Professor Jian Song received his B. Eng and PhD degrees from Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, China in 1990 and 1995, respectively and worked for the same university upon his graduation. He then conducted Postdoctoral research work in The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Waterloo, Canada in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Song then joined the industry and has been with the Advance Development Group of Hughes Network Systems in USA for seven years before joining the faculty team in Tsinghua in 2005 as a full professor.

Prof. Song is now the Director of DTV Technology R&D Center of Tsinghua University, and the director of Key Laboratory of DTV System for both Guangdong province and Shenzhen city. Tsinghua DTV technology R&D center is one of the major technical contributors for the Chinese digital television terrestrial broadcasting standard, DTMB.

Prof. Song is very active in serving the IEEE community and now Editor-in-Chief of ITU Journal of ICT Discoveries, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He has been the technical committee members for many conferences, organized DTV related workshops in VTC’2010 Fall and ICC 2008, given invited talks and served as panelist. Prof. Song is the TPC Co-chair of the ISPLC2012, ICC2012 Co-chair of the Symposium of the selected area, and General Chair of the Healthcom2012, General Chair of IEEE BMSB 2014. He also has strong tie with industry and now serves on the Communications Technologies Domain Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute.

TEACHING：

Signals and Systems in the spring term for sophomores (in English)

Seminar on “Case Study on the Design of the Communication Networks” in the spring term for juniors (in English)

Fellow IEEE, IET, and CIE

Editor-in-Chief, ITU Journal of ICT Discoveries

Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Broadcast

Vice chair of Working Party 6A of SG6 of ITU-R

Member of IEEE BTS Administration committee

Chairman of IEEE BTS Beijing Chapter

01/2005-now with Tsinghua University, China

Research and development on physical layer transmission technologies for Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting standard, DTMB

Network convergence between telecommunication and broadcasting

Powerline communication (PLC), both broadband and narrow band

Visible light communications with focus on its integration with PLC

Wireless communications

10/1998-01/2005 with Hughes Network Systems, USA

Satellite communication using spot beams

Electronic scanning antenna

W-CDMA over satellite system

Physically layer transmission technology for IEEE 802.11n

07/1997-10/1998 with University of Waterloo, Canada

Development on the simulation package for fiber-optic components and transmission systems.

04/1996-06/1997 with Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Research on fiber-optic components/systems modeling, and the system performance evaluation.

MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS:

In charge of the joint research lab between Tsinghua University and Agilent after it was established in 2007.

In charge of the joint research lab between Tsinghua University and the Applied Science and Technology Research Institute of Hong Kong between 2007 and 2010.

Chinese coordinator of EC sponsored project “Multistandard integrated network convergence for global mobile and broadcast technologies”.

Research grant from Boeing on PLC transmission system prototype.

High-end SoC development for DTV project sponsored by the National Key Program.

Collaboration project with Toshiba on DTMB

Research grant from NTT DoCoMo on unequal protection strategy for the video streaming

Research grant from NUFRONT on high-speed LDPC decoding.

Research grant from ECOM on PLC channel measurement, modeling, and transmission trial.

2016  1st Prize Award recipient of National Science and Technology Progress Award

2016  2nd Prize Award recipient from Ministry of Education

2015  2nd Prize Award recipient from Chinese Society for Optical Engineering

2014  Scott Helt Award – the Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

2013  1st Prize Award recipient from Beijing Municipal Government

2013  2nd Prize Award recipient from Zhejiang Provincial Government

2013  2nd Prize Award recipient from Chinese Institute of Electronics

More than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers with recent publications listed below:

（1） An Optimal Interleaving Scheme With Maximum Time-Frequency Diversity for PLC Systems, Liu, S; Yang, F; Ding, W; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 1007-1014, 2016.

（2） Double Kill: Compressive-Sensing-Based Narrow-Band Interference and Impulsive Noise Mitigation for Vehicular Communications, Liu, S; Yang, F; Ding, W; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, No. 7, pp. 5099-5109, 2016.

（3） Spectrally Efficient CSI Acquisition for Power Line Communications: A Bayesian Compressive Sensing Perspective, Ding W; Lu, Y; Yang, F; Dai, W; Li, P; Liu, S; and Song, J, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 2022-2032, 2016.

（4） Novel Approach to Design Time-Domain Training Sequence for Accurate Sparse Channel Estimation, Ma, X; Yang, F; Ding, W; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 512-520, 2016.

（5） Iterative MMSE-DFE and Error Transfer for OFDM in Doubly Selective Channels, Huang, S; Wang, J; An, Z; Wang, J; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 541-547, 2015.

