Biography

I am a tenured Associate Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). Before joining FIU, I was an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University - State University of New York. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, my M.Phil. degree from City University of Hong Kong, and my B.Eng. degree from Beihang University. My research interests include Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Wireless Networking, and Network Security. I am a NSF CAREER awardee, a NSF CRII awardee, an ACM Senior and Lifetime Member, and a Sigma Xi Member and membership reviewer.

I am looking for self-motivated PhD students! Prospective students with interest and expertise in wireless networking, Internet of Things, applied machine learning, network security, and cyber-physical systems are welcome to contact me through email.

Recent News

[Paper] Our paper "WMN-CDA: Contrastive Domain Adaptation for Wireless Mesh Network Configuration" has been accepted to SAC'25.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICC'25. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Configuring Industrial Wireless Mesh Networks via Multi-Source Domain Adaptation" has been accepted to EWSN'24.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for DCOSS-IoT'25. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as one of the guest editors for IEEE Network Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Security for Cloud and Fog-Hosted Industrial Cyber-Physical System; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for SAC'24 Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SECON'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'25. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the TPC track chair (Theory and Protocol) for ICPADS'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Enabling Reliable Environmental Sensing with LoRa, Energy Harvesting, and Domain Adaptation" has been accepted to ICCCN'24.
[Paper] Our paper "MERA: Meta-Learning Based Runtime Adaptation for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for MASS'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Parametric Augmentation for Time Series Contrastive Learning" has been accepted to ICLR'24.
[Paper] Our paper "Adapting Wireless Network Configuration from Simulation to Reality via Deep Learning based Domain Adaptation" has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for AAAI'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for DCOSS-IoT'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for ICC'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "AutoTCL: Automated Time Series Contrastive Learning with Adaptive Augmentations" has been accepted to AI4TS'23 and received the best paper award.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for SAC'24 Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'24. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Meta-Learning Based Runtime Adaptation for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to IWQoS'23.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SECON'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for IWQoS'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ISORC'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Enabling Direct Message Dissemination in Industrial Wireless Networks via Cross-Technology Communication" has been accepted to INFOCOM'23.
[Paper] Our paper "Revealing Smart Selective Jamming Attacks in WirelessHART Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for ICDCS'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for DCOSS-IoT'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the TPC member for SAC'22 Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Autonomous Traffic-Aware Scheduling for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
[Service] Serve as the Local Arrangement Chair for NOMS'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "TrafficSpy: Disaggregating VPN-encrypted IoT Network Traffic for User Privacy Inference" has been accepted to CNS'22.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICC'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICESS'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Localizing Campus Shuttles from One Single Base Station Using LoRa Link Characteristics" has been accepted to ICCCN'22.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'23. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SenSys'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SECON'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for NAS'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Enabling Cross-technology Communication from LoRa to ZigBee in the 2.4 GHz Band" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICCCN'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICDCS'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "ATRIA: Autonomous Traffic-Aware Transmission Scheduling for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to ICNP'21.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for DCOSS'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ISORC'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SAC'22 Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Student] My second PhD student Di Mu has graduated and will join Rice University as a research engineer. Congratulations, Dr. Mu!
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICPADS'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Enabling Cross-technology Communication from LoRa to ZigBee via Payload Encoding in Sub-1 GHz Bands" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
[Student] My first PhD student Junyang Shi has graduated and joined Bloomberg as a software engineer. Congratulations, Dr. Shi!
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'22. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for CHASE'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICESS'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Award] Received the NSF CAREER award to advance industrial wireless sensor-actuator networks (2021-2026, award abstract). Thank NSF CISE/CNS/NeTS.
[Paper] Our paper "Adapting Wireless Mesh Network Configuration from Simulation to Reality via Deep Learning based Domain Adaptation" has been accepted to NSDI'21.
[Award] Selected as a Distinguished Member of the 2021 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.
[Award] My PhD student, Junyang Shi, has won a Graduate Student Excellence Award in Research at Binghamton University. Congratulations, Junyang!
[Paper] Our paper "Launching Smart Selective Jamming Attacks in WirelessHART Networks" has been accepted to INFOCOM'21.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SECON'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Runtime Control of LoRa Spreading Factor for Campus Shuttle Monitoring" has been accepted to ICNP'20.
[Project] To react to the possible shortage of medical ventilators because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we intiated a project which 3D prints the adapter for a single ventilator to ventilate multiple patients simultaneously. If you are willing to contribute, please visit our project website.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ISORC'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'21. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for SAC'21 Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Award] Elevated to a Senior Member of ACM.
[Award] Elevated to a Senior Member of IEEE.
[Paper] Our paper "Radio Selection and Data Partitioning for Energy-Efficient Wireless Data Transfer in Real-Time IoT Applications" has been accepted for publication in Ad Hoc Networks.
[Paper] Our paper "Parameter Self-Adaptation for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT).
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICESS'20. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Cracking Channel Hopping Sequences and Graph Routes in Industrial TSCH Networks" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT).
[Award] Selected as a Distinguished Member of the 2020 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.
[Paper] Our paper "LoRaBee: Cross-Technology Communication from LoRa to ZigBee via Payload Encoding" has been accepted to ICNP'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Enabling Direct Messaging from LoRa to ZigBee in the 2.4 GHz Band for Industrial Wireless Networks" has been accepted to ICII'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Distributed Graph Routing and Scheduling for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON).
[Paper] Our paper "Robust Optimal Selection of Radio Type and Transmission Power for Internet of Things" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN).
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'20. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Energy-Efficient Radio Selection and Data Partitioning for Real-Time Data Transfer" has been accepted to DCOSS'19 and selected as a Best Paper Award Nominee.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICII'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Cracking the Channel Hopping Sequences in IEEE 802.15.4e-Based Industrial TSCH Networks" has been accepted to IoTDI'19.
[Paper] Our paper "On The Feasibility of Estimating Soluble Sugar Content using Millimeter-wave" has been accepted to IoTDI'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Parameter Self-Configuration and Self-Adaptation in Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to INFOCOM'19.
[Paper] Our paper "Incentivizing Relay Participation for Securing IoT Communication" has been accepted to INFOCOM'19.
[Award] Selected as a 2018 ''Career Champion'' at Binghamton University for outstanding contribution to helping students prepare for and solidify future career plans.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICCCN'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Sense and Deploy: Blockage-aware Deployment of Reliable 60 GHz mmWave WLANs" has been accepted to MASS'18.
[Award] Selected as the Educator of the Year in Computer Science at Binghamton University.
[Service] Congratulations for the success of IoTDI'18; IEEE post.
[Paper] Our paper "DiGS: Distributed Graph Routing and Scheduling for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to ICDCS'18.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member and a session chair for INFOCOM'19. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICII'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Real-Time Wireless Routing for Industrial Internet of Things" has been accepted to IoTDI'18.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for DCOSS'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the publicity co-chair and a TPC member for IoTDI'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICPADS'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Grant] Receive a grant to develop an intelligent on-campus parking advisor in smart devices (collaborate with Prof. Yan Wang, 2017-2018). Thank Binghamton University Transportation and Parking Services.
[Service] Serve as a session chair for IWQoS'17.
[Paper] Our paper "Adaptive Radio and Transmission Power Selection for Internet of Things" has been accepted to IWQoS'17.
[Event] Deploy a Wireless Embedded System Testbed at Binghamton University.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM'18. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTSS'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as an external TPC member for SenSys'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Award] Received the NSF CRII award to develop self-adaptive industrial wireless sensor-actuator networks (single PI, 2017-2019, award abstract). Thank NSF CISE/CNS/NeTS.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Impacts of Channel Selection on Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks" has been accepted to INFOCOM'17.
[Paper] Our paper "Empirical Study and Enhancements of Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network Protocols" has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for ICDCS'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as the submission chair, a TPC member, and a session chair for IoTDI'17 (CPS Week). Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for EWSN'17. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.
[Paper] Our paper "Maximizing Network Lifetime of WirelessHART Networks under Graph Routing" has been accepted to IoTDI'16.
[Paper] Our paper "Real-Time Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems" has been accepted to the Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems.
[Service] Serve as a TPC member for RTCSA'16. Please consider submitting your paper; Call for Papers.

