{"id":4586,"date":"2024-11-05T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/renjie-zhao\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:46:38","slug":"renjie-zhao","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/renjie-zhao\/","title":{"rendered":"Renjie Zhao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renjie Zhao is an assistant professor of computer science at the Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute. Zhao\u2019s research interests center around wireless networking and mobile computing,<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>with a particular focus on next-generation wireless network architectures (5G millimeter wave,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>6G joint communication and sensing, Internet of Things), novel radio hardware and software design (software-defined radio, wireless brain interfaces, low-power ultra-wide-band) and\u00a0ubiquitous communication and sensing systems (smart homes, virtual\/augmented reality, localization, ultra-reliable RFID for supply chains).<\/p>\n<p>His research has been published in conjunction with several top conferences, including <span>ACM\u2019s Special Interest Group of Data Communication, the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), and the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. Zhao\u2019s work on massive multiple-input, multiple-output, millimeter-wave software radio won a Best Paper Award at MobiCom 2020; this project was additionally highlighted in <\/span><em><span>GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, <\/span><\/em><span>the flagship quarterly publication of the ACM\u2019s Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He received a bachelor\u2019s in electric power engineering and automation from <span>Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2018 before completing an MS (2020) and a PhD (2023) in <\/span><span>electrical and computer engineering at the University of California San Diego.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4586","people","type-people","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Renjie Zhao - Doctor of Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/renjie-zhao\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Renjie Zhao - Doctor of Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Renjie Zhao is an assistant professor of computer science at the Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute. 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