Yahong Rosa Zheng received a B.S. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 1987, and an M.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing China, in 1989. She received a Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, ONT, Canada, in 2002. She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow for two years with the University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri, USA. She was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology for 13 years and served as the Wilkens Missouri Telecommunications Chair Professor for 2017 -2018. Since Aug. 2018, she has been a professor in the ECE department at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Her research interests include underwater cyber-physical systems, compressive sensing, wireless communications, and wireless sensor networks. She has served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for many IEEE international conferences and as Associate Editor for three IEEE journals. She is currently a senior editor for IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. She is the recipient of an NSF faculty CAREER award in 2009. She has been an IEEE fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society since 2015.