Academic Staff

Dr. Shuowen Zhang received the B.Eng. degree in information engineering from Chien-Shiung Wu Honors College, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in June 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS), National University of Singapore, in January 2018 under the NGS scholarship. From February 2018 to July 2020, she was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. Since August 2020, she has been with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Her research interests include integrated sensing and communications, intelligent reflecting surface aided communications, unmanned aerial vehicles, multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, communication theory, and optimization methods. Dr. Zhang is currently serving as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. She has served as a Guest Editor for various journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and a technical program committee (TPC) member for various IEEE flagship conferences. She also served as an IEEE Communications Society Asia/Pacific Board WICE Vice Chair and an IEEE N2Women Mentoring Co-Chair.

Dr. Zhang is the sole recipient of the 2021 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award, as well as a recipient of the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, the 2023 PolyU Young Innovative Researcher Award, and the 2024 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award.

• Bachelor of Engineering, Southeast University
• Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore