Prof. Dr.-Ing. Liang Zhou

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsCommunication Technology and Networks, High-Frequency Technology and Photonic Systems, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Information Technology
KeywordsIntelligent Communications, 6G Communications, Internet of Things, Cross-Layer Optimization, Multimedia Communications
Honours and awards

2025: Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

2025: Humboldt Research Award

2024: IEEE Fellow

2024: Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Current contact address

CountryPeople's Republic of China
CityNanjing
InstitutionNanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckehard SteinbachFakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Lehrstuhl für Medientechnik, Technische Universität München, München
Prof. Dr. Marco AielloFakultät 5: Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2010

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs
2025Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Liang Zhou is a distinguished international scholar in next-generation multimedia communications and computing. His groundbreaking contributions span collaborative multimedia transmission theory, massive multimedia sharing, and low-latency video switching, and have shaped the global development of large-scale media systems. He has played a central role in the creation of communication standards, and his technologies have been deployed in major industrial ecosystems. During his stay in Germany, Professor Zhou intends to advance pioneering work on the convergence of massive multimedia computing with sustainable, AI-driven 6G communication systems