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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Scheduling in wired and wireless networks, wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor networks

High-speed packet switching, design and modeling of switching systems

Internet technologies, protocol design and internetworking

 

FUNDED RESEARCH

Senior Personnel and major contributor, High performance stable packet switches, Polytechnic University, funded by the NSF NeTS program, amount $500,000, period Sept. 2004 ~ Aug. 2008

Senior Personnel and major contributor, REU: High performance stable packet switches, Polytechnic University, awarded by the NSF NeTS program, amount $12,100, 2005

Senior Personnel and major contributor, REU: High performance stable packet switches, Polytechnic University, NSF NeTS program, amount $9,680, 2006

Contributed to the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) ten-year renewal proposal, Polytechnic University, funded by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), annual amount $1,000,000, 2005 ~ 2014

Contributed to annual reports for several NSF funded research and education projects at Polytechnic University

Senior Personnel and contributor, Wireless Research Center for Cross-Layer Optimization of Coexisting Systems, Auburn University, funded by NSF I/UCRC program, amount $250,000, 2007 -2012

Senior Personnel and contributor, REU Site - Wireless Communication Systems, Auburn University,  NSF REU program, amount $330,000, submitted in Aug. 2010

 

RESEARCH AND WORKING EXPERIENCE

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Jan. 2010 ~ present

Efficient scheduling in wireless networks

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Nov. 2006 ~ present

Packet switch performance analysis and simulation

Research on efficient medium access control for multi-hop and multi-channel wireless networks

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University, Feb. 2004 ~ Oct. 2006

Packet switch performance analysis and simulation

Research and implementation on wireless networking for search and rescue using "guided rats"

CATT Research Fellow, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University, Sep. 1998 ~ Jan. 2004

Research on high speed switching and Virtual Output Queuing (VOQ) Matching schemes (Ph.D thesis work)

Research on MPLS Traffic Engineering (joint project with AT&T Research Lab)

Modeled and simulated the Securities Industry Automation Corporation's Gigabit network for the New York stock exchanges with OPNET’s ITGuru and NetCracker’s NetCracker.

Network Design and Integration Engineer, Beijing Founder Electronic Corp. Ltd, Jul. 1997 ~ Jul. 1998

Designed access networks based on customer’s requirements and provided customer service

Directed technical team to set up computer networks and configure network devices based on engineering designs

Research Assistant at the State Key Lab on Microwave & Digital Communications, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, Sep. 1993 ~ Jul. 1997

Signaling of ATM networks, protocol and performance analysis

Low-bit-rate speech coding algorithms and speech enhancement in noisy background, performance simulation 

 

 

AWARDS & HONORS

The CIE-USA/GNYC Student Poster Contest Performance Award, Newark, NJ, Sept. 27, 2003

Second prize in The ACM International Student Research Contest, Charlotte, NC, Feb. 2001

First prize at the AT&T Student Research Symposium, AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, Oct. 2000

Elected member of Tau Beta Pi

New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) Fellowship, Polytechnic University, Sept. 1998 to Jan. 2004

MOTOROLA Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students, Tsinghua University, 1995

Scholarship for Professional Practice, Tsinghua University, 1992

Scholarship for Excellent Students, Tsinghua University, 1991