1. Dec. 2023: Financial Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (IEEE CAMSAP 2023), Costa Rica.
2. Oct. 2021: Special Session Co-Organizer of the 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2021), Xi’an, China, 14-17 October, 2021.
3. Feb. 2020: Guest Editor for an Annual Issue in International Journal of Antennas and Propagation: "Recent Advances in Design and Signal Processing for Antenna Arrays 2020".
4. Dec. 2019: I received the Second-Class Prize of the National Award for Technological Invention, China.
   2019年12月，获国家技术发明二等奖（3/6）。
5. Dec. 2018: I received the First-Class Prize of the Science and Technology (Technological Invention) Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics.
   2018年12月，获中国电子学会科学技术奖（技术发明类）一等奖（3/6）。
6. Dec. 2016: I received the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award from Chinese Institute of Electronics, China. (The most important award for all Ph.D. students in China)
   2016年12月，获中国电子学会优秀博士学位论文奖。
7. Jun. 2016: I received the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award from Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
   2016年6 月，获北京理工大学优秀博士学位论文奖。
8. Dec. 2014: I received the Second-Class Prize of the Ministerial Level Science and Technology Progress Award, China.
   2014年12月，获省部级科技进步二等奖（4/10）。

I am currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. I received the B.S. degree (with the highest honor) in 2009 and Ph.D. degree (with the highest honor) in 2016, both from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. I then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and later became an Associate Professor with the Beijing Institute of Technology. From 2013 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2019, I was a Sponsored Researcher with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

I was the recipient of two Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Awards from both the Chinese Institute of Electronics and the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2016. I was also the recipient of the Second-Class Prize of the National Award for Technological Invention in 2019, the First-Class Prize of the Science and Technology (Technological Invention) Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2018, the Second-Class Prize of the Ministerial Level Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014, and the Young Scientist Award from the IEEE ICET 2021. I am currently a member of the Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and serve as the Financial Chair of the IEEE CAMSAP 2023 in Costa Rica. I served as the Guest Editor of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, the Session Chair of the IEEE ICASSP 2022 in Singapore, the Session Chair of the IEEE ISCAS 2021 in Daegu, Korea, the Special Session Organizer of the ICCAIS 2021 in Xi’an, China, and the Workshop Co-Chair of the CSPS 2020 in Changbaishan, China. I am also the regular reviewer for major journals such as IEEE TSP, IEEE WCM, IEEE TAES, IEEE TVT, IEEE SPL, IEEE COMML, Elsevier SP, Elsevier DSP, etc., and the TPC member for some international conferences in areas related to signal processing.

I have more than 15 years of professional experience in system and algorithm design, implementation (through FPGA and DSP), and debugging. I have received three Science and Technology Progress Awards and hold more than 30 patents.

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1. Young Scientist Award, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET 2021), May 2021.
2. Second-Class Prize of the National Award for Technological Invention, China, Dec. 2019. The most important award for all researchers in China.
   2019年12月，获国家技术发明二等奖（3/6）。
3. First-Class Prize of the Science and Technology (Technological Invention) Award, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China, Dec. 2018.
   2018年12 月，获中国电子学会科学技术奖（技术发明类）一等奖（3/6）。
4. Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China, Dec. 2016. The most important award for all Ph.D. students in China.
   2016年12 月，获中国电子学会优秀博士学位论文奖。
5. Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, Jun. 2016.
   2016 年6月，获北京理工大学优秀博士学位论文奖。
6. Second-Class Prize of the Ministerial Level Science and Technology Progress Award, China, Dec. 2014.
   2014年12月，获省部级科技进步二等奖（4/10）。
7. Second-Class Award of the Beijing College-Student Electronics Design Contest, China, 2008.

1. Five-time recipient of First-Class Scholarship for Ph.D. Students, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, 2010-2016.
2. Scholarship for Overseas Study Program, China Scholarship Council, 2013-2015.
3. Four-time recipient of First-Class Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, 2005-2009.
4. Four-time recipient of Excellent Student, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, 2005-2009.
5. National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, China, 2006.

