Biography

Jie Xu is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Science and Engineering, the Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii-Shenzhen), and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Future Networks of Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include wireless communications, network AI, edge computing, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), wireless information and power transfer, and UAV communications. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, with more than 18500 citations in Google Scholar.

He is the Chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) and the Vice Co-chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI) on ISAC. He served or is serving as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless CommunicationsIEEE Transactions on CommunicationsIEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and Journal of Communications and Information Networks, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Wireless CommunicationsIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsIEEE Internet of Things MagazineScience China Information Sciences, and China Communications. He has served as a Co-Chair for more than 20 symposiums and workshops at international conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE/CIC ICCC. He was a recipient of the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the IEEE/CIC ICCC 2019 Best Paper Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the First Prize of the 2024 China Institute of Communications Science and Technology Award. He has been listed as the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier) since 2021. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society.


Awards and honors
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  • 01

    2025

    IEEE Fellow

  • 02

    2024

    2023 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier)

  • 03

    2024

    IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2024-2025)

  • 04

    2024

    The First Prize of the 2024 China Institute of Communications Science and Technology Award in the Natural Science Category

  • 05

    2023

    2022 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier)

  • 06

    2022

    2021 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier)

  • 07

    2021

    2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier)

  • 08

    2021

    2019 World’s Top 2% Scientists (Mendeley Data)

  • 09

    2021

    2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier)

  • 10

    2020

    Presidential Scholar (校长学者) (CUHK-SZ)

  • 11

    2019

    2019 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Outstanding Young Researcher Award

  • 12

    2019

    2019 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award

  • 13

    2019

    IEEE/CIC ICCC 2019 Best Paper Award

  • 14

    2017

    2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award

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Publications

For the complete list of my publications, please refer to https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=HPUG2jwAAAAJ.


Selected Publications:

1. G. Cheng, X. Song, Z. Lyu, and J. Xu, “Networked ISAC for low-altitude economy: Coordinated transmit beamforming and UAV trajectory design,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2025.

2. Y. Chen, Z. Ren, X. Yu, L. Liu, and J. Xu, “Exploiting moving arrays for near-field sensing,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 601-605, March 2025.

3. Z. Lyu, Y. Li, G. Zhu, J. Xu, H. V. Poor, and S. Cui, “Rethinking resource management in edge learning: A joint pre-training and fine-tuning design paradigm,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 1584-1601, Feb. 2025.

4. H. Hua, J. Xu, and Y. Eldar, “Near-field 3D localization via MIMO radar: Cramér-Rao bound analysis and estimator design,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 3879-3895, Aug. 2024.

5. G. Wu, Z. Lyu, J. Zhang, and J. Xu, “Embracing radiance field rendering in 6G: Over-the-air training and inference with 3D contents,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 4275-4292, 2024.

6. Z. Ren, L. Qiu, J. Xu, and D. W. K. Ng, “Sensing-assisted sparse channel recovery for massive antenna systems,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 17824-17829, Nov. 2024.

7. Z. Ren, J. Xu, L. Qiu, and D. W. K. Ng, “Secure cell-free integrated sensing and communication in the presence of information and sensing eavesdroppers,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2024.

8. X. Song, X. Qin, J. Xu, and R. Zhang, “Cramér-Rao bound minimization for IRS-enabled multiuser integrated sensing and communications,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 9714-9729, Aug. 2024.

9. Y. Zeng, J. Chen, J. Xu, D. Wu, X. Xu, S. Jin, X. Gao, D. Gesbert, S. Cui, and R. Zhang, “A tutorial on environment-aware communications via channel knowledge map for 6G,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1478-1519, Third Quarter 2024.

10. Z. Ren, Y. Peng, X. Song, Y. Fang, L. Qiu, L. Liu, D. W. K. Ng, and J. Xu, “Fundamental CRB-rate tradeoff in multi-antenna ISAC systems with information multicasting and multi-target sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 3870-3885, April 2024.

11. H. Hua, T. X. Han, and J. Xu, “MIMO integrated sensing and communication: CRB-rate tradeoff,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 2839-2854, April 2024. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

12. Z. Lyu, G. Zhu, J. Xu, B. Ai, and S. Cui, “Semantic communications for image recovery and classification via deep joint source and channel coding,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 8388-8404, Aug. 2024.

13. Y. Chen, H. Hua, J. Xu, and D. W. K. Ng, “ISAC meets SWIPT: Multi-functional wireless systems integrating sensing, communication, and powering,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 8264-8280, Aug. 2024.

14. G. Cheng, Y. Fang, J. Xu, and D. W. K. Ng, “Optimal coordinated transmit beamforming for networked integrated sensing and communications,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 8200-8214, Aug. 2024.

15. X. Song, J. Xu, F. Liu, T. X. Han, and Y. C. Eldar, “Intelligent reflecting surface enabled sensing: Cramér-Rao bound optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 2011-2026, May 2023.

16. H. Hua, J. Xu, and T. X. Han, “Optimal transmit beamforming for integrated sensing and communication,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 8, pp. 10588-10603, Aug. 2023. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

17. G. Zhu, Z. Lyu, X. Jiao, P. Liu, M. Chen, J. Xu, S. Cui, and P. Zhang, “Pushing AI to wireless network edge: An overview on integrated sensing, communication, and computation towards 6G,” SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, vol. 66, pp. 130301:1-130301:19, Mar. 2023. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

18. Z. Lyu, G. Zhu, and J. Xu, “Joint maneuver and beamforming design for UAV-enabled integrated sensing and communication,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 2424-2440, April 2023. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

19. F. Liu, Y. Cui, C. Masouros, J. Xu, T. X. Han, Y. C. Eldar, and S. Buzzi, “Integrated sensing and communications: Towards dual-functional wireless networks for 6G and beyond,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1728-1767, Jun. 2022. [ESI Highly Cited Paper, ESI Hot Paper]

20. X. Cao, G. Zhu, J. Xu, Z. Wang, and S. Cui, “Optimized power control design for over-the-air federated edge learning,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 342-358, Jan. 2022.

21. Q. Wu, J. Xu, Y. Zeng, D. W. K. Ng, N. AI-Dhahir, R. Schober, and A. L. Swindlehurst, “A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 2912-2945, Oct. 2021. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

22. H. Xie, J. Xu, and Y.-F. Liu, “Max-min fairness in IRS-aided multi-cell MISO systems with joint transmit and reflective beamforming,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1379-1393, Feb. 2021. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

23. X. Cao, G. Zhu, J. Xu, and K. Huang, “Optimized power control for over-the-air computation in fading channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 7498-7513, Nov. 2020.

24. L. Xie, J. Xu, and R. Zhang, “Throughput maximization for UAV-enabled wireless powered communication networks”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1690-1703, Apr. 2019. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]

25. Y. Zeng, J. Xu, and R. Zhang, “Energy minimization for wireless communication with rotary-wing UAV”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2329-2345, Apr. 2019. [ESI Highly Cited Paper, ESI Hot Paper]

26. J. Xu, Y. Zeng, and R. Zhang, “UAV-enabled wireless power transfer: Trajectory design and energy optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 5092-5106, Aug. 2018. [ESI Highly Cited Paper, ESI Hot Paper]

27. F. Wang, J. Xu, X. Wang, and S. Cui, “Joint offloading and computing optimization in wireless powered mobile-edge computing systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1784-1797, Mar. 2018. [ESI Highly Cited Paper, ESI Hot Paper]