Wankai Tang

6.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
58 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Wankai Tang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Wankai Tang has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 23 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Wankai Tang's work include Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (34 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (24 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (24 papers). Wankai Tang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (34 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (24 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (24 papers). Wankai Tang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Taiwan. Wankai Tang's co-authors include Shi Jin, Tie Jun Cui, Qiang Cheng, Jun Yan Dai, Yu Han, Ming Zheng Chen, Yong Zeng, Chao-Kai Wen, Xiangyu Chen and Xiaoli Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wankai Tang

51 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Wireless Communications With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Path Loss Modeling and Experimental Measurement

2020 1.0k citations Wankai Tang, Ming Zheng Chen et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
Large Intelligent Surface-Assisted Wireless Communication Exploiting Statistical CSI

2019 644 citations Yu Han, Wankai Tang et al. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology profile →
A wireless communication scheme based on space- and frequency-division multiplexing using digital metasurfaces

2021 331 citations Lei Zhang, Ming Zheng Chen et al. profile →
Path Loss Modeling and Measurements for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in the Millimeter-Wave Frequency Band

2022 186 citations Wankai Tang, Xiangyu Chen et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wankai Tang China	24	3.1k	2.7k	1.2k	283	237	58	4.0k
Ming Zheng Chen China	21	2.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	145 0.5×	127 0.5×	34	3.1k
Yu Han China	23	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	202 0.2×	456 1.6×	192 0.8×	97	3.4k
Christos Liaskos Greece	20	1.5k 0.5×	944 0.4×	327 0.3×	389 1.4×	109 0.5×	95	2.0k
Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy France	12	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	208 0.2×	222 0.8×	192 0.8×	52	2.2k
Mohsen Khalily United Kingdom	35	3.5k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	317 0.3×	190 0.7×	45 0.2×	209	4.2k
Jiaqi Xu China	20	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	90 0.1×	436 1.5×	221 0.9×	79	3.0k
Beixiong Zheng China	32	6.4k 2.1×	3.2k 1.2×	145 0.1×	1.0k 3.7×	705 3.0×	110	7.0k
Mei Qing Qi China	15	1.3k 0.4×	3.3k 1.2×	3.2k 2.7×	57 0.2×	51 0.2×	18	4.1k
Chong He China	25	1.0k 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	813 0.7×	86 0.3×	55 0.2×	147	2.2k
Tianwei Hou China	18	2.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	69 0.1×	357 1.3×	184 0.8×	62	2.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Yuxuan, et al.. (2025). Arbitrary Beam Pattern Synthesis and Measurement for mmWave RIS With Discrete Phase Shifts. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(6). 9973–9978.

Wang, Ziang, Xiao Li, Wankai Tang, et al.. (2025). Multi-Frequency Channel Measurements and Modeling for RIS-Assisted MIMO Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 25. 8707–8722.

Shao, Ruiwen, Jun Wu, Yifan Xu, et al.. (2025). Dual-channel near-field holographic MIMO communications based on programmable digital coding metasurface and electromagnetic theory. Nature Communications. 16(1). 915–915. 8 indexed citations

Dai, Jun Yan, Huidong Li, Lijie Wu, et al.. (2025). Adaptively programmable metasurface for intelligent wireless communications in complex environments. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6070–6070. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Weicong, Chao-Kai Wen, Wankai Tang, Xiao Li, & Shi Jin. (2025). Joint Spatial Division and Multiplexing With Customized Orthogonal Group Channels in Multi-RIS-Assisted Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(12). 10675–10690. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Shuwen, et al.. (2025). Energy Efficiency Optimization for RIS-Aided Systems Using a Measured Power Model. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1–6.

Yang, Jie, et al.. (2024). Fourier Transform-Based Wavenumber Domain 3D Imaging in RIS-Aided Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(10). 13872–13888. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Weicong, Xinyi Yang, Chao-Kai Wen, et al.. (2024). Rotatable Block-Controlled RIS: Bridging the Performance Gap to Element-Controlled Systems. IEEE Communications Letters. 29(1). 185–189. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Wankai, et al.. (2024). Time-Domain Channel Measurements and Small-Scale Fading Characterization for RIS-Assisted Wireless Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(10). 14127–14142. 2 indexed citations

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Gao, Ning, et al.. (2024). RIS-Assisted Wireless Link Signatures for Specific Emitter Identification. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(12). 17872–17883. 7 indexed citations

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Tang, Wankai, et al.. (2023). On Deployment Position of RIS in Wireless Communication Systems: Analysis and Experimental Results. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 12(10). 1756–1760. 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinghe, Wankai Tang, Shi Jin, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical Codebook-Based Beam Training for RIS-Assisted mmWave Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 71(6). 3650–3662. 36 indexed citations

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Yang, Jie, et al.. (2023). Joint Localization and Environment Sensing by Harnessing NLOS Components in RIS-Aided mmWave Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 22(12). 8797–8813. 34 indexed citations

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Dai, Jun Yan, Si Ran Wang, Qun Yan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer transmitting architecture based on asynchronous space-time-coding digital metasurface [Invited]. Chinese Optics Letters. 21(8). 80005–80005. 4 indexed citations

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Han, Yu, Wankai Tang, Xiao Li, Michail Matthaiou, & Shi Jin. (2023). CSI acquisition in RIS-assisted mobile communication systems. National Science Review. 10(8). nwad127–nwad127. 14 indexed citations

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Cheng, Qiang, Lei Zhang, Jun Yan Dai, et al.. (2022). Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Simplified-Architecture Transmitters—From Theory to Implementations. Proceedings of the IEEE. 110(9). 1266–1289. 93 indexed citations

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Tang, Wankai, Ming Zheng Chen, Xiangyu Chen, et al.. (2020). Wireless Communications With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Path Loss Modeling and Experimental Measurement. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20(1). 421–439. 1049 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ke, Jun, Jun Yan Dai, Ming Zheng Chen, et al.. (2020). Linear and Nonlinear Polarization Syntheses and Their Programmable Controls based on Anisotropic Time‐Domain Digital Coding Metasurface. Small Structures. 2(1). 78 indexed citations

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Han, Yu, Wankai Tang, Shi Jin, Chao-Kai Wen, & Xiaoli Ma. (2019). Large Intelligent Surface-Assisted Wireless Communication Exploiting Statistical CSI. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68(8). 8238–8242. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tang, Wankai, Xiang Li, Jun Yan Dai, et al.. (2019). Wireless communications with programmable metasurface: Transceiver design and experimental results. China Communications. 16(5). 46–61. 55 indexed citations

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