Biography

Kangda Zhi received the B.Eng degree from the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2017, the M.Eng degree from School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2020, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, U.K., in 2023. He is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests include next-generation MIMO systems, reconfigurable intelligent surface, and near-field communications. He is an Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS and the Guest Editor for IEEE Network and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He received the IEEE ComSoc Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter in 2025 and was a recipient of the 2024 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the European Commission. He received the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS in 2021 and 2022 and the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS in 2023.