Weihua Zhuang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Dalian Maritime University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, all in electrical engineering. In October 1993, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in July 1997, and then to Full Professor in July 2002. Since May 2010, she has been a Tier I Canada Research Chair in wireless communication networks. Her current research focuses on resource allocation and QoS provisioning in wireless networks. She is a co-author of the textbook Wireless Communications and Networking, which has been published by Prentice Hall since 2003, and has been translated to Chinese and published by the Publishing House of Electronics Industry in China since 2004.

Dr. Zhuang is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), an elected Board of Governor of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. She is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee in 2011, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2010, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2007 and 2010, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007, and the International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine) 2007 and 2008. She received the Outstanding Performance Award in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2011 from the University of Waterloo for outstanding achievements in teaching, research, and service, and the Premier's Research Excellence Award in 2001 from the Ontario Government for demonstrated excellence of scientific and academic contributions.

Dr. Zhuang is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and an Editor of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, International Journal of Sensor Networks, and the ETRI Journal. She was an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2005-2009). She is the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Symposia Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2011, the TPC Co-Chair for Wireless Networks Symposium of the IEEE Globecom 2008, Cross Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2007 and 2006, and the ACM Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP) 2005.

Dr. Zhuang is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada. She is the Chair of the Vehicular Technology Chapter, IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section.