Yuantao Gu
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- Name (Simplified Chinese):Yuantao Gu
- Name (English):Yuantao Gu
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- School/Department:Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Business Address:9-104, Rohm Building
- Contact Information:gyt@tsinghua.edu.cn
- Professional Title:Professor
- Status:Employed
- Academic Titles:Professor
- Teacher College:DZGCX
- Personal homepage:http://gu.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn

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Yuantao Gu received the B.E. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) from Tsinghua University, in 2003, both in electronic engineering.
In 2003, he joined the faculty of Tsinghua University and currently holds the position of Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering. During his career, he also served as a Visiting Scientist with Microsoft Research Asia from 2005 to 2006, with the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2013, and with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2015.
His research interests encompass high-dimensional statistics, sparse signal recovery, temporal-space, and graph signal processing, as well as related topics in wireless communications and information networks.
He has been an Elected Member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee since 2019. From 2019 to 2023, he served as a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Prior to that, he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2015 to 2019 and a Handling Editor for Elsevier Digital Signal Processing from 2015 to 2017. He was also an Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee from 2017 to 2022.
In recognition of his contributions, he has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award at IEEE GlobalSIP in 2015, the Award for Best Presentation of a Journal Paper at IEEE ChinaSIP in 2015, the Zhang Si-Ying (CCDC) Outstanding Youth Paper Award in 2017 (shared with one of his students), and the Best Paper Award at ICCSPS in 2019. Additionally, he has received the Outstanding Reviewer Award and Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award for his services at IEEE ICASSP in 2019 and for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 2021, respectively.
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- Standing Director, Teaching and Textbook Research Association for Circuits, Signals and Systems in Higher Education Institutions (China)
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Senior Area Editor (SAE), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- Editorial Board Member, China Communications (Journal)
- Member, IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (SPTM TC)
- Member, IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP TC)
- Member, Committee on Mathematics and Industry, Chinese Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM)

1.1998.9-2003.7
Tsinghua University | Electronic Engineering, | Doctoral degree
2.1994.9-1998.7
Xi’an Jiaotong University | Electronic Engineering | Bachelor's degree

1.2018.12-Now
Tsinghua Univeristy | Department of Electronic Engineering | Professor
2.2015.9-2015.10
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Senior Visiting Professor
3.2013.5-2013.8
Standord University | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Visiting Scholar
4.2012.8-2013.5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Visiting Scientist
5.2006.12-2018.12
Tsinghua University, | Department of Electronic Engineering | Associate Professor, Professor
6.2003.8-2006.12
Tsinghua University | Department of Electronic Engineering | Lecturer

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