2025 Member-at-Large - Latin America/North America Region Candidate

Position Statement

Greetings! ComSoc has been my academic home for 37 years, I have the deepest affection for fellow members like family members and pledge my utmost commitment to serving them, especially young and student members who are the future of COMSOC.  I thank you for your support to run as your grass-root candidate for Member-at-Large. If elected, I vow to promote:

• Better service and value: I plan to expand reward programs for loyal COMSOC members to significantly reduce conference fees and membership dues. I initiated the first reward program to quadruple the ICC/Globecom discount for qualified COMSOC members and students in 2025.
• Better decision transparency: COMSOC must minimize wasteful spending. I have led to reverse a proposed $500k infrastructure cost without clear membership benefits and will continue such effort.
• Advancing global scientific collaboration against external interferences or pressure.
• High publication quality:  advocating for excellent editors, reviewers, conference organizers, and authors.

Biography 

Dr. Zhi Ding is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1990, MASc from University of Toronto (1987), and B.Eng. from Southeast University (1982). He previously taught at Auburn University and University of Iowa. He has co-authored over 500 peer-rGlobal eviewed papers and two books including Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Oxford University Press, with Dr. Lathi. 

Zhi is a Fellow of IEEE and currently serves on the Board of Governors as COMSOC Chief Marketing Officer. He was Technical Program Chair of 2006 Globecom and General Chair of 2016 IEEE ICASSP. He was COMSOC’s Chief Information Officer (2018-2022) and Parliamentarian (2022-24). He also was Chair of Transactions on Wireless Communications Steering Committee. He was Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CAS and COMSOC. He received Wireless Communications Recognition Award in 2012 and COMSOC Education Award in 2020.