Title
AI-Native Wireless Systems: Bridging Data-Driven Intelligence and Physical Models
Abstract
This talk explores the convergence of artificial intelligence and wireless system design. We show how AI-driven statistical approaches can be seamlessly incorporated into traditional wireless system architectures, bridging the gap between data-driven approaches and conventional communication theory. We take two applications as examples: First, we demonstrate how the statistical characterization of feature distributions can be integrated into MIMO transceiver design in task-oriented communications, ensuring high inference accuracy in hostile communication environments. Second, we discuss how score-based generative models (i.e., diffusion models) can be leveraged to solve inverse problems arising from communication systems. When combined with message passing algorithms, we show that distributional information estimated by score-based networks can significantly enhance iterative decoding and estimation performance.
Biographies
Angela Yingjun Zhang is currently a Professor at Department of Information Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Her current research interests focus on optimization and learning in 5G and 6G wireless communication systems.
She has served as a Member-at-Large of IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, the Chair of the Steering Committee of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and a member of the Steering Committees of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE SmartgridComm Conference. Previously, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, a member of the IEEE ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, the Chair of the Executive Editor Committee of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and many years on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and Willey Security and Communications Networks Journal. She has been on the Organizing Committees of many top conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, SmartGridComm, ICCC, etc. She was the Founding Chair of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee of Smart Grid Communications, a Co-Chair of IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, Interest Group of Wireless Technology for Multimedia Communications, and the Founding Chair of IEEE ComSoc Graduate Of the Last Decade (GOLD) Committee. She served as an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer in 2018-2021.
She is a co-recipient of 2021 and 2014 IEEE Comsoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards, 2013 IEEE SmartGridComm Best Paper Award, 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications, and a recipient of 2011 Young Researcher Award of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As the only winner from Engineering Science, she won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006, conferred by the Hong Kong Institution of Science.
