About Me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Klara Nahrstedt at the Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking (MONET) group.

My current research interest is multimedia system and networking with applications of adaptive video streaming and live 360 video.

Before that, I obtained my master degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the Institute of Wireless Communication Technology (IWCT) where I worked on wireless 360 video streaming and rate splitting in wireless communication.

I enjoy various sports including swimming, SCUBA diving, badminton, basketball, ice skating, and so on. I am a huge fan of Japanese animes and T-ara: ).

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Interests
  • Multimedia System and Networking
  • Wireless Communication
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Optimization
Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2022-

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

  • Master in Electronic Engineering, 2019-2022

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  • Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, 2015-2019

    Shanghai University, China

Publications

Conferences
Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Yuhang Jia, Yunfei Zhang, Klara Nahrstedt Enhancing neural adaptive wireless video streaming via lower-layer information exposure.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024

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Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Sheng Yang, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Yunbo Han Yunfei Zhang Rate splitting for general multicast.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2022

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Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Chengjun Guo, Zhi Liu, Sheng Yang Optimal streaming of 360 VR videos with perfect, imperfect and unknown FoV viewing probabilities.
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2020

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Journals
Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Yuhang Jia, Yunfei Zhang, Klara Nahrstedt Enhancing neural adaptive wireless video streaming via lower-layer information exposure and online tuning.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia (TMM), under review

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Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Sheng Yang, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) An optimization framework for general rate splitting for general multicast.
IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. (TWC), 2022

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Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Zhi Liu, Yunfei Zhang, Sheng Yang Adaptive streaming of 360 videos with perfect, imperfect, and unknown FoV viewing probabilities in wireless networks.
IEEE Trans. Image Process. (TIP), 2021

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Chengjun Guo, Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Zhi Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Power-efficient wireless streaming of multi-quality tiled 360 VR video in MIMO-OFDMA systems.
IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. (TWC), 2021

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