Qing Zhao
                    Associate Professor


                       3165 Kemper Hall
                       Electrical and Computer Engineering
                       University of California
                       Davis, CA 95616

                       Phone: (530) 752-7390
                       FAX: (530) 752-8428
                       Email: qzhao@ece.ucdavis.edu

     


    Biography  

    Qing Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In August 2004, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis where she is currently an Associate Professor. Prior to that, she was a communications system engineer with Aware, Inc., Bedford, MA.

    She received the 2000 Young Author Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society and the 2008 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the UC Davis College of Engineering. She is a guest professor with Shanghai Jiaotong University.

    Research Interests

    • Stochastic optimization and decision theory in dynamic systems.
    • Cognitive radio systems and wireless networks.
    • Algorithmic theory, computational techniques, and architectures for signal processing.

    Current Research Projects

    • Feedback and Learning in Cognitive Radio Systems  (PI, NSF).
    • A Decision-Theoretical Approach to Resource-Constrained Cyberinfrastructure  (PI, NSF).
    • An Integrated Approach to Opportunistic Spectrum Access  (PI, NSF).
    • Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS-CTA)  (ARL Consortium).
    • Networking Cognitive Radios for Tactical Communications  (PI, ARO).
    • Stochastic Control in Ad Hoc Cognitive Radio Networks  (PI, ARL).

    Past Research Projects

    • Communications and Networking Collaborative Technology Alliance (C&N-CTA)  (ARL Consortium).
    • MIMO for Energy-Aware Distributed Mobile Wireless Systems  (Academic PI, SBIR with Mayflower Communications Company, Inc.).

    Research Group

               Signal Processing and Adaptive Networking

    Publications

    • Journal Publications
    • Book and Book Chapters
    • Conference Publications
    • Technical Reports

    Tutorial Slides and Source Code

    • Tutorial on Networking Cognitive Radios for Dynamic Spectrum Access (presented at ICASSP'08, DySPAN'08, MILCOM'08   slides (pdf) )
    • Simulation Source Code for JSAC Paper on A POMDP Framework for Opportunistic Spectrum Access ( download )
    • Slides of Selected Talks

    Teaching

    • EEC1 Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Spring 2007.
    • EEC165 Statistical and Digital Communications, Winter 2009.
    • EEC262 Multiaccess Communication Theory, Spring 2008.
    • EEC265 Principles of Digital Communications, Fall 2008.

    Outreach Activities

    Angela Yeung, a junior student at Davis Senior High School and a member of our group since June 2008, won the first place at the 2009 Sacramento Regional Science and Engineering Fair for her project Sharing Spectrum the Smart Way (supervised by Professor Qing Zhao). Angela also received several special awards including Professional Engineers in California Government, Ramesh Innovation Award, and US Air Force Award. She then advanced to the 2009 California State Science Fair and won the first place in the Mathematics and Software category.

    Selected Professional Activities

    • Plenary speaker at IEEE SPAWC 2010.
    • Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2006-2009.
    • Elected member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing for Communications (SP-COM) Technical Committee, 2006-present.
    • Guest editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on Resource-Constrained Signal Processing, Communications, and Networking
    • Guest editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing Special Issue on Signal Processing and Networking for Dynamic Spectrum Access
    • Tutorial speaker for Networking Cognitive Radios for Dynamic Spectrum Access at ICASSP 2008, DySPAN 2008 , and MILCOM 2008   ( slides (pdf) )
    • Program Chair of ACM 2009 MobiCom Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks (CoRoNet)
    • Overview talk speaker for Thematic Symposium on Signal Processing for 4G Wireless at ICASSP 2009

    Quote

    "The theory must be natural and incisive enough that it generates recognizable concepts; a theory which ends in an opaque jumble of formulae has served no purpose." --- Peter Whittle