Lizhong Zheng

Lizhong Zheng is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.12 He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in China in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002.1

Zheng's research focuses on information theory, wireless communications, statistical inference, data processing, and network science.12 He has been working at MIT since 2002, where he is currently a full professor.14

Throughout his career, Zheng has received several awards, including:

• Eli Jury award from UC Berkeley (2002)
• IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award (2003)
• NSF CAREER award (2004)
• AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2007)1

He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and is actively involved in various activities within the IEEE Information Theory Society.1

Zheng's work has been highly influential in the field, with his paper on diversity and multiplexing in multiple-antenna channels being cited over 5,500 times.3 His research contributions span areas such as wireless channel allocation, cooperative routing in wireless networks, and fundamental limits of communication with low probability of detection.3