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Supervision
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Biography
Lie-Liang Yang is the professor of wireless communications in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He received his M.Eng and Ph.D degrees in communications and electronics from Northern (Beijing) Jiaotong University, Beijing, China in 1991 and 1997, respectively, and his B.Eng degree in communications engineering from Shanghai Tiedao University, Shanghai, China in 1988. Additionally, he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from University of Southampton, Southampton, UK in 2005.
From June 1997 to December 1997, he was a visiting scientist to the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since December 1997, he has been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he was first a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Dec. 1997 - Aug. 2002), then a Lecturer (Sept. 2002 - Feb. 2006), then a Reader (Mar. 2006 - June 2010) and has been the Professor of Wireless Communications since June 2010.
He has research interest in a range of areas in wireless communications, wireless networks and signal processing for wireless communications, as well as molecular and nano communications. In these areas, he published 450+ research papers, which include 250+ journal papers and 200+ conference papers. He authored/co-authored four research monographs: A) Multicarrier Communications (2009), published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was also translated into Chinese and published by the Publishing House of Electronic Industry of China. B) Single- and Multi-Carrier DS-CDMA - Multiuser Detection, Space-Time Spreading, Synchronization and Standards (2003) and C) Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding (2010), both jointly published by John Wiley & Sons and IEEE Press. D) Resource Optimization in Wireless Communications: Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications (2025), published by Academic Press. Additionally, he published 10+ book chapters. For the details of my publications, please visit https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/llyang#publications.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE in the USA (2016), a Fellow of the IET (previously IEE) in the UK (2011), a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Hong Kong (2023), and a Fellow of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), Hong Kong (2024). He became a Chartered Engineer (CEng) in 2025. He received the 2025 IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Technical Recognition Award in recognition of his contributions to multicarrier communications and CDMA. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2018-2019). He received the Vice-Chancellor Teaching Award of the University of Southampton in 2006. He received the Sino-British Post-doctoral Fellowship by the British Royal Society in 1997.
He acted as general/honorary/TPC/symposium/awards/area/track/workshop chairs for various conferences and was involved in the teams of Technical Programme Committees (TPC) of many conferences. He delivered numerous tutorial lectures at conferences and universities worldwide. He served as a member of IEEE VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee (2022-23). He has been a subject editor to the IET Electronics Letters since 2022, served as an associate editor to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), Security and Communication Networks (SCN) Journal, IEEE Access, etc. He acted as a Senior Editor to the IEEE Access (2022-24). He was one of the guest editors for the special issues in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2013), IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine (2013), IEEE Communication Magazine (2014), IEEE Systems Journal (2015), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2011), China Communications.
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Prizes
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