Education
B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Academic Talent Program, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2005 - 2009
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2009 - 2015
Honors and Awards
Tutorial speaker, IEEE International Symposiums on Information Theory, 2024
IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, 2017
NSF Center for Science of Information (CSoI) postdoctoral fellowship, 2017
Invited participant, Rising Stars in EECS workshop at Berkeley University, 2014
Shannon Graduate Fellowship (for outstanding graduate student in information theory), UCSD, 2013 (see UCSD press release)
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (U.S. acceptance rate 6%), 2013
First Prize in China National Physics Olympiad, 2004