Biography

A/Prof. Nan Yang received the B.S. degree in Electronics from China Agricultural University, China, in 2005, the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from BIT, China, in 2011. Since July 2014, he has been with ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Lead of the Information and Signal Processing Cluster in the School of Engineering (SoEN), the leader of the multi-scale communications research team, and the head of the Emerging Communications Laboratory. He was the College's Associate Dean Higher Degree Research from 2019 to 2021. Before joining ANU, he was a visiting PhD student at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, from September 2008 to September 2010, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, from October 2010 to September 2012, and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at UNSW from October 2012 to June 2014. His general research interests include communications theory and signal processing, with specific interests in terahertz communications, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, cyber-physical security, intelligent communications, massive multiple-antenna and heterogeneous wireless communication systems, next-generation multiple access, and molecular communications.

 

A/Prof. Nan Yang is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (Class of 2023-2024) and received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2014. Moreover, he is the co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at the IEEE GlobeCOM 2022, IEEE GlobeCOM 2016 and IEEE VTC Spring 2013. Furthermore, he received the Exemplary Editor Award from the IEEE Communications Letters in 2023, the Top Editor Award from the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies in 2017, the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2019, 2018, 2016 and 2015, the Top Reviewer Award from the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2015, and the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2014, and the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE Communications Letters in 2013 and 2012.

 

A/Prof. Nan Yang is currently serving on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, and Frontiers in Communications and Networks, and was serving on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2017-2021) and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology - SWAT Team (2016-2021). He has also served as the Guest Editor of ten special issues of several international prestigious journals. He has further served as a Symposium/Track Chair for IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) and IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCOM), the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for 2017 Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), and co-organised 14 workshops at IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE GlobeCOM, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, and ACM MobiCOM.

Academic Qualifications​​​​​​​​​​​​​

• 2011         Ph.D., Beijing Institute of Technology, Electronic Engineering

• 2007         M.S., Beijing Institute of Technology, Electronic Engineering

• 2005         B.S., China Agricultural University, Electronic Information Science and Technology

​Professional Experiences​​​​​​​​​​​​

• 2021-present    Associate Professor, Australian National University

• 2017-2020        Senior Lecturer, Australian National University

• 2014-2016        Lecturer, Australian National University

• 2012-2014        ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New South Wales

• 2010-2012        OCE Postdoctoral Fellow, CSIRO ICT Centre

• 2008-2010        Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of New South Wales