Dr Yansha Deng
Reader in Engineering
- Senior Editor, IEEE Communications Letter
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communication
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications
- Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
Research interests
- Engineering
Biography
Dr Yansha Deng is a Reader in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. She joined KCL as a postdoc in 2015 and become a lecturer in 2017.
Yansha has extensive research experience in 5G & 6G wireless communications, and multi-scale communications, where she conducted interdisciplinary research across machine learning, wireless communication, molecular communications, chemistry, and biology disciplines. Until 2023, she has received the EPSRC NIA award, secured more than £2.6 million of research funding as the Principal Investigator, and £14 million of research funding as the Co-Investigator from EPSRC, Horizon Europe, Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), Innovate UK, industrial funds, etc.
She has published 100+ journal papers, 60+ 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 IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region in 2021.
She is currently the Senior Editor of IEEE Communications Letters since 2020, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017, the Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials since 2022, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking since 2022, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications since 2019, the Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society since 2019 and the Vertical Area Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Magazine since 2021. She has been a frequent invited speaker in IEEE Infocom, Globecom, ICC, PIMRC, EuCNC, etc.
Research Interests
- Task-oriented Semantic-aware Communications
- Wireless AI and Edge AI
- Microfluidic Molecular Communication
More Information
Research
Communication & Information Engineering
Managing information and connecting human activities
Data-Centric Engineering
Applying machine learning to engineering challenges
Centre for Telecommunications Research
A global leader in telecommunications and data and information processing
Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London
CUSP London is a collaboration between King’s College London and New York University, which brings together researchers, businesses, local authorities and government agencies, to apply data science and visual analytics to challenges in and for London.
Communication & Information Engineering
Managing information and connecting human activities
Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
Research centre focusing on intelligent information systems, encompassing hardware-software co-design, nanoscale information systems, signal processing, information engineering, and quantum information processing.
News
First of-its-kind molecular communication system developed by King's engineers
The new platform could revolutionise drug delivery and detection of dangerous chemicals.
King's engineer awarded Horizon Europe grant to build connected future for healthcare and smart cities
The AI-powered computing infrastructure could support wide scale improvements in healthcare and traffic safety
'Diversity is the key to innovation': King's ushers in next generation of engineers at first Girls into Electronics event
School age girls were invited to learn the basics of electronics and engineering at the Quad Labs earlier this month.
King's joins £12 million project investing in future of 6G communication systems
The research is part of the government’s strategic investment in UK telecommunications.
King's Senior Lecturer wins IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award
Dr Yansha Deng is the 2021 recipient of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for...
Deng & Nallanathan win best paper
A paper written by Yansha Deng, a research associate and Professor Arumugam Nallanathan both in the Department of Informatics at King’s has won the best paper...
King's Engineers developing pollution tracking device to support climate change action
A collaborative of researchers led by Dr Yansha Deng and Dr Daniel Schillereff from the Departments of Engineering and Geography are developing a low-cost air...
Research
Communication & Information Engineering
Managing information and connecting human activities
Data-Centric Engineering
Applying machine learning to engineering challenges
Centre for Telecommunications Research
A global leader in telecommunications and data and information processing
Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London
CUSP London is a collaboration between King’s College London and New York University, which brings together researchers, businesses, local authorities and government agencies, to apply data science and visual analytics to challenges in and for London.
Communication & Information Engineering
Managing information and connecting human activities
Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
Research centre focusing on intelligent information systems, encompassing hardware-software co-design, nanoscale information systems, signal processing, information engineering, and quantum information processing.
News
First of-its-kind molecular communication system developed by King's engineers
The new platform could revolutionise drug delivery and detection of dangerous chemicals.
King's engineer awarded Horizon Europe grant to build connected future for healthcare and smart cities
The AI-powered computing infrastructure could support wide scale improvements in healthcare and traffic safety
'Diversity is the key to innovation': King's ushers in next generation of engineers at first Girls into Electronics event
School age girls were invited to learn the basics of electronics and engineering at the Quad Labs earlier this month.
King's joins £12 million project investing in future of 6G communication systems
The research is part of the government’s strategic investment in UK telecommunications.
King's Senior Lecturer wins IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award
Dr Yansha Deng is the 2021 recipient of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for...
Deng & Nallanathan win best paper
A paper written by Yansha Deng, a research associate and Professor Arumugam Nallanathan both in the Department of Informatics at King’s has won the best paper...
King's Engineers developing pollution tracking device to support climate change action
A collaborative of researchers led by Dr Yansha Deng and Dr Daniel Schillereff from the Departments of Engineering and Geography are developing a low-cost air...