Shiwei Ren received the B.Eng. degree in information engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2013. In 2013, she joined the Faculty of the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology. Her current research interests include direction-of-arrival estimation, sparse array design, and array signal processing.