AP Regional Awards

IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award

Eligibility

The upper age limit for the nominee is 35 (i.e., the nominee must be born on or after 1989/01/01).
The nominee must be a ComSoc member of Asia-Pacific region.
The “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” will be given to the best candidate, and other candidates will be considered for the “Outstanding Young Researcher Award(s)”.
Self-nomination is permitted.

Selection Criteria

Creativity, research impact, and contributions to ComSoc activities.

Award Prize

The recipient of “IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” will receive a certificate and an honorarium of US$500.
Each recipient of the “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award” will receive a certificate and an honorarium of US$250.

Nomination and Selection Process

Please complete and email Nomination Form to apb-officers-tac@ieee.org with the subject of “2025 Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award Nomination” before the deadline.

The APB Young Researcher Award Committee evaluates the eligible nominations and select the awardee(s), and the committee members are as follows:

Chan-Byoung Chae	South Korea
Boya Di	China
Yao-Win Peter Hong	Taiwan
Jemin Lee	South Korea
Hai Lin	Japan
Shaodan Ma	Macau
Neelesh B Mehta	India
Ai-Chun Pang	Taiwan
Katsuya Suto	Japan
Angela Yingjun Zhang	Hong Kong
Wei Zhang	Australia

Important Dates for 2025

Nomination Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025
Announcement of Awardees: 1 October 2025
Award Ceremony at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 (December 2025)

Any inquiries should be directed to the following email address.
APB Technical Affairs Committee: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

2025 AP Young Researcher Award Application

IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Asia Pacific Board (APB) sponsors “IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award”. This award honors outstanding original papers authored by members in the Asia Pacific region and published in IEEE ComSoc journals and conferences over the last three years (January 2022 to December 2024).

Eligibility

The paper must be published in IEEE ComSoc journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and so on (including those technically co-sponsored by ComSoc) in the last three years (January 2022 to December 2024).
All authors’ affiliations must be from the Asia Pacific region at the time of publication.
The paper should be nominated by an IEEE ComSoc member from the Asia Pacific region.
Any individual can have a maximum of one Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award within three consecutive calendar years, starting from 1 January 2025.
Self-nomination is not accepted.

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Selection Criteria

Impact, originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation.

Award Prize

Plaque and honorarium up to US$500 (award total each paper).

Nomination and Selection Processes

Please complete and email Nomination Form to apb-officers-tac@ieee.org with the subject of “2025 Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award Nomination” before the deadline.

The APB Outstanding Paper Award Committee evaluates the eligible nominations and select the awardee(s), and the committee members are as follows:

Chan-Byoung Chae (Chair)	South Korea
Angela Zhang (Co-Chair)	Hong Kong
Boya Di	China
Peter Hong	Taiwan
Yusheng Ji	Japan
Shaodan Ma	Macau
Neelesh Mehta	India
Ai-Chun Pang	Taiwan
Katsuya Suto	Japan
Miaowen Wen	China
Wei Zhang	Australia

Important Dates for 2025

Nomination Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025
Announcement of Awardees: 1 October 2025
Award Ceremony at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 (December 2025)

Nomination and inquiries must be sent to the following address by e-mail.
APB Technical Affairs Committee: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

2025 AP OUTSTANDING PAPER Award Application

IEEE ComSoC Asia-Pacific WICE Outstanding Achievement Award

IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Asia Pacific Board (APB) sponsors the “IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific WICE Outstanding Achievement Award.” This award recognizes women engineers of IEEE ComSoc from the Asia Pacific (AP) region who have done outstanding technical work and achieved high visibility in the broad field of communications engineering.

Eligibility Criteria

Any individual, except the members of the APB WICE Award Selection Committee, can be nominated for the award if the following criteria are met:

The nominee must be a ComSoc member of the Asia Pacific region at the time of nomination.
The nominee must have made significant technical contributions to the broad field of communications engineering.
Self-nominations are not allowed.

Award Prize

The award will be presented in each calendar year. A maximum of one award will be given per year. If no suitable candidate is nominated in a given year, the award will not be presented for that year. The recipient will receive a certificate and an honorarium of US $500.

Nomination and Selection Process

Please complete and email Nomination Form to apb-wice-committee@ieee.org with the subject of “2025 Asia Pacific WICE Outstanding Achievement Award Nomination” before the deadline. The Nomination Form is attached.

The APB WICE Outstanding Achievement Award Committee evaluates the eligible nominations and selects the awardee. The committee members are as follows.

