{"id":102,"date":"2020-06-29T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/snec\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2021-04-17T21:10:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T01:10:39","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/snec\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n\t\t<h1 class=\"entry-title\">News<\/h1>\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-09fc4250-409a-46dd-94a2-7bd18bbd32ea\"><li>[March 2021]: Ph.D. students, Xudong Qin and Jiangong Chen received&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Student Conference Grant<\/font><\/b>. Congratulations to Xudong and Jiangong!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[February 2021]: Dr. Bin Li was awarded a&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">Distinguished Member<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;of the INFOCOM 2021 Technical Program Committee.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[December 2020]: Dr. Bin Li will serve as the <b><font color=\"red\">TPC Vice-Chair<\/font><\/b> for Submissions in WiOpt 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[October 2020]: Dr. Bin Li was elevated to a&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">senior member of the IEEE<\/font><\/b>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[October 2020]: Dr. Bin Li served as a mentor for N2Women virtual event in ACM MobiHoc 2020 conference.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[September 2020]: Dr. Bin Li was invited to be a guest in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/peggysmedleyshow.com\/mixed-reality-and-training-our-firefighters\">The Peggy Smedley Show<\/a>&nbsp;to introduce mixed reality technology and its application in firefighter training.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[September 2020]: Dr. Bin Li co-organized URI second&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hackathon\/\">Immerse-a-thon<\/a>&nbsp;event for exploring virtual\/augmented applications beyond gaming, and delivered the talk on the virtual\/augmented reality technology.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1806\/Immerse-a-thon2020_Bin-1024x566.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-1624\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1806\/Immerse-a-thon2020_Jiangong-1024x532.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-1627\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1806\/Immerse-a-thon2020_zoom-1024x665.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1633\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1806\/Immerse-a-thon2020_sponsor-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1630\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[September 2020]: Dr. Bin Li was invited to be a panelist for the panel on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ucc.ie\/wowmom2020\/panels\/\">AR\/VR\/XR over wireless networks: challenges and opportunities<\/a>&nbsp;in the 21st IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WOWMOM 2020).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[March 2020]: Dr. Bin Li received the&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">prestigious NSF CAREER Award<\/font><\/b> to develop joint communication, computation, and learning algorithms for wireless collaborative mixed reality networks. Thanks NSF!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[February 2020]: Dr. Bin Li received the prestigious&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">Google Faculty Research Award&nbsp;<\/font><\/b>. The news appeared in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2020\/02\/announcing-2019-google-faculty-research.html\">Google AI Blog<\/a>. Thanks Google!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[February 2020]: PhD students, Xudong Qin and Jiangong Chen won&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">Outstanding Poster Awards in ECBE Graduate Research Showcase and Awards Day 2020<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;for their projects \u201cOn the Efficiency of Threshold-Based Selfish Offloading in Large-Scale Mobile Edge Computing\u201d (Second Place), and \u201cPredictive Transmission for 360-Degree Video Streaming\u201d (Third Place), respectively. Congratulations to Xudong and Jiangong!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[March 2019]: Dr. Bin Li&#8217;s group demonstrated various virtual\/augmented reality applications for local residents and K-12 students in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/events.uri.edu\/event\/uri_brain_fair_1218#.XJRZ1ChKibg\">URI Brain Fair<\/a>. Thanks Xiangqi, Xudong, and Noah. The news appeared in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uri-engineering-students-exhibit-their-brain-power\">URI College of Engineering website<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[March 2019]: Dr. Bin Li organized URI first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hackathon\/\">Immerse-a-thon<\/a>&nbsp;event for exploring virtual\/augmented applications beyond gaming. Thanks Deedee Chatham (director of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Undergraduate Research at URI) for providing logistics support and promoting this event as well as all speakers, mentors, and judges. The news appeared in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uri-students-get-immersed-in-virtual-and-augmented-reality\">URI College of Engineering website<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americaninno.com\/rhodeisland\/from-the-community-rhodeisland\/uri-students-get-immersed-in-virtual-and-augmented-reality\/\">Rhode Island Inno<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-686\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1806\/Immerse_Bin.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-689\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1806\/Immerse_students.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-692\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1806\/Immerse_winners.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[February 2019]: PhD students, Xiangqi Kong and Xudong Qin won&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">Outstanding Poster Awards (Third Place) in ECBE Graduate Research Showcase and Awards Day 2019<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;for their projects \u201cDynamic Loading for Wireless Virtual Reality\u201d, and \u201cLow-Complexity Joint Offloading and Scheduling for Parallel Computing with Deadlines\u201d, respectively. Congratulations to Xiangqi and Xudong!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[September 2018]: Graduate students, Noah Johnson, Salvatore (Turi) Latella, and Xiangqi Kong won&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">Second Prize in HealthHacks RI 2018<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;for their project \u201cVirtual Reality Aided Panic Attack Management\u201d. Congratulations to Noah, Turi, and Xiangqi!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[August 2018]: Master student, Salvatore (Turi) Latella, received the prestigious&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">Department of Defense Science, Math and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;with acceptance rate of 14%. Congratulations to Turi!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[August 2018]: Computer Engineering students, Christian D&#8217;Ovidio, Daniel Williams, James Kiessling, won the&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">Silver Award in Americas and Award of Excellence in Global Grand Final Competition<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;at the 2018 InnovateFPGA Global Design Contest under Dr. J.C. Lo and Dr. Bin Li&#8217;s supervision for their project \u201cQuantum Gate Emulator\u201d. Congratulations to Christian, Daniel and James!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[July 2018]: Dr. Bin Li received the&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">NSF grant<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;to develop adaptive and efficient algorithms for wireless computing networks. Thanks NSF!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[June 2018]: Dr. Bin Li and his Ph.D. student, Xiangqi Kong, received&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">ACM MobiHoc 2018 Best Poster Award<\/font><\/b>. Congratulations to Xiangqi!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[June 2018]: Ph.D. student, Xiangqi Kong, received&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">NSF\/ACM MobiHoc 2018 Student Travel Grant<\/font><\/b>. Congratulations to Xiangqi!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[July 2017]: Dr. Bin Li received the&nbsp;<b><font color=\"red\">NSF grant<\/font><\/b>&nbsp;to develop algorithms with traffic-insensitive performance in wireless networks. Thanks NSF!<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News [March 2021]: Ph.D. students, Xudong Qin and Jiangong Chen received&nbsp;IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Student Conference Grant. Congratulations to Xudong and Jiangong! [February 2021]: Dr. Bin Li was awarded a&nbsp;Distinguished Member&nbsp;of the INFOCOM 2021 Technical Program Committee. [December 2020]: Dr. Bin Li will serve as the TPC Vice-Chair for Submissions in WiOpt 2021. 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