Welcome to my Google page. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to drop me an email. 

I am always looking for highly motivated students, visitors, and collaborators for the exciting communication research. If you have obtained (or close to) a PhD and wish to work with me as a postdoc researcher, there are a number of excellent Fellowships in UK or EU that we may jointly explore ([see my Essex page here]). If you have curiosity to the number 2357, please check here. 

I am very open to many forms of collaborations and firmly believe that modern academic life is more about how to engage with, energize and inspire a large number of scholars and engineers to meet ever-growing new challenges. 

Media Reports: 

• Essex's 6G Lab Showcases Research on The World Stage by Essex Weekly. 

• Boosting Wireless Efficiency with OFDM and SCMA by the EPSRC Communication Hub TITAN. 

• Awards celebrate amazing strengths of Essex research on my 2024 Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher Award by the Faculty of Science and Health, the University of Essex, as part of the celebration for the 60th anniversary of Essex. Another link on the Sixty Stories. 

• Building the Internet of Things for an Interconnected World by Futurum for my SCMA research. 

Research Interests:

My research lies in the interplay of coding, signal processing, and communications, with emphasis on signal design, algebraic coding, error correction codes, iterative receiver design, as well as robust/efficient multiuser communications. I am extremely interested in attacking research problems that arise in practical communication and/or signal processing scenarios and in closing the gap between theoretical bounds and the achievable in hands-on implementations. At this stage, I am specifically interested in the following topics.

• New waveforms (e.g., AFDM) for resilient and scalable 6G systems and beyond; 

• Code-domain NOMA (e.g., sparse code multiple access);

• Mission ciritcal communication, i.e., ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC);

• 6G V2X communications (e.g., in high mobility environments or hybrid VLC/RF V2X);

• Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) and its integration with Terrestrial Networks (TN);

• Integrated sensing, localization, and communications for 6G;

• Signal (e.g., codebooks/sequences/waveforms) design and analysis;

• Error correction codes (e.g., LDPC, Turbo, Polar, RS+BCH);

• Iterative receiver design and graph-based inference;

• Detection and estimation (e.g., blind detection/estimation); 

• Communications for infrastructureless networks;

• Machine learning/AI and compressed sensing for communications.

In addition, with project experiences shown below, I am also greatly interested in 

• physical layer receiver design (e.g., time-/carrier-frequency/sampling-clock synchronizations, channel estimation, equilization) for wireless communications based on Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) & FPGA, Software Defined Radio (SDR) [e.g., USRP2]  and Embedded system (e.g., ARM, DSP, etc).