Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering UC Davis

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Zhi Ding

   Prof. Zhi Ding

Zhi Ding
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellow of IEEE

Contact Information

3187 Engineering II (Kemper Hall)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California - Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Email: zding(a)ece.ucdavis.edu

Phone:(530) 752-4625
Fax:(530) 752-8428

Education 1990    PhD. Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
1987    MASc. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
1982    B. Eng. Department of Wireless Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology,
Nanjing, China
Teaching and Research Appointments 9.2000 - present
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

9.2003 - 8.2006
Departmental Vice Chair and Chair of ECE Graduate Program, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

1.1999 - 9.2000
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

1.1997 -12.1997
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

9.1995-12.1998
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

9.1990-8.1995
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

8.1993 - 9.1993
Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Information Technology and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

6.1993 - 8.1993
Faculty Research Associate, Armament Directorate, US Air Force Wright Laboratory, Eglin AFB, Florida, USA.

6.1992 - 8.1992
Visiting Faculty Research Fellow, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Research Interests and Activities Digital Wireless Communications;

Cross-Layer Wireless Network Design and Optimization;

Statistical Signal Processing Methods;

Digital and Array Signal Processing,

Cyclostationary and Higher Order Statistics,

Adaptive Signal Processing,

System Identification and Spectrum Estimation.
Professional memberships Fellow of IEEE
Professional Activities Technical Program Chair, IEEE 2006 Globecom, San Francisco, CA.

Editorial Board Member, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,1.2003-present.

Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 1.2002-1.2005.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 1.2001-1.2004.

Editor, Special Issue on Multiuser Detection and Blind Estimation, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Dec. 2002.

Member, IEEE Statistical Signal and Array Processing Technical Committee, 1993-1998.

Member, IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee, 1998-2004.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 1994-1997.

Technical Program Committee Member, 3rd IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Taiwan, March 2001.

Organization Committee Member, 1st IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Paris, France, April 1997.

Review Panelist, National Science Foundation, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005.

Referee for
   * National Science Foundation
   * US Army Research Office
   * NSERC Industrial Chair Professorship
   * Prentice Hall
   * IEEE Proceedings
   * IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
   * IEEE Signal Processing Letters
   * IEEE Transactions on Communications
   * IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
   * IEEE Communications Letters
   * IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
   * IFAC Automatica
   * SPIE Optical Engineering
   * A number of major IEEE Conferences
University Services Vice-Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Davis, CA, 2003-2006

Academic Senate Representative, Davis Section, University of California, 2001-2003.

Chairman of ECE Graduate Studies Committee, 2003-2006.

Chairman of ECE Faculty Search Committee, 2004.

College of Engineering Research Committee, UC Davis, 2003-2004.

Chairman of the ECE Industrial Affiliates Committee, 2002.

Member of the ECE Undergraduate Program Committee, 2000-2003.

Member of the ECE Faculty Search Committee, 2001-2003.
Journal Publications
    List of Journal Papers.
Books and Book Chapters
  1. Zhi Ding and Ye Li, Blind Equalization and Identification , Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001.
  2. Z. Ding, ``Chapter 7: Linear Predictive Algorithms for Blind Multichannel Identification,'' in Signal Processing Advances in Wireless and Mobile Communications, Vol. I: Trends in Channel Estimation and Equalization, G. B. Giannakis, Y. Hua, P. Stoica, and L. Tong (Editors), Prentice Hall, 2000.
  3. Z. Ding, "Adaptive Filters for Blind Equalization", in IEEE DSP Handbook, Douglas B. Williams, Ed., pp.24.1-24.17, IEEE Press, 1998.
  4. Z. Ding, C. R. Johnson, Jr., and R. A. Kennedy, "Chapter 3: Global Convergence Issues With Linear Blind Adaptive Equalizers", in Blind Deconvolution, Simon Haykin, Ed., pp.60-120, Prentice-Hall, 1994.
  5. Z. Ding, "Blind Channel Identification and Equalization using Spectral Correlation Measurements: Frequency Domain Analysis," in Cyclostationarity in Communications and Signal Processing, William A. Gardner, Ed., pp.417-436, IEEE Press, 1993.
Conference Publications
    List of Major Conference Papers.