Rate My Professor Zhangyu Guan

Zhangyu Guan served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he joined as Assistant Professor in August 2018. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems from Shandong University, China, in 2010, after serving as a visiting Ph.D. student at the University at Buffalo from 2009 to 2010. He also holds a B.S. in Communication Engineering from Shandong University in 2003. His career trajectory includes Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at the University at Buffalo (2012-2015) and Northeastern University (2015-2016), Associate Research Scientist at Northeastern University (2016-2018), and Assistant Professor at Shandong University (2011-2015).

Guan directs the Wireless Intelligent Networking and Security (WINGS) Lab, focusing on zero-touch computing and networking, space-air-ground integrated networking, wireless network security, and software and testbed infrastructure for future networks. His projects feature WNOS for principled software-defined wireless networking, CellOS for zero-touch softwarized open cellular networks, UnionLabs for cloud-based testbed sharing, and advancements in UAV networks, mmWave/THz communications, and spectrum coexistence. Since joining UB, he has secured sponsored research exceeding $3.96 million total, with his share over $1.84 million as PI or co-PI on NSF and AFRL grants. Key awards include Best Paper Award First Runner-up at IEEE Future Networks World Forum (2022), IEEE CTU Connecting the Unconnected Challenge Prize 2nd Place (2021), Best Paper Award Runner-up at IEEE INFOCOM Workshop (2020), and Distinguished TPC Member Award at IEEE INFOCOM (2018). His publications in premier venues like IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking have garnered over 1,400 citations with an h-index of 18. Representative works are 'Beam Learning in MmWave/THz-band Drone Networks Under In-Flight Mobility Uncertainties' (IEEE TMC, 2022), 'WNOS: Enabling Principled Software-Defined Wireless Networking' (ToN, 2021), 'SwarmControl: An Automated Distributed Control Framework for Self-Optimizing Drone Networks' (INFOCOM, 2020), and 'CU-LTE: Spectrally-Efficient and Fair Coexistence between LTE and Wi-Fi' (INFOCOM, 2016). He contributes editorially to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, serves on TPCs for major conferences, and teaches courses including Principles of Networking and Programmable Networks.