Brief Bio

Zhiguo Ding received his B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2000, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2005. He is currently a Professor in Communications at the University of Manchester, a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Khalifa University, and an Academic Visitor at Princeton University. Previously, he had worked at Queen's University Belfast, Imperial College, Newcastle University, and Lancaster University.
Dr Ding' research interests are 6G networks, communications and signal processing. His h-index is over 100 and his work receives 60,000+ Google citations. He is serving as an Area Editor for the IEEE TWC and TCOM, an Editor for IEEE TVT, and OJ-SP, and was an Area Editor for IEEE OJCOMS, an Editor for IEEE TCOM, TWC, COMST, WCL, CL and WCMC. He received the best paper award of IET ICWMC-2009 and IEEE WCSP-2014, the EU Marie Curie Fellowship 2012-2014, the Top IEEE TVT Editor 2017, IEEE Heinrich Hertz Award 2018, IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award 2018, IEEE Best Signal Processing Letter Award 2018, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award 2020, IEEE SPCC Technical Recognition Award 2021, IEEE VTS Best Magazine Paper Award 2023, and the Best Paper Award in IEEE GLOBCOM 2024. He is a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in two disciplines (2019-2024), an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

News

Our recent research works are listed as follows:

- Much of our recent efforts have been focused on pinching antennas. A webpage dedicated to this new direction can be found at this link.

-Since IEEE GC 2024, we have provided some tutorials/talks about pinching antennas, and a short presentation about pinching antennas is provided here
( the link for the slides )

- Pinching-Antenna Assisted ISAC: A CRLB Perspective
( the link for the paper , codes at Github)

- LoS Blockage in Pinching-Antenna Systems: Curse or Blessing?
( the link for the paper , codes at Github).

- Flexible-Antenna Systems: A Pinching-Antenna Perspective
( the link for the original paper , codes at Github, the revised paper includes 5 new simulation figures about hardware impairments ).

To Prospective Students:

I am always looking for self-motivated students who want to pursue a PhD degree in the general area of wireless communications. Please drop me an email with your CV.