Xianfu Lei is currently a Full Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU). He received the Ph.D. degree from SWJTU in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah State University. His research interests are in the fields of communication theory and wireless networks. He has published nearly 150 technical papers in scientific journals and international conferences. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at WCSP’18, IEEE ICCC’20, and IEEE VTS Best Magazine Paper Award in 2023. He is serving as an executive editor for IEEE Communications Letters and an editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He was an area/senior editor for IEEE Communications Letters. He also served as symposium/track and workshop chairs for major IEEE conferences, including symposium co-chair for IEEE ICC’18.

Professional Services:

Executive Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (2023-now)

Area/Senior/Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (2014-2023)

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (2020-now)

Associate Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2020-now)

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2022-now)

Recent Publications：

[1] Mingjiang Wu, Xianfu Lei,  Daniel Benevides da Costa, “STAR-RIS-Assisted Full-Duplex Symbiotic Radio”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters,  accepted, 2024.

[2] Meng Shen, Li Li, Xianfu Lei, "Robust Beamforming for Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Secure Cognitive NOMA Systems", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, major revision, 2024.

[3] Meng Shen, Xianfu Lei, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Xiaohu Tang, Rose Qingyang Hu, Pingzhi Fan, "Robust Transmission Design for IRS-Aided Secure Cognitive Radio Systems Against Internal Eavesdropping",  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, major revision, 2024.

[4] Meng Shen, Xianfu Lei, Xiangyun Zhou, George K. Karagiannidis, "Robust Secure Design for STAR-RIS-Assisted MIMO Communications", IEEE Transactions on Communications, major revision, 2023.

[5] Xiangjun Ma, Xianfu Lei,  P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Daniel Benevides da Costa, “Active STAR-RIS Aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO: A Performance Study”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,  DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3319407, to appear, 2023.

[6] Xiangjun Ma, Xianfu Lei, Xiangyun Zhou, Xiaohu Tang, “Secrecy Performance Evaluation of Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems: A Stochastic Geometry Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security,  vol. 18, pp. 2826-2841, May 2023.

[7] Xiangjun Ma, Xianfu Lei, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Kai Yu, Xiaohu Tang, “Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems with Finite Resolution ADCs/DACs over Spatially Correlated Rician Fading Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,  vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 7699-7716, Jun. 2023.

[8] Meng Shen, Xianfu Lei, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Rose Qingyang Hu, "Robust Beamforming Design for IRS-Aided Secure Communication Systems Under Complete Imperfect CSI",  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 8204-8209, Jun. 2023.

[9] Mingjiang Wu, Xianfu Lei, Xiangyun Zhou, Xiaohu Tang, Octavia A. Dobre, "RIS-Assisted Energy- and Spectrum-Efficient Symbiotic Transmission in NOMA Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 2801-285, May 2023.

[10] Juanjuan Ren, Xianfu Lei, Zhangjie Peng, Xiaohu Tang, Octavia A. Dobre, “RIS-Assisted Cooperative NOMA with SWIPT”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 446-450, Mar. 2023.

[11] Jianglong Li, Xianfu Lei, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis, Lisheng Fan, George K. Karagiannidis, “Security Optimization of Cooperative NOMA Networks with Friendly Jamming”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 13422-13428, Dec. 2022.

[12] Xianfu Lei, Mingjiang Wu, Fuhui Zhou, Xiaohu Tang, Rose Qingyang Hu, Pingzhi Fan, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Symbiotic Radio for 6G: Design, Challenges, and Opportunities”, IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 210-216, Oct. 2021.

[13] Mingjiang Wu, Xianfu Lei, Xiangyun Zhou, Yue Xiao, Xiaohu Tang, Rose Qingyang Hu, "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Spatial Modulation for Symbiotic Radio",  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 12918-12931, Dec. 2021.

[14] Juanjuan Ren, Xianfu Lei, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, “Jointly Adaptive Distributed Beamforming and Resource Allocation for Buffer-Aided Multiple-Relay NOMA Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Communications,vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 7603-7617, Nov. 2021.

[15] Juanjuan Ren, Xianfu Lei, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis, Fuhui Zhou, Xiaohu Tang,  Octavia A. Dobre, “NOMA for Wireless Powered Communication Networks with Buffered Sources”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 9, pp. 9088-9102, Sept. 2021.

[16] Xiangjun Ma, Xianfu Lei, Wei Xu, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, “Performance Analysis of TDD Multicell Massive MIMO Systems with Non-orthogonal Pilots and Hardware Imperfections in Rician Fading Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1347-1364, Feb. 2021.

[17] Jianglong Li,  Xianfu Lei, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis, Fuhui Zhou, Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis, George K. Karagiannidis, “Resource Allocation in Buffer-aided Cooperative Non-orthogonal Multiple Access Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 7429-7445, Dec. 2020. 

[18] Juanjuan Ren, Xianfu Lei, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis, Qingchun Chen, George K. Karagiannidis, “Buffer-aided Secure Relay Networks with SWIPT”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 6485-6499, Jun. 2020.