Faculty Profile

Professor Fan is a tenured professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University and the director of Open-Source Data Recognition Innovation Center. He is a member of the US National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (US-NAAI), co-chair of the academic committee of the NAAI Asia Research Institute, and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, he was a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Delaware in the United States. He has also visited many universities and research institutes in the United States, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore on multiple occasions. His recent main research directions include 6G wireless communication networks and machine learning, semantic information theory and generalized information theory, big data processing theory, and intelligent network and system detection.

He has presided over national 973 and 863 projects, mobile special projects, key R & D plans, national natural science funds, and international cooperation projects and subjects. He has published more than 600 academic papers (ORCID), among which more than 170 have been published in IEEE journals and more than 10 are ESI highly cited papers. He has applied for more than 40 national patents and 7 international patents, and has written 5 academic works. He has won 10 IEEE international conference best paper awards, including IEEE ICCCS 2024, ICC 2020, and Globecom 2014, the IEEE TAOS 2020 best paper award of the year, the 2024 high impact paper award of the Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE), the IEEE TWC (2009) outstanding journal editorial board award. He also received the AEIC (2023) Most Popular Scholar Award, the 2023 Natural Science Second Prize from the China Communications Society, the DCASE2024 Challenge Judges' Award and the NAAI 2025 AI Exploration Award.

He serves as an editorial board member for several journals, including IEEE and MDPI, such as IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) (2024-2026), the editorial board member of the Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences, and the editorial board member of IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJAI) (2023-2026). He is also the vice chairman of the Information Theory Branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the co-chair of the China 6G-ANA TG4, and the chairman of the IEEE ChinaSIP Network and Communication Technology Committee. He has served as the conference chair, technical committee chair, or delivered keynote speeches at international conferences more than 40 times.