Professor Kezhi Wang
Professor

Summary

• Royal Society Industry Fellow
• Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science (2023, 2024)
• IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2022)
• IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award (2023), 
• IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2024)
• Top 2% Scientist of the World (Elsevier, single-year data sets, 2022-2024)
• Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, The Royal Academy of Engineering (PI, Fellow: Prof Xu)
• EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks ANT (Principal Supervisor)
• EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship S-ISAC (PI, Fellow: Dr Zhou)
• Chancellor’s International Scholarship, University of Warwick, 2011-2014
• JSPS Invitational Fellowship (Short-term)
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2025-2027  
• 140 IEEE Journals, citation 13,000+, h-index: 55 (Google Scholar)
• 5+ Clarivate ESI hot papers (0.1%); 18+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 (2022)
• PhD examiner for the University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield, University of Aberdeen, University of Exeter, Aston University, University of Essex, Edge Hill University, KTH Sweden, IIIT-Delhi, University of New South, Australia, etc
• Proposal Reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund, Israel Science Foundation, UKRI, EPSRC, Royal Society, Hong Kong, etc
• IEEE Senior Member, HEA Fellow, EPSRC Associate College Member, and UKRI Talent Peer Review College Member 
• Committee on Drones Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 
• Workshops and Symposia Officers, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Emerging Technology Initiative
• (Co-) supervised several PhD students to completion and most of them are now working at prestigious Universities/Industries across the UK and the world. External supervisor for many students, e.g., @Newcastle University and QMUL, UK.
• Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Access; serves/served as a Lead/Guest Editor for several international journals and TPC Track Chair/Publicity Co-Chair/Session Chair/TPC member for many conferences. Invited as a reviewer for many international journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions and a reviewer for Books from Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Springer, etc.
• Invited to talk at 20+ universities and organizations, such as IEEE ComSoc School Series UK and Ireland, University of Exeter, and SAP.

All the students/research fellows in my group will have a lot of 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 projects.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with me or joining my group, e.g., as an EU MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow or Newton International Fellow, please do not hesitate to email me your CV.