Wenyi Zhang attended Tsinghua University and obtained his Bachelor's degree in Automation in 2001. He studied in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, and obtained his Master's and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Prior to joining the faculty of Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China, he was affiliated with the Communication Science Institute, University of Southern California, as a postdoctoral research associate, and with Qualcomm Incorporated, Corporate Research and Development.

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