Dr Xinruo Zhang
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Email
xinruo.zhang@essex.ac.uk -
Location
5A.539, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
My Academic Support Hours are 1-2pm on Tuesday (via Zoom) and 1-2pm on Wednesday (in person). The Zoom link for this is available from my profile on my CE155 and CE163 course MOODLE pages. Please wait in the waiting room until I can admit you.
Profile
Biography
Dr. Xinruo Zhang is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), 糖心Vlog. Prior to that, she was a Research Associate with Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University. Her research interests lie in privacy-aware, energy, communication and data-efficient machine learning for wireless communications, V2X, resource management and edge intelligence.
Qualifications
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PhD Telecommunications Research King's College London,
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MSc Satellite Communications Engineering University of Surrey,
Appointments
糖心Vlog
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Lecturer, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, 糖心Vlog (2020 - present)
Other academic
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University (2018 - 2020)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Radio Resource Management
Beamforming/Precoding, Power control, Spectrum sharing, User scheduling, Edge caching & computing
Machine Learning for Communications
Privacy-aware, energy-, communication- and data-efficient machine learning, including continuous learning, few-shot learning, federated learning, reinforcement learning
Next Generation Wireless Networks
Semantic communications, Cell-free massive MIMO, IoT, V2X, Space-Air-Ground integrated network
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Network Fundamentals (CE155)
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Foundations of Electronics I (CE163)
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Network Fundamentals (CE169)
Publications
Journal articles (12)
Chen, T., Zhang, X., You, M., Zheng, G. and Lambotharan, S., (2023). . IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 13 (1), 89-92
Chen, T., Zhang, X., You, M., Zheng, G. and Lambotharan, S., (2022). . IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9 (3), 1712-1724
Wan Ariffin, WNSF., Zhang, X., Nakhai, MR., Rahim, HA. and Ahmad, RB., (2021). . Sensors. 21 (7), 2308-2308
Zhang, X., Zheng, G., Lambotharan, S., Nakhai, MR. and Wong, K-K., (2020). . IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68 (6), 3627-3639
Xia, W., Zhang, X., Zheng, G., Zhang, J., Jin, S. and Zhu, H., (2020). The Interplay Between Artificial Intelligence and Fog Radio Access Networks. IEEE China Communications. 17 (8), 1-13
You, M., Zhang, X., Zheng, G., Jiang, J. and Sun, H., (2020). . IEEE Access. 8, 88651-88663
Khan, AS., Zhang, X., Lambotharan, S., Zheng, G., AsSadhan, B. and Hanzo, L., (2020). . IEEE Network. 34 (5), 262-268
Zhang, X., Nakhai, MR., Zheng, G., Lambotharan, S. and Chambers, JA., (2019). . IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68 (4), 4064-4068
Zhang, X., Nakhai, MR., Zheng, G., Lambotharan, S. and Ottersten, B., (2019). . IEEE Transactions on Communications. 67 (11), 8124-8136
Wan Ariffin, WNSF., Zhang, X. and Nakhai, MR., (2017). . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 8 (4), 2022-2031
Zhang, X., Nakhai, MR. and Wan Ariffin, WNSF., (2017). . IEEE Communications Letters. 21 (7), 1609-1612
Zhang, X., Nakhai, MR. and Ariffin, WNSFW., (2017). . IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 24 (7), 1044-1048
Conferences (10)
Zhang, X., Zheng, G. and Lambotharan, S., (2020). Trajectory Design for UAV-Assisted Emergency Communications: A Transfer Learning Approach
Zhang, X., Nakhai, MR., Zheng, G., Lambotharan, S. and Ottersten, B., (2019). A Calibrated Learning Approach to Distributed Power Allocation in Small Cell Networks
Zhang, X., Zheng, G., Lambotharan, S., Nakhai, MR. and Wong, K-K., (2019). A Learning Approach to Edge Caching with Dynamic Content Library in Wireless Networks
Ariffin, WNSFW., Zhang, X. and Nakhai, MR., (2016). Sparse beamforming for real-time energy trading in CoMP-SWIPT networks
Ariffin, WNSFW., Zhang, X. and Nakhai, MR., (2016). Combinatorial multi-armed bandit algorithms for real-time energy trading in green C-RAN
Zhang, X. and Nakhai, MR., (2016). Robust chance-constrained distributed beamforming for multicell interference networks
Zhang, X., Nakhai, MR. and Wan Ariffin, WNSF., (2016). A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach to Distributed Robust Beamforming in Multicell Networks
Zhang, X. and Nakhai, MR., (2016). A Distributed Algorithm for Robust Transmission in Multicell Networks with Probabilistic Constraints
Ariffin, WNSFW., Zhang, X. and Nakhai, MR., (2015). Real-time power balancing in green CoMP network with wireless information and energy transfer
Ariffin, WNSFW., Zhang, X. and Nakhai, MR., (2015). Real-time energy trading with grid in green cloud-RAN
Grants and funding
2024
Optimization of Resource Allocation in Broadcast and Multicast Systems Based on Non-Binary Polar Codes
The Royal Society
Contact
Academic support hours:
My Academic Support Hours are 1-2pm on Tuesday (via Zoom) and 1-2pm on Wednesday (in person). The Zoom link for this is available from my profile on my CE155 and CE163 course MOODLE pages. Please wait in the waiting room until I can admit you.