Jemin Lee	South Korea
Shaodan Ma	Macau
Neelesh B Mehta	India
Kaoru Ota	Japan
Ai-Chun Pang	Taiwan
Zhe Wang	China
Angela Yingjun Zhang	Hong Kong

Important Dates For 2025

Nomination Submission Deadline: August 15, 2025 (extended)
Announcement of Awardee: October 1, 2025
Award Ceremony at IEEE Globecom 2025 (December 2025)

Any inquiries should be directed to the following email address.
APB WICE Outstanding Achievement Award Committee: apb-wice-commitee@ieee.org

2025 AP WICE Outstanding achievement Award Application

2024 Winners

Best Young Researcher Award
Changsheng You
for contributions to edge AI empowered 6G networks

Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Jiawen Kang
for contributions to distributed machine learning and blockchain for reliable wireless networks

Zehui Xiong
for contributions to edge computing and intelligence

Xianghao Yu
for contributions to MIMO communications with large-scale arrays and surfaces

Zhaohui Yang
for contributions to integrated learning and communication system

Waikai Tang
for contributions to reconfigurable intelligent surface-empowered systems

Shuowen Zhang
for contributions to intelligent reflecting surface aided communications and integrated sensing and communications

Outstanding Paper Award

H. Yang, Z. Xiong, J. Zhao, D. Niyato, L. Xiao and Q. Wu, "Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Secure Wireless Communications," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 375-388, Jan. 2021

W. Shi, S. Zhou, Z. Niu, M. Jiang and L. Geng, "Joint Device Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Latency Constrained Wireless Federated Learning," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 453-467, Jan. 2021

Y. Cui, F. Liu, X. Jing and J. Mu, "Integrating Sensing and Communications for Ubiquitous IoT: Applications, Trends, and Challenges," in IEEE Network, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 158-167, September/October 2021

WICE Outstanding Achievement Award
Sumei Sun
for contributions to wireless research, technology translation, and the wireless community

