Lian Zhao
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Lian Zhao (born 1969)[1] is a Chinese and Canadian electrical engineer whose research interests include wireless communication and resource management for mobile edge computing. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University.[2]
After a 1990 bachelor's degree from the Civil Aviation University of China and a 1993 master's degree from Wuhan University, Zhao worked as an engineer in civil aviation for five years before changing to an academic career track.[2]
She received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2002,[3] with the dissertation Error and Power Control Techniques for DS-CDMA Systems with Applications supervised by Jon W. Mark.[4] She joined Toronto Metropolitan University (then named Ryerson University) in 2003. She was tenured as an associate professor in 2006, and became a full professor in 2014.[3]
