Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Binghamton University (State University of New York at Binghamton). Before joining Binghamton University, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory and an Assistant Professor at Governors State University. I received my Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Dr. Chenyang Lu from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to my PhD, I received a M.Phil. degree from City University of Hong Kong and a B.Eng. degree from Beihang University. My research interests include Wireless Networking, Internet of Things, Applied Machine Learning, Network Security, and Cyber-Physical Systems. I am an  IEEE Senior Member, an ACM Senior and Lifetime Member, and a Sigma Xi Member.

I am looking for self-motivated PhD students! Prospective students with interest and expertise in Wireless Networking, Internet of Things, Applied Machine Learning, Network Security, and Cyber-Physical Systems are welcome to contact me through email.

Recent News

[Paper] Our paper "Adapting Wireless Mesh Network Configuration from Simulation to Reality via Deep Learning based Domain Adaptation" has been accepted to NSDI'21.
[Paper] Our paper "Launching Smart Selective Jamming Attacks in WirelessHART Networks" has been accepted to INFOCOM'21.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SECON'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Runtime Control of LoRa Spreading Factor for Campus Shuttle Monitoring" has been accepted to ICNP'20.
[Project] To react to the possible shortage of medical ventilators because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we intiated a project which 3D prints the adapter for a single ventilator to ventilate multiple patients simultaneously. If you are willing to contribute, please visit our project website.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ISORC'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SAC'21 Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Award] Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.
[Paper] Our paper "Radio Selection and Data Partitioning for Energy-Efficient Wireless Data Transfer in Real-Time IoT Applications" has been accepted for publication in Ad Hoc Networks.
[Paper] Our paper "Parameter Self-Adaptation for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT).
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICESS'20. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Cracking Channel Hopping Sequences and Graph Routes in Industrial TSCH Networks" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT).
[Paper] Our paper "LoRaBee: Cross-Technology Communication from LoRa to ZigBee via Payload Encoding" has been accepted to ICNP'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Enabling Direct Messaging from LoRa to ZigBee in the 2.4 GHz Band for Industrial Wireless Networks" has been accepted to ICII'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Distributed Graph Routing and Scheduling for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON).
[Paper] Our paper "Robust Optimal Selection of Radio Type and Transmission Power for Internet of Things" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN).
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'20. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Energy-Efficient Radio Selection and Data Partitioning for Real-Time Data Transfer" has been accepted to DCOSS'19 and selected as a Best Paper Award Nominee.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICII'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Cracking the Channel Hopping Sequences in IEEE 802.15.4e-Based Industrial TSCH Networks" has been accepted to IoTDI'19.
[Paper] Our paper "On The Feasibility of Estimating Soluble Sugar Content using Millimeter-wave" has been accepted to IoTDI'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Parameter Self-Configuration and Self-Adaptation in Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to INFOCOM'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Incentivizing Relay Participation for Securing IoT Communication" has been accepted to INFOCOM'19.
[Award] Selected as a 2018 ''Career Champion'' at Binghamton University for outstanding contribution to helping students prepare for and solidify future career plans.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICCCN'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Sense and Deploy: Blockage-aware Deployment of Reliable 60 GHz mmWave WLANs" has been accepted to MASS'18.
[Award] Selected as the Educator of the Year in Computer Science at Binghamton University.
[Service] Congratulations for the success of IoTDI'18; IEEE post.
[Paper] Our paper "DiGS: Distributed Graph Routing and Scheduling for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to ICDCS'18.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member and a session chair for INFOCOM'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICII'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Real-Time Wireless Routing for Industrial Internet of Things" has been accepted to IoTDI'18.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for DCOSS'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the publicity co-chair and a TPC member for IoTDI'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICPADS'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Grant] Receive a grant to develop an intelligent on-campus parking advisor in smart devices (collaborate with Prof. Yan Wang, 2017-2018). Thank Binghamton University Transportation and Parking Services.
[Service] Serve as a session chair for IWQoS'17.
[Paper] Our paper "Adaptive Radio and Transmission Power Selection for Internet of Things" has been accepted to IWQoS'17.
[Event] Deploy a Wireless Embedded System Testbed at Binghamton University.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTSS'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as an external TPC member for SenSys'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Grant] Receive the NSF CRII award to develop self-adaptive industrial wireless sensor-actuator networks (single PI, 2017-2019, award abstract). Thank NSF CISE/CNS/NeTS.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Impacts of Channel Selection on Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to INFOCOM'17.
[Paper] Our paper "Empirical Study and Enhancements of Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network Protocols" has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICDCS'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the submission chair, a TPC member, and a session chair for IoTDI'17 (CPS Week). Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Maximizing Network Lifetime of WirelessHART Networks under Graph Routing" has been accepted to IoTDI'16.
[Paper] Our paper "Real-Time Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems" has been accepted to the Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'16. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.

Representative Research Work

Industrial IoT: [NSDI'21], [ICNP'20], [TOIT'20], [ADHOC'20] [ICNP'19], [ICII'19], [INFOCOM'19], [DCOSS'19], [TON'19], [TOSN'19], [ICDCS'18], [IoTDI'18], [INFOCOM'17], [IWQoS'17], [IoT-J'17], [PIEEE'16], [IoTDI'16], [RTSS'15], [EWSN'15], [IWQoS'14], Testbed

IoT Security: [INFOCOM'21], [TOIT'20], [INFOCOM'19], [IoTDI'19]

mmWave Sensing and Communication: [IoTDI'19], [MASS'18]

Smart Energy [Building'15], [IoT-J'15], [ICDCS'14]

Low-Power Wireless Networks [IPSN'13], [RTSS'13], [TNSM'13], [ICNP'12], [IWQoS'11], [RTAS'11], [TOSN'11], [INFOCOM'10], [ICNP'10], [RTSS'09], [INFOCOM'09], [WCMC'09]

Awards

Educator of the Year in Computer Science at Binghamton University, 2017-2018.

Career Champion at Binghamton University, 2018.

NSF CRII Award, 2017. Project website: Self-Adaptation in Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks

Best Paper Award Nominee at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'19).