1. 杨子翔 Zixiang Yang
2. 张则翔 Zexiang Zhang
3. 吴函天 Hantian Wu
4. 王闽 Min Wang
5. 李康宁 Kangning Li
6. 廖晨汐 Chenxi Liao
7. 鲍宇峥 Yuzheng Bao
8. 杨家鸣 Jiaming Yang
9. 赵云鹏 Yunpeng Zhao
10. 顾天元 Tianyuan Gu
11. 李文博 Wenbo Li
12. 杨梓圣 Zisheng Yang
13. 张子骏 Zijun Zhang

1. 袁诗蕾 Shilei Yuan
2. 刘妍 Yan Liu
3. 马悦 Yue Ma
4. 王雨威 Yuwei Wang
5. 姜宇翔 Yuxiang Jiang
6. 杨泽军 Zejun Yang
7. 刘奕维 Yiwei Liu
8. 马元昊 Yuanhao Ma
9. 翟辰浩 Chenhao Zhai
10. 叶建斌 Jianbin Ye
11. 李昱瑶 Yuyao Li
12. 丁思凡 Sifan Ding
13. 孔佑浩 Youhao Kong
14. 岳宇巍 Yuwei Yue

1. 梁艺宝 Yibao Liang (2016~2022)
2. 黄怡琳 Yilin Huang (2019~2022)
3. 朱春 Chun Zhu (2019~2022)
4. 李鹏程 Pengcheng Li (2019~2022)
5. 吕丹杨 Danyang Lv (2019~2022)
6. 张翔 Xiang Zhang (2019~2022)
7. 刘超 Chao Liu (2018~2021)
8. 李彦欣 Yanxin Li (2018~2021)
9. 段越 Yue Duan (2018~2021)

1. Min Wang, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, “Wideband DOA Estimation with frequency decomposition via a unified GS-WSpSF framework,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2024, to appear, DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2024.3351793.
2. Hua Chen, Hongguang Lin, Wei Liu, Qing Wang, Qing Shen, Gang Wang, “Augmented multi-subarray dilated nested array with enhanced degrees of freedom and reduced mutual coupling,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 1387-1399, 2024.
3. Kejiang Wu, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, “3-D tomographic circular SAR imaging of targets using scattering phase correction,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023, 61: 1-14.
4. Zixiang Yang, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Yonina C. Eldar, Wei Cui, “High-order cumulants based sparse array design via fractal geometries—Part II: Robustness and mutual coupling,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 343-357, 2023.
5. Zixiang Yang, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Yonina C. Eldar, Wei Cui, “High-order cumulants based sparse array design via fractal geometries—Part I: Structures and DOFs,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 327-342, 2023.
6. Wei Liu, Arjuna Madanayake, Lei Yu, Qing Shen, Jingjing Cai, “Recent advances in design and signal processing for antenna arrays 2020 (Editorial),” International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2023, Article ID 9843456, 2023.
7. Zixiang Yang, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, “A sum-difference expansion scheme for sparse array construction based on the fourth-order difference co-array,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 29, pp. 2647-2651, 2022.
8. Hantian Wu, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, Wei Liu, “DOA estimation with nonuniform moving sampling scheme based on a moving platform,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, pp. 1714-1718, 2021.
9. Yibao Liang, Wei Cui, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Siliang Wu, “Cramér-Rao bound analysis of underdetermined wideband DOA estimation under the subband model via frequency decomposition,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 69, pp. 4132-4148, 2021.
10. Yibao Liang, Wei Cui, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Hantian Wu, “Cramér-Rao bound for DOA estimation exploiting multiple frequency pairs,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, 1210-1214, 2021.
11. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Li Wang, Yin Liu, “Group sparsity based localization for far-field and near-field sources based on distributed sensor array networks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 68, pp. 6493-6508, 2020.
12. Yibao Liang, Wei Liu, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, “A review of closed-form Cramér-Rao bounds for DOA estimation in the presence of Gaussian noise under a unified framework,” IEEE Access, vol.8, pp. 175101-175124, 2020.
13. Wei Cui, Shuang Wu, Qing Shen, Jing Tian, Siliang Wu, Xiang-Gen Xia, “Parameter estimation method for radar maneuvering target with arbitrary migrations,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 2195-2213, Oct. 2019.
14. Wei Cui, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Siliang Wu, “Low complexity DOA estimation for wideband off-grid sources based on re-focused compressive sensing with dynamic dictionary,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 918-930, Sep. 2019.
15. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, Piya Pal, “Simplified and enhanced multiple level nested arrays exploiting high order difference co-arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 13, pp. 3502-3515, Jul. 2019.
16. Ahsan Raza, Wei Liu, Qing Shen, “Thinned coprime array for second-order difference co-array generation with reduced mutual coupling,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 2052-2065, Apr. 2019.
17. Junwei Zhou, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, “A novel carrier leakage cancellation algorithm for multiple target detection,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 100–106, Jan. 2019.
18. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Li Wang, Yin Liu, “Adaptive beamforming for target detection and surveillance based on distributed unmanned aerial vehicle platforms,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 60812-60823, 2018.
19. Tong Qian, Wei Cui, Qing Shen, “Sparse reconstruction method for DOA estimation based on dynamic dictionary and negative exponent penalty,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 386-392, Mar. 2018.
20. Jinzhi Xiang, Wei Cui, Qing Shen, “Flexible and accurate frequency estimation for complex sinusoid signal by interpolation using DFT samples,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 109-114, Jan. 2018.
21. Shuang Wu, Wei Cui, Qing Shen, Jiangang Hou, Siliang Wu, “Efficient parameter estimation method for maneuvering targets in discrete randomly-modulated radar,” Digital Signal Processing, vol. 67, pp.91-106, Aug. 2017.
22. Jingjing Cai, Wei Liu, Ru Zong, Qing Shen, “An expanding and shift scheme for constructing fourth-order difference co-arrays,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 480-484, Apr. 2017.
23. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin, “Focused compressive sensing for underdetermined wideband DOA estimation exploiting high-order difference co-arrays,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 86-90, Jan. 2017.
24. Qing Shen, Wei Cui, Wei Liu, Siliang Wu, Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin, “Underdetermined wideband DOA estimation of off-grid sources employing the difference co-array concept,” Signal Processing, vol. 130, pp. 299-304, Jan. 2017.
25. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, “Underdetermined DOA estimation under the compressive sensing framework: A review,” IEEE Access, 2016, 4: 8865-8878.
26. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, “Extension of co-prime arrays based on the fourth-order difference co-array concept,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 615-619, May 2016.
27. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin, “Low-complexity direction-of-arrival estimation based on wideband co-prime arrays,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, and Speech, Language Processing, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1445–1456, Sep. 2015.
28. Jing Tian, Wei Cui, Qing Shen, Zixiang Wei, Siliang Wu, “High-speed maneuvering target detection approach based on joint RFT and keystone transform,” Science China Information Sciences, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1-13, 2013.
29. Wei Cui, Xinguo Zhu, Qing Shen, “A new parameter design method for 3rd-order range tracking loop,” Acta Armamentar II, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 807-810, 2010.

