High-speed optical fibre communication transmission technology

Photonics-assisted millimetre-wave generation, transmission and detection technology

Integrated sensing and communication technology for beyond 5G and 6G wireless communications

Deep neural network algorithms for intelligent communications

Committee Member, “Microelectronics and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices” Expert Committee, National Materials and Device Scientist Think Tank; Youth Editorial Board Member, Laser & Optoelectronics Progress.

Session Chair, “Space-division multiplexing” at OECC 2023, WCSP 2020, and the 7th Optical Young Scientist Academic Annual Conference.

First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2023

Silver Medal, Geneva International Invention Exhibition, 2023

Second Prize of Technological Invention Award, China Instrument and Control Society, 2024

Second Prize of Natural Science Award, Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award, 2022

First Prize of Achievement Award, China Invention Association Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award, 2022

Fudan University Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021

First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese Optical Engineering Society, 2020

Outstanding Academic Paper Award, Nanjing Natural Science, 2018

“Women in IEEE Photonics Travel Grant” (20 recipients worldwide annually), 2017

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2016

Jan. 2021 – present: Associate Professor, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University

Oct. 2018 – Aug. 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Sept. 2016 – Dec. 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Electronic Science and Technology Mobile Station, Fudan University

Sept. 2010 – Jul. 2016: Ph.D., School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

2005–2009: Undergraduate, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

1.Jianyu Long; Wen Zhou* ; Jianjun Yu; Chen Wang; Long Zhang; Bohan Sang ; Net 562.5-Gbps/λ 2×2 MIMO Optical Wireless Transmission System at 322 GHz with Sampling Frequency Offset Compensation, Journal of lightwave technology , 2025（ECOC Top-scored）

2. M. Wang; Jianjun Yu; Xianmin Zhao; Wen Zhou*, "Research on Orthogonal Time Frequency Space in a 125-GHz mmWave Indoor Wireless Communication System," in Journal of Lightwave Technology , doi: 10.1109/JLT.2025.3552366.

3. Wen Zhou* ; Siqi Wang; Sicong Xu; Qihang Wang ; Frequency-Domain Complex-Valued NN Equalizer Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Photonics-Assisted W-Band 16QAM-DMT Signals System Over 50 m, Journal of Lightwave Technology , 2025, 43(6): 2651-2663

4. Xiongwei yang; W en Zhou* ; Xianmin Zhao; Jianjun Yu ; 32-Gb/s CAP Signals Wireless Delivery at D-Band Over 4.6 Km Based on Photonics-Aided Technology and Envelope Detection, Journal of lightwave technology, 2024, 42(14): 4809-4817

5. Qihang Wang; Wen Zhou* ; Sicong Xu; Bohan Sang; Yuxuan Tan; Tangyao Xie ; A novel B-ROS Re-balanced learning method for PS-A-RoF FWA comunication, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , 2023, 16(2): 206-220

6. Wen Zhou *, Junting Shi, Li Zhao, Kaihui Wang, Chen Wang, Yanyi Wang, Miao Kong, Feng Wang, Cuiwei Liu, Junjie Ding, Jianjun Yu. “Comparison of Real- and Complex-Valued NN Equalizers for Photonics-Aided 90-Gbps D-band PAM-4 Coherent Detection.” Journal of Lightwave Technology.2021, 39(21): 6858-6868.

7. Wen Zhou* , Li Zhao, Jiao Zhang, Kaihui Wang, Jianjun Yu, You-Wei Chen, Shuyi Shen and Gee-Kung Chang. “135-GHz D-band 60-Gbps PAM-8 wireless transmission employing a joint DNN equalizer with BP and CMMA.” Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020, 38(14):3592-3601.

8. Wen Zhou* , Li Zhao, Jiao Zhang, Kaihui Wang, “Four sub-channel single sideband generation of vector mmwave based on an I/Q modulator, ” IEEE Photonics Journal, 2019, 11(4):1-9.

9. Wen Zhou* , Xinying Li, Jianjun Yu. Pre-coding assisted generation of a frequency quadrupled optical vector D-band millimeter wave with one Mach-Zehnder modulator. Optics Express, 2017, 25(22):26483-26491.

10. Wen Zhou* , Jianjun Yu, Li Zhao, et al. Few-subcarrier QPSK-OFDM wireless Ka-band delivery with pre-coding-assisted frequency doubling[C]//Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2020). Optical Society of America, 2020: Th2A. 45.

11. Wen Zhou , Pengqi Gou, Kaihui Wang, Miao Kong, Xinying Li, Li Zhao, Zihang Zhu, and Jianjun Yu*. “PAM-4 Wireless Transmission based on Look-up-table Pre-distortion and CMMA Equalization at V-band.” in Proc. Optical Fiber Communication Conf. (OFC’18), San Diego, California, USA, 2018.3.11-3.15, Paper Th2A.60.

12.Jiao Zhang, Jianjun Yu*, Xinying Li, Yiran Wei, Kaihui Wang, Li Zhao, Wen Zhou, Jiangnan Xiao, Xiaolong Pan, Bo Liu, Xiangjun Xin, Liwei Zhang and Yun Zhang, ‘Demonstration of 100-Gb/s/λ PAM-4 Transmission over 45- km SSMF Using one 10G-class DML in the C-band’, Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2019, (2019 OFC PDP).

13.Xinying Li , Jianjun Yu* , Li Zhao, Kaihui Wang , Can Wang , Mingming Zhao, Wen Zhou, and Jiangnan Xiao, “1-Tb/s Photonics-aided Vector Millimeter-Wave Signal Wireless Delivery at D-Band,” Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2018, PDP. (2018 OFC PDP)

14. Xinying Li, Jianjun Yu*, Kaihui Wang, Yuming Xu, Long Chen, Li Zhao, and Wen Zhou. Bidirectional delivery of 54-Gbps 8QAM W-band signal and 32-Gbps 16QAM K-band signal over 20-km SMF-28 and 2500-m wireless distance. In 2017 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), (2017 OFC PDP).