Dr. Yufei Zhao received the B.Eng. degree (Outstanding Graduates) in Electronic Information Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, China, in 2020. From 2020 to 2021, he worked as a Senior Engineer at Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., China. From 2021, he worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His current research interests include wireless communication engineering, electromagnetic science, reconfigurable meta-surface, and orbital angular momentum (OAM) technologies. Dr. Zhao has 2 filed patents and 5 granted patents. He serves as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Internet of Things Journal. He is the guest chair of the Network, Sensors, and Electronics Journal. He served as the session Chair for the VTC2024-Spring, the IEEE APMC 2024, and the IEEE PIMRC 2025. He was also the recipient of the Young Scientist Award of SWA in both 2022 and 2024, and the Best Paper Award of the 2025 International Conference on Internet of Things, Communication and Intelligent Technology (IoTCIT 2025), and the Best Student Paper (Supervisor), Young Scientist Award of Progress In 2025 Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2025).
Young Scientist Award
Progress In 2025 Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2025)
Young Scientist Award
Singapore Workshop of Antennas
In both 2022 and 2024
Best Paper Award
2025 International Conference on Internet of Things, Communication and Intelligent Technology
IoTCIT 2025
Best Student Paper (1st Prize, Supervisor)
Progress In 2025 Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2025)

Travel Award
MDPI
Awarded by Sensors in 2025
Post Doctoral Researcher
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
01 Dec 2021 - present
Senior Scientist or Principal Investigator
Huawei Technologies (China), Shenzhen, China
01 Jul 2020 - 01 Dec 2021
Graduate Student or Post Graduate
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
01 Aug 2014 - 01 Jun 2020
Undergraduate Student
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
01 Sep 2010 - 01 Jun 2014