Qing Zhao

                    Professor
                    Chancellor's Fellow


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

                       Phone: (530) 752-7390
                       FAX: (530) 752-8428
                       Email: qzhao@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 a Professor. She is also a Professor with the Graduate Group of Applied Mathematics at UC Davis.

    Qing Zhao is a Fellow of IEEE. She received the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award and the 2000 Young Author Best Paper Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society. She holds the title of UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow and received the 2008 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the UC Davis College of Engineering. She is also a co-author of two papers that received student paper awards at IEEE ICASSP 2006 and IEEE Asilomar Conference 2006.

    Research Interests

    • Stochastic optimization and decision theory in dynamic systems.
    • Statistical signal processing, algorithmic theory, and computational techniques.
    • Infrastructure networks, communication systems, and social economic networks.

    Current Research Projects

    • Feedback and Learning in Cognitive Radio Systems  (PI, NSF).
    • Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS-CTA)  (ARL Consortium).
    • Stochastic Online Learning in Dynamic Networks under Unknown Models  (PI, ARO).
    • Science of Cyber Security  (ARL Consortium).

    Selected Past Research Projects

    • A Decision-Theoretical Approach to Resource-Constrained Cyberinfrastructure  (PI, NSF).
    • An Integrated Approach to Opportunistic Spectrum Access  (PI, NSF).
    • 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 ICC'10, 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

    • EEC150A Signals and Systems, Winter 2012.
    • EEC160 Signal Analysis and Communications, Fall 2012.
    • EEC256 Stochastic Optimization in Dynamic Systems, Spring 2012.
    • EEC265 Principles of Digital Communications, Winter 2011.
    • EEC266 Information Theory, Spring 2011.

    Selected Professional Activities

    • Plenary speaker at IEEE SPAWC 2010: Multi-Armed Bandits: History, Theory, and Applications ( slides ).
    • 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, 2006-2011.
    • TPC Co-Chair of 2011 IEEE GLOBECOM Cognitive Radio Networks Symposium.

    Guiding Principles for Research and Teaching

    "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

    "If a topic cannot be explained in a freshman lecture, it is not yet fully understood." --- Richard Feynman