I am an assistant professor at School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University. I obtained Bachelor's degrees from the University of Sydney (awarded the "University Medal") and Dalian University of Technology. My main research directions include Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication, Age-of-Information, and Wi-Fi for Industrial IoT. I have published 10 IEEE Transaction papers as a first author, and nearly 20 conference papers. I was cited more than 900 times in Google Scholar with an h-index of 13. I lead several research projects with a total amount around 4 million. In addition to research, my hobbies are basketball and piano, where I have passed level 10 for amateur.

[1]Bachelor's Degree from Dalian University of Technology and the University of Sydney in 2015.

[2]Ph.D. Degree from the University of Sydney in 2019.

[1]2019.07-2021.12, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Sydney.

[2]2021.12-2022.05, Research Assistant, Peng Cheng Laboratory.

[3]2022.05-till now, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University.

[1]Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication

[2]Age-of-Information

[3]Wi-Fi for Industrial IoT

[1]Yifan Gu, C. She, Z. Quan, C. Qiu and X. Xu, "Graph Neural Networks for Distributed Power Allocation in Wireless Networks: Aggregation Over-the-Air," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 7551-7564, Nov. 2023. （中科院一区，IF 8.9）

[2]Yifan Gu, C. She, S. Bi, Z. Quan and B. Vucetic, "Graph Neural Network for Distributed Beamforming and Power Control in Massive URLLC Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 9099-9112, Aug. 2024. （中科院一区，IF 8.9）

[3]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Zhou, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “Timely Status Update in Internet of Things Monitoring Systems: An Age-Energy Tradeoff,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 5324-5335, Feb. 2019. （中科院一区，IF 9.936）

[4]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, C. Zhai, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, "Minimizing Age of Information in Cognitive Radio-Based IoT Systems: Underlay or Overlay?," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 10273-10288, Dec. 2019. （中科院一区，IF 9.936）

[5]Yifan Gu, Q. Wang, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, "Optimizing Information Freshness in Two-Hop Status Update Systems under a Resource Constraint?," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 1380-1392, May 2021.（中科院一区，IF 9.144）

[6]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “Ultra-Reliable Short-Packet Communications: Half-Duplex or Full-Duplex Relaying?,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 348-351, June 2018. （中科院二区，IF 3.096）

[7]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li, L. Song and B. Vucetic, “Short-Packet Two-Way Amplify-and-Forward Relaying,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 263-267, Feb. 2018. （中科院三区，IF 2.813）

[8]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li, et al., “Distributed Multi-Relay Selection in Accumulate-Then-Forward Energy Harvesting Relay Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 74-86, March 2018. （中科院二区，IF 5.3）

[9]Q. Wang, H. Chen, Yifan Gu, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, "Minimizing the Age of Information of Cognitive Radio-Based IoT Systems Under a Collision Constraint," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 8054-8067, Dec. 2020. （中科院二区，IF 7.016）

[10]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “An adaptive transmission protocol for wireless-powered cooperative communications,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, 2015.

[11]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “A Discrete Time-Switching Protocol for Wireless-Powered Communications with Energy Accumulation,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, 2015.

[12]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “Exploiting energy accumulation against co-channel interference in wireless energy Harvesting MIMO relaying,” in Proc. 19th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Shenzhen, 2016.

[13]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “Distributed multi-relay selection in wireless-powered cooperative networks with energy accumulation,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, 2016.

[14]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “Wireless-Powered Two-Way Relaying with Power Splitting- Based Energy Accumulation,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington, DC, 2016.

[15]Yifan Gu, H. Chen, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “Multiuser MIMO Short-Packet Communications: Time-Sharing or Zero-Forcing Beamforming?,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, 2018.

[1]National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Efficient Distributed Resource Management for large-Scale Dynamic Real-Time Sensing Networks”, 2023.01-2025.12, ¥300,000.

[2]Shenzhen Science and Technology Program, “High Performance Cross-Layer URLLC Design under Limited Network State”, 2023.04-2025.04, ¥300,000.

[3]Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation, “Model-Free Data-driven Sampling Control for Industrial IoT Networks”, 2023.12-2025.12, ¥150,000.

[4]High-end Talents Research Start-up Program, 2024.1-2026.12, ¥3,000,000.