Continuously listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists (both Annual and Career Impact) from 2020 to 2024
Continuously ranked in the AI-2000 Most Influential Scholars in Artificial Intelligence (2022–2024)
Recipient of the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Recipient of the IEEE HITC Award for Excellence in Hyper-Intelligence Systems (Early Career)
Recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Smart Computing STC Early-Career Award
Published over 250 high-quality papers in IEEE journals and conferences, including 30 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 10 ESI Hot Papers
Google Scholar citations exceeding 20,700
Granted 18 Chinese national invention patents
Received IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award (corresponding author, globally unique that year)
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Land Transportation Paper Award (first author, globally unique)
IEEE ComSoc CSIM Technical Committee Best Paper Award (first author)
IEEE ComSoc Big Data Technical Committee Best Influential Conference Paper Award (first author, globally unique)
Top 50 Most Influential Blockchain Papers Worldwide (first author)
Best Student Paper Award at CCF-IEEE Services Computing, Best Paper at the 9th China Conference on Computer Practice Education
Silver Medal at the 49th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
Silver Medal at the 23rd China Patent Awards
Multiple science & technology awards including Second Prize from China Urban Rail Transit Association, First Prize from Guangdong Intelligent Transportation Science & Technology Award
18 Best Paper Awards at international conferences including ICA3PP, IEEE WCNC, AAAI Workshop, etc.
Serves on editorial boards of 15 prestigious journals including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (IF=35.6), IEEE JSAC, TMC, TSC, etc.
Youth Editorial Board member for Chinese journals such as Journal of Electronics & Information Technology and Journal on Communications
Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks SIG on 'Wireless Blockchain Networks'
Organizing roles (General Chair, Track Chair, etc.) at major IEEE conferences including ICDCS, WCNC, ICC, Globecom, Metaverse
Recipient of IEEE Outstanding Leadership and Distinguished Service Awards for conference leadership
Mentored students to win national silver at 'Challenge Cup', national bronze and provincial golds at 'Internet+' competitions
Students awarded IEEE ComSoc SNTC Student Competition Second Prize
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2018–2021), with advisor Prof. Dusit Niyato
Visiting Scholar at Princeton University, USA (2019), with advisor Prof. H. Vincent Poor
Visiting Scholar at University of Waterloo, Canada (2020), with advisor Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Principal Investigator of over 10 provincial/ministerial-level projects including NSFC General Program, Youth Program, Key Joint Project, National Key R&D Sub-project, Guangdong Provincial Programs, and MOE Industry-Education Collaboration Projects
Long-term R&D collaborations with metaverse-related enterprises
Background
Professor at Guangdong University of Technology, Assistant Dean of the School of Automation
Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Future Technology Committee, Aiscolar
Council Member of Guangdong Ais Information Academic Exchange Institute
Standing Committee Member of Big Data and AI Committee, Guangdong Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Research interests: blockchain, metaverse, digital humans, IoT, artificial intelligence, information security