（6） Approaching Capacity Region for Two-user GBC with Bit Division Multiplexing, Song, J; Jin, H; and Peng, K, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 64, No. 7, pp. 3311-3316, 2015.

（7） An Indoor Broadband Broadcasting System Based on PLC and VLC, Song, J; Ding, W; Yang, F; Yang, H; Yu, B; and Zhang, H, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp.299-308, 2015.

（8） Backward Compatible Multiservice Transmission Over the DTMB System, Jin, H; Peng, K; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 499-510, 2014.

（9） Energy Saving Multicast Mechanism for Scalable Video Service Using Opportunistic Scheduling, Liu, J; Zhang, Y; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp.464-473, 2014.

（10） Compressive Sensing Based Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems under Long Delay Channels, Ding, W; Yang, F; Pan, C; Dai, L; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 313-321, 2014. (Best Paper Award)

（11） Bit Division Multiplexing for Broadcasting, Jin, H; Peng, K; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 59, NO. 3, pp. 539-547, 2013.

（12） The Noise Transfer Analysis in Frequency Domain Zero-Forcing Equalization, Song, J; Huang, S; Wang, J; Zhang, C; and Wang, J, “IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol.61, No. 6, pp. 2306-2317, 2013.

（13） EXIT-Chart-Matching-Aided Near-Capacity Coded Modulation Design and a BICM-ID Design Example for Both Gaussian and Rayleigh Channels, Xie, Q; Yang, Z; Song, J; and Hanzo, L, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.62, No. 3, pp.1216-1227, 2013.

（14） Signal Vector Based Detection Scheme for Spatial Modulation, Wang, J; Jia, S; and Song, J, IEEE Communication Letters, Vol.16, No.1, pp.19-21, 2012.

（15） Generalised Spatial Modulation System with Multiple Active Transmit Antennas and Low Complexity Detection Scheme, Wang, J; Jia, S; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.11, No.4, pp.1605-1615, 2012.

（16） A Receiver Diversity Scheme for Single-Carrier System With Unique Word, Huang, S; Wang, J; and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol.58, No. 2: 305-309, 2012.

（17） Novel Transmit Diversity Scheme for TDS-OFDM System With Frequency-Shift m-Sequence Padding, Zhou, X, Yang, F, and Song, J, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol.58, No. 2: 317-324, 2012.

（18） A measurement method of the DTMB modulator, Han, B; Song, J; Yang, H; and Yang, F, IEE IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol.57, No. 3: 745-751, 2011.

（19） Coded Modulation with Signal Space Diversity, Xie, Q; Song, J; Peng, K; Yang, F; and Wang, Z, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 10, No. 2, 660-669, 2011.

（20） Technology and standards of digital television terrestrial multimedia broadcasting, Yen, O; Song J; Pan, C; and Li, Y, Communications Magazine, IEEE Vol 48, No. 5, 119-127, 2010.

（21） Quantization error reduction for the phased array with 2-bit phase shifter, Song, J; Wang, J; Peng, K; Pan, C; and Yang, Z, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 52, No.1, 29-41, 2010.

（22） A New Paradigm for Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Based on Integrated Communication and Broadcast Networks, Niu, Z; Long, L; Song, J; and Pan, C, Communications Magazine, IEEE Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 126-132, 2008.

（23） Technical Review on Chinese Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Standard and Measurements on Some Working Modes，Song, J; Yang, Z; Yang, L; Gong, K; Pan, C; Wang, J; and Wu, Y, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol.53, No. 1, pp. 1-7, 2007.

（24） Co-author books:

（25） “Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting - Technology and System”, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in 2015.

（26） “Digital TV Transmission Technologies”, in Chinese by Publishing House of Electronic Industry in 2011

（27） “Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting, Technologies and Systems”, in Chinese by Post and Telecom Press in 2009

（28） Co-translator of English book entitle “Broadband Powerline Communications Networks - Network Design”, by Post and Telecom Press in 2008.

（29） Two granted US patents

（30） US Patent No. 7,492,749, “Method and system for providing multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) downlink transmission”, by Song, J and Karimullah, K, issued in 2009.

（31） US Patent No. 6,351,240, “Circularly Polarized Reflectarray Using 2-bit Phase Shifter Having Initial Phase Perturbation” by Karimullah; K, Song, J; Lee, L; and Kay, S, issued in 2002

More than fifty Chinese granted patents in broadcasting area.