Zuqing Zhu
Professor, PhD, IEEE Fellow
Director of INFINITE LAB,
School of Information Science and Technology,
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC),
Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China,
Call: (+86) 551-63600377,
Email: zqzhu@ieee.org, zqzhu@ustc.edu.cn.
Zuqing Zhu is a Full Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Since Jan. 2011, he has been leading the Intelligent Networking system & Future InterNet InfrasTructurE (INFINITE) Lab of USTC. Dr. Zhu has been the Chair of the Technical Committee on Optical Networking (ONTC) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) (2022-2023). He is currently the Lead Series Editor of the Optical Communications and Networks Series in IEEE Communications Magazine, the Area Editor of Optical Communications and Networking of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Optics Express, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), etc. Dr. Zhu is the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), and has been a Member-at-Large of the GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Committee and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2018-2021). He has published more than 370 papers in referred journals and conferences of IEEE and Optica. His h-index is 60 (Google Scholar, as of 02/2025), and his Google Scholar Profile is here. He has received the 2023 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from the Communications Switching and Routing Technical Committee (CSR-TC) of ComSoc, and the 2023 Malathi Veeraraghavan Service Award from the ONTC of ComSoc. Dr. Zhu is a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
From Jul. 2007 to Jan. 2011, Dr. Zhu was a Senior Software Engineer in the Service Provider Technology Group of Cisco. In July 2007, he got his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received the M.S. degree from the same department in Sept. 2003, and the B.S. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in July, 2001.
Area Editor:
Lead Series Editor:
- – Optical Communications and Networks Series, IEEE Communications Magazine (2024-)
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical Networks and Systems, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, China, Dec. 2025.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical and Grid Computing, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking & Communications (ICNC), Big Island, USA, Feb. 2024.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Future Optical Networks & Communications, IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Baltimore, USA, Nov. 2023.
- – Technical Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2023, Madrid, Spain, Jun. 2023.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical and Grid Computing, ICNC, Honolulu, USA, Feb. 2023.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, Jun. 2023.
- – Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Future Optical Networks & Communications, IEEE FNWF, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2022.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2021.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Track 3 (Networks Architectures, Management and Applications) at Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Beijing, China, Nov. 2020.
- – Technical Co-Chair, 24th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Barcelona, Spain, May 2020.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical Networks and Systems, IEEE ICC, Dublin, Ireland, Jun. 2020.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Track 3 (Networks Architectures, Management and Applications) at ACP, Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2018.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical and Grid Computing, ICNC, Kauai, USA, Feb. 2016.
- – Publicity Vice-Chair (Asia Parcific), IEEE GLOBECOM, San Diego, USA, Dec. 2015.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical and Grid Computing, ICNC, Anaheim, USA, Feb. 2015.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical and Grid Computing, ICNC, Honolulu, USA, Feb. 2014.
- – Technical Co-Chair, Symposium on Optical and Grid Computing, ICNC, San Diego, USA, Jan. 2013.
Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE):
- – Fellow of IEEE
- – Member of IEEE Photonics Society
- – Member of IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc)
- – IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, 2018-2021.
- – Member-at-Large of GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Committee, 2022-2023.
- – Steering Committee Chair of IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2022-.
- – Steering Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2018-2021.
IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Optical Networking (ONTC):
- – Chair, 2022-2023
- – Vice Chair, 2020-2021
- – Secretary, 2017-2019