Lizhong Zheng

Lizhong Zheng serves as Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he has made fundamental contributions to information theory and wireless communications since 2002. After earning his BS and MS degrees from Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering and PhD from UC Berkeley, he has established himself as a leading researcher in network science and statistical inference. His groundbreaking work has earned numerous prestigious honors, including the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award (2003), NSF CAREER Award (2004), and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2007). His research spans multiple areas including space-time codes, network information theory, and wireless networks, with his most cited work addressing fundamental tradeoffs in multiple-antenna channels. As an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and active member of the IEEE Information Theory Society, he continues to shape the field while advancing our understanding of wireless communication systems and network science