Wenheng Zhang

Pronouns: She/her
  • University Teacher in Digital Communications

Research groups and centres

  • Communications, Signal Processing and Networks

    • Background

    Dr Wenheng Zhang is a University Teacher with the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University.

    Dr Zhang received a PhD degree from Loughborough University in 2023, an M.Sc. in Communication and Signal Processing from Imperial College London, London, U.K. in 2018, and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Ningbo China, Ningbo, China, in 2017. From 2021 to 2022, she was a research assistant with the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, U.K.

    Dr Zhang’s current research interests include the 5G and beyond mobile communications, such as:

    • The scheduling of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC)
    • Machine learning for wireless communications
    • Resource allocation in wireless networks
    • Signal processing
    • Optimisation problems

    Current teaching responsibilities

    • WSP046 /WSD546 Statistical Methods and Machine Learning
    • WSP028 Advanced Telecommunication Techniques
    • WSA013 Digital Systems

    Recent publications

    • W. Zhang, M. Derakhshani, G. Zheng, C. S. Chen and S. Lambotharan, "Bayesian Optimization of Queuing-based Multi-Channel URLLC Scheduling," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2022.3206421.
    • W. Zhang, M. Derakhshani, S. R. Khosraviradsup and S. Lambotharan, "Bayesian optimization of Blocklength for URLLC Under Channel Distribution Uncertainty," 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring), 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/VTC2022-Spring54318.2022.9860950.
    • W. Zhang, M. Derakhshani and S. Lambotharan, "Non-parametric Statistical Learning for URLLC Transmission Rate Control," ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500926.
    • W. Zhang, M. Derakhshani and S. Lambotharan, "Stochastic Optimization of URLLC-eMBB Joint Scheduling With Queuing Mechanism," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 844-848, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/LWC.2020.3046628.