Professor Ning Xie is a doctoral advisor at Shenzhen University and a member of the Finance and Accounting Working Committee at the university. He is a Fellow of the IET, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), and a Senior Member of both the Chinese Institute of Electronics and the China Institute of Communications. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Communication Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems from the same institution in 2007 through a combined Master's and Ph.D. program. Since 2007, he has been teaching in the Department of Communication at the College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University.

Professor Xie has led more than 20 national and provincial-level research projects, including two National Key Laboratory Open Research Fund projects. He has published over 50 papers in prestigious academic journals, including those of IEEE, and holds 7 U.S. invention patents and more than 40 domestic invention patents, 9 of which have been successfully transferred. From 2012 to 2013, he conducted collaborative research with Professor Athina Petropulu (IEEE Fellow) at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. His academic contributions have garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. Professor Ning Xie is currently recruiting postdoctoral and full-time research personnel in the field of wireless communication security, with an annual starting salary of 320,000 CNY.

Ph.D.            2002.9~2007.6,              Communication and Information Systems,

School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Dissertation: Research on Space-Time Signal Processing of Wireless Communication Systems

Advisor: Prof. Zhou Yuanping

B.S.              1998.9~2002.7,              Communication and Information Systems,      

School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Professor             12/2020 - Present

College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University

Visiting Professor    07/2012 – 08/2013

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Advisor: Athina Petropulu

Associate Professor     01/2011 – 11/2020

College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University

Assistant Professor      06/2007 - 12/2010

College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University

1.2022, Natural Science Award of Oustanding Achievement in the Ministry of Education in China, Level Two, the First Person-in-charge

2.2019, Overseas High-Caliber Personnel in Shenzhen, Level C.

3.2017, High-Level Professional in Nanshan District of Shenzhen, Level C.

4.2016, Distinguished Young Teacher in Higher Education of Guangdong Province.

5.2016, High-Level Professional in Shenzhen, Reserve Talent.

6.2013, Academic Innovation Award of Shenzhen University, Level C

7.2012, Collegiate Talent Cultivated by “Thousand-Hundred-Ten" Program of Guangdong Province.

Security and privacy issues in wireless communications, information hiding, steganography, information theory, unsupervised machine learning, and adaptive signal processing.

[1]Ning Xie, et al., “A Survey of Physical Layer Authentication in Wireless Communications”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2021.1.23(1):282-310.

[2]Ning Xie, et al., “Confidentiality-Preserving Edge-based Wireless Communications for Contact Tracing Systems”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2022.11.40(11):3152-3171.

[3]Ning Xie, et al., “Privacy-Preserving Physical-Layer Authentication for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Systems”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2022.04.40(4):1371-1385.

[4]Ning Xie et al., “Blind Authentication at the Physical Layer under Time-Varying Fading Channels”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2018.7.36(7):1465-1479.

[5]Ning Xie, et al., “Physical-Layer Authentication Using Multiple Channel-Based Features”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2021.2.16:2356-2366.

[6]Ning Xie et al., “Slope Authentication at the Physical Layer”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2018.6.13(6):1579-1594.

[7]Ning Xie, et al., “Detection of Information Hiding at Physical Layer in Wireless Communications”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022.03,19(2):1104-1117.

[8]Ning Xie, et al., “Security Model of Authentication at the Physical Layer and Performance Analysis over Fading Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021.1.18(1):253-268.

[9]Ning Xie, et al., “Hybrid Physical-Layer Authentication”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024.2.23(2): 1295 - 1311.

[10]Haijun Tan, Ning Xie*, et al., “An Optimization Framework for Active Physical-Layer Authentication”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024.1.23(1): 164 - 179.

[11]Haijun Tan, Zhuoyuan Li, Ning Xie*, et al., “Detection of Jamming Attacks for the Physical-Layer Authentication”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2023.12.22(12): 9579-9594.

[12]Ning Xie, et al., “Multi-User Physical-Layer Authentication and Classification”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2023.9.22(9): 6171-6184.

[13]Haijun Tan, Ning Xie*, et al., “Generalized Tag-based Physical-Layer Authentication under Frequency Selective Fading Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023.05.71(5): 2876-2890.

[14]Ning Xie, et al., “Joint Estimation of Channel Responses and Phase Noises in Asynchronous MIMO Systems with Intentional Timing Offset”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023.01.71(1): 412-426.

[15]Ning Xie, et al., “Physical Layer Authentication with High Compatibility Using an Encoding Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022.12.70(12): 8270-8285.

[16]Ning Xie, et al., “Multiple Phase Noises Physical-Layer Authentication”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022.09.70(9): 6196-6211.

[17]Ning Xie, et al., “A Machine Learning Approach to Phase Reference Estimation with Noise”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2020.4.66(4): 2579-2592.

[18]Ning Xie, et al., “Lightweight Secure Localization Approach in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021.10.69(10): 6879-6893.

[19]Ning Xie, et al., “Detection of Information Hiding at Anti-Copying 2D Barcodes”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2022.01.32(1):437-450.

[20]Ning Xie, et al., “Low-Cost Anti-Copying 2D Barcode by Exploiting Channel Noise Characteristics”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2021.10.23:3752-3767.

1.Journal of Computer Communications (Elsevier). 2019 - present.

2.IET Communications. 2021-present.

3.IET Networks. 2021-present.

4.IET Wireless Sensor Systems. 2021-present.