Professional Activities

Editorial and professional service

Editorial appointments

  • Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (July 2024 – present)
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (October 2024 – present)

COST Action 6G-PHYSEC

CA22168 - Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems (6G-PHYSEC)

  • Co-leader of Working Group 5 - Experiments and demonstrations

Conference symposium co-chair roles

Workshop organisation

Workshop co-chair roles across the following series.

DeepWireless Workshop: Deep Learning for Wireless Communications, Sensing, and Security Workshop

Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Wireless Security Workshop

ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning

Physical Layer Security Workshop

Programme committees and reviewing

Technical programme committees

  • IEEE INFOCOM 2025, 2026, 2027
  • IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS) 2025, 2026
  • IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2025, 2026
  • ACM WiSec 2026
Earlier TPC service (2016–2022)
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, 2019–2022
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Wireless Communications Symposium, 2019–2022
  • IEEE GLOBECOM: Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, 2016–2021
  • IEEE GLOBECOM: Green Communication Systems and Networks, 2019–2022
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks Symposium
  • IEEE VTC 2018 Fall Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services Track
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium
  • International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications 2018 Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2017 Spring Recent Results and Workshops - W1: High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC)
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2017 Spring Recent Results and Workshops - W5: Wireless Access Technologies and Architectures for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
  • IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security, 2016, 2017

Proposal reviewing

  • UK EPSRC
  • Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) 2018

Journal and conference reviewing

Please check my review record at Web of Science.

Journal reviewing — complete record
  • Nature Communications
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Network Magazine
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
  • IET Communications
  • IET Electronics Letters
  • China Communications
  • Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
  • Springer Mobile Networks and Applications
  • Springer Wireless Networks
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
  • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
  • Physical Communication
  • MDPI Sensors
  • MDPI Cryptography
Conference reviewing — complete record
  • IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2018
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2014–2017
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2016, 2017, 2019
  • IEEE Asilomar
  • IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2019
  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2017, 2018
  • IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) 2016
  • IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2017
  • International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications 2018
  • IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems 2018
  • European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2019

Talks and public engagement

Conference tutorials

  • Radio-frequency authentication and fingerprinting: a signal processing perspective, Stefano Tomasin & Francesco Ardizzon, Junqing Zhang at EUSIPCO 2026

Training school and other tutorials

  • COST Action 6G-PHYSEC: delivered three tutorials on physical layer security for the second Training School in 2024 and one tutorial in 2026.
  • Physical Layer Security for Internet of Things, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, 14 July 2018

Invited talks

  • IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Webinar, Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for Narrowband Systems, Modelling and Classification, 16 September 2026 External resource.
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Webinar, Towards Scalable and Channel-Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for LoRa, 11 June 2025 External resource.
  • Invited by Prof Maire O’Neill to give a talk to CSIT DTP Spring School at Queen’s University Belfast, 9 April 2025 External resource.
  • Invited by Prof Xianbin Wang to give a talk to IEEE ComSoc Canada London and Toronto Sections, 3 March 2025 External resource.
  • Invited by Prof Marco Gomes to give a talk to IEEE ComSoc and IEEE VTS Portugal Chapter, 23 October 2024 External resource.
Earlier invited talks (2016–2023)
  • Invited by Dr Weitao Xu to give a talk at City University of Hong Kong, 8 December 2023
  • Invited by Prof Stefano Tomasin to give a talk at University of Padova, Italy, 9 November 2023
  • Invited by Prof Eduard Jorswieck to give a talk at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, 7 November 2023
  • Invited by Dr Chongyan Gu to give a talk at Queen’s University Belfast, 22 August 2023
  • Invited by Prof Mark Beach to give a talk at University of Bristol, 6 March 2023
  • Invited by Dr Guyue Li to give a talk at Southeast University, China, 10 June 2022
  • Invited by Dr Shun Zhang to give a talk at Xidian University, China, 24 May 2022
  • Invited by Prof Mark Beach and Dr Magnus Sandell to give a talk at University of Bristol, UK, 10 January 2022
  • Invited by Prof Huiyu Zhou from the University of Leicester, UK, to give a keynote speech at the 2nd Workshop for Sino-UK to Promote the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence, 10 December 2021
  • Invited by Prof Yanzhao Xie at Xian Jiaotong University, China, 6 December 2021
  • Invited by Dr Kyeong Soo Kim at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, 2 September 2019
  • Invited by Prof Chao Wang at Tianjin University, China, 30 August 2019
  • Invited by Prof Haiping Huang at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 23 August 2019
  • Invited by Dr Linning Peng at Southeast University, China, 22 August 2019
  • Invited talk at Zhijiang Lab, China, 16 August 2019
  • Invited by Dr Yuan Ding at Heriot-Watt University, UK, 19 July 2019
  • Invited by Prof Weisi Guo for the H2020 DAWN4IOE Research Workshop at University of Sheffield, UK, 11 July 2019
  • Invited talk at Joint Workshop of University of Liverpool-Xian Jiaotong University at University of Liverpool, UK, 24 June 2019
  • Invited by Dr An Liu at Zhejiang University, China, 4 September 2018
  • IEEE Seventh International Conference on Communications and Electronics, Hue, Vietnam, 19 July 2018
  • Invited by Dr Weisi Guo at Warwick University, UK, 1 June 2018
  • Invited by Prof Jie Xu at Guangdong University of Technology, China, 22 December 2017
  • Invited by Dr Caijun Zhong at Zhejiang University, China, 28 April 2017
  • Invited by Prof Aiqun Hu at Southeast University, China, 26 December 2016
  • Roger Woods, Alan Marshall, and Junqing Zhang, IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security (TCPLS), Washington DC, USA, 8 December 2016

STEM for BRITAIN 2017

  • Junqing Zhang, Roger Woods, and Trung Q. Duong, “Tackling Cyber Security of Internet of Things by Leveraging Low Cost Physical Layer Security”, Poster Presentation, House of Commons, London, UK, 13 March 2017 Poster, PDF
  • STEM for BRITAIN is an annual poster exhibition in the House of Commons, UK, with the overall aim to encourage, support and promote early career researchers in the UK The event is organised by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and the Society of Biology.