Past Winners

2023: Best Young Researcher Award
Guangxu Zhu
for contributions to edge AI empowered 6G networks
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Howard Yang
for contributions in the spatial-temporal modeling of wireless networks and federated edge learning systems
Hongliang Zhang
for contributions to meta-material aided wireless communications and sensing
Jinseok Choi
for contributions to energy-efficient wireless communications
Wei Wang
for contributions to mmWave communications and AI-enabled wireless communications
Zhijin Qin
for contributions in semantic communications
Chong Han
for contributions to Terahertz wireless communications
Outstanding Paper Award
Samith Abeywickrama, Rui Zhang, Qingqing Wu and Chau Yuen, "Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Practical Phase Shift Model and Beamforming Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 5849-5863, September 2020.
Wankai Tang, Ming Zheng Chen, Jun Yan Dai, Yong Zeng, Xinsheng Zhao, Shi Jin, Qiang Cheng, and Tie Jun Cui, “Wireless Communications with Programmable Metasurface: New Paradigms, Opportunities, and Challenges on Transceiver Design,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 180–187, April 2020.
Guangxu Zhu, Yong Wang, and Kaibin Huang, "Broadband Analog Aggregation for Low-latency Federated Edge Learning," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 491-506, January 2020.
2022: Best Young Researcher Award
Qingqing Wu
for contributions to pioneering Intelligent Reflecting Surface empowered 6G communications
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Boya Di
for contributions to aerial access networks and metasurface aided systems
Fuhui Zhou
for contribution to Intelligent communications and resource optimization
Wei Quan
for contributions to reliable transmission and networking in mobile systems
Cunhua Pan
for contributions to reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided wireless systems
Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues
for contributions to research on Multi-Access Edge Computing and Beyond 5G Networks
Haneul Ko
for contribution to research on offloading systems and IoT-based systems
Outstanding Paper Award
Xiaofei Wang, Yiwen Han, Chenyang Wang, Qiyang Zhao, Xu Chen, Min Che, "In-Edge AI: Intelligentizing Mobile Edge Computing, Caching and Communication by Federated Learning," IEEE Network, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 156-165, Sept.-Oct. 2019
Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Nguyen Cong Luong, Dinh Thai Hoang, Yutao Jiao, Ying-Chang Liang, Qiang Yang, Dusit Niyato, and Chunyan Miao, "Federated Learning in Mobile Edge Networks: A Comprehensive Survey." IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 2031-2063, Third Quarter 2020
Qingqing Wu and Rui Zhang, “Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Wireless Network via Joint Active and Passive Beamforming,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 5394–5409, Nov. 2019
2021: Best Young Researcher Award
Ju Ren
for contributions in Internet of Things and Edge Computing
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Wenchi Cheng
for contributions to radio resource management of wireless networks
Chongwen Huang
for contributions to Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface empowered Wireless Communications
Yuanming Shi
for contributions to machine learning in wireless networks
Fengxiao Tang
for contributions to Interference Management in Wireless Networks
Jie Tang
for contributions to Interference Management in Wireless Networks
Yongpeng Wu
for contributions to multiuser MIMO communications
Outstanding Paper Award
Hyoungju Ji;, Sunho Park, Jeongho Yeo, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee, and Byonghyo Shim, "Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications in 5G Downlink: Physical Layer Aspects," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 124-130, June 2018.
Suzhi Bi andYingjun Zhang, "Computation Rate Maximization for Wireless Powered Mobile-Edge Computing With Binary Computation Offloading," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 4177-4190, June 2018.
Shuhang Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, and Lingyang Song, "Cellular UAV-to-X Communications: Design and Optimization for Multi-UAV Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 1346-1359, February 2019.
2020: Best Young Researcher Award
Chunxiao Jiang
for contributions to heterogeneous networks convergence
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Jiayi Zhang
for contributions to massive MIMO wireless communications
Miaowen Wen
for contributions to index modulation techniques
Nan Cheng
for contributions to space-air-ground integrated networking
Ya-Feng Liu
for contributions to signal processing for wireless communications
Wonjae Shin
for contributions to multi-cell networks
Yuichi Kawamoto
for contributions to unmanned aerial vehicle communication
Outstanding Paper Award
Chiya Zhang and Wei Zhang, “Spectrum Sharing for Drone Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 136-144, Jan. 2017
Zubair Md Fadlullah, Fengxiao Tang, Bomin Mao, Nei Kato, Osamu Akashi, Takeru Inoue, and Kimihiro Mizutani, “State-of-the-Art Deep Learning: Evolving Machine Intelligence Toward Tomorrow’s Intelligent Network Traffic Control Systems,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2432- 2455, 4th Quarter 2017
He Li, Kaoru Ota, and Mianxiong Dong, “Learning IoT in Edge: Deep Learning for the Internet of Things with Edge Computing,” IEEE Network, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 96-101, Jan. 2018
2019: Best Young Researcher Award
Haijun Zhang
for contributions to research on radio resource management in ultra-dense and heterogeneous networks
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Jie Xu
for contribution to research on wireless power transfer
Guoru Ding
for contribution to research on cognitive radio networks
Ruisi He
for contribution to research on measurement and modeling of wireless channels
Zhenyu Zhou
for contribution to research on energy management in wireless networks
Haibo Zhou
for contribution to research on dynamic spectrum sharing in vehicular networks
Suzhi Bi
for contribution to research on wireless powered communication networks
Outstanding Paper Award
Chenchen Yang, Yao Yao, Zhiyong Chen, and Bin Xia, "Analysis on Cache‐Enabled Wireless Heterogeneous Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 131‐145, January 2016.
Changsheng You, Kaibin Huang, Hyukjin Chae, and Byoung-Hoon Kim, "Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Mobile-Edge Computation Offloading," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1397-1411, Mar 2017.
Jiajia Liu, Hiroki Nishiyama, Nei Kato, and Jun Guo, "On the Outage Probability of Device-to-Device Communication Enabled Multi-Channel Cellular Networks: A RSS Threshold-Based Perspective," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 163-175, January 2016.
2018: Best Young Researcher Award
Hui-Ming Wang
for contributions to research on physical-layer secrecy for wireless communications
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Yuan Shen
for contributions to research on network localization and navigation
Peng Cheng
for contributions to research on communications and control of large-scale networked systems
Yong Zeng
for contributions to research on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications
Kaoru Ota
for contributions to research on optimization of wireless networks
Kaigui Bian
for contributions to research on dynamic spectrum sharing
Nan Zhao
for contributions to research on interference alignment
Outstanding Paper Award
Linglong Dai, Bichai Wang, Yifei Yuan, Shuangfeng Han, Chih-Lin I, and Zhaocheng Wang, "Nonorthogonal Multiple Access for 5G: Solutions, Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Research Trends," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 74-81, September 2015.
Yongmin Zhang, Shibo He, and Jiming Chen, "Gathering Optimization by Dynamic Sensing and Routing in Rechargeable Sensor Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1632-1646, 2016.
2017: Best Young Researcher Award
Xiangyun Zhou
for contributions to physical-layer security research(and remove him under outstanding young researcher
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Junil Choi
for his contributions to design of FDD massive MIMO systems

Xu Chen
for his contributions to socially-driven mobile networking and computing

Sheng Zhou
for his contributions to Green Wireless Communications

Xiangyun Zhou
for contributions to physical-layer security research

Jiajia Liu
for his contributions to device-to-device communications

Mianxiong Dong
for his contributions to modeling, analysis, and optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems

Linglong Dai
for his contribution to the development and application of wireless transmission technologies
Outstanding Paper Award
Hiroki Nishiyama, Masaya Ito, and Nei Kato, “Relay-by-smartphone: realizing multihop device-to-device communications,” Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 56- 65, IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2014

