Ying-Chang Liang - Curriculum Vitae#

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Dec 1993, Jilin University, Changchun, China
  
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 1989, Jilin University, Changchun, China

• 2015 - Now: Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
  
• 2017: Professor (Joint Appointment), University of Sydney, Australia
  
• Dec 2003 - 2015: Principal Scientist and Technical Advisor, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  
• 2004 - 2009: Adjunct Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  
• Sept 2010 - May 2011: Associate Professor (Joint Appointment), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
  
• Nov 2002 - Dec 2003: Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA
  
• Dec 2001 - Dec 2003: Chief Scientist, Strategic Technologies Group, Innova Solutions, CA, USA
  
• Aug 1997 - Nov 2001: Senior Member of Technical Staff, Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), National University of Singapore, Singapore
  
• Sept 2000 - Nov 2000: Visiting Research Engineer, Wireless Laboratories, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan
  
• 1997: Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, MD 20742 USA
  
• 1996: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  
• 1994 - 1995: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• IEEE Fellow for contribution to cognitive radio communications, 2011
  
• Highly-Cited Researcher, also known as The World’s Most Influential Scientific Mind, by Thomson Reuters (Now Clarivate Analytics), 2014 - 2018
  
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2019 – present
  
• Associate Editor-in-Chief, China Communications, 2019 – present
  
• Associate Editor-in-Chief, the World Scientific Journal on Random Matrices: Theory and Applications, 2014 - 2017
  
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society, 2013 – 2014
  
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2011 – 2015
  
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – Cognitive Radio Series, 2011 - 2014
  
• Outstanding Contribution Award, the IEEE Standards Association, for outstanding contributions to the development of IEEE Standard 802.22TM – 2011, 2011
  
• IES (Institute of Engineers Singapore) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, Singapore, in recognition of an outstanding engineering project, Cognitive Radio for IEEE Standards on Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN), 2007. *Achiever of the Year (Research Category), Institute for Infocomm Research, for the achievement in Cognitive Radio research and contributions to IEEE 802.22 standard, 2007
  
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2017
  
• IEEE Communications Society’s TAOS Best Paper Award, 2016
  
• IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award for best systems paper published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2014
  
• IEEE Communications Society APB Outstanding Paper Award, 2012
  
• Best Paper Award, 2011 IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference –Spring (IEEE VTC-Spring’11), Budapest, Hungary, May 2011.
  
• Best Paper Award, EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking, 2010
  
• Best Paper Award, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC’05), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2005
  
• Best Paper Award, 1999 IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference- Fall (IEEE VTC-Fall’99), Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept. 1999

• Overall: 3 books + 3 book chapters, 190 refereed journal papers and 260 refereed conference papers
  
• Over 25000 Google Scholar citations with H-Index 73
  
• 2 ESI Hot Papers and 18 ESI Highly Cited Papers
  
• Over 40 granted and filed patents, 20 proposals to international standards

• Editorial Activities: editor, guest editor, or editorial board member of 13 technical journals, including the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – Cognitive Radio Series
  
• Conference Organization: Organized and chaired many international conferences, including Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair/Vice Chair of IEEE Globecom 2017, IEEE DYSPAN 2018, 2010, and CROWN 2008; and Symposium Chair of IEEE ICC 2012 and IEEE Globecom 2012