Zhu Shihua received the B.Sc. degree in Radiotechnics in 1982 from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, and the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Systems in 1984, the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Systems Engineering in 1987, both from the University of Essex, UK.

Since 1987, he has been with Xi’an Jiaotong University where he is now a professor in the Department of Information and Communications engineering and the vice president of the university. He is also an advisory panelist of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, an advisory panelist of the State Teaching Guidance Commission of China (electronics and information session), and is on the Academic Board of the China Institute of Communications (CIC). He currently serves on the editorial board of ACTA ELECTRONICA SINICA. He is the CIC Fellow and the vice chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Communications Society.

He worked in the Department of Information Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a visiting researcher between May 1993 and August 1993, March 1994 and August 1994, June 1995 and September 1995. He worked in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada as a visiting associate Professor between June 1996 and December 1996, a visiting Professor between October 1998 and October 1999.

His research interests are in mobile communications, digital switching, and computer networks, especially in multiple user detection, multiple input multiple output system (MIMO), power control, space-time coding, turbo coding, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). He has involved in more than 30 research projects including some supported by the National Science Foundation of China and by the National High Technology Research and Development (863) Project of China. He won more than 10 research, teaching and book awards. He is also a patent holder. He has authored 4 books and published more than 130 papers.