1. K. Li, Qing Shen, W. Liu, and M. Wang, “Wideband DOA estimation based on tensor completion and decomposition", in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Singapore, May 2024.
2. H. Wu, Qing Shen, W. Liu, Z. Fu, and C. Liao, “2-D wideband DOA estimation with circular arrays based on the difference co-array concept,” in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Singapore, May 2024.
3. H. Guo, H. Chen, H. Lin, W. Liu, Qing Shen, and G. Wang, “A new fourth-order sparse array generator based on sum-difference co-array analysis,” in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, April 2024.
4. Yue Ma, Yan Liu, Qing Shen, “Off-grid chirp-rate estimation for LFM signals based on dynamic dictionary,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET), Chengdu, China, May 2023.
5. Hantian Wu, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Yibao Liang, “Underdetermined two-dimensional localization for wideband sources based on distributed sensor array networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, May 2022.
6. Chun Zhu, Yuwei Wang, Qing Shen, “Two-dimensional DOA estimation based on two-parallel arrays exploiting nonuniform array motions,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET), Chengdu, China, May 2022.
7. Xiang Zhang, Dali Liu, Chun Zhu, Qing Shen, “Generalized non-iterative time delay estimation based on Taylor interpolation model,” in Proc. CIE International Conference on Radar, Haikou, China, Dec. 2021.
8. Yilin Huang, Dali Liu, Shilei Yuan, Qing Shen, “A low-complexity migration compensation method based on long-term integration,” in Proc. CIE International Conference on Radar, Haikou, China, Dec. 2021.
9. Zixiang Yang, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Yonina C. Eldar, Wei Cui, “Extended Cantor arrays with hole-free fourth-order difference co-arrays,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Daegu, Korea, May 2021.
10. Yanxin Li, Qiaodi Wang, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, “An improved multiple threshold decision method based on long-term integration,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET), Chengdu, China, May. 2021.
11. Yibao Liang, Wei Liu, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, “On the Cramér-Rao bound and the number of resolvable sources in the presence of nonuniform noise for underdetermined DOA estimation,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Beijing, China, Oct. 2020, pp. 93-98.
12. Hantian Wu, Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, “Underdetermined low-complexity wideband DOA estimation with uniform linear arrays,” in Proc. IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), Hangzhou, China, Jun. 2020.
13. Yechen Li, Jie Yao, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, “Dual-channel monopulse angle estimation method for weak target based on reference signal,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICSIDP), Chongqing, China, Dec. 2019.
14. Yibao Liang, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, Wei Liu, “Cramér-Rao bound for wideband DOA estimation with uncorrelated sources,” in Proc. IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Ottawa, Canada, Nov. 2019.
15. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Li Wang, Yin Liu, “Group sparsity based target localization for distributed sensor array networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, May 2019, pp. 4190-4194.
16. Ahsan Raza, Wei Liu, Qing Shen, “Displaced thinned coprime arrays with an additional sensor for DOA estimation,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Dec. 2018, pp. 95-100.
17. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Li Wang, Yin Liu, “Joint adaptive beamforming based on distributed moving platforms”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Shanghai, China, Nov. 2018.
18. Ahsan Raza, Wei Liu, Qing Shen, “Thinned coprime arrays for DOA estimation”, in Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos Island, Greece, Aug. 2017, pp. 415–419.
19. Jinzhi Xiang, Qing Shen, Wei Cui, “A novel single tone frequency estimation by interpolation using DFT samples with zero-padding”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Chengdu, China, Nov. 2016, pp. 277-281.
20. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, “Extension of nested arrays with the fourth-order difference co-array enhancement,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, Mar. 2016, pp. 2991-2995.
21. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin, “Wideband DOA estimation for uniform linear arrays based on the co-array concept,” in Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, Sep. 2015, pp. 2885-2889.
22. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, “Low-complexity compressive sensing based DOA estimation for co-prime arrays,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Hong Kong, China, Aug. 2014, pp. 754-758.
23. Qing Shen, Wei Liu, Wei Cui, Siliang Wu, Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin, “Group sparsity based wideband DOA estimation for co-prime arrays,” in Proc. IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), Xi’an, China, Jul. 2014, pp. 252-256.
24. Qing Shen, Wei Cui, Jiangang Hou, Siliang Wu, Hongbao Li, “Carrier leakage cancellation in pulse Doppler radar applied for single target detection,” in Proc. IET International Radar Conference, Xi’an, China, 2013, pp. 972-976.

