Yansha Deng is a Professor of Intelligent Communications Systems in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London. She joined King's as a postdoctoral Research Associate in 2015 and become a lecturer in 2017.

Yansha has extensive research experience in 5G & 6G wireless networks and multi-scale communications, where she conducted interdisciplinary research across machine learning, wireless communication, robotics, computer vision, molecular communications, chemistry, and biology disciplines. As of writing in October 2025, she has secured more than £4 million in research funding as the Principal Investigator and £14 million as the Co-Investigator, from EPSRC, ERC, Horizon Europe, Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), Innovate UK, industrial funds, etc. She has received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant and the EPSRC NIA award. She is the Mercator Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, for the DFG-funded project “Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Different Scales: From Theory to Experiments (SyMoCADS )” from 2024 to 2029.

Yansha has published over 130 journal papers (including Nature Communications), more than 70 IEEE/ACM conference papers, and 2 patents. She was a recipient of the Best Paper Awards from ICC 2016 and GLOBECOM 2017 as the first author and the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region in 2021.

Her Nature Communications paper has been featured in PharmaTimes, one of the UK’s leading pharmaceutical magazines targeting medical audiences, on the article “KCL molecular communication system to revolutionise drug delivery ”. Her JSAC paper on goal-oriented semantic communication for visual question answering has been demonstrated with Nokia Bell Labs, the University of Bristol, and Samsung UK at the Mobile World Congress 2025 for warehouse inventory monitoring in Nokia’s Omniverse warehouse model. Her TCOM paper on goal-oriented semantic communication for extended reality has been demonstrated with VIAVI Marconi Lab and Nokia Bell Labs at the Mobile World Congress 2025 for 3D weather forecasting. She has close collaborations with the R&D team at Toshiba UK, Ericsson, Nokia Bell Labs, Samsung UK, VIAVI Marconi Lab, Intel, etc.

Research Interests

• Goal-oriented Semantic Communications
• Wireless AI and Edge AI
• Network for Agent AI and LLM
• Molecular Communication

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