Lian Zhao
Associate Chair, Graduate Programs
Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering
Toronto, Ontario
l5zhao@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 556101
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Wireless communication expert Lian Zhao’s CV speaks for itself. Her achievements – journal and conference papers, awards, thousands of citations and multiple editorships at top-tier publications – are too many to list. And yet, when she speaks about her early beginnings as a professor, her humili...
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Bio/Research
Wireless communication expert Lian Zhao’s CV speaks for itself. Her achievements – journal and conference papers, awards, thousands of citations and multiple editorships at top-tier publications – are too many to list. And yet, when she speaks about her early beginnings as a professor, her humility all but dominates the conversation. It’s hard to imagine, but at one time, Zhao, who took a brief pause in her academic career for five years in the civil aviation industry, wondered if she measured up to her PhD peers. In fact, if it weren’t for the dot-com burst of the early 2000s, steering Zhao away from industry, along with the encouragement of her PhD supervisor, Zhao may never have applied for the Ryerson faculty position she’s held since 2003.
Now with a solid research output under her belt, Zhao’s work on radio resource management and vehicular networks is paving the way for widespread implementation of autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT). For Zhao, advancing research is most fulfilling. “Everybody talks about 5G, IoT. My research is to explore these cutting-edge technologies. That makes people very excited. It makes me excited as well.”
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Now with a solid research output under her belt, Zhao’s work on radio resource management and vehicular networks is paving the way for widespread implementation of autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT). For Zhao, advancing research is most fulfilling. “Everybody talks about 5G, IoT. My research is to explore these cutting-edge technologies. That makes people very excited. It makes me excited as well.”
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