1. Sensor Array Signal Processing,
2. Digital Signal Processing,
3. Detection and Estimation,
4. Sensing and Localization,
5. Sparsity and Compressive Sensing,
6. and their various applications such as acoustics, radar, sonar, and wireless communications.

1. System design and algorithm design.
2. Software development with MATLAB.
3. Software development for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).
4. Software development for Microblaze and Digital Signal Processor (DSP).
5. System and software debugging.

1. Member (03/2024-present), Educational Conference Programs Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society
2. Member (05/2021-present), Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee (DSPTC), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

1. Guest Editor: International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

1. Financial Chair of the 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (IEEE CAMSAP 2023), Costa Rica.
2. Session Chair of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP 2022), Singapore, 22-27 May, 2022.
3. Special Session Co-Organizer of the 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2021), Xi’an, China, 14-17 October, 2021.
4. Session Chair of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2021), Daegu, Korea, 22-28 May, 2021.
5. Workshop Co-Chair of the 2020 International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems (CSPS 2020), Changbaishan, China, 4-5 July, 2020.

1. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2. IEEE Wireless Communications
3. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
4. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
5. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
6. IEEE Signal Processing Letters
7. IEEE Communications Letters
8. IEEE Access
9. Signal Processing (Elsevier)
10. Neural Networks (Elsevier)
11. Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier)
12. International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier)
13. Physical Communication (Elsevier)
14. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
15. IET Signal Processing
16. IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation
17. IET Communications
18. IET Electronics Letters
19. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
20. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering
21. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
22. Sensors

1. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
3. IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)
4. IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
5. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS)
6. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT)
7. IEEE International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET)
8. International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS)
9. International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems (CSPS)

1. Jul. 2020: I was invited to be the host of the commendation meeting for the outstanding doctoral and master's thesis winners, and the outstanding doctoral seeding fund receivers of Beijing Institute of Technology.

Qing Shen
Associate Processer
School of Information and Electronics
Beijing Institute of Technology



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