The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Ying Cui (崔颖)
PhD, HKUST
Associate Professor
IoT Thrust, HKUST(GZ)
Affiliate Associate Professor
Dept. Electronic & Computer Engineering, HKUST
Office: E2 Building 602
Email: yingcui@hkust-gz.edu.cn
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Brief Biography
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Ying Cui received her B.Eng degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China, in 2007, and her Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China, in 2012.
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She held visiting positions at Yale University, US, in 2011 and Macquarie University, Australia, in 2012.
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From June 2012 to June 2013, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Northeastern University, US. From July 2013 to December 2014, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.
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From January 2015 to July 2022, she was an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
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Since August 2022, she has been an associate professor with the IoT Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China, and an affiliate associate professor with the ECE Department at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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She has published more than 90 papers in prestigious IEEE journals and 100 papers in leading IEEE conferences.
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She was selected to the National Young Talent Program in 2014 and the World's Top 2% Scientists for the years 2020-2024.
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She received Best Paper Awards from IEEE ICC 2015, IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2025.
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She serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, and an Executive Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. She served as an Editor for China Communications from 2017 to 2019, an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2018 to 2024, a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking in 2024, the Co-chair of the ACM ICN Poster/Demo in 2018, the Publicity Chair of ADHIP in 2019, and the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE CyberC in 2024.
Recent Updates
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[2026.06] "Fast optimal resource allocation for multi-cell MIMO-OFDM networks via HUPSCA," to appear in Proc. IEEE SPAWC, 2026.
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[2026.05] "Decomposition and successive decomposition methods and algorithms for nonconvex optimization," to appear in IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 2026.
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[2026.04] "Position and velocity estimation under imperfect timing-frequency synchronization in MIMO-OFDM communications systems," to appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., 2026.
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[2026.03] Three papers to appear in Proc. of IEEE ISIT, 2026.
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[2026.01] "SRCF-UAV: sparse radar-camera fusion for 3D UAV detection," to appear in Proc. IEEE ICRA, 2026.
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[2026.01] "DNNini-UPSCA: optimal beamforming and power control for D2D networks via DNN and UPSCA," to appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., 2026.
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[2026.01] Eight papers to appear in Proc. of IEEE ICC, 2026.
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[2026.01] "COMETS: coordinated multi-destination video transmission with in-network rate adaptation," to appear in IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2026.
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[2025.12] "Primal decomposition methods and algorithms for nonconvex problems with applications in optimal zero-forcing transmit and receive beamforming" won the Best Paper Award in Mobile and Wireless Network Symposium of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 2025.
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