Theses
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Hao Zhang. Fast and Efficient Networks for Small Object Detection [D]. Nanchang University, 2020. HTML
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Hao Zhang. Intelligent Wireless Signal Recognition Method in Complex Electromagnetic Environment [D]. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2025.
2025 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of the China Education Society of Electronics (CESE)
Preprints
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Hao Zhang, Chunyu Liu, Fuhui Zhou, and Qihui Wu. “Spectrum Foundation Model: A New Paradigm Towards General Spectrum Cognition and Decision,” submitted to IEEE (under review).
Journal Papers
- “Cognitive Escape Reinforcement Learning for Complex Decision Making.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , pp. 1-13 , 2025.
- “Breathing Phenomenon of Soil Desiccation Cracking: Insights From Novel Geophysical Observations.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface , vol. 129 , no. 1 , pp. e2023JF007318 , 2024.
- “A multiscale CNN framework for wireless technique classification in Internet of Things.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal , vol. 9 , no. 12 , pp. 10366-10367 , 2021.
- “Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Blockchain in Food Safety.” International Journal of Food Engineering , vol. 18 , no. 1 , pp. 1–14 , 2021.
- “Drying induces Mars intermediate-sized cracks: New evidence and insight from geometrical quantification.” Icarus , pp. 117026 , 2026. Cover Story and Co-first author
- “XGeoS-AI: an interpretable learning framework for deciphering geoscience image segmentation.” Environmental Earth Sciences , vol. 84 , no. 3 , pp. 97 , 2025.
- “Soil desiccation crack recognition: New paradigm and field application.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation , vol. 1 , no. 3 , pp. e2024JH000347 , 2024.
- “Automatic Soil Crack Recognition Under Uneven Illumination Condition With the Application of Artificial Intelligence.” Engineering Geology , vol. 296 , pp. 106495 , 2022.
- “Automatic Soil Desiccation Crack Recognition Using Deep Learning.” Geotechnique , vol. 72 , no. 4 , pp. 337-349 , 2022. ESI Highly Cited Paper & 75th Géotechnique Anniversary Early Career Award (insightful paper on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in geotechnics published in the decade 2013-2023), Reported by Nanchang University Library in WeChat Official Account (2023-03-06)
- “Detecting Small Objects in Thermal Images Using Single-Shot Detector.” Automatic Control and Computer Sciences , vol. 55 , no. 2 , pp. 202–211 , 2021.
- “Recent Progresses on Object Detection: A Brief Review.” Multimedia Tools and Applications , vol. 78 , pp. 27809-27847 , 2019.
- “Automatic Modulation Classification Using Involution Enabled Residual Networks.” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters , vol. 10 , no. 11 , pp. 2417-2420 , 2021.
- “A Novel Automatic Modulation Classification Scheme Based on Multi-Scale Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking , vol. 8 , no. 1 , pp. 97-110 , 2022.
- “SSwsrNet: A Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning Framework for Wireless Signal Recognition.” IEEE Transactions on Communications , vol. 72 , no. 9 , pp. 5823-5836 , 2024.
- “When Geoscience Meets Foundation Models: Towards General Geoscience Artificial Intelligence System.” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine , vol. 13 , no. 4 , pp. 79-118 , 2025.
- “FSOS-AMC: Few-Shot Open-Set Learning for Automatic Modulation Classification Over Multipath Fading Channels.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal , vol. 12 , no. 12 , pp. 18718-18731 , 2025.
- “Spectrum Cognition: Semantic Situation for Next-Generation Spectrum Management.” IEEE Network , vol. 40 , no. 4 , pp. 190-198 , 2026.
- “Distributed Multi-Task Learning for Joint Wireless Signal Enhancement and Recognition.” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking , vol. 12 , pp. 1554-1568 , 2026.
- “SpectrumFM: A Foundation Model for Intelligent Spectrum Management.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , vol. 44 , pp. 4471-4488 , 2026.
- “A Federated Learning-based Lightweight Network with Zero Trust for UAV Authentication.” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , vol. 20 , pp. 7424-7437 , 2025.
- “Revolution of Wireless Signal Recognition for 6G: Recent Advances, Challenges and Future Directions.” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials , vol. 28 , pp. 3521-3563 , 2026. ESI Highly Cited Paper
Conference Proceedings
- “Underfitting Autoencoder-Based Unsupervised Framework for Real-Time Channel Quality Assessment in HF-OFDM Systems.” In 2026 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) , 2026.
- “From Survey to Design: Knowledge-Enhanced Multimodal Spectrum Foundation Model for Intelligent Spectrum Management.” In 2025 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (Ucom) , pp. 231-236 , 2025.
- “YOLOv10-P2: A Robust Detection Scheme for UAV Signals in RF Spectrograms.” In 2025 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (Ucom) , pp. 249-253 , 2025.
- “Small Objects Recognition by Exploiting an Improved YOLOv5 Algorithm on the UAV Platform.” In 2023 International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (Ucom) , pp. 193–198 , 2023.
- “A Novel Lightweight Automatic Modulation Classification Scheme Based on Inverted Residuals.” In 2023 International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (Ucom) , pp. 259–263 , 2023.
- “GAN-Enabled Robust Backdoor Attack for UAV Recognition.” In 2022 7th International Conference on Communication, Image and Signal Processing (CCISP) , pp. 474–478 , 2022.
- “Robust Semantic Communication Driven by Knowledge Graph.” In 2022 9th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS) , pp. 1–5 , 2022.
- “Small Object Detection Based on Modified FSSD and Model Compression.” In 2021 IEEE 6th International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP) , pp. 88–92 , 2021.
- “Data-and-Knowledge Dual-Driven Automatic Modulation Recognition for Wireless Communication Networks.” In ICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications , pp. 1962–1967 , 2022.
- “GenSpectraLM: Large Model-Driven Spectrum Map Construction with Electromagnetic Propagation.” In 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) , pp. 393-398 , 2025.
- “PLMSNet: A Pseudo Labeling Multi-Scale Network for Semi-Supervised Spectrum Sensing.” In 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) , pp. 3915-3920 , 2025.
- “An Accurate Few-Shot Spectrum Anomaly Detection Method Using the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training Model.” In 2025 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (Ucom) , pp. 220-224 , 2025.
- “SpectrumFM: Redefining Spectrum Cognition via Foundation Modeling.” In 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) , pp. 3861-3866 , 2025.
- “Infrared Image Segmentation for Photovoltaic Panels Based on Res-UNet.” In Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV) , pp. 611–622 , 2019.
- “FSOS-AMC: Few-Shot Open-Set Learning for Automatic Modulation Classification.” In 2024 16th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) , pp. 746-751 , 2024.