Zhijin Qin (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She was with Imperial College London, Lancaster University, and Queen Mary University of London, UK, from 2016 to 2022. Her research interests include semantic communications and sparse signal processing. She was a recipient of several awards, such as the 2017 IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Signal Processing for Communications Committee Early Achievement Award, the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc SPCC Best Paper Award, and the 2023 IEEE SPS Best Paper Award. 

She served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Special Issue on Semantic Communications and an Area Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Series. She also served as the Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 and 2021. She is serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Networking, as well as the Area Editor of IEEE Communications Letters.