I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where I am working with Jerry Park on making our 5G and beyond-5G networks more flexible and secure.

Prior to this, I completed a Ph.D. at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University under the supervision of David J. Love and Chih-Chun Wang.

My research work broadly revolves around the field of wireless communications. I am generally interested in signal processing for wireless communications, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, information theory, and mobile networks. I am currently working on topics related to network slicing and the security of 5G networks.

Before my stint at Purdue, I studied electrical engineering and played Power Forward at Tennessee Tech University. Prior to that, I played both Forward positions in Nürnberg as well as in Munich, my beautiful home town.

For more information and an extended bio, see About Me.

For an exhausive list of publications, see Publications.

For a more in-depth overview of my work, see Research.

• July 14 2020: New paper published: M. Zhang, J. Song, D. J. Love, D. Ogbe, A. Ghosh and B. Peleato, "Increasing Throughput in Wireless Communications by Grouping Similar Quality Bits"
• June 01 2020: I defended my Ph.D. dissertation titled Adaptive Beamforming and Coding for Multi-node Wireless Networks and accepted a position as Postdoctoral Associate hosted by Jerry Park at Virginia Tech.
• March 10 2020: I attended the 5G Enabled Energy Innovation Workshop.
• February 11 2020: I was selected as Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters for the year 2019.
• January 21 2020: I was named a 2020 Georgia Tech FOCUS Fellow and spent an exciting two days visiting Atlanta and the Georgia Tech School of ECE.
• July 31 2019: Presented a poster on our work in the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge at the Facebook Connectivity Labs summer research workshop.
• July 12 2019: Gave a talk on our paper On the Optimal Delay Amplification Factor of Multi-hop Relay Channels at ISIT 2019.
• July 02 2019: Presented a poster on our work in delay-constrained relaying at NASIT 2019.
• April 23 2019: Received the 2019 Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Service Scholarship.
• December 14 2018: Our team secured a finalist spot in Phase 3 of Spectrum Collaboration Challenge with a with a top 5 finish out of 15 teams! (Update January 29 2019: Passed payline criterion and awarded a $375,000 prize. See here.)
• November 29 2018: Our paper Efficient Channel Estimation for Aerial Wireless Communications was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems! Preprint here.
• October 31 2018: Presented the talk Characterizing and Adapting to the Structure of Millimeter Wave Channel Covariance Matrices at Asilomar 2018. Preprint here.
• May 24 2018: I attended the 2018 North American School of Information Theory at Texas A&M University and presented a poster on our work on Transcoding.
• May 17 2018: I attended the IEEE Communications Theory Workshop 2018 in Miramar Beach, Florida and presented a poster on our work on Transcoding.
• April 20 2018: I co-instructed a workshop on the basics of using git. Intro slides on Overleaf.
• April 11 2018: I co-instructed an introductory \(\LaTeX\) workshop for graduate students at Purdue. Find the slides on Overleaf.
• April 07 2018: The website was re-designed