About Me

📍 I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Electronics, Peking University, supervised by Prof. Xiang Cheng (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Shijian Gao. I am a member of the Pervasive Connectivity and Networked Intelligence (PCNI) group.

Research Interests

• Multi-Modal Sensing-Aided PHY Algorithm 🔍➡️📡
  Exploring how to leverage ubiquitous multi-modal sensing data in the network to optimise physical-layer algorithms.
• Wireless Foundation Model 🤖🚀
  Investigating how to build a lightweight and universal wireless foundation model that can empower communication-system performance.

Education

• 2022 .09 – Present, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing.
• 2018 .09 – 2022 .06, Undergraduate, School of Information & Communication Engineering, UESTC, Chengdu.

Publications

SoM & ISAC

• Intelligent Multi-Modal Sensing-Communication Integration: Synesthesia of Machines, X. Cheng, Haotian Zhang, et al., IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
• 机器联觉：通信与多模态感知的智能融合, X. Cheng, Haotian Zhang, et al., 模式识别与人工智能.
• 车联网通信感知一体化研究：现状与发展趋势, X. Cheng, Haotian Zhang, et al., 通信学报.

Transceiver Design

• Integrated Sensing and Communications Toward Proactive Beamforming in mmWave V2I via Multi-Modal Feature Fusion, Haotian Zhang, S. Gao, X. Cheng, and L. Yang, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
• Synesthesia of Machines-Enhanced Wideband Multi-User CSI Learning with LiDAR Sensing, Haotian Zhang, S. Gao, X. Cheng, and L. Yang, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• SoM-Aided FDD Precoding with Sensing Heterogeneity: A Vertical Federated Learning Approach, Haotian Zhang, S. Gao, W. Wen, and X. Cheng, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025.
• SoM-Aided Online FDD Precoding via Heterogenous Multi-Modal Sensing: A Vertical Federated Learning Approach, Haotian Zhang, S. Gao, W. Wen, X. Cheng, and L. Yang, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
• Tiny-WiFo: A Lightweight Wireless Foundation Model for Channel Prediction via Multi-Component Adaptive Knowledge Distillation, Haotian Zhang, S. Gao, and X. Cheng, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
• WiFo-M²: Empower Wireless Communications With Plug-and-Play Environment Sensing via Foundation Model, Haotian Zhang, S. Gao, and X. Cheng, under review.
• WiFo-E: Wireless Foundation Model for Scalable End-to-End FDD Precoding in Wireless Networks, W. Wen, S. Gao, Haotian Zhang, X. Cheng, and L. Yang, under review.
• 应用于毫米波车车通信的多模态感知辅助波束预测, W. Wen, Haotian Zhang, S. Gao, X. Cheng, and L. Yang, 模式识别与人工智能.
• Embodied Intelligent Wireless (EIW): Synesthesia of Machines Empowered Wireless Communications, X. Cheng, W. Wen, Haotian Zhang, et al., under review.

Network Science

• LFIC: Identifying Influential Nodes in Complex Networks by Local Fuzzy Information Centrality, Haotian Zhang, S. Zhong, et al., IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.