
I am looking for Ph.D. students with strong backgrounds in systems, mobile computing, AR/VR/MR, networking, and applied ML. Please email me your CV and transcript.
I am an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. My research interests cover the broad areas of intelligent mobile systems (including 5G), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) systems, cross-layer system design & analysis, application & transport layer protocols, real-world system measurement, and system security. I obtained my Ph.D. from University of Michigan, and my Bachelor's degree from the ACM Honors Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
I am honored to receive several awards including the AT&T Key Contributor Award (KCA) (2014), NSF CRII Award (2016), Google Faculty Award (2016), ACM CoNEXT Best Paper Award (2016,2018), AT&T VURI Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2018), Trustees Teaching Award (2018), DASH-IF Excellence Award (2019), Cisco Research Award (2021), ACM SIGCOMM Best Student Paper Award (2021), Google Research Scholar Award (2022), ACM MobiCom Best Community Contribution (2022), and AI 2000 Top-100 Scholar in Networking (2022,2023).
My publication profile can be found at csrankings.org and Google Scholar with total citations of 7,800+ (H-Index:43). I am also a co-inventor of 37 U.S. patents.
I prototyped the ARO (mobile Application Resource Optimizer) tool based on our Mobisys 2011 paper. It was productized by AT&T. ARO is open-sourced and widely used in industry. [ARO has been extended into the AT&T Video Optimizer, which adds analysis and best practices for mobile videos.]
My on-going and past research includes:
- Connected Vehicles: [mobicom21]
- 5G Networks: [sigcomm21][imc20][www20]
- 3G/4G Networks: [mobisys19][mobicom19][imc16][conext13][sigcomm13][sigm11][imc10][icnp10]
- Mobile AR/VR/MR: [mobicom22][www21][hotmobile21][mobicom20][atc20][conext19][hotmobile19][mobicom18][hotmobile18][hotnets17][allthingscellular16]
- Large-scale Measurement: [sigcomm21][nsdi21][mobicom21][mobicom20][eurosys20][sigm20][imc09][sigm09]
- Multipath Transport: [mobisys20][mobicom19][mobicom17][mobicom16][conext15]
- Mobile Video Streaming: [conext18][infocom17][conext16]
- Wearable Devices & IoT: [sigm19][ubicomp19][imc17][mobisys17]
- Web & HTTP: [www17][icnp17][conext16][conext15][mobisys14][mobisys12]
- System Security: [ndss21][sp19][sp19][ndss18][sp17]
- Mobile App & Energy: [imc15][imc12][mobisys12][www12][mobisys11]