green Deployment and Operation for C-RANs — S. Zhou, J. Liu, T. Zhao and Z. Niu, as a book chapter in Cloud Radio Access Networks: Principles, Technology and Applications published by Cambridge (edited by T.Q.S. Quek, M. Peng, O. Simone, and W. Yu)
  • Energy-efficient Operations and Management for Mobile Networks — Z. Niu and S. Zhou, as a book chapter in Green Communications: Principles, Concepts and Practice published by Wiley (edited by L. Samdanis, P. Rost, A. Maeder, M. Meo and C. Verikoukis)