– Postdoc University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2016
– Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2014
– M.S. Xiamen University, China, 2008
– B.S. Xiamen University, China, 2005

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering

– Communication Networks
– Internet of Things (IoT)
– Virtual/Augmented Reality
– Edge Computing
– Data Centers

– ELE 408 & 409 Embedded System Design
– ELE 549 Computer System Modeling

– Outreach Activities: (1) Represented URI engineering school to attend the event “Rise with STEAM!” at Quonset Air National Guard Base, and introduced Internet of Things to 240 local high school students through several wireless demos; (2) Served as a mentor for Health Hacks RI 2017, where 36 college students from multiple majors in New England States aimed to develop products to improve our health using Internet of Things (IoT) techniques; (3) Attended URI Brain Fair and demonstrated wireless interactive virtual/augmented reality teaching demo.

– Conference Technical Program Committee (TPC) member: Served as a past TPC member of five conferences in communications and networking, such as ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC).

– Reviewer for books/journals: Served as a past reviewer on one book and seven scientific journals, such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON).

– Reviewer for Conferences: Served as a past reviewer on seven conferences in communications and networking, such as IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).