Academic Service

Mentorship and Research Supervision

Research Supervisor, UNSW Sydney

• Xinyi Gu (PhD) – Coding Theory (May 2023–present)
• Hamish Shaw (PhD) – Digital Signal Processing (Jul 2022–present)
• Xinyi Gu (MPhil) – VLSI Design & Coding Theory (Jan 2022–Apr 2023)

Honours / Master’s Thesis Supervisor, UNSW Sydney (Aug 2023–present)

• Project status: 12 completed.
• Achievements: Penelope Jurd won 3rd place in the UNSW poster competition.
• Directions:
  • Algorithm and Hardware Architecture (VLSI) Design: 9 students
  • Signal Processing for Communications: 2 students
  • Machine Learning in Channel Coding: 1 student

Summer Project (Taste of Research) Supervisor, UNSW Sydney (2024–present)

• Project status: 1 completed + 1 ongoing.
• Direction: Homomorphic Encryption in Federated Learning

Leadership, Governance & Academic Service

• Member, Education Committee (EC), Faculty of Engineering, UNSW (2024–2025)
  Contributions: Reviewing course outline proposals; discussing and making decisions on new courses, programs, assessment styles, calendar models, etc., through participation in 2.5-hour monthly meetings and associated preparatory work.

• Member, Research Progress Review Panel, UNSW (2023–present)
  Contributions: Evaluating the conducted research and overall progress of MPhil/PhD students through Q&A sessions at annual seminars and based on provided reports, and offering suggestions for improvement.

• Examiner, Honours & Master’s Theses, UNSW (2023–present)
  Contributions: Assessing seminars, initial reports, posters, and final reports.

• Representative of PhD Students, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University (2020–2021)

• Class Representative, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham (2014–2015)

Service to the Profession

Member of Technical Program Committees (TPC)

• International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Guangzhou, China – 2026
• Channel Coding Beyond 5G Workshop in GLOBECOM, Taipei, Taiwan – 2025
• International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ann Arbor, USA – 2025
• Channel Coding Beyond 5G Workshop in GLOBECOM, Cape Town, South Africa – 2024
• Wireless Communications Symposium in GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 2023
• Channel Coding Beyond 5G Workshop in GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 2023
• Channel Coding Beyond 5G Workshop in GLOBECOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 2022
• Channel Coding Beyond 5G Workshop in GLOBECOM, Madrid, Spain – 2021

Session Chair in Conferences

• Session “Coding Theory 1”, Communications Theory Symposium, GLOBECOM 2023 – 2023

Journals:
IEEE Transactions on Communications (2019–),
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2021–),
IEEE Communications Letters (2019–),
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2020–),
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2019–),
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2019–),
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (2020–),
IEEE Transactions on Selected Areas in Information Theory (2023–),
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2023–),
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2020–),
IET Communications (2018–),
IET Electronics Letters (2020–),
IEEE Access (2021–),
Entropy (2022–).

Conferences:
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025),
IEEE GLOBECOM (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025),
International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC) (2021, 2023, 2025),
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) (2022s, 2023s),
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (2023),
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) (2019, 2022),
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (2017, 2019, 2021),
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (2018).

List of peer reviews (verified):
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAD-1014-2020