Chenghong Bian

Biography

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ECE department at HKUST, supervised by Professor Jun Zhang. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London in Jan. 2026, supervised by Professor Deniz Gunduz, my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2022, supervised by Professor Hun-seok Kim, and my B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2020, with Professor Feifei Gao as my undergraduate thesis supervisor.

Research Interests

  • Fundamentals of wireless communications. MIMO-OFDM, channel coding and modulation, semantic communications, and integrated sensing and communications.

  • Machine learning for communications. data compression, image, video, and point cloud processing, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and 3D radio maps.

Selected Awards

  • [2026] Imperial College London Eryl Cadwallader Davies Prize (Outstanding Doctoral Thesis), 3/50.

  • [2025] Imperial College London Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award (Most promising doctoral work), 1/50.

  • [2023] Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 16/2778.

  • [2019] Tsinghua University Scholarship for Academic Excellence.

  • [2018] Tsinghua University Scholarship for Academic Excellence.