Prof. Yi Fang

Guangdong University of Technology

Yi Fang is currently a full professor with the Guangdong University of Technology, China, where he serves as the Vice Dean for the School of Information Engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in communication engineering, Xiamen University, China, in 2013. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Research Fellow with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, a Visiting Scholar with the University College London, UK, a Research Assistant with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong from 2012 to 2016. His research interests include channel coding, spread-spectrum modulation, and their applications to wireless communications. In these areas, he has published over 100 research papers, including more than 60 journal papers and 2 ESI highly cited papers. He also holds 10 granted patents related to channel coding and modulation. He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Frontiers in Signal Processing, and Frontiers in Communications and Networks since 2018. In addition, He served as the Publicity Co-Chair of the International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing 2018 and the General Co-Chair for the International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS) 2019 Workshop on “Error Correction Codes for Future Wireless Communication Networks”. He has been a Core Member of the Guangdong Innovative Research Team and a Hong-Kong-Scholars Recipient Since 2016. Besides, he won the Second-Class Prize of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award in 2019 (First Author), for contribution to the design of protograph LDPC codes.