Pinjun Zheng
Portrait of Pinjun Zheng

Pinjun Zheng

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
pinjun.zheng (at) ubc.ca

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia (UBC), Kelowna, BC, Canada, where I am working with Prof. Anas Chaaban and Prof. Md. Jahangir Hossain. Previously, I earned my Ph.D. in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, under the supervision of Prof. Tareq Al-Naffouri. Prior to that, I received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China. I was a recipient of the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in 2026.

Research Interests

  • MIMO communications and localization
  • Statistical signal processing and machine learning
  • Design, modeling, and experimental validation of novel electromagnetic structures

News

I am attending the 2026 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) in Wuhan, China. Together with my colleagues Shanpu Shen, Hongyu Li, and Rang Liu, we delivered a half-day tutorial titled “Advanced Communications and Signal Processing for Reconfigurable Wireless Systems.” Read more
I am visiting University of Southampton's Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems and University of Surrey's 5G/6G Innovation Centre, presenting a talk titled “Reconfigurable Antennas for Wireless Communications: Hardware Prototyping, Architecture Design, and Signal Processing.” Read more
I am attending IEEE ICC 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. We are presenting two interactive papers and delivering a half-day tutorial titled “6G TN-NTN Localization: System Fundamentals, Technical Enablers, and Algorithms”. Read more
I have joined the editorial board of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters as an Associate Editor.
I won the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).” Read more
Earlier news
One paper has been accepted by the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Read more
One paper has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Read more
I am visiting the University of Toronto, Canada, working with Prof. Wei Yu for a one-month stay.
Start my PDF position at UBC Okanagan.
We were selected as one of the top 10 finalists of the global competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G (NTNYS’24)! Read more
I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation! Read more
One paper has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Read more
One paper has been accepted by the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Read more
I have accepted a postdoc offer from the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus), Canada, and will enroll by the end of this year.
Start my Ph.D. at KAUST.

Selected Publications

For the complete publication record, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

* Equal contribution   † Corresponding author

Research illustration for Fast Tri-Hybrid Beamforming via Deep Unfolding

Fast Tri-Hybrid Beamforming via Deep Unfolding

Pinjun Zheng†, Md. Jahangir Hossain, Anas Chaaban

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2026

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Research illustration for Tri-Hybrid Multi-User Precoding Using Pattern-Reconfigurable Antennas: Fundamental Models and Practical Algorithms

Tri-Hybrid Multi-User Precoding Using Pattern-Reconfigurable Antennas: Fundamental Models and Practical Algorithms

Pinjun Zheng†, Yuchen Zhang, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Md. Jahangir Hossain, Anas Chaaban

IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2026

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Research illustration for Electromagnetically Reconfigurable Fluid Antenna System for Wireless Communications: Design, Modeling, Algorithm, Fabrication, and Experiment

Electromagnetically Reconfigurable Fluid Antenna System for Wireless Communications: Design, Modeling, Algorithm, Fabrication, and Experiment

Ruiqi Wang, Pinjun Zheng†, Vijith Varma Kotte, Sakandar Rauf, Yiming Yang, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Atif Shamim

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2025

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Research illustration for Mutual Coupling in RIS-Aided Communication: Model Training and Experimental Validation

Mutual Coupling in RIS-Aided Communication: Model Training and Experimental Validation

Pinjun Zheng, Ruiqi Wang†, Atif Shamim, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024

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