PI, NSF CRII award, 2022

Co-PI,  collaborative NSF SHF medium award, 2021

Co-PI, Research Excellence Fund Award, MTU, 2021

PI,  Research Funds by College of Engineering (CoE) from MTU about COVID-19 activity management, 2020

Ambassador, the 2020 IEEE Rising Stars Conference, IEEE Young Professionals, 2019

Student Travel Grant, IEEE GLOBECOM, NSF, 2019

Student Travel Grant, IEEE ICC, IEEE Communication Society, 2019

Student Travel Grant, IEEE GLOBECOM, UESTC, 2015

National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, China, 2013-2016

Excellent Thesis Award, UESTC, Sichuan, China, 2013

Outstanding Undergraduate, UESTC, Sichuan, China, 2013

Ambassador, Intel Inc. vs. UESTC, 2010-2016

Top-Class Scholarship with Honor, UESTC, Sichuan, China, 2009-2013

[service] 05/23: I served as the TPC of IEEE Globecom 2023.

[paper] 04/23: Our paper "Distributed Pruning Towards Tiny Neural Networks in Federated Learning" has been accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2023, acceptance rate = 18.9%. 

[service] 03/23: I served as a guest editor for the special issue of IEEE Network, "Advanced Networking and Applications for Metaverse and Web 3.0". Please consider submitting your paper!

[paper] 02/23: Our paper "RAMRL: Towards Robust On-Ramp Merging via Augmented Multimodal Reinforcement Learning" has been accepted by IEEE MOST  2023. Congrats to Gaurav!

[service] 01/23: I served as the publication chair of the EAI SmartSP 2023. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers here.

[service] 01/23: I served as a TPC member for IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2023.

[paper] 01/23: Our paper "Cascade Vertical Federated Learning Towards Straggler Mitigation and Label Privacy over Distributed Labels" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, with an impact factor of 4.271.

[Panel] xx/xx: Happy to serve as the NSF panelist and complete a two-day panel discussion!

[award] 12/22: Congrats to Gaurav for receiving NSF Student Travel Award to participate in IEEE/ACM SEC 2022. Gaurav will present his work on robust multimodal on-ramp merging. 

[paper] 10/22: Our paper "Edge-based IIoT Malware Detection for Mobile Devices with Offloading" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, with an impact factor of 10.215. 

[paper] 10/22: Our paper "Flow Topology-based Graph Convolutional Network for Intrusion Detection in Label-Limited IoT Networks,'' has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), with an impact factor of 4.758.

[service] 09/22: I became an affiliated assistant professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, MTU.

[presentation] 09/22: I was invited by the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (ICC) to speak on our recent research on IoT-aware federated intelligence.

[service] 09/22: I served as a TPC member for the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

[paper] 08/22: Our paper "Content-Aware Routing based on Cached Content Prediction in Satellite Networks" has been accepted by IEEE Globecom 2022.

[grant] 07/22: Thanks NSF for the NSF CNS Small Grant (Co-PI) to fund our project on Privacy-Preserving On-Device Intelligence!

[service] 07/22: Our team participated in the MTU Summer Youth Program. We provided a summer tutorial series in two sessions (one in June and another in July) regarding on-device AI in the Artificial Intelligence of Things. Mr. Bagwe (one PhD student on my team) offered the demo practice for the hands-on session with Jetson Nano devices. This year, 26 students participated in the two sessions. 

[presentation] 07/22: I virtually presented our work on heterogeneous federated learning at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

[grant] 06/22: Thanks NSF for the NSF SHF Small Grant (Co-PI) to fund our project on Artificial Intelligence of Things!

[grant] 06/22: I received NSF CRII (pre-career) Award. Thanks, NSF!

[paper] 05/22: Our paper "End-to-End Service Auction: A General Double Auction Mechanism for Edge Computing Services" has been accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), with an impact factor of 5.591.

[paper] 05/22: Our paper "A Knowledge Transfer-based Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for IoT Malware Detection" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), with an impact factor of 6.404.

[paper] 04/22: Our paper "FedZKT: Zero-Shot Knowledge Transfer towards Resource-Constrained Federated Learning with Heterogeneous On-Device Models" has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2022, acceptance rate = 19.9%.

[paper] 03/22: Our paper, "Pay "Attention" to Adverse Weather: Weather-aware Attention-based Object Detection", has been accepted by International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2022. 

[paper] 03/22: Our paper "Cascade Vertical Federated Learning" has been accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2022.

[paper] 02/22: Our paper "Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses in Neural Network Pruning" has been accepted by USENIX Security Symposium 2022, acceptance rate = 17.2%.

[paper] 02/22: Our paper "ES attack: Model stealing against deep neural networks without data hurdles," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), with an impact factor of 8.28.

[service] 01/22: I served as a TPC member for IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2022.

[paper] 12/21: Our paper "A Blockchain based Human-to-Infrastructure Contact Tracing Approach for COVID-19" has been accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ). 

[service] 11/21: Our team participated in the recording for the MTU cybersecurity awareness video.

[paper] 10/21: Our paper "Intelligent Delay-Aware Partial Computing Task Offloading for Multi-User Industrial Internet of Things through Edge Computing" has been accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ). 

