Dr Yansha Deng is a Reader in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. She joined KCL as a postdoc in 2015 and become a lecturer in 2017.

Yansha has extensive research experience in 5G & 6G wireless communications, and multi-scale communications, where she conducted interdisciplinary research across machine learning, wireless communication, molecular communications, chemistry, and biology disciplines. Until 2023, she has received the EPSRC NIA award, secured more than £2.6 million of research funding as the Principal Investigator, and £14 million of research funding as the Co-Investigator from EPSRC, Horizon Europe, Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), Innovate UK, industrial funds, etc.  

She has published 100+ journal papers, 60+ IEEE/ACM conference papers, and 2 patents. She was a recipient of the Best Paper Awards from ICC 2016 and GLOBECOM 2017 as the first author and IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region in 2021.  

She is currently the Senior Editor of IEEE Communications Letters since 2020,  the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017, the Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials since 2022,  the  Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking since 2022, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications since 2019, the Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society since 2019 and the Vertical Area Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Magazine since 2021. She has been a frequent invited speaker in IEEE Infocom, Globecom, ICC, PIMRC, EuCNC, etc.

Research Interests

• Task-oriented Semantic-aware Communications
• Wireless AI and Edge AI
• Microfluidic Molecular Communication

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