Education

UBC, Vancouver PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sept. 2016--Aug. 2020 GPA: 95/100

UBC, Okanagan M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Jan. 2015--July 2016 GPA: 95/100

Xidian University B.Eng. in Telecommunication Engineering Sept. 2007--July 2011 GPA: 85/100

Visiting Experiences

	Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Host Professor: Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis Project: Secure Machine Learning July 2019--Oct. 2019
	Broadband Information Transmission and Signaling (BITS) Lab., The University of Texas at Dallas Host Professor: Prof. Naofal Al-Dhahir Project: Secure Communications With SWIPT July 2017--Aug. 2017

Awards

• President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, 2020
• British Columbia Graduate Scholarship, 2019
• MITACS Globalink Research Award, 2019
• Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications of 2018 and 2019 (less than 2%)
• Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Communications Letters of 2018 (approximately 10%)
• Graduate Support Initiative (GSI) Award of UBC Vancouver, 2016, 2017, 2018
• IEEE Student Travel Grant for ICC 2018
• UBC Four-year Fellowship of UBC Vancouver, 2016

Yanjie Dong received the B. Eng. in telecommunication engineering from Xidian University, China, 2011, M.A.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan, 2016, and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UBC, Vancouver, 2020. He works under the guidance of Prof. Victor C. M. Leung. Prof. Md. Jahangir Hossain and Prof. Julian Cheng are his co-supervisors. His research interests focus on the protocol design of energy-efficient communications, machine learning, and large-scale optimizaition. He was the Webmaster of IEEE Student Branch of UBC, Okanagan campus. He served as the Webmaster of 28th Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC'16), and Web Committee Chair of 6th International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets'16). He also serves/served as the Technical Program Committee Member in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'18 and ICC'19), IEEE ICC'18 Workshop on Integrating UAV into 5G, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'19'21), IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall'18 and VTC-Spring'19), IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC'17 and ICCC'18), International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'18), EAI International Conference on 5G for Future Wireless Networks (5GWN'19).