[paper] 09/21: Our paper "Secure Transmission by Leveraging Multiple Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in MISO Systems" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), with an impact factor of 5.577.

[grant] 07/21: Thanks NSF for the NSF SHF Medium Grant (Co-PI) to fund our project on collaborative machine learning!

[service] 07/21: Our team participated in the MTU Summer Youth Activity. We provided a summer tutorial series in two sessions (one in June and another in July) regarding self-driving in the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) systems. This year, 23 students participated in these tutorial series. 

[paper] 06/21: Our paper "Energy-Efficient UAV-Aided Target Tracking Systems Based on Edge Computing" was accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ). 

[paper] 06/21: Our paper "Beyond Class-Level Privacy Leakage: Breaking Record-Level Privacy in Federated Learning" was accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ). 

[grant] 05/21: Our research was funded by the Research Excellence Fund Award from MTU about driving safety. 

[service] 04/21: I served as a reviewer of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Panel. 

[paper] 04/21: Our paper "Age-Stratified COVID-19 Spread Analysis and Vaccination: A Multitype Random Network Approach" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), with an impact factor of 5.12.

[paper] 03/21: Our paper "Sensing to Learn: Deep Learning based Wireless Sensing via Connected Digital and Physical Experiments" was accepted by AHFE, 2021. 

[service] 02/21: I am honored to serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT).

[paper] 01/21: Our paper "Timeliness-Aware Incentive Mechanism for Vehicular Crowdsourcing in Smart Cities" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), with an impact factor of 5.577.

[service] 01/21: I served as a TPC member of IEEE INFOCOM 2021 (poster section).

[service] 12/20: I became an affiliate assistant professor at the Department of CS, MTU.

[paper] 12/20: Our paper "A Privacy-Preserving Trust Management System based on Blockchain for Vehicular Networks" was accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2021.

[service] 11/20: I served as the co-chair of human sensing in simulation session at the 11th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) 2020.

[grant] 10/20: Our research was funded by the College of Engineering (CoE) ($20k) from MTU about COVID-19 activity management. Thanks, CoE!

[career] 08/20: I joined the ECE department, MTU, as a tenure-track assistant professor. 

[service] 08/20: I served as a TCP member of NeurIPS-SpicyFL (NIPS) 2020 Workshop on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning.

[career] 07/20: I successfully  defended my Ph.D. dissertation!

[paper] 04/20: Our paper on transmission environment augmentation, "Augmenting Transmission Environments for Better Communications: Tunable Reflector Assisted MmWave WLANs " was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), with an impact factor of 5.978. 

[career] 03/20: I will join the ECE department, Michigan Tech University, as a tenure-track assistant professor Fall 2020!

[service] 01/20: I served as a TPC member of IEEE INFOCOM 2020 (poster section).

[presentation] 12/19: I attended and presented three papers at IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, Hawaii, USA.

[grant] 11/19: I was awarded the NSF student travel grant for 2019 IEEE GLOBECOM.

[paper] 10/19: Our paper on cyber threats to 5G vehicular networks, "5G Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Services: Gearing Up for Security and Privacy " was accepted by the Proceedings of the IEEE, with an impact factor of 10.694. 

[grant] 10/19: I was awarded the NSF student travel grant for 2019 IEEE GLOBECOM.

[paper] 10/19: Our paper on machine learning enabled driving safety, "A Machine Learning Based Defensive Alerting System Against Reckless Driving in Vehicular Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), with an impact factor of 5.978.  

[presentation] 10/19: I was a speaker to attend Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2019.

[service] 09/19: I was selected as the Ambassador for the 2020 IEEE Rising Stars Conference, for IEEE Region 3, Southern, U.S.

[activity] 09/19: Our team won the second prize of Mayors’ Council annual Bubble Soccer Event.

[paper] 07/19: Our paper "Learning-based mmWave V2I Environment Augmentation through Tunable Reflectors" was accepted by IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2019.

[paper] 07/19: Our paper "Delay-Aware Incentive Mechanism for Crowdsourcing with Vehicles in Smart Cities" was accepted by IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2019.

[paper] 07/19: Our paper "Robust Energy-Efficient Beamforming in MISO Networks with Dynamic Energy Consumption Model " was accepted by IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2019.

[paper] 06/19: Our paper "Tunable Reflectors Enabled Environment Augmentation for Better mmWave WLANs " was accepted by IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2019

[presentation] 05/19: I attended and presented our work at IEEE International Communication Conference (ICC) 2019, Shanghai, China.

[paper] 04/2019: Our paper, "SPATH: Finding the Safest Walking Path in Smart Cities" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), with an impact factor of 5.978. 

[grant] 02/19: I was awarded the IEEE ComSoc student travel grant for 2019 IEEE ICC.

[paper] 01/19: Our paper on learning-based vehicular communications, "Machine Learning Based Handovers for Sub-6 GHz and mmWave Integrated Vehicular Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), with an impact factor of 7.016. 

[paper] 01/19: Our paper "FRESH: FReshness-aware Energy-efficient ScHeduler for Cellular IoT Systems " was accepted by IEEE International Communication Conference (ICC), 2019.