Hao Zhang

Assistant Researcher & Postdoctoral Fellow @ College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
No.29, Jiangjun Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 211106

Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in June 2025. he was a visiting Ph.D. student under the supervision of Associate Professor Chau Yuen (IEEE Fellow) at the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. Prior to that, he obtained his Master of Engineering degree and Bachelor’s degree from Nanchang University in 2020 and 2017, respectively. He has long been engaged in research on electromagnetic signal intelligent processing theory and methods, and has published more than 30 papers in authoritative international communication journals or conferences such as IEEE COMST, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCOM, and IEEE TCCN (citations: GoogleCitations, H index: hindex ), including one ESI highly cited paper. He was awarded Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China Electronics Education Society (CESE) in 2025, and he was selected as a member of NUAA’s Top-notch Postgraduate Innovative Talents Training “Yinhang Project” (南京航空航天大学研究生拔尖创新人才培养”引航计划”). He has served as a reviewer for IEEE JSAC, IEEE TWC, IEEE TCOM, IEEE WCM in the field of communications, and IEEE TNNLS, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE GRSM, IEEE CIM, ACM MM and other journal conferences in the field of artificial intelligence; he has served as a TPC member of IEEE ICC, IEEE CITIC and other international conferences.

Research Interests

  • Electromagnetic signal intelligent processing aims to apply machine learning and deep learning for a multitude of tasks in wireless communications, such as signal classification, spectrum sensing and signal identification and cognitive radio.
  • Foundation models, also known as large AI model, are AI models designed to produce a wide and general variety of outputs. We are focusing on the application of foundation models in wireless communications and geoscience.

news

Jan 07, 2026 🎉🎉🎉 My homepage has been rebuilt to support both English and Chinese.
Dec 31, 2025 🎉🎉🎉 I was awarded “Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China Electronics Education Society (CESE)” for my dissertation “Intelligent Wireless Signal Recognition Method in Complex Electromagnetic Environment”.
Dec 05, 2025 🎉🎉🎉 Our paper “SpectrumFM: A Foundation Model for Intelligent Spectrum Management” is accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
Sep 16, 2025 🎉🎉🎉 Our paper “Distributed Multi-Task Learning for Joint Wireless Signal Enhancement and Recognition” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.
Aug 23, 2025 🎉🎉🎉 Our paper “Spectrum Cognition: Semantic Situation for Next-Generation Spectrum Management” is accepted by IEEE Network.

selected publications

  1. EG
    Automatic Soil Crack Recognition Under Uneven Illumination Condition With the Application of Artificial Intelligence
    Jin-Jian Xu, Hao Zhang, Chao-Sheng Tang, and 4 more authors
    Engineering Geology, 2022
  2. Geotechnique
    Automatic Soil Desiccation Crack Recognition Using Deep Learning
    Jin-Jian Xu, Hao Zhang, Chao-Sheng Tang, and 3 more authors
    Geotechnique, 2022
  3. IEEE TCCN
    A Novel Automatic Modulation Classification Scheme Based on Multi-Scale Networks
    Hao Zhang, Fuhui Zhou, Qihui Wu, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2022
  4. IEEE TCOM
    SSwsrNet: A Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning Framework for Wireless Signal Recognition
    Hao Zhang, Fuhui Zhou, Qihui Wu, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024
  5. IEEE GRSM
    When Geoscience Meets Foundation Models: Towards General Geoscience Artificial Intelligence System
    Hao Zhang, Jin-Jian Xu, Hong-Wei Cui, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 2025
  6. IEEE TIFS
    A Federated Learning-based Lightweight Network with Zero Trust for UAV Authentication
    Hao Zhang, Fuhui Zhou, Wei Wang, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025
  7. IEEE COMST
    Revolution of Wireless Signal Recognition for 6G: Recent Advances, Challenges and Future Directions
    Hao Zhang, Fuhui Zhou, Hongyang Du, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2026

Education & Working

  • 2025.06-now, postdoc, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing.
  • 2021.04-2025.06, Ph.D, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing.
  • 2024.01-2024.12, Visiting Ph.D. student, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • 2020.07-2021.03, R.A., Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing.
  • 2017.09-2020.06, M.Eng., Nanchang University, Nanchang.
  • 2013.09-2017.06, B.S., Nanchang University, Nanchang.