Dr. Li Zhang is an associate professor in communications at the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds since Aug. 2004. Between Mar. 2003-Aug.2004, she was a Postdoctoral research fellow in the Communication Research Group at the University of York. and then a research engineer in ECIT, Queen’s University, Belfast. She did her PhD in Communications at the University of York from 2000 to 2003. Her current research interest is focused on wireless communications and signal processing techniques, including massive MIMO, mmWave and THz commuications, Heterogeneous Network, D2D communications, UAV networks and 5G/6G systems etc. She is an associate editor of IEEE journals and has served on the Technical Programme Committees of most major IEEE conferences in communications since 2006. She is a member of the  EPSRC Peer Review College since 2006 and regularly helps reviewing grant applications in different countries and book proposals for a number of publishersr. In 2005, she received a Nuffield award for a newly appointed lecturer. In 2011, she was awarded as IEEE exemplary reviewer and in 2012 she was promoted as senior IEEE member.
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