PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Guan Gui

Guan Gui is a wireless communications researcher whose work applies deep learning to massive MIMO and intelligent signal recognition. He earned an engineering Ph.D. in information and communication from UESTC in 2012 and worked as a research assistant and postdoctoral fellow at Tohoku University from 2009 to 2014. He served as an assistant professor at Akita from 2014 to 2015, then joined Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications as a professor in 2015. In 2019, he coauthored a deep-learning method for millimeter-wave hybrid precoding, and he shared the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award with Hikmet Sari and Ezio Biglieri for a fairness paper on non-orthogonal multiple access. As of October 2026, he serves as editor-in-chief of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems and as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer; he is a professor and doctoral supervisor at NJUPT.

Works
897
Citations
22,305
h-index
74

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2009–2014

    A Ph.D. and Tohoku research

    He earns an engineering Ph.D. in information and communication from UESTC in 2012. From 2009 to 2014, he works as a research assistant and postdoctoral research fellow at Tohoku University.

  2. 2014–2015

    Assistant professor at Akita

    He serves as an assistant professor at Akita Prefectural University in Japan from 2014 to 2015.

  3. Since 2015

    Professor at NJUPT

    He becomes a professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2015. His research focuses on intelligent sensing and recognition, intelligent signal processing, and physical layer security.

  4. 2019

    Deep learning for hybrid precoding

    In 2019, he coauthors “Deep-Learning-based Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO for Hybrid Precoding.” The paper treats hybrid precoder selection as a mapping in a deep neural network.

  5. 2021

    The Heinrich Hertz Award

    He shares the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award with Hikmet Sari and Ezio Biglieri for their 2019 paper, “A New Definition of Fairness for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access.”

  6. As of October 2026

    Editor-in-chief of KSII Transactions

    As of October 2026, he serves as editor-in-chief of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems.

  7. As of October 2026

    IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer

    In 2026, he serves as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and doctoral supervisor

    As of October 2026, he is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Career

  1. Since 2015Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsProfessor and doctoral supervisor
  2. 2014–2015Akita Prefectural UniversityAssistant professor
  3. 2009–2014Tohoku UniversityResearch assistant and postdoctoral research fellow

Education

  1. 2012University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaPh.D.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Tohoku University. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Keynote_Speakers_Prof._Guan_Gui_ACTCE2026 actce.info. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. 桂冠 bhs.njupt.edu.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Guan Gui | IEEE Vehicular Technology Society vtsociety.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. [1901.06537] Deep-Learning-based Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO for Hybrid Precoding arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter | IEEE Communications Society comsoc.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Guan Gui | IEEE Communications Society comsoc.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. 2026 3rd International Conference on Image, Signal Processing and Communication Technology(ISPCT 2026) ic-aidsp.org. Checked 22 October 2026.