Yong Zeng is a Full Professor with the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China, and also with the Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China. He received the Bachelor of Engineering (First-Class Honours) and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2013 to 2018, he was a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Zeng was listed as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for three consecutive years (2019-2021). He is the recipient of the Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), the 2020 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, the 2018 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the 2020 and 2017 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Awards, the 2021 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, and 2021 China Communications Best Paper Award. He serves as an Associated Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, a Leading Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond'' and China Communications on Network-Connected UAV Communications''. He is the Symposium Chair for IEEE Globecom 2021 Track on Aerial Communications, the workshop co-chair for ICC 2018-2022 workshop on UAV communications, and the tutorial speaker for the Globecom 2018/2019 and ICC 2019 tutorials on UAV communications.