Zhenlin An
I am an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Georgia. I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University, advised by Dr. Longfei Shangguan and Prof. Kyle Jamieson. Prior to that, I was a postdoc and received my Ph.D. at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, advised by Dr. Lei Yang and Prof. Jiannong Cao.
My research centers on mobile computing, wireless systems, and their intersection with AI. My long-term vision is to build intelligent networks and sensing systems that can understand the physical world, reason about radio and sensor signals, and adapt through interaction with real and simulated environments. Our recent focus is on agentic AI for wireless, IoT, and sensing systems, including radio digital twins, autonomous network simulation and optimization, and agents for interpreting IoT sensing data in health and daily life.
I am looking for multiple self-motivated PhD students and research assistants (Spring/Fall 2026). Feel free to reach out: an.zhenlin@outlook.com
Research Overview
My recent research is organized around the following directions (see Publications for the full list):
News
| May 2026 | Invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2027 and IEEE MASS 2026. |
| Apr 2026 | Gave an invited talk on high-fidelity radio digital twins at Accenture. |
| Mar 2026 | Gave an invited talk on high-fidelity radio digital twins at the NextG Channel Model Alliance. |
| May 2025 | Invited to serve on the TPC for BodySys 2025, and our SenSys 2025 paper LeakyFeeder has been nominated for a Best Paper Award. |
| Dec 2023 | One paper on cross-medium communication and one on optical metasurfaces accepted to MobiCom 2024; one paper on RFID systems accepted to NSDI 2024. |
| Oct 2023 | Our papers received the ACM MobiCom 2023 Best Paper Runner-up Award and Graduate Award. |
| Dec 2022 | Two papers accepted by INFOCOM 2023. |
| Nov 2022 | Two papers accepted by MobiCom 2023. |
| Oct 2022 | Received the ACM China SIGBED Doctoral Dissertation Award 2022. |



