Journal Papers
- R. Hou, J. Wang, R. Zhou, D. P. Palomar, X. Gao, B. Ottersten, “An Efficient and Unified Framework for MIMO Downlink Linear Precoding with QoS Constraints,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Early Access, 2025.
- Q. Peng, R. Zhou, J. Wang, X.-G. Xia, Z. Ding, “Optimal Power Allocation for Multi-Group Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Communications, Early Access, 2025.
- L. Zhao, R. Zhou, M. -Y. You, W. Pu* “Can DOA Algorithms Be Deceived?,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 32, pp. 2439-2443, 2025.
- R. Zhou, W. Pu*, M. -Y. You*, Q. Shi, “Harnessing Monotonic Neural Networks for Performance Prediction and Threshold Determination in Multichannel Detection,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 73, pp. 2154-2169, 2025.
- L. Zhao, W. Pu*, R. Zhou, M.-Y. You, Q. Shi, “Contextual Direct Position Determination for Path Loss Informed Localization,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 32, pp. 1241-1245, 2025.
- M.-Y. You, W. Pu*, R. Zhou, Y.-X. Ye, M. Xiao, W. Wang, Q. Shi, “Calibration Signal Assisted Emitter Localization Under Sensor Position Uncertainty,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, pp. 6913-6927, 2025.
- R. Zhou, W. Pu*, M. -Y. You*, Q. Shi, “A Robust Cooperative Sensing Approach for Incomplete and Contaminated Data,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 3945-3957, 2024.
- R. Zhou, W. Pu*, L. Zhao, M. -Y. You, Q. Shi, S. Theodoridis, “A Matrix-Factorization-Error-Ratio Approach to Cooperative Sensing in Non-Ideal Communication Environment,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 3851-3864, 2024.
- L. Zhao, W. Pu, R. Zhou*, Q. Shi, “A Third-Order Majorization Algorithm for Logistic Regression With Convergence Rate Guarantees,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 31, pp. 1700-1704, 2024.
- L. Zhao*, R. Zhou, Q. Shi, “Optimization algorithms for transmit waveform design in radar-centric dual-function radar-communication systems,” Signal Processing, 2024.
- X. Wang, R. Zhou*, J. Ying*, D. P. Palomar, “Efficient and Scalable Parametric High-Order Portfolios Design via the Skew-$t$ Distribution,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 3726-3740, Oct. 2023.
- R. Zhou, J. Ying*, D. P. Palomar, “Covariance Matrix Estimation Under Low-Rank Factor Model with Nonnegative Correlations,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 70, pp. 4020-4030, Aug. 2022.
- R. Zhou*, D. P. Palomar, “Solving High-order Portfolios via Successive Convex Approximation Algorithms,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 69, pp. 892-904, Feb. 2021.
- R. Zhou*, J. Liu, S. Kumar, D. P. Palomar, “Student’s $t$ VAR Modeling with Missing Data via Stochastic EM and Gibbs Sampling,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 68, pp. 6198-6211, Oct. 2020.
- R. Zhou*, D. P. Palomar, “Understanding the Quintile Portfolio,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 68, pp. 4030-4040, July 2020.
- Z. Zhao, R. Zhou, D. P. Palomar*, “Optimal Mean-Reverting Portfolio With Leverage Constraint for Statistical Arbitrage in Finance,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1681-1695, April 1, 2019.
Conference Papers
- T. Pan, W. Pu, L. Zhao, and R. Zhou, “Leveraging LLM Agents for Automated Optimization Modeling for SASP Problems: A Graph-RAG Based Approach,” 2025 44th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 5476–5481.
- H. Luo, R. Zhou, W. Pu, Y.-F. Liu, and T.-H. Chang, “Efficient and Robust Cooperative Detection for Monotonically Incomplete Data,” 2025 44th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 3753–3756.
- N. Zhang, R. Zhou, Ming-Yi You, and W. Pu, “Adaptive Sampling for Online UAV-Aided Radio Map Sensing,” 2025 33nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1-6.
- H. Guo, R. Zhou, W. Pu, M.-Y. You, and J. Yan, “Using Monotonic Neural Networks for Accurate and Efficient Passive Localization Performance Modeling,” 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1-6.
- H. Dong, W. Pu, R. Zhou, X. Fu, and F. Yin, “Integrated Interpolation and Matrix Completion for Radio Map Estimation: A Convex Optimization Approach,” 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1-5.
- Z. Zhang, W. Pu, R. Zhou, M. You, W. Wang, and J. Yan, “Efficient Position Determination Using Low-Rank Matrix Completion,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICSIDP), pp. 1-5.
- H. Tang, L. Yang, R. Zhou, J. Liang, H. Wei, X. Wang, Q. Shi, and Z.-Q. Luo, “Assessing Air-Interface Dataset Similarity and Diversity for AI-Enabled Wireless Communications,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
- R. Zhou, W. Pu, L. Zhao, M.-Y. You, Q. Shi, and S. Theodoridis, “Cooperative Sensing via Matrix Factorization of the Partially Received Sample Covariance Matrix,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
- J. Guan, R. Zhou, W. Pu, Q. Shi, and T.-H. Chang, “A Robust GLRT Detector against Missing Data in Cooperative Sensing,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
- W. Pu, J. Zhang, R. Zhou, X. Fu, and M. Hong, “A Smoothed Bregman Proximal Gradient Algorithm for Decentralized Nonconvex Optimization,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
- J. Liu, H. Liu, W. Pu, R. Zhou, M.-Y. You, and Q. Shi, “Weak Signal Detection based on Beta Divergence,” IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Shanghai, China, 2023, pp. 461-465.
- J. Ying, H. Xi, R. Zhou, X. Wang, and H.-C. So, “Network topology inference with sparsity and Laplacian constraints,” 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Information, Communication and Networks (ICICN), Xi’an, China, 2023, pp. 283-288.
- R. Zhou, J. Liu, S. Kumar, and D. P. Palomar, “Parameter Estimation for Student’s $t$ VAR Model with Missing Data,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2021, pp. 5145-5149.
- R. Zhou, J. Liu, S. Kumar, and D. P. Palomar, “Robust Factor Analysis Parameter Estimation,” Computer Aided Systems Theory – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020.
- R. Zhou and D. P. Palomar, “A Theoretical Basis for Practitioners Heuristic 1/N and Long-Only Quintile Portfolio,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020, pp. 8434-8438.
- R. Zhou and D. P. Palomar, “Accelerating the Multivariate Skew $t$ Parameter Estimation,” IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Le Gosier, Guadeloupe, 2019, pp. 251-255.
- Z. Zhao, R. Zhou, Z. Wang, and D. P. Palomar, “Optimal Portfolio Design for Statistical Arbitrage in Finance,” IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2018, pp. 801-805.