Prof. Tao received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. She is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Prior to that, she was a Member of Professional Staff at Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute during 2003-2004, and a Teaching Fellow then an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from 2004 to 2007. Her current research interests include wireless edge learning, semantic communications, integrated communication-computing-sensing, MIMO beamforming, and channel modeling.

Dr. Tao has served on the Editorial Board of the \textsc{IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications} as a member of the Executive Editorial Committee between 2015-2019 and as an Editor between 2007-2011. She was also on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Tractions on Information Theory (2021-2024), the IEEE Transactions on Communications (2012-2018), the IEEE Communications Letters (2009-2012), and the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2011-2015). She served as the TPC Co-chair of IEEE ICC 2023, Symposium Oversight Chair of IEEE ICC 2019, Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, the TPC chair of IEEE/CIC ICCC 2014 and Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2015.

Dr. Tao is the recipient of the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in 2019, the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letters in 2013, the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) Best Paper Award in 2015, and the International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) Best Paper Award in 2022 and 2012. She also receives the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher award in 2009.

- wireless edge learning

- semantic communications

- integrated communication-computing-sensing

- MIMO beamforming

- AI empowerd channel modeling

- IEEE WCSP 2022 Best Paper Award

- First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, 2021

- IEEE Fellow, 2019

- IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, 2019

- IEEE/CIC  ICCC 2015 Best Paper Award

- Shanghai Labor Medalist in 2014 (上海市五一劳动奖章)

- IEEE WCSP 2012 Best Paper Award

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Project, Low-Altitude Channel Intelligent Modeling, Prediction, and Reasoning， 2025-01 ~ 2029-12，PI
   
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Distinguished Young Scholar Project, Mobile Computing-Communication Converged Networks, 2022-01 ~ 2026-12, PI
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China,  Special Fund on Space-air-ground integrated wireless information network, 2020-01 ~ 2022-12, Co-PI
4. National Key R&D Project of China, Collaborative Delivery of UHD All-media Content Based on Integrated Broadcasting Network and 5G Mobile Network, 2020-11 ~ 2023-10,  Co-PI

• Guest Editor of Proceedings of the IEEE, special issue on "The Road to 6G: Driving the Next Wave of Connectivity", 2024
• Steering Committee of IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, since Jan. 2022
• Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, since Oct. 2021
• Guest Editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Special isue on "Caching for Communication Systems and Networks", 2018.
• Leading Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature topic on "Communications, caching, and computing for content-centric mobile networks", 2016.
• Member of Executive Editorial Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, Jan. 2015 - May 2019.
• Editor of IEEE Trans. on Communications, 2012.8 - 2018.5
• Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters , 2011.08 - 2015.12
• Editor of IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, 2007.03 - 2011.12
• Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, 2009.07 - 2012.07
• Editor of the Journal of Communications and Networks, 2009.08 - 2011.12
• Guest Editor of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on "Physical layer network coding for wireless cooperative networks", 2010
• Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature topic on "LTE-Advanced and 4G Wireless Communications", 2011

1. Yiqiu Wang, Meixia Tao, Shu Sun, "Cramér-Rao Bound Analysis and Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Communication with Extended Targets," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commu. 2024 DOI 10.1109/TWC.2024.3435864
2. Tong Wu, Zhiyong Chen, Dazhi He, Liang Qian, Yin Xu, Meixa Tao, and Wenjun Zhang, “CDDM: Channel Denoising Diffusion Models for Wireless Semantic Communications,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commu., vol. 23, no. 9, Sept 2024
3. Yufei Bo, Yiheng Duan, Shuo Shao, and Meixia Tao, “Joint Coding-Modulation for Digital Semantic Communications via Variational Autoencoder,”  IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 72, no. 9, Sept. 2024
4. Xuan Zhang, Shu Sun, Meixia Tao, Qin Huang, and Xiaohu Tang, “Multi-satellite cooperative networks: joint hybrid beamforming and user scheduling design”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commu, vol. 23, no. 7, July 2024
5. Junyi Yang, Weifeng Zhu, Meixia Tao and Shu Sun, “Hierarchical Beam Alignment for Millimeter-Wave Communication Systems: A Deep Learning Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 4, April 2024
6. Hongwei Zhang, Shuo Shao, Meixia Tao, Xiaoyan Bi, Khaled B. Letaief, "Deep Learning-Enabled Semantic Communication Systems With Task-Unaware Transmitter and Dynamic Data,"  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Commuications, vol. 41, no. 1, Jan. 2023.
7. Naifu Zhang; Meixia Tao; Jia Wang; Fan Xu, "Fundamental Limits of Communication Efficiency for Model Aggregation in Distributed Learning: A Rate-Distortion Approach", IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 71, no. 1, Jan. 2023.
8. Naifu Zhang and Meixia Tao, "Gradient statistics aware power control for over-the-air federated learning," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 8, Aug. 2021
9. Zhe Zhang and Meixia Tao, "Deep learning for wireless coded caching with unknown and time-variant content popularity," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 2, Feb. 2021
10. Meixia Tao, Deniz Gunduz, Fan Xu, and Joan S. Pujol Roig, "Content Caching and Delivery in Wireless Radio Access Networks," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 67, no. 7, July 2019 (Invited Paper)