Rui Zhang (张睿)

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Assistant Professor
State University of New York at Buffalo
Office: 225 Davis Hall, Buffalo, NY 14228
E-mail: rzhang45 [@] buffalo [DOT] edu
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Education

  • Ph.D., School of ECE, Georgia Tech (Aug 2017 to May 2022).

  • B.S. in Electrical engineering and B.A. in Economics, Peking University (Sep 2013 to June 2017).

News

  • I have several openings for Ph.D students in Spring 2024 and Fall 2024. 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

  • Statistical signal processing, waveform design and architecture optimization for high-capacity communication

  • Joint communication and sensing

  • AI for communication and sensing

Selected Journal Papers

  1. R. Zhang, W.J. Jiang, K. Kuzmin, Y. Weng, W. Mou, G.K. Chang, W. Way, " The Impact of Local Oscillator Frequency Jitter and Laser Linewidth to Ultra High Baud Rate Coherent Systems ", in Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1138-1147, 2020.

  2. R. Zhang, Y.W. Chen, W. Mou, G.K. Chang, " Rate Redundancy and Entropy Allocation for PAS-OFDM based Mobile Fronthaul ", in Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 38, no. 16, pp. 4260-4269.

  3. R. Zhang, K. Kuzmin, W.J. Jiang, G. Giaretta, T. Tomimoto, Y. Weng, G.K. Chang, and W. Way, " Impact of laser flicker noise and linewidth on 64 to 96  Gbaud/DP-nQAM metro coherent optical links ", Optics Letters. 45, 1220-1223 (2020).

  4. R. Zhang, F. Lu, M. Xu, S. Liu, P.C. Peng, S. Shen, H. Cho, J. He, Q. Zhou, S. Yao, G.K. Chang, " An Ultra-reliable MMW/FSO A-RoF System based on Coordinated Mapping and Combining for 5G and Beyond Mobile Fronthaul ", in Journal of Lightwave Technology 36 (20), 4952-4959, 2018.

  5. R. Zhang, P.C. Peng, X. Li, S. Liu, Q. Zhou, J. He, Y.W. Chen, S. Shen, S. Yao, G.K. Chang, " 4×100-Gb/s PAM-4 FSO Transmission Based on Polarization Modulation and Direct Detection ", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 755-758, 15 May, 2019.

  6. R. Zhang, Y.W. Chen, W. Mou, S.Yao, G.K. Chang, " Entropy Allocation Optimization for PS-OFDM with Constellation Partitioning based Modeling ", Journal of Lightwave Technology, 38, 6024-6030 (2020).

  7. R. Zhang, X. Tang, C.W. Hsu, Y.W. Chen, G.K. Chang, "Semi-supervised and Supervised Nonlinear Equalizers in Fiber-FSO Converged System ", Journal of Lightwave Technology 2021.

  8. R. Zhang, Y.W. Chen, K. Kuzmin, W. Way, "800G/λ Self-Homodyne Coherent Links With Simplified DSP for Next-Generation Intra-Data Centers ", Journal of Lightwave Technology 2022.

Selected Conference Papers

  1. R. Zhang, W.J. Jiang, K. Kuzmin, R. Juluri, G.K. Chang, W. Way, " Laser Frequency Jitter Tolerance and Linewidth Requirement for ≥ 64Gbaud DP-16QAM coherent systems ", Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2019 M4I.2.

  2. R. Zhang, Y.W. Chen, S. Shen, Q. Zhou, S. Yao, S.J. Su, Y. Alfadhli, G.K. Chang, " Joint Optimization of Processing Complexity and Rate Allocation through Entropy Tunability for 64-/256-QAM Based Radio Fronthauling with LDPC and PAS-OFDM ", OFC 2020 M2F.2.

  3. R. Zhang, N. Kaneda, Y. Lefevre, A. Mahadevan, D. van Veen and V. Houtsma, "Probabilistic and Geometric Shaping for Next-Generation 100G Flexible PON ", 2020 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Brussels, Belgium, 2020, pp. 1-4.

  4. R. Zhang, C.W. Hsu, X. Tang, Q. Zhou,G.K. Chang, "LDPC Coded PAM-4/8 Transmission in Fiber-FSO Link Using Unipolar Probability Distribution and Pre-distortion ", Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2021.

  5. R. Zhang, X. Tang, C.W. Hsu, Y.W. Chen, Q. Zhou, S. Shen, S. Yao, Y. Alfadhli, S.J. Su, G.K. Chang, "115-Gbps/λ Fiber/FSO Transmission with Supervised and Semi-supervised Nonlinearity Correction Using Lasso ", Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2021.

  6. R. Zhang, Y.W. Chen, K. Kuzmin, W. Way, "Intra-Data Center 120Gbaud/DP-16QAM Self-Homodyne Coherent Links with Simplified Coherent DSP", Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2022 (Top scored).

Honors and Awards

  • 2022 Marconi Young Scholar Award.

  • 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).

Indusrty and Visiting Experience

  • Undergraduate visiting student (summer 2016).
    Hosted by Prof. S.J.Ben Yoo at UC Davis.

  • Research intern at NeoPhotonics (summer 2018, 2019 and 2021).
    Supervised by Dr. Winston Way at Neophotonics.

  • Research Intern at Nokia Bell Labs(summer 2020).
    Supervised by Vincent Houtsma in Nokia Bell Labs.

  • B5G/6G Research Engineer at MediaTek (June 2022 till current).

Services

Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communication Magazine

Review Editor for Frontiers In Communications And Networks

Reviewing Activities

  • IEEE Communication Magazine

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless 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