Brief Biography

Dr. Wei Quan (Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D degree in Communication and Information System from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China in 2014. He currently is a Full Professor at School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU). Commencing from Sep. 2017 to Sep. 2018, he is a Visiting Scientist at BBCR Lab, Department of ECE, University of Waterloo, Canada, supervised by Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen.

His research interests include key technologies for network analytics, transmission and networking protocols, industrial IoT, and vehicular networks. He has published more than 100 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences including IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, IFIP Networking, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM.

He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, IEEE ACCESS (IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Section), IET Networks. He also serves as technical reviewers for many important international journals, including IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers and so on. He is also the TPC Member of IEEE GLOBECOM (2018, 2021, 2022, 2023), IEEE ICC (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022), IEEE INFOCOM 2020 New IP, ACM MOBIMEDIA (2015, 2016, 2017) and IEEE CCIS (2015, 2016).

He is a winner of Excellent Young Scholar of NSFC, a winner of 2022 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, a Chief Young Scientist of National Key Research and Development Program of China, and the winners of five Best Paper Awards. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and CIC (China Institute of Communications).

Honors & Awards

• First Prize (Provincial-Ministerial Level), Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education of China, for “Key Technologies and Applications of High-Efficiency Collaborative Management and Control for Rail Transit under Networked Operation”, 2025, Rank 4/15.
• Innovation Star of the Beijing Nova Program, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, 2023.
• First Prize, Chinese Association of Automation Award, 2023, Rank 4/15.
• First Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award of Henan Province, for “Independent and Controllable Intelligent Key Technologies and Applications for Industrial Internet”, 2023, Rank 3/15.
• IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, IEEE Communications Society, 2022 (sole recipient).
• First Prize, China Institute of Communications Award, 2022, Rank 2/15.
• First Prize, China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Achievement Award, 2022, Rank 2/10.
• Best Paper Award, for paper “Space-air-ground integrated networks: review and prospect”, Chinese Journal on Internet of Things, 2020 (only 3 winners in total each year)
• Best Paper Award, for paper “Optimization Design of P4 Software Switch based on DPDK”, The 3rd Advanced Computing and Endogenous Security Conference, Nanjing, China, 2018
• Best Paper Award, for paper “A SINET-based communication architecture for Smart Grid”, International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), Sydney, Australia, 2015

Professional Activities

• Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
• Associate editor, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA)
• Associate editor, IEEE ACCESS (IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Section)
• Guest Editor, Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN)
• Guest Editor, IET Networks
• Associate editor, Journal of Internet Technology (JIT)
• TPC member, IEEE ICC 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
• TPC member, IEEE WCSP 2019
• TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM New IP Workshop 2020
• TPC member, IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Publication chair, IEEE CSE 2021

Last updated: 2026-10-15