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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Recipient of the 2017 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2018 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Best Paper Award, a runner-up of the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Best Paper Award, a finalist of the 2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Best Paper Award in the Model-Based Optimization for Robotics TC, and received honorable mention for the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award.
Research Experience
A visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and Santa Fe Institute, a visiting professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Science (NYU), and a postdoctoral researcher at the GRASP General Robotics lab (working with Prof. Ali Jadbabaie).
Education
Received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (under the supervision of Prof. George Verghese).
Background
An Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Systems Engineering and Computer & Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with research interests lying at the intersection of Networks, Dynamics, and Data Sciences, particularly in epidemic modeling and control, socio-technical networks, and social systems engineering.
Miscellany
He is an IEEE Senior Member, as well as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems.