Renjie Zhao is an assistant professor of computer science at the Johns Hopkins University. Zhao’s research interests center around wireless networking and mobile computing, with a particular focus on next-generation wireless network architectures (5G millimeter wave, 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 ubiquitous communication and sensing systems (smart homes, virtual/augmented reality, localization, ultra-reliable RFID for supply chains).
His research has been published in conjunction with several top conferences, including ACM’s 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’s 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 GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, the flagship quarterly publication of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing.
He received a bachelor’s in electric power engineering and automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2018 before completing an MS (2020) and a PhD (2023) in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California San Diego.