Zhechen Zhu received his B.Eng. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, in 2010. Before graduating from the University of Liverpool, he also studied in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, People’s Republic of China for two years. He recently submitted his thesis for the degree of PhD to the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Brunel University London, UK. Since 2009, he has been working closely with Professor Asoke K. Nandi on the subject of automatic modulation classification. Their collaboration has made an important contribution to the advancement of automatic modulation classification in complex channels using modern machine learning techniques. His work has since been published in three key journal papers and reported in several high quality international conferences.

Asoke K. Nandi joined Brunel University London in April 2013 as the Head of Electronic and Computer Engineering. He received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and since then has worked in many institutions, including CERN, Geneva; University of Oxford, UK; Imperial College London, UK; University of Strathclyde, UK; and University of Liverpool, UK. His research spans many different topics, including automatic modulation recognition in radio communications for which he received the Mountbatten Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1998, machine learning, and blind equalization for which he received the 2012 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA).

In 1983 Professor Nandi was a member of the UA1 team at CERN that discovered the three fundamental particles known as W⁺, W⁻ and Z⁰, providing the evidence necessary for the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces, which was recognized by the Nobel Committee for Physics in 1984. He has been honoured with the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA). He is a Fellow of five other professional institutions, including the Institute of Physics (UK), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (UK), and the British Computer Society. His publications have been cited well over 16 000 times and his h-index is 60 (Google Scholar).