Yuan Shen – Education

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology             2008 – 2014
  Ph.D., EECS
  Minor in Mathematics
  Advisor: Professor Moe Z. Win
  

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology             2005 – 2008
  Master of Science, EECS
  Advisor: Professor Moe Z. Win
  

• Tsinghua University                                              2001 – 2005
  Bachelor of Engineer, Electronic Engineering
  Advisor: Professor Xiqin Wang
  

Work Experience

• Tsinghua University
  Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering                                                        2021 - Present
  Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering                                         2014 - 2021
  Council Director, Department of Electronic Engineering                                         2022 - Present
  Vice Chair, Department of Electronic Engineering                                                          2020 - 2022
  

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems              2014
  Research Assistant, Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory          2005 - 2014

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Visiting Scholar, Department of Information Engineering                                            Summer 2010

• Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
  Visiting Scholar, Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab, HP Labs       Winter 2009

• Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA
  Engineering Intern, Corporate Research and Development                                          Summer 2008

Honors and Awards

• IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Technical Committee Early Achievement Award, 2023

• IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Technical Committee Outstanding Service Award, 2021

• IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2018

• Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award, 2015

• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2011

• Marconi Society Young Scholar Award, 2010

• Global Scholarship for Research Excellence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010

• MIT EECS Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award (first place) for Best S.M. Thesis in Electrical Engineering, 2008

• Roberto Padovani Scholarship, Qualcomm Inc., 2008

• MIT Walter A. Rosenblith Presidential Fellowship, 2005

• Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate (highest honor), 2005

• Best Paper Awards

  • IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2012

  • IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2011

  • IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Widband, 2011

  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2007