Dongfang XU received the Ph.D. degree (with distinction) in electrical engineering from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany in Dec. 2022. Previously, he received the M.Sc. degree (with distinction) in communications and multimedia engineering from FAU in Sept. 2017 and the B.Eng. degree in communication engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China in Jul. 2014, respectively. His research interests fall into Wireless Communication Theory, Emerging Communication Techniques, Advanced Optimization Theory, and Machine Learning Theory.
Dongfang received several awards for his work including the IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2023, the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in 2022, the FAU Digital Communications Lab Best Publication Award in 2021, and the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Best Paper Award in 2019. He was recognized as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for citation impact for two consecutive years (2021-2022), an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Communications for three consecutive years (2020-2022), and an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Communications Letters in 2023. Currently, he serves as an Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters.
Machine Learning theory
Emerging communication techniques
Internet of Things