Dr. Weidong Mei received the B.Eng. degree in communication engineering and the M.Eng. degree in communication and information systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the NUS Graduate School, National University of Singapore, in 2021 under the Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP) Scholarship. 

From 2021 to 2022, he was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Rui Zhang. He is currently a Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interests include intelligent reflecting surface, wireless drone communications, physical-layer security, and convex optimization techniques. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2017, and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2021. He was honored as the Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2019 to 2020, the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2019 and 2021, and the IEEE Communications Letters from 2021 to 2022.

I am always looking for self-motivated students who have a strong background in communications engineering, physics or math. If you are interested in joining my team, please drop me an e-mail (wmei@uestc.edu.cn) with your CV attached.

Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JtHltIoAAAAJ&hl=en

ResearchGate Page：https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Weidong-Mei

Selected Publications:

[1] W. Mei and R. Zhang, “Uplink cooperative NOMA for cellular-connected UAV,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 644–656, Jun. 2019. [Available on arXiv] (ESI Highly Cited) 

[2]  W. Mei, B. Zheng, C. You, and R. Zhang, "Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Networks: From Single-Reflection to Multi-Reflection Design and Optimization, " Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 110, no. 9, pp. 1380-1400, Sep. 2022. (Invited Paper)

[3]  W. Mei, Q. Wu, and R. Zhang, “Cellular-connected UAV: uplink association, power control and interference coordination,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 5380–5393, Nov. 2019.

[4] W. Mei and R. Zhang, “Performance analysis and user association optimization for wireless network aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 6296-6312, Sept. 2021.

[5] W. Mei and R. Zhang, “Cooperative Downlink Interference Transmission and Cancellation for Cellular-Connected UAV: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1297-1311, Feb. 2020.

[6] W. Mei and R. Zhang, “Multi-Beam Multi-Hop Routing for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Aided Massive MIMO,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1897-1912, Mar. 2022.