IEEE-style biography

Zhi Tian (M 00, SM 06, F 13) is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Previously, she was on the faculty of Michigan Technological University from 2000 to 2014. She served as a Program Director at the US National Science Foundation from 2012 to 2014. Her research interest lies in the areas of wireless communications, statistical signal processing, and machine learning. Current research focuses on distributed learning and network optimization, massive MIMO, and millimeter-wave communications for 5G and beyond. She was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for both the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. She served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. She was a Member-of-Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2019-2021). She received the IEEE Communications Society TCCN Publication Award in 2018.

 [back to home]