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Contact

• Zhiyuan Yu
• Southeast University
• Email: 1550287211yzy@gmail.com
• Google Scholar

Education

• Southeast University, M.S. in Information Science and Technology, Sep. 2023 - Jun. 2026
  • Master advisors: Hong Ren and Cunhua Pan.
  • Research interests: ISAC, RIS, and MIMO signal detection.
  • IELTS: 7.5 (L: 8.5, R: 9, W: 7, S: 6).
  • GRE: 321 (V: 151, Q: 170, W: 3.5).
• Southeast University, B.S. in Information Science and Technology, Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2023
  • GPA: 3.83/4.0.
  • Exempted from taking the entrance examination for graduate studies.

Core Courses

• Mathematical Foundations
  • Mathematical Analysis (96/100); Optimization Methods (96/100); Detection and Estimation Theory (99/100); Random Process and Probability Theory (92/100).
• Wireless Communication
  • Wideband Wireless Communication (96/100); Mobile Wireless Communication (96/100); Signal Detection in Massive MIMO (99/100); Machine Learning in Wireless Communication (98/100).

Selected Publications

• Active RIS aided ISAC systems
  • Z. Yu, H. Ren, C. Pan, G. Zhou, B. Wang, M. Dong, and J. Wang, “Active RIS-aided ISAC systems: Beamforming design and performance analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 1578-1595, Mar. 2024.
  • This paper has been listed as an ESI Hot Paper, a Top 5 popular paper in IEEE TCOM since Mar. 2024, and a Top 1 popular paper in IEEE TCOM since Mar. 2025.
  • In this work, an active RIS is employed to mitigate the four-hop multiplicative fading effect in the sensing link of ISAC systems. The sensing SNR becomes a quartic function of RIS reflection coefficients, and the scaling order of radar SNR and active RIS deployment strategy are studied.
  • Simulation Code
• Uplink ISAC receiver designs
  • Z. Yu, H. Ren, C. Pan, G. Zhou, R. Wang, M. Liu, and J. Wang, “Addressing the mutual interference in uplink ISAC receivers: A projection method,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 3109-3113, Nov. 2024.
  • Z. Yu, H. Ren, C. Pan, G. Zhou, and J. Wang, “Enhanced Projection-Type Receivers in Uplink ISAC Systems,” ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, QC, Canada. IEEE SPCC Best Paper Award.
  • Z. Yu, H. Ren, C. Pan, and J. Wang, “A Low-Complexity Receiver Design for Uplink ISAC,” accepted by ICC 2026, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
  • Z. Yu, H. Ren, C. Pan, G. Zhou, D. Wang, and J. Wang, “A Framework for Uplink ISAC Receiver Designs: Performance Analysis and Algorithm Development,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2026.
  • Simulation Code
  • Uplink ISAC receivers are tasked with both uplink communication signal detection and target parameter estimation from radar echoes. These works transform the joint signal detection and target estimation problem into a two-step projection-based problem and use homotopy-based optimization for smoother approximation.

Project Participation and Working Experience

• Simulation platform for cooperative ISAC, cooperation with China Mobile, Feb. 2024 - Dec. 2024
  • Responsible for interference analysis and management between multiple BSs.
  • Assisted in designing a practical algorithm for target parameter estimation with multi-BS cooperation.
• Receiver algorithm design for ISAC systems, cooperation with Huawei, Nov. 2024 - Present
  • Project leader responsible for receiver designs of uplink ISAC systems.
• AI-empowered super-resolution DoA estimation, Huawei Shanghai internship, Jun. 2025 - Aug. 2025
  • Responsible for providing AI-based solutions for extended target sensing scenarios.

Awards and Achievements

• President’s Scholarship at Southeast University, 2024. Only ten master’s students out of over 20,000 receive this honor.
• National Scholarship, 2024.
• Southeast University First Class Academic Scholarship, 2024.
• Xiaomi Scholarship, 2025.
• Huawei Scholarship, 2023.

Professional Service

• Reviewer for IEEE journals including IEEE TWC, TCOM, TMC, TCCN, JSTSP, and TVT.
• Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE conferences including ICC 2025/2026, WCNC 2024/2025/2026, and PIMRC 2024/2025.

Selected Competition Awards

• Second Prize at the National Level in the National Graduate Mathematical Modeling Competition, 2023.
• Second Prize at the Provincial Level in the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, 2022.
• Third Prize in the National College Student Mathematics Competition, 2021.
• First Prize in the Jiangsu Provincial College Student Mathematics Competition, 2020.