MSCA Doctoral Candidate Receives the Best Student Paper Award at 6th IEEE Symposium on Joint Communications & Sensing (JC&S), Ponte di Legno
On the 13th of January, Qing Zhang (DC08) has been awarded with the IEEE Best Student Paper Award at the 6th IEEE Symposium on Joint Communication and Sensing, held in Ponte di Legno, Italy. Zhang conducted research at KU Leuven, as part of the MSCA 6th Sense, which aims to advance innovation in the domain of Joint Communication and Sensing.
The award recognizes her work titled “Robust Localization in OFDM-Based Massive MIMO through Phase Offset Calibration”, which investigates the impact of phase incoherence on localization accuracy in OFDM-based massive MIMO systems. Through analytical modeling and experimental validation, the paper shows that spatial phase offsets across antennas dominate localization errors. A practical CSI calibration approach is proposed to restore phase coherence, with real-world measurements on a massive MIMO testbed demonstrating an improvement in localization error from meter-level to centimeter-level.
This recognition highlights the importance of the research carried out within the MSCA 6th Sense programme, presented to an audience of researchers from around the world aiming to advance the JCAS field.