About Me

I am a third-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 interests are 1) multimedia system and networking with applications of adaptive video streaming, cloud VR gaming, and live 360 video; 2) underwater communication on mobile devices. Previously, I did some research in wireless communication with a focus on multiple access and resource allocation.

I really enjoy water-related sports like swimming, SCUBA diving, and surfing, but I'm always interested in exploring various activities.

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Publications

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), 2025

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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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