Si‑Yu Zhang received his B.A.Sc. degree from the Jilin University, China, in 2014 and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in 2016 and 2021, respectively. He is currently working at Beijing Information Science and Technology University (BISTU). His current research interests include PAPR reduction techniques, OFDM, and OFDM-IM systems, coding, and information theory, especially the design of polar decoders for 5G wireless networks. He is a Member of the IEEE.