Lian Zhao (born 1969)[1] is a Chinese and Canadian electrical engineer whose research interests include wireless communication and resource management for mobile edge computing.
She is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University.
[2] After a 1990 bachelor's degree from the Civil Aviation University of China and a 1993 master's degree from Wuhan University, Zhao worked as an engineer in civil aviation for five years before changing to an academic career track.
[2] She received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2002,[3] with the dissertation Error and Power Control Techniques for DS-CDMA Systems with Applications supervised by Jon W.
[5] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to modeling, performance analysis, and resource management of wireless networks".