Zengyi Xu
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biography
Zengyi Xu is a post-doc researcher in Prof. Yating Wan's research team. He has obtained his Ph. D. degree in June 2026 from the Department of Communication Science and Engineering at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, under the supervision of Prof. Nan Chi . He received a joint B.Eng. degree with First Class Honors in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and the University of Glasgow in 2021.
His notable achievements include demonstrating a 31.38 Gbps VLC system based on a GaN LED array with a V-pit quantum well structure, a record 15.26 Gbps Si-substrate micro-photodetector, and a perovskite wide-field-of-view receiver published in Light: Science and Applications. He has authored more than ten journal papers, including cover and Editor's Select articles in Photonics Research and Opto-Electronic Science, and several oral presentations at premier conferences such as OFC, ECOC, and ACP.
He is a two-time recipient of the National Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education of China and has been recognized with the Optica Student Paper Prize at ACP 2022 and the Best Student Award at POEM 2021. He has also gained international research experience as a visiting student at KAUST (Sensor Lab, 2024) and the City University of Hong Kong (Cheng Lab, 2025), and contributed to China's National Key Research and Development Program and National Natural Science Foundation projects.
Expertise and Interests
Zengyi Xu's research focuses on high-speed visible light communication (VLC) systems and GaN-based optoelectronic devices, spanning device modeling, integrated LED/photodetector arrays, and advanced digital signal processing algorithms.