Yijie (Lina) Mao

[December 2024] Our work entitled "Robust max-min fair beamforming design for rate splitting multiple access-aided visible light communications," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

[November 2024] Our work entitled "Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces empowered cooperative rate splitting with user relaying," has been accepted for publication in Entropy.

[November 2024] Our work entitled "Interference management in space-air-ground integrated networks with fully distributed rate-splitting multiple access," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[August 2024] Congradulations to my Master student Miss Kexin Chen for receiving the IEEE SPS travel grant to attend IEEE SPAWC 2024.

[July 2024] Our paper "A primer on rate-splitting multiple access: Tutorial, myths, and frequently asked questions," published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2023 has been recognized as the (ESI Highly Cited Paper)!

[July 2024] Our work entitled "Rate splitting multiple access: Optimal beamforming structure and efficient optimization algorithms," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[June 2024] Our work entitled "RS-BNN: A deep learning framework for the optimal beamforming design of rate-splitting multiple access," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[June 2024] Our work entitled "Transmitter side beyond-diagonal RIS for mmWave integrated sensing and communications," has been accepted by IEEE SPAWC 2024.

[May 2024] Our work entitled "Multiple access techniques for intelligent and multi-functional 6G: Tutorial, survey, and outlook," has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of IEEE.

[May 2024] Our work entitled "Weighted sum-rate maximization of rate-splitting multiple access with confidential messages," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[May 2024] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access in cell-free massive MIMO-URLLC systems: Achievable rate analysis and optimization," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[May 2024] Our work entitled "Transformer-based channel prediction for rate-splitting multiple access-enabled vehicle-to-everything communication," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[May 2024] Our work entitled "Distributed rate-splitting multiple access for multilayer satellite communications," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[April 2024] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for covert communications," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

[March 2024] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for simultaneous multi-user communication and multi-target sensing," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[March 2024] Our work entitled "Distributed multi-objective dynamic offloading scheduling for air-ground cooperative MEC," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[March 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop on RSMA for 6G.

[February 2024] I am honored to be included in the "100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G" list for 2024 by the Women in 6G community.

[February 2024] I am invited by IEEE ComSoc RCC Special Interest Group (SIG) on beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) to deliver an online talk on BD-RIS on February 07, 2024.

[January 2024] Our work entitled "Securing medical sensor data: A novel uplink scheme with rate splitting and active intelligent reflecting surface," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters.

[January 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE ICC 2024, and one paper is accepted by IEEE WCNC 2024.

[December 2023] Our paper "Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink communication systems: bridging, generalizing, and outperforming SDMA and NOMA," published in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 has been recognized as the ESI Highly Cited Paper!

[December 2023] Our work entitled "Optimal beamforming structure for rate splitting multiple access," has been accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2024.

[December 2023] I received recognition as an Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters 2023.

[December 2023] Our paper entitled "Hierarchical federated edge learning over space-air-ground integrated networks," has received the Best Paper Award of IEEE Globecom 2023 in Edge Learning over 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond Workshop. Congradulations!

[November 2023] I am invited by Prof. Xudong Wang to give talk on Rate Splitting in UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University on November 21, 2023.

[November 2023] Our work entitled "A low-complexity beamforming design for beyond-diagonal RIS aided multi-user networks," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters.

[November 2023] Our work entitled "A practical max-min fair resource allocation algorithm for rate-splitting multiple access," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters.

[November 2023] Our work entitled "Transmitter side beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface for massive MIMO networks," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

[October 2023] I am recognized as the “World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023”, based on the Elsevier Data Repository prepared by Prof. John P.A. Loannidis and his team at Stanford University.

[October 2023] Our work entitled "Artificial noise assisted secure transmission for uplink MIMO rate splitting healthcare systems," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters.

[September 2023] Our paper entitled "Green Federated Learning over Cloud-RAN with Limited Fronthaul and Quantized Neural Networks" has received the Best Paper Award of IEEE MeditCom 2023! Congradulations!

[September 2023] Our paper "Rate-splitting multiple access: Fundamentals, survey, and future research trends," published in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2022 has been recognized as the ESI Hot Paper and ESI Highly Cited Paper!

[September 2023] I am invited by Prof. Yifei Yuan to give an online talk on Rate Splitting to China Mobile. Time: 8:00 pm -9:00 pm, September 20, 2023. Welcome to join!

[September 2023] I am organizing a workshop on "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G" in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024 together with Prof. Daniel Benevides da Costa, Prof. Bruno Clerckx, Prof. Zhaohui Yang. Paper Submission Deadline: 20 January 2022. Welcome to submit your paper!

[September 2023] I am serving as the lead editor for the special issue on "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Future Green Communication Networks". in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. Paper Submission Deadline: January 01, 2024. Looking forward to receiving your submission to this SI!

[September 2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE VTC-Fall 2023, and one paper is accepted by IEEE Globecom 2023.

[September 2023] Our work entitled "Green federated learning over Cloud-RAN with limited fronthual capacity and quantized neural networks," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[July 2023] I will deliver a tutorial on "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G: Recent Advances and Future Research Trends" in IEEE Globecom 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (together with Prof. Daniel Benevides da Costa, Prof. Zhaohui Yang, and Prof. Bruno Clerckx).

[June 2023] Our work entitled "Vertical federated learning over Cloud-RAN: Convergence analysis and system optimization," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[May 2023] I am invited as one of the founding members for IEEE ComSoc RCC Special Interest Group (SIG) on "Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (BD-RIS),".

[April 2023] Our work entitled "Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces empowered green wireless networks with user admission control," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[April 2023] I am serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials since April 2023.

