Yijie (Lina) Mao

Yijie (Lina) Mao received the B.Eng. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from the Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom) in 2014. She received the Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department from the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) in 2018. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) from Oct. 2018 to Jul. 2019 and a postdoctoral research associate with the Communications and Signal Processing Group (CSP), Department of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Imperial College London (London, United Kingdom) from Aug. 2019 to Jul. 2021. Since Aug. 2021, she joined ShanghaiTech University as an assistant professor. She has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of many symposia on wireless communication for several leading international IEEE conferences, and she served as a workshop co-chair for 2021 IEEE ICC, 2021 IEEE WCNC, 2020 IEEE ICC and 2020 IEEE PIMRC on the workshops of rate-splitting multiple access.

Research Interests

• Wireless Communications
• Artifical Intelligence-empowered Wireless Networks
• Optimization Theory

Companies

• Assistant Professor ShanghaiTech University (2021)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate Imperial College London (2019 — 2021)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow The University of Hong Kong (2018 — 2019)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD The University of Hong Kong (2014 — 2018)
• Exchange Imperial College London (2017 — 2017)
• Bachelor's degree Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2010 — 2014)