Jemin Lee and Tony Q. S. Quek, “Hybrid Full-/Half-duplex System Analysis in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 2883 - 2895, May 2015
2016: Best Young Researcher Award
Jun Zhang
for his contributions to the analysis and optimization of dense wireless cooperative networks
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Namyoon Lee
for his contributions to the development of advanced interference management techniques in wireless networks
Yong Li
for his contribution to social-aware optimization framework and mechanisms for communications and networking
Lin Gao
for his contributions to network economics and game theory
Qian Wang
for his contributions to cloud security and wireless networking security
Guanding Yu
for his contribution to wireless communications and networking
Outstanding Paper Award
Xun Zhou, Rui Zhang, and Chin Keong Ho. "Wireless information and power transfer: Architecture design and rate-energy tradeoff," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, Issue 11, PP 4754-4767, November 2013
Ali A. Nasir, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, and Rodney A. Kennedy. “Relaying protocols for wireless energy harvesting and information processing,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 3622-3636, July 2013
2015: Best Young Researcher Award
Mo Li
for his contributions to building wireless and networked sensing systems
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Tsung-Hui Chang, Xiang Cheng, Lingjie Duan, Zubair Fadlullah, Shibo He
Outstanding Paper Award
Kaibin Huang and Vincent K. N. Lau, "Enabling Wireless Power Transfer in Cellular Networks: Architecture, Modeling and Deployment," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 902-912, Feb. 2014.
Li-Chun Wang, Chung-Wei Wang, and Chung-Ju Chang, "Modeling and Analysis for Spectrum Handoffs in Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 1499-1513, Sep. 2012.
2014: Best Young Researcher Award
Yulong Zou
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Nan Yang, Haojin Zhu, Kaishun Wu, Jemin Lee, and Mugen Peng
Outstanding Paper Award
Shao-Yu Lien, Kwang-Cheng Chen, Yonghua Lin, "Toward Ubiquitous Massive Accesses in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine Communication," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 66-74, Apr. 2011.

Xinbing Wang, Wentao Huang, Shangxing Wang, Jinbei Zhang, Chenhui Hu, "Optimal Spectrum Sharing in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks via Semidefinite Programming," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 2011.
2013: Best Young Researcher Award
Mathew McKay
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Feifei Gao | Kyoung-Jae Lee | Rongxing Lu | Hiroki Nishiyama | Caijun Zhong
Outstanding Paper Award
Masahiko Jinno, Bartlomiej Kozicki, Hidehiko Takara, Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshiaki Sone, Takafumi Tanaka, and Akira Hirano, "Distance-adaptive Spectrum Resource Allocation in Spectrum-sliced Elastic Optical Path Network," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 8, pp. 138–145, Aug. 2010
Zhisheng Niu, Yiqun Wu, Jie Gong, and Zexi Yang, "Cell Zooming for Cost-Efficient Green Cellular Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 48 , no. 11, pp. 74–79, Nov. 2010
Kyoung-Jae Lee, Hakjea Sung, Eunsung Park, and Inkyu Lee, "Joint Optimization for One and Two-way MIMO AF Multiple-relay Systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no.12, pp. 3671–3681, Dec. 2010
2012: Best Young Researcher Award
Dusit Niyato
for contributions to Wireless Communications
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Chan Byoung Chae | Sudip Misra | Lingyang Song | Chau Yuen | Chi Zhang
Outstanding Paper Award
Yonghong Zeng, and Ying-chang Liang, "Eigenvalue-based spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp.1784-1793, June 2009
2011: Best Young Researcher Award
Rui Zhang
for contributions to Wireless Communications
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Jiming Chen | Himal A. Suraweera | Shinya Sugiura | Chee Wei Tan | Wenyi Zhang
2010: Best Young Researcher Award
Wei Chen
for his contribution to Research Cooperative Communications and Network Information Theory
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Ting See Ho | Y.W. Peter Hong | Bang Chul Jung
2009: Best Young Researcher Award
Tarik Taleb
for his contribution to Research on Mobile Multimedia Streaming and Wireless Networking
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Jianwei Huang | Sangheon Pack | Meixia Tao | Xinbing Wang | Wei Zhang

Membership

IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award

Eligibility

Selection Criteria

Award Prize

Nomination and Selection Process

Important Dates for 2025

IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

Eligibility

Selection Criteria

Award Prize

Nomination and Selection Processes

Important Dates for 2025

IEEE ComSoC Asia-Pacific WICE Outstanding Achievement Award

Eligibility Criteria

Award Prize

Nomination and Selection Process

Important Dates For 2025

2024 Winners

Past Winners