18th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 22)

Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo

Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo is the Vice President (Academic) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen where he has been a professor since 2014. He is the Director of Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data and also the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)-Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data-Huawei Innovation Laboratory of Future Network System Optimization. He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his undergraduate studies at Peking University, China. His research interests lie in the area of big data, signal processing and digital communication, ranging from theory to design to implementation. He has served on more than forty conference and workshop program committees and been the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications (SPCOM). He was the Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2012 to 2014 and served as the Associate Editor for many internationally recognized journals. Currently, he is the Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was elected to Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 2021. He received the 2010 Farkas Prize from the INFORMS Optimization Society. He also received three Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2004, 2009 and 2011 respectively, and a 2011 Best Paper Award from the EURASIP. In 2014, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. In 2018, he was awarded the prize of Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization.