I am currently a first year Ph.D. student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami, under the supervision of Mingzhe Chen. I received my BEng degree from the College of Intelligent System, Shenzhen, Sun Yat-sen University, China, in 2025, under the guidance of Shimin Gong in WinsLab.

My research is primarily centered around but not limited to real-time optimization, machine learning, UAV, and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) in wireless communication and semantic communication. Welcome to any collaboration, and feel free to reach out to me!

News

• [Jan/2026] My first paper during the Ph.D was accepted by ICC 2026!

Papers

Ongoing Work

Defeng Zhou, Mingzhe Chen, “Optimization of Image Transmission with Channel and Content Preference Feedbacks in a Cooperative Semantic Communication Networks”

HighLights

[Jan/2026] Defeng Zhou, Dongyu Wei, Ye Hu, Siyao Li, Mingzhe Chen, “Semantic Communication Performance Optimization with Channel and Content Preference Feedbacks”, accepted by IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2026)

[Apr/2025] Defeng Zhou, Lanhua Li, Shimin Gong, Bo Gu, Gaojie Chen, Dusit Niyato. “Learning Adaptive Jamming and Beamforming for Hybrid IRS-assisted Secure NOMA Transmissions”, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communication.

[Mar/2024] Defeng Zhou, Shimin Gong, Lanhua Li, Bo Gu, Mohsen Guizani. “Deep Reinforcement Learning for IRS-assisted Secure NOMA Transmissions Against Eavesdroppers”, accepted by The 20th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2024)

[Nov/2023] Jiehui Huang, Zhenchao Tang, Xuedong He, Jun Zhou, Defeng Zhou, Calvin Yu-Chian Chen. “Progressive network based on detail scaling and texture extraction: A more general framework for image deraining”, accepted by Neurocomputing

Awards

International

First Prize, 12th Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Also Best Programming Award and Best New Media Award), 2022

Domestic

Finalist, LingxiGames Cup(Programming Competition of Sun Yat-sen University), 2023

Silver Prize, 13th MathorCup Mathematical Modeling Challenge for Colleges and Universities, 2023

Scholarship

The Third Prize Scholarship (top 25%), Sun Yat-sen University 2022-2023 Academic Scholarship, 2023

Interdisciplinary Talent Award, Sun Yat-sen University Intelligent Medical Interdisciplinary Talent Training Fund (Only 6 students in the whole college), 2023

The First Prize Scholarship (top 5%), Sun Yat-sen University 2021-2022 Academic Scholarship, 2022

Ethics Award, Sun Yat-sen University 2021-2022 Specialized Scholarships, 2022

Academic Services

1. TPC Member of IEEE International Conference on Communications, Vehicular Technology Conference
2. Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking Neural Computing and Applications.
3. Reviewer of IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE INFOCOM.

Teaching Experience

1. Graduate Teaching Assistant of Digital Design Laboratory

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