UAV trajectory control, sensing in automated guided vehicles, cyber physical systems, industrial Internet of Things, data streaming, cybersecurity.

• Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA 

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

• Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, China

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

• Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2025 (UAV secure communications)

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018 (industrial Internet of Things)

• Third-Place Award, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Annual Research Conference (TEES TARC) 2026 

• Heep Graduate Fellowship Award, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University, 2018

• Dr. Christa U. Pandey’84 Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 2021

• 11/2026: Served as Session Chair, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2026, Tempe, Arizona, USA

• 07/2026: One paper accepted by IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2026, Tempe, Arizona, USA

• 07/2026: Served as Website Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2026, Seoul, South Korea

• 05/2026: Received the Third-Place Award, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Annual Research Conference (TEES TARC) 2026 

• 12/2025: Received Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2025

• 07/2024: Website Chair, IEEE ICDCS 2024 – Workshop on Digital Twin-Enabled 6G Multi-Tier Distributed Computing Systems, July 23 - 26, 2024, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

• 11/2024: Served as TPC Committee Member, IEEE ICC 2025 - SAC-13 ISAC Track