Over the years, Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Lab members have worked diligently to pursue excellence in research, and have made important research contributions for advancing telecommunication technologies. As a result, our faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, visiting scholars and students, and other research associates have received many prestigious international and domestic recognition and awards.
We would like to thank our industrial sponsors for their partnership and financial support, including Bell Canada, General Motors, BlackBerry, Industry Canada, Ericsson Canada, and Siradel.
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Prof. Shen and BBCR members attended WCSP 2025 in Chongqing, China
Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen and several BBCR members attended the Seventeenth International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2025), held from October 23 to 25, 2025, in Chongqing, China. As the International Advisory Committee Chair, Prof. Shen delivered a speech at the opening session and presented the Best Paper Awards at the banquet.
Awards Received at VTC2025-Fall
Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, Weihua Zhuang, and our BBCR members attended the 2025 IEEE 102nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Fall), held in Chengdu, China, from October 19 to 22, 2025. At the conference’s Awards Luncheon, two of our papers were presented with prestigious awards.
Our work titled “AI-Assisted Network-Slicing Based Next-Generation Wireless Networks” by Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, Jie Gao, Wen Wu, Kangjia Lyu, Mushu Li, Weihua Zhuang, Xu Li, and Jaya Rao, published on the IEEE Open Journal on Vehicular Technology in January 2020, received the 2025 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society OJVT Best Paper Award.
In addition, our work titled “Model-Assisted Learning for Environment-Aware Content Delivery in Mobile AR” by Shisheng Hu, Xue Qin, Conghao Zhou, Yingying Pei, Xiaodan Shao, Xinyu Huang, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, received the Best Student Paper Award from VTC2025-Fall.
Congratulations to all award recipients!
Shisheng Hu and Yannan Wei held a pizza lunch in BBCR
Shisheng Hu and Yannan Wei held a pizza lunch on October 7, 2025, and expressed their gratitude to Prof. Shen, Prof. Zhuang, and all BBCR members.