Tang Lan received the B.S and M.S. degrees in communication engineering from the Jilin University, and the ph.D degree in communication and information science from Southeast University. Since 2009, she has joined the school of electronic science and engineering, Nanjing University, China, where she is now a professor and doctoral supervisor. In 2014, she visited Columbia University for one year as a visiting scholar, cooperating with Professor Wang Xiaodong. Her current research interests include key technologies in 5G/6G, machine learning and optimization theory in wireless networks, and integrated communication-radar systems.