Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC, Academy of Science), 2025; Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), 2019; Fellow of IEEE, 2017 (for contributions to multimedia communications and content distribution over the Internet); University Professorship, 2015–2020 (the highest ranked professorship within SFU); HKUST CSE Distinguished Alumni Award, 2017 (Inaugural year); NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, 2015 (NSERC's most prestigious award to young researchers in Canadian universities; 6 recipients per year from all science and engineering fields nationwide; awarded by David Johnston, Governor General of Canada); IEEE ICDCS Distinguished Paper Award, 2024; IEEE MASS Best Paper Award, 2021; Test of Time Paper Award of IEEE INFOCOM, 2015 (Inaugural year); ACM SIGMM TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, 2013; ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award, 2012.
Research Experience
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2003 to 2004; EMC-Endowed Visiting Chair Professor of Tsinghua University (2013–2016); Distinguished Guest Professor of Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (2022–); Microsoft Research Fellow and worked at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in the summers of 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, and 2011.
Education
BEng (Magna cum laude) from Computer Science at Tsinghua University in 1999, and PhD from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2003 (recipient of 2004 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award for the PhD work).
Background
Research Interests: Internet, wireless mobile and space networking, networked multimedia systems and applications, cloud and edge computing, energy efficient computing and smart energy systems, distributed AI systems and applications, AI/satellite-empowered wildlife monitoring in remote areas and underwater.