Professor Kezhi Wang
Professor
Summary
- Royal Society Industry Fellow
- Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Web of Science (2023, 2024, 2025)
- Top 2% Scientist of the World
- Rising Star of Science Award, Research.com (2025)
- Highly Ranked Scholar, ScholarGPS, Prior Five Years, All: #863; Engineering: #398; Computer Science: #88; UAV: #18 (2025)
- IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize
- IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award
- IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize
- Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering
- NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award
- JSPS Invitational Fellowship
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2025-2027
- Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Networks ANT
- Horizon Europe MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship S-ISAC
- Chancellor’s International Scholarship, University of Warwick
- 150+ IEEE Journals, citation 16,000+, h-index: 60 (Google Scholar)
- Committee on Drones Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
- Workshops and Symposia Officer, IEEE Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Emerging Technology Initiative
- 5+ Clarivate ESI hot papers (0.1%); 20 Clarivate ESI highly cited papers (1%), 25+ Popular papers (IEEE Explore), 4 Patents
- Nomination for Young Author Best Paper Award by MLST TC, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2023
- Nomination for Best Paper Award by SAM TC, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2024
- Publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing has been Highlighted by the IEEE Signal Processing Society
- PhD Examiner for the KCL, Glasgow, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Exeter, Aston, Surrey, Huddersfield, Essex, KTH, IIIT-Delhi, UNSW-Australia, etc
- External Examiner for Aberdeen, Derby, etc.
- Proposal Reviewer for Austria, Israel, UKRI, EPSRC, Royal Society, RGC, etc
- IEEE Senior Member, HEA Fellow, EPSRC Associate College Member, and UKRI Talent Peer Review College Member
- (Co-) supervised several PhD students to completion, most of whom are now working at prestigious Universities/Industries across the UK and the world. External supervisor for many students, e.g., @Newcastle and QMUL.
- Editor for IEEE TVT, IEEE WCL; serves/served as a Lead/Guest Editor for many journals and TPC Track Chair/Publicity Co-Chair/Session Chair for many conferences. Invited as a reviewer for many international journals and for Books from Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Springer, etc.
- Invited to talk at many universities/organizations, such as IEEE ComSoc School Series, Exeter, Tunis, SAP, etc.
All the students/research fellows in my group will have many opportunities to collaborate with our national and international partners in Europe, Canada, and Australia. The students will conduct Secondments (up to 12 Months in their study, fees will be covered) to prestigious universities including KTH, Sweden, University of Göttingen, Germany, TU/e and TU Delft, Netherlands, University of Alberta, Canada, University of Sydney, Australia and many others, via our EU Horizon Europe HarmonicAI and COVER, and Royal Society International exchange projects.