Rui Zhang (张睿)
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Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo |
Education
Ph.D., School of ECE, Georgia Tech (Aug 2017 to May 2022). Advisor: Prof. Gee-Kung Chang and Prof. Xiaoli Ma
B.S. in Electrical engineering and B.A. in Economics, Peking University (Sep 2013 to June 2017).
News
I have openings for Ph.D students in Spring 2026 and Fall 2026. Prospective students are welcome to send your transcripts and CV to my email.
Research Interests
My research interests are broadly in next-generation communication systems and networks. Currently, I'm particularly interested in the following topics:
Fiber-wireless integrated system design
Near-Field communication and sensing
Integrated communication and sensing
Optical wireless communication and networking
Federated Learning and distrbuted AI over heterogeneous networks
Wireless and optical wireless experiments
Teaching
EE 450/550 Broadband Access Networks (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
EE 459/559 Machine Learning (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
Research funds
“Near Field Communication in 6G Era”,
Sponsor: MediaTek Inc USA“Collaborative Research: Convergence of Optics and Radio Frequency in Large-Scale Integrated Air-Ground-Underwater Networks: Theoretical Framework and Experimental Validations”,
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, ECCS-2512911 (together with Dr. Seyyedali Hosseinalipour at UB, Dr. Nicholas Mastronarde at UB and Dr. Rajeev Sahay at UCSD)
Academic Services
Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communication Magazine
Review Editor for Frontiers In Communications And Networks
TPC Member of 2024/2025/2026 Optica Signal Processing in Photonics Communications (SPPCom), IEEE GLOBECOM 2025.
Reviewing Activities:
IEEE Communication Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
OSA Optics Express
OSA Optics Letters
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
OSA Journal of Optical Communications & Networking
IEEE Communication Letters
IEEE Photonics Journal
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
Honors and Awards
2022 Marconi Young Scholar Award. News from Marconi Society
Top scored Paper in Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2022.
Fall 2017 Oscar P. Cleaver Award (Georgia Tech).
2018-2020 Corning Stem Scholarship.
Bell Labs Summer Intern Award for Outstanding Innovation (2020).