6G, Wireless Communications and Networking, Internet of Things (IoT)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Bodong Shang (Member, IEEE) received his B.Eng. degree in the School of Information Science and Technology at Northwest University, Xi'an, China, in 2015, his M.S. degree in the School of Telecommunications Engineering at Xidian University affiliated with the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Network, Xi'an, China, in 2018, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech affiliated with Wireless@VT, Blacksburg, USA, in 2021. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor, distinguished researcher, and the Ph.D. supervisor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. He is also with the Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Industrial Intelligence and the Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin. He received the Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad in 2021, ``6G Rising Star Young Scholar in the Global 6G Conference 2024, and the outstanding paper of the 7th Space Information Network academic forum. He held a summer research internship position at Nokia Bell Labs, USA, in 2021. He was listed among the World's Top 2\% Scientists by Stanford University in 2024 and 2025. He serves as a youth editorial board member of the Journal of Information and Intelligence and a youth editorial board member of Telecommunications Science. He organized space-air-ground integrated networks-relevant workshops in the IEEE/CIC ICCC in 2024 and 2025, respectively. His current research areas are within space-air-ground-sea integrated networks, including satellite communications and networking, non-terrestrial networks, space information networks, and low-altitude intelligent networks.
Website: https://shangbodong.github.io
RESEARCH FIELD
6G, Wireless Communications and Networking, Internet of Things (IoT)
• Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN), non-terrestrial networks (NTN)
• Internet of vehicles (IoV), vehicle-to-everything (V2X)
• Artificial intelligence (AI) for 6G
• Edge computing
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2019-2021: Ph.D. (majoring in Electrical Engineering), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA
2015-2018: M.S. (majoring in Communication and Information Systems), School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, China
2011-2015: B.Eng. (majoring in Communications Engineering), School of Information Science and Technology, Northwestern University, China
WORK EXPERIENCE
2023-present: Assistant Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China
2022-2023: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2021-2021: Research Internship, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
2019-2019: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, USA
2019-2021: Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech, USA
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Youth Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Information and Intelligence
Youth Editorial Board Member of Telecommunications Science
IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Workshop chair, 2024, 2025
IEEE WCNC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IWCMC TPC Members
IET Communications，Guest Editor
Security and Communication Networks，Guest Editor
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications，Guest Editor
Reviewer for journals:
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Journal of Communications and Information Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
IEEE Network
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
Reviewer for various international conferences
ACADEMIC PART-TIME JOBS (PARTIAL)
Journal of Information and Intelligence, Young editor
IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Workshop chair, 2024
IEEE WCNC，IEEE GLOBECOM，TPC Members
IET Communications，Guest Editor
Security and Communication Networks，Guest Editor
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications，Guest Editor
Reviewers for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, etc.
AWARDS AND HONORS
World's Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University, 2024, 2025
6G Rising Star Young Scholar, Global 6G Conference, 2024
Outstanding Paper of the 7th Space Information Network Academic Forum, 2023
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 2021
National Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2016, 2017
By 2025, more than 70 papers have been published in the fields of wireless communication and wireless networks, including over 40 papers in international journals in this field, covering journals such as IEEE TWC, IEEE TCOM, IEEE TVT, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE TGCN, IEEE WCL, IEEE MVT, IEEE NETWORK, IEEE WCM, and IEEE COMMAG.
Google Scholar：
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LHyk-SEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Recent Works
•B. Shang, X. Li, Z. Wang, C. Yang, C. Ren, and H. Zhang, Spectrum Sharing in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks: Frameworks, Approaches, and Opportunities, in IEEE Network, 2025, doi: 10.1109/MNET.2025.3600150.
•B. Shang, C. Li, J. Ma, and P. Fan, Inter-Satellite Links-Enabled Cooperative Edge Computing in Satellite-Terrestrial Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025, accepted, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3590005.
•B. Shang, S. Zhang, and Z. J. Wong, Channel Modeling and Rate Analysis of Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL), in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 74, no. 7, pp. 11650-11655, July 2025, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3549724.
•B. Shang, Y. Yi, and L. Liu, “Computing over Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: Challenges and Opportunities,” in IEEE Network, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 302-309, July/August 2021.
•X. Li and B. Shang, Downlink Performance of Cell-Free Massive MIMO for LEO Satellite Mega-Constellation, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMC.2025.3628390.
•C. Li, B. Shang, J. Feng, L. Liu, S. Chen, Vehicular Edge Computing in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 5290-5306, April 2025, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2025.3528234.
• B. Shang, E. Bentley, and L. Liu, “UAV Swarm-Enabled Aerial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization”, in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 3621-3636, June 2023.
• Z. Li, B. Shang, Fundamentals of Satellite-Maritime Communications: Downlink and Uplink Analysis, in IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3466892.
• B. Shang, X. Li, Z. Li, J. Ma, X. Chu, and P. Fan, Multi-Connectivity between Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial MIMO Systems, in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 3245-3262, 2024.
• B. Shang, L, Liu, R. M. Rao, V. Marojevic, and J. H. Reed, 3D Spectrum Sharing for Hybrid D2D and UAV Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 5375-5389, Sept. 2020.
• S. Xi, B. Shang, H. Zhang, J. Ma and P. Fan, Energy Optimization in Multi-Satellite-Enabled Edge Computing Systems, in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 21715-21726, 15 June15, 2024.
•J. Ma, B. Shang, Y. Yu, and P. Fan, Efficient Adaptive Random Network Coding (ARNC) for Video Content Dissemination in NR-V2X Networks, in SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2025.
•B. Shang, X. Li, C. Li and Z. Li, Coverage in Cooperative LEO Satellite Networks, in Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 329-340, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.23919/JCIN.2023.10387244.
