Welcome! 

I am Boya Di, an assistant professor in the Institute of Information and Communication Technology of School of Electronics at Peking University since Summer 2021. 

Previously, I was a postdoc researcher in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, working with Prof. Nick Jennings since Aug. 2019.

Research Interests

- Intelligent surfaces enabled holographic communications and sensing

- Communication, computing, and networking for IoT applications

- Multi-access techniques and signal processing for 5G/6G

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s1sqzeoAAAAJ&hl=en

Email: diboya[at]pku[dot]edu[dot]cn

Education

Peking University, Beijing, China 09/2014 - 07/2019

Ph.D in Signal and Information Processing

Advisor: Prof. Lingyang Song

Peking University, Beijing, China 09/2010 - 07/2014

B.S. in Electronics Engineering

Honors

• IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2022

• IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, 2021

• World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020-2022 (single year impact)  

• ACM N2WOMEN Top 10 Rising Star, 2020

• Exemplary Reviewers of IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2020

• Best Paper Candidate for European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (<3% selection), 2020

• Top Reviewers of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019 (four recepients of the year)

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, China Education Society of Electronics, 2019

• Top-100 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (<5% acceptance), Peking University, 2019

Teaching Activities

Lecture Courses, Peking University

• Machine Learning in Electronics, Undergraduate, Spring 2022, Spring 2023 (24 episodes)

• Electronics Engineering and Science Capstone Project, Undergraduate, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Professional Service

Editorship

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (since June 2020)

• IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (since 2022)

• IEEE Technology Blog Editorial Board (since 2023)

Membership

• Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE ComSoc, Member of IEEE VTS, Member of N2WOMEN

Chairs

• Workshop Co-chair, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 5G and Beyond”, IEEE WCNC, 2022 and 2021.

• Session Chair, "Intelligent Surfaces in Communications", IEEE VTC-Fall, Beijing, 2022

• Session Chair, MWN1 & MWN2 for Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, IEEE ICC, 2020

Reviewer (Journals)

• 14 IEEE/ACM Journals including top ones (such as IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing)

• Over 150 reviews

TPC Member (Conference)

• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)

• IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC)

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)

Half-day Tutorial

• “Holographic Radio: A New Paradigm for Ultra-Massive MIMO,” in IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) , Jan. 2023.

• “Holographic Radio: A New Paradigm for Ultra-Massive MIMO,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Brazil, Dec. 2022.

• “Holographic Radio: A New Paradigm for Ultra-Massive MIMO,” in Proc. IEEE VTC-Fall, Beijing, China, Sept. 2022.

• “Holographic Radio: A New Paradigm for Ultra-Massive MIMO,” in Proc. International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet), Paris, France, Jul. 2022.

• “MetaEverything: Ubiquitous Sensing and Communications aided by Intelligent Meta-Surfaces,” in Proc. IEEE ICC, Seoul, South Korea, May. 2022.

• “MetaEverything: Ubiquitous Sensing and Communications aided by Intelligent Meta-Surfaces,” in Proc. IEEE WCNC, Austin, TX, Apr. 2022.

• “MetaEverything: Ubiquitous Sensing and Communications aided by Intelligent Meta-Surfaces,” in Proc. IEEE CCNC, Virtual, Jan. 2022.

• "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G: Communications, Localization, and Sensing",  IEEE GLOBECOM, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2021

• "MetaEverything: Intelligent Meta-Material Aided Sensing and Communications", IEEE VTC-Fall, Virtual, Oct. 2021

• "MetaEverything: Intelligent Meta-Material Aided Sensing and Communications", IEEE PIMRC, Virtual, Sep. 2021

• "MetaEverything: Intelligent MetaMaterial aided Sensing and Communications", IEEE ICC, Montreal, Canada, Jun. 2021

• "MetaEverything: Intelligent MetaMaterial aided Sensing and Communications", IEEE WCNC, Nanjing, China, Mar. 2021

• "Aerial Access Networks for 6G: Integration of UAV, HAP, and Satellite Communication Networks", IEEE PIMRC, London, UK, Sep. 2020

• "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 6G: Communication, Sensing, and Localization", IEEE/CIC ICCC, Chongqing, China, Aug. 2020