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Chang Cai

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Office: 826A, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Bldg., CUHK

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Angela Yingjun Zhang. Before that, I received the B.Eng. degree from the Yingcai Honors College, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2021. I work closely with Prof. Xiaojun Yuan during my undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

My research interests lie in the next-generation wireless communication technologies, including but not limited to semantic/task-oriented communications, wireless edge intelligence, and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted communications.

News

12/2023 I received a service plaque for recognizing my service to the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society as the Managing Editor from 2022 to 2023.
09/2023 New manuscript on the synergistic alignment of learning and communication objectives in task-oriented communications: “Multi-device task-oriented communication via maximal coding rate reduction”.
01/2023 The research findings in our paper “RIS partitioning based scalable beamforming design for large-scale MIMO: Asymptotic analysis and optimization” are reported in the RIS White Paper (2023)!
08/2021 I joined the Dept. of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Ph.D. student. A new journey began!
04/2021 I gave a talk entitled “Channel estimation and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface: An overhead perspective” at RIS Symposium Series, IMT-2030.
03/2021 I am awarded the Outstanding Graduates of Sichuan Province.
12/2020 Our paper “Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted D2D underlay communications: A two-timescale optimization design” is selected as the Cover Article of JCIN.

Preprints

[P1] C. Cai, X. Yuan and Y. -J. A. Zhang, "End-to-end learning for task-oriented semantic communications over MIMO channels: An information-theoretic framework," submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2024.
[P2] C. Cai, X. Yuan and Y. -J. A. Zhang, "Multi-device task-oriented communication via maximal coding rate reduction," minor revision in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024.
[P3] Y. Huang, C. Cai, X. Yuan and Y. -J. A. Zhang, "Joint active and passive beamforming for RIS-aided semantic communication," major revision in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024.

Publications

[J1] C. Cai, X. Yuan and Y. -J. A. Zhang, "RIS partitioning based scalable beamforming design for large-scale MIMO: Asymptotic analysis and optimization," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 6061-6077, Sept. 2023.
[J2] C. Cai, X. Yuan, W. Yan, Z. Huang, Y. -C. Liang and W. Zhang, "Hierarchical passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided communications," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 1909-1913, Sept. 2021.
[J3] H. Yang, C. Cai, X. Yuan, Y. -C. Liang, "RIS-aided constant-envelope beamforming for multiuser wireless power transfer: A max-min approach," China Communications, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 80-90, March 2021.
[J4] C. Cai, H. Yang, X. Yuan, Y. -J. A. Zhang and Y. Liu, "Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted D2D underlay communications: A two-timescale optimization design," Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 369-380, Dec. 2020.
[C1] C. Cai, X. Yuan and Y. -J. A. Zhang, "Task-oriented communication for multi-device edge inference: A maximal coding rate reduction approach," accepted by IEEE International Conference on Communications, Denver, CO, USA, 2024.
[C2] C. Cai, X. Yuan and Y. -J. A. Zhang, "RIS partitioning based scalable beamforming design for large-scale MIMO," IEEE Global Communications Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 2334-2339.
[C3] C. Cai, H. Yang, X. Yuan and Y. -C. Liang, "Two-timescale optimization for intelligent reflecting surface aided D2D underlay communication," IEEE Global Communications Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020, pp. 1-6.

Services

Managing Editor IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (2022-2023)
TPC Member IEEE VTC2023-Fall
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