Published over 400 important academic journal and conference papers, with more than 48,000 Google Scholar citations, 12,000 SCI citations, and an h-index of 105
Awards include Second Prize of National Natural Science Award, First Prize of Natural Science Award by the Ministry of Education, First Prize of Technological Invention Award by the Ministry of Education, First Prize of Natural Science Award by China Computer Federation, First Prize of Natural Science Award by China Electronics Society, ACM President's Award, CCF Wang Xuan Award, etc.
Received 11 Best Paper Awards from prestigious international conferences such as Mobicom, SIGCOMM, and SenSys
2023 ACM SenSys Test of Time Award
Designed and implemented one of the earliest RFID-based indoor positioning systems, LANDMARC
Proposed the differential enhanced hologram method, improving RFID-based positioning accuracy to millimeter level
Established the scalability theory and embodied intelligent navigation theory for the Internet of Things, invented passive diagnosis and other self-organizing network technologies
Built the GreenOrbs/CitySee system
Research Experience
2004 - 2011: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Postgraduate Director, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2011: Distinguished Professor under the Changjiang Scholars Program, Tsinghua University
2013 - 2017: Professor and Dean, School of Software, Tsinghua University
2018 - 2020: MSU Foundation Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, USA; Professor, Tsinghua University
2020 to present: Dean of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
Background
Dean of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) at Tsinghua University, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the Department of Automation. Research interests include Internet of Things and Industrial Internet, indoor positioning and network diagnosis, embodied intelligent navigation, etc.