Professor Anding Zhu is a Principal Investigator at CONNECT in UCD.

He received the PhD degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin (UCD) in 2004. He has been working in UCD since 2005, first as a post-doc, then as a Lecturer, an Associate Professor and now as Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

His research interests are in the area of nonlinear modelling and characterisation of RF circuits and systems with a particular emphasis on digital linearisation of RF power amplifiers for wireless communications. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and received research funding from various sources including awards from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and European Space Agency (ESA). Prof. Zhu is currently with the RF & Microwave Research Group at UCD and he is the Director of the IoE² Lab, a multi-disciplinary research laboratory particularly focusing on developing enabling technologies and making scientific breakthroughs for the next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) and future (5G) communication networks.

In CONNECT, Prof. Zhu is particularly working on physical layer network-aware intelligent radio access nodes in collaboration with Xilinx, Analog Devices, MA-COM, and Synopsys.