Activities
Awards and Recognitions
IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best Paper Award (2019)
Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee (2016, 2018-2020)
Best-in-Session Presentation Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2016
CST Faculty Research Award Nomination (2019)
CST Faculty Mentoring Award Nomination (2019)
CST Faculty Teaching Award Nomination (2018)
Editorial Board
Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), May 2020 - present
Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), April 2020 - present
Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IEEE OJ-COM), July 2019 - present
Guest Editor for IEEE Access: Intelligent Data Sensing, Collection and Dissemination in Mobile Computing, October 2019
Guest Editor for ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET): Special Issue on Machine Learning and Intelligent Communications, June 2018
Conference Organizing Committee
TPC Chair
The International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet) 2019
International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Communications (MLICOM) 2018
TPC Track Chair
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2020
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2020
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2018
IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference (TENCON) 2015
Workshop Chair
Submission and Publication Chair
Web Chair
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2020
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2019
IEEE International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) 2016
Student Activities Chair
Local Arrangement Chair
IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2016
Session Chair
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2019
The 2nd Age of Information Workshop (AoI Workshop) 2019
ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc) 2014
The First International Workshop on Mobile Sensing, Computing and Communication (MSCC) 2014
Conference TPC member (by year)
2021: ACM SIGMETRICS
2020: IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE WiOpt, IEEE VTC, IEEE MSN, AoI Workshop
2019: IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE WiOpt, IEEE MASS, AoI Workshop
2018: IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE WiOpt, IEEE MASS, IEEE Globecom, BIGCOM
2017: IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE WiOpt, IEEE MASS, IEEE Globecom, IEEE VTC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE MSN, IEEE ICNC
2016: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE WiOpt, IEEE SECON, IEEE MASS, IEEE WCNC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE ICNC, BIGCOM
2015: IEEE WiOpt, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE MASS, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, BIGCOM, NAT-IoT
2014: ACM MobiHoc, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE CCS, WOCC
Reviewer and panelist for proposals
National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE program 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020
Army Research Office (ARO) 2015
Reviewer for journals
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
IEEE Network Magazine
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems
ELSEVIER Performance Evaluation
ELSEVIER Computer Networks
ELSEVIER Ad Hoc Networks
ELSEVIER Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
ELSEVIER Pervasive and Mobile Computing
ELSEVIER Sustainable Computing, Informatics and Systems
ELSEVIER Tsinghua Science and Technology
Journal of Communications and Networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
WILEY Networks
Springer Telecommunication Systems
Springer Computing
Reviewer for conferences
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2011-2015
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2012
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2017
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2017
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2012, 2015
IEEE International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) 2011
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2013
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2013
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) 2013
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2012, 2014
IEEE Global Communications Conference 2014
IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2014
IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2013
IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile (APWiMob) 2014
IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications & Signal Processing (WCSP) 2013
ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) 2013
International Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA) 2010
The First Workshop on the Age of Information 2018
Other Committee Services
Member of the ACM SIGMETRICS Committee on Student Engagement (2019-present)
Member of the Best Video Award Committee for ACM SIGMETRICS 2020
Invited talks
“Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints,” University of Delaware, November 2019.
“Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints,” Yale University, October 2019.
“Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints,” The 40th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Newark, NJ, September 2019.
“Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints,” Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, August 2019.
“Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints,” Nanchang University, China, August 2019.
“Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints,” Zhejiang University of Technology, China, August 2019.
“Convex Optimization Algorithms,” Summer Workshop on Computing and Statistics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, June 2019.
“What Queueing Theory Teaches Us About Computer and Network Systems Design,” CIS 1001 Invited Lecture, Temple University, April 2019.
“The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information,” University of Delaware, September 2018.
“The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information,” Villanova University, September 2018.
“The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information,” Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, December 2017.
“The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information,” Shanghai University, China, December 2017.
“The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information,” Southern University of Science and Technology, China, December 2017.
“The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information,” Zhejiang University of Technology, China, November 2017.
“What Queueing Theory Teaches Us About Computer and Networking Systems Design,” NSF REU Faculty Seminar, Temple University, July 2017.
“Node-based Scheduling: Maximizing Throughput and Minimizing Evacuation Time,” Fish Bowl Seminar Series, Texas A&M University, September 2016.
“On Designing High Throughput, Low Delay, and Low Complexity Mechanisms for Wireless Networks: A Multichannel Perspective,” NSF REU Faculty Seminar, Temple University, July 2016.
“On Designing High Throughput, Low Delay, and Low Complexity Mechanisms for Wireless Networks: A Multichannel Perspective,” ECE Colloquium, George Washington University, September 2014.