[April 2023] I am co-chairing International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) 2023 "Integrated Sensing, Communication and Computing Symposium" together with Prof. Chau Yuen, Prof. Husheng Li, Prof. Haixia Zhang, and Prof. Xiaoming Che. Paper Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023. Welcome to submit your paper!

[March 2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE ICC Workshop 2023.

[February 2023] I am going to organize a special session on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access in IEEE SPAWC 2023 together with Prof. Zhaohui Yang, Prof. Bruno Clerckx, and Prof. Robert Schober.

[February 2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE ICASSP 2023 and one accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2023.

[January 2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE ICC 2023 and one accepted by IEEE WCNC 2023.

[January 2023] I will deliver a tutorial on "Rate Splitting Multiple Access for 6G" in IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy (together with Prof. Bruno Clerckx).

[January 2023] I received the 2022 Outstanding Professor Award of ShanghaiTech.

[January 2023] Our work entitled "A primer on rate-splitting multiple access: Tutorial, myths, and frequently asked questions," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[December 2022] I will serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters since January 2023.

[December 2022] I received recognition as an Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters 2022.

[December 2022] I am elected as a senior member of China Institute of Communications.

[December 2022] Our work entitled "Max-min fairness of rate-splitting multiple access with finite blocklength communications," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[November 2022] The RSMA webinar I organized together with Prof. Bruno Clerckx, Prof. Aydin Sezgin, and Prof. Wonjae Shin is on going!

[October 2022] Our work entitled "Mitigating intra-cell pilot contamination in massive MIMO: A rate splitting approach," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[October 2022] Our work entitled "Globally optimal spectrum- and energy-efficient beamforming for rate splitting multiple access," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

[September 2022] I am awarded a research grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientist Fund as the project leader, Grant No.: 62201347.

[August 2022] The second special issue on "Rate-Splitting and Multiple Access Techniques for 6G". in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society is announced. I am invited as one of the Guest Editors. Paper Submission Deadline: December 01, 2022. Looking forward to receiving your submission to this SI!

[July 2022] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access: Fundamentals, survey, and future research trends," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

[July 2022] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access with finite blocklength for short-packet and low-latency downlink communications," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[July 2022] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for 6G -- Part I: principles, applications and future works," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communication Letter.

[July 2022] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for 6G -- Part II: interplay with integrated sensing and communications," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communication Letter.

[July 2022] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for 6G -- Part III: interplay with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communication Letter.

[June 2022] I am going to organize a special session on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access in ISWCS 2022 together with Prof. Bruno Clerckx.

[May 2022] Our paper “Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink communication systems: bridging, generalizing, and outperforming SDMA and NOMA” received the Best Paper Award of EURASIP JWCN 2022!

[April 2022] I am organizing a workshop on "Reconfigurable Holographic and Intelligent Surfaces for Green 6G Sensing, Communication and Networking" in IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) 2022 with Prof. Aryan Kaushik, Prof. Nan Yang, Prof. Wonjae Shin, Dr. Vasanthan Raghavan. Paper Submission Deadline: 30 June 2022. Welcome to submit your paper!

[March 2022] I received recognition as an Exemplary Reviewer (represent less than 2% of all the reviewers) for IEEE Transactions on Communications 2021.

[March 2022] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting assisted massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communication Letter.

[February 2022] I am awarded a research grant from the Shanghai Sailing Program! This program is organized by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM) to support outstanding young talent in their independent and innovative scientific research.

[February 2022] Two papers are accepted by IEEE ICC 2022 and one accepted by IEEE WCNC 2022.

[January 2022] I am invited by Prof. Ruhui Ma to give a talk on Rate Splitting in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Time: 10:00 am -12:00 pm, January 07, 2022. Location: Conference Room 412, Electronic Engineering Department Building No. 3, Minhang Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Welcome to join!

[December 2021] The first special issue on "Rate Splitting (Multiple Access) for Future Wireless Networks". in IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications is announced. I am invited as one of the Guest Editors. Paper Submission Deadline: July 01, 2022. Looking forward to receiving your submission to this SI!

[December 2021] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for downlink multiuser MIMO: Precoder optimization and PHY-layer design" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[December 2021] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for multi-antenna downlink communication systems: spectral and energy efficiency tradeoff" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[October 2021] I am invited by Prof. Miaowen Wen. to give an online talk on RSMA (in Mandarin). Welcome to join! Time: 15:00-16:00 (Beijing Time), October 27, 2021. Tencent Meeting ID: 629 732 947.

[October 2021] The RSMA webinar I organized together with Prof. Bruno Clerckx, Prof. Aydin Sezgin, and Prof. Wonjae Shin is coming soon!

[September 2021] I will deliver a tutorial on "Rate Splitting Multiple Access for 6G" in ISWCS 2021, Berlin, Germany (together with Prof. Bruno Clerckx and Dr. Onur Dizdar) on September 08, 2021.

[September 2021] Our work entitled "Rate-splitting multiple access for multi-antenna joint radar and communications" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.

[August 2021] I am organizing a workshop on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G in IEEE ICC 2022 with Prof. Wonjae Shin and Prof. Seok-Hwan Park. Paper Submission Deadline is February 3, 2022. Looking forward to receiving your submission!

[August 2021] I am organizing a workshop on Rate-Splitting and Next Generation Multiple Access in IEEE WNCN 2022 with Prof. Bruno Clerckx, Prof. Aydin Sezgin, and Prof. Wonjae Shin. Paper Submission Deadline is January 21, 2022. Looking forward to receiving your submission!

[August 2021] I joined ShanghaiTech University as an Assistant Professor on August 01, 2021!