Representative Research Work

Industrial IoT: [SAC'25], [EWSN'24], [TOSN'24], [ICCCN'24], [ICLR'24], [TON'24], [AI4TS'24], [IWQoS'23], [INFOCOM'23], [TOSN'22-3], [ICCCN'22], [TOSN'22-2], [TOSN'22-1], [ICNP'21], [NSDI'21], [ICNP'20], [TOIT'20], [ADHOC'20] [ICNP'19], [ICII'19], [INFOCOM'19], [DCOSS'19], [TON'19], [TOSN'19], [ICDCS'18], [IoTDI'18], [INFOCOM'17], [IWQoS'17], [IoT-J'17], [PIEEE'16], [IoTDI'16], [RTSS'15], [EWSN'15], [IWQoS'14], Testbed

IoT Security: [TON'23], [CNS'22], [INFOCOM'21], [TOIT'20], [INFOCOM'19], [IoTDI'19]

mmWave Sensing and Communication: [IoTDI'19], [MASS'18]

Smart Energy [Building'15], [IoT-J'15], [ICDCS'14]

Low-Power Wireless Networks [IPSN'13], [RTSS'13], [TNSM'13], [ICNP'12], [IWQoS'11], [RTAS'11], [TOSN'11], [INFOCOM'10], [ICNP'10], [RTSS'09], [INFOCOM'09], [WCMC'09]

Awards

NSF CAREER Award, 2021. Project website: Advancing Network Configuration and Runtime Adaptation Methods for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks

Distinguished Member of the 2021 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee

Distinguished Member of the 2020 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee

Best Paper Award at the Second Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Time Series Analysis: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (AI4TS), 2023

Best Paper Award Nominee at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'19)

Educator of the Year in Computer Science at Binghamton University, 2017-2018

Career Champion at Binghamton University, 2018

NSF CRII Award, 2017. Project website: Self-Adaptation in Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks