Published over 150 papers in refereed journals/conferences, 2 books, and 14 patents. Awards include the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award at SIGMETRICS’15, the Best Paper Award at ICDCS’13, and more. Also received the DAIS Awards for Military Impact and Commercial Prosperity of Coreset Research by the International Technology Alliance (ITA) in 2021, among others.
Research Experience
Worked as a Research Staff Member in the Network Analytics Research Group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, from 2007 to 2016. Served in various roles in organizing committees for conferences such as General Co-Chair for IEEE RTCSA (2023), TPC Co-Chair for ACM MobiHoc (2025) and IEEE ICCCN (2022), and Area TPC Chair for IEEE INFOCOM (2021).
Education
Received PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2007, supervised by Prof. Lang Tong, with a minor in Applied Math. Received BS in Computer Science from Beijing University in 2003.
Background
Research Interests: Computer/Communication Networking, Cloud Computing & Edge Computing, Distributed/Decentralized Machine Learning, Network Tomography, Performance Modeling & Analysis, Statistical Inference, Stochastic Optimization, Graph Theory. Currently a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University, also affiliated with the Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE) and the Institute of Networking and Security Research (INSR). IEEE Senior Member and ACM Member.
Miscellany
Quote: 'Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.' — Christopher Morley