Wu Qingqing, assistant professor of the University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, received the Young Author Best Paper Award from the Communications Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The award is open to papers published in the past three years in all IEEE Communications Society journals, and only one or two papers are awarded each year worldwide, making it the highest academic honour for young researchers in the field of international wireless communications.
Dr Wu is the first author of the award-winning paper. Titled ‘Joint Trajectory and Communication Design for Multi-UAV Enabled Wireless Networks’, the paper was published in 2018 in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.