Dr. Liang Zhang [S'15, M'20] (lz284 AT outlook.edu) received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT, Top 100 National Universities in US),
Newark, NJ, USA, in 2020, and his M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and Information Science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, 87th World University Rankings), Hefei,
China, in 2014. He has been working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for three years with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
He is now an affiliate faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University.
Dr. Liang Zhang was a recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award at NJIT in 2023, the Hashimoto Prize at NJIT for the best doctoral dissertation in 2020, the Travel Grant Award of
IEEE GLOBECOM in 2016, the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICNC in 2014, and the award of the National Scholarship of Graduate Students in China in 2013. He has published 32 premium journals and
conferences (18 refereed journal articles and 14 conference papers) so far, and he has received more than 1700 citations according to
Google Scholar. He is the reviewer for many important IEEE Transaction Journals and has reviewed more than 200 journal
articles. His research interests include machine learning and Internet of Things, mobile edge computing and airborne networks, wirelesscommunications and UAV communications, wireless virtual
reality, caching, and energy optimization.
Conducting research on building the BRIDGES testbed (supported by the 2M NSF Grant) and designing deep reinforcement learning algorithms to solve the problems in wireless networks
Reporting the results in IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC and IEEE IoT Journal; Creating websites for BRIDGES, and Communications and Networks Laboratory (CNL)
Conducting research on designing machine learning (i.e., deep reinforcement learning) algorithms for the UAV placement, computing and communication resources assignment
in the UAV-aided mobile edge computing network.
Education
Ph.D. 09/2014 ~ 05/2020 , Electircal and Computer Engineering (ECE), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT, top 100 national university in US), Newark, 07102, USA.
