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Lian Zhao

Professor, P.ENG (Ontario)

Fellow, IEEE

Fellow, AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association)

Fellow, AIIA (International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance)

Ph.D., University of Waterloo

 

Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering
Toronto Metropolitan University
, Toronto, Canada
Email: l5zhao@torontomu.ca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honors/Awards/Recognition/Professional Services

  • General Chair, IEEE CCECE-2027
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair, IEEE VTC-2025 Fall
  • Elected Board of Governor (BoG) member for IEEE VTS, 2023-2025, 2026-2028
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Lecturer, 2022-2026
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Speaker, 2026-2029
  • IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer, 2020-2021
  • Associate Editor-in-Chief, China Communications, 2023-
  • Senior Editor, IEEE Wireless Communication Letter, 2024-
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2019-2025
  • Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019-2024
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2013-2021
  • Founding Chair, Toronto VTS Chapter, 2018-2025
  • Vice-Chair, IEEE Toronto Section, 2024-2025
  • Chair, IEEE Toronto Section, 2026-2027

 

  • 2024 Grade of IEEE Fellow
  • 2024 Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
  • 2024 Listed in "N2Women: Stars in Networking and Communications", IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc)
  • 2021 Outstanding New Leader Award, IEEE Toronto Section
  • 2016 Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
  • 2015 TOP 15 Editor for outstanding contributions to IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology
  • Panel expert, NSERC Discovery Program, Evaluation Group for ELCE, 2015-2018
  • Expert Selection Committee, NSERC RTI program, 2020-2023
  • Best Paper Award, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP2013)
  • Best Paper Award, Chinacom, 2011
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) New Opportunity Award, 2004

 

Research Interests

  • Wireless communications, edge computing, caching and communications;
  • Centralized and distributed resource management; Incentive mechanism design, optimizations;
  • Internet-of-Vehicle (IoV) networks, Internet-of-Things (IoV) networks;
  • Green communication and computation;