Group News

March 2024, Jiawei received the School of Engineering (SENG) PhD Research Excellence Award 2023-24!

Jan 2024, big congratulations to the FYP teams:

• Team (BOULNOIS, Hanya Efje Clemence Charlotte, SINGH, Sandeepti, ZHENG, Wenhan) won the ELEC FYP Mid-term Best Poster Award!

• Team (CHAK, Wai Ho, CHAN, Yan Nam) was the 1st Runner-up of the ELEC FYP Mid-term Video Award!

November 2023, Jiawei passed his thesis exam. Congratulations, Dr. Shao!

November 2023, Xinyu received an IEEE Globecome 23 Student Travel Grant.

November 2023, Jiawei received the HKTIIT Postgraduate Excellence Scholarships 2022/23. Congratulations!

September 2023, Jintao Xue joined our group as a research assistant.

September 2023, Dr. Wei Guo joined our group as a postdoc.

August 2023, welcome new PhD students: Li Teng, Tianyang Qi, Sijia Li, Yingdong Hu, Zehning Liu, Zifan Liu, Yufan Zhuang, Hongze Chen.

Auguest 2023, Xinran received The ECE Best TA Award. Congratulations!

August 2023, Zhening received the HKUST RedBird PhD Award. Congratulations!

June 2023, Jiawei received the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students. Congratulations!

June 2023, Dr. Xiaolu Wang joined our group as a postdoc.

April 2023, Teng Li received the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. Congratulation!

Dec. 2022, I was selected as a 2023-2024 IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.

Oct. 2022, Dr. Zehong Lin joined our group as a postdoc fellow.

Aug. 2022, three new PhD students (Shenyuan Gao, Zijian Li, and Wenqiang Sun) joined our group.

Aug. 2022, Dr. Jingwen Tong joined our group as a postdoc fellow.

Jun. 2022, Yifei passed his PhD thesis defense. Congratulations to Dr. Shen!

Jan. 2022, new PhD student Xinran Li joined our group.

Jan. 2022, Mr. Xuefeng Wang joined our group as a research assistant.

Nov. 2021, I was elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2022 with the citation: “for contributions to dense wireless networks”.

Oct. 2021, I joined HKUST as a tenured associate professor.

Sept. 2021, Mr. Haoyang Li joined our group as a research assistant.

Aug. 2021, new PhD student Xinjie Zhang joined our group.

Apr. 2021, I was promoted to Associate Professor.

Mar. 2021, Miss Zhuoyi HUANG joined our group as a research assistant.

Jan. 2021, new PhD student Haoyu Yin joined our group.

Sept. 2020, SZE Wai Ki was awarded the Technical Excellence Award for his Final Year Project “Blockchain for Internet of Things”.

Sept. 2020, Dr. Yao Zhang joined our group as a postdoc.

Aug. 2020, new PhD student Yuchang Sun joined our group.

Apr. 2020, I joined the editorial board of Journal Frontiers in Communications and Networks.

Mar. 2020, I was recognized as The 2020 AI 2000 Internet of Things (IoT) Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention (#28 globally).

Aug. 2019, three new PhD students (Xinyu Bian, Jiawei Shao, and Bilal Hussain) join our group. Welcome!

Aug. 2019, Mr. Heng Liu (from Beijing Institute of Technology) joined our group as a visiting PhD student.

July 2019, Mr Yao Zhang from Xidian University joined our group as a research assistant.

July 2019, I joined the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Communications.

May 2019, Dr. Haitao Zhao, from Nanjing University of Posts and Telcommunication, started as a visiting scholar with our group at PolyU.

May 2019, Miss Jialin Dong from ShanghaiTech University joined our group as a research assistant.

Feb. 2019, I was listed as one of exemplary reviewers of IEEE Transaction on Communications for three consecutive years (2016–2018).

Jan. 2019, I joined the editorial board of Journal of Communications and Information Networks.

Dec. 2018, I joined the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). A new journey began!

Nov. 2018, Alex received the HKTIIT Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarship, and Humboldt Research Fellowship. Big congratulations!

Aug. 2018, Xianghao (Alex) passed his PhD defense, and will join Prof. Robert Schober‘s group at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) as a postdoc.

Nov. 2017, Pancy passed her PhD defense, and joined Huawei Future Network Theory Lab in Hong Kong.

Aug. 2017, Yuyi and Rui passed their PhD defenses. Congratulations!

• Yuyi will join ASTRI in Hong Kong, and Rui will join Microsoft in Beijing.

May 2017, Yinghao's talk in INFOCOM received the Best-In-Session Presentation Award. [Slides]

Oct. 2016, I received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award (one awardee every year in the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region).

• Citation: “For his contributions to the analysis and optimization of dense wireless cooperative networks”.

Mar. 2016, Chang passed his PhD defense, and joined National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a Research Associate.

Aug. 2015, Yaming and Yuanming passed their PhD defenses. Congratulations!

• Yaming joined ASTRI in Hong Kong, and Yuanming joined ShanghaiTech as an Assistant Professor.

July 2015, I was elevated to IEEE Senior Member.

Jan. 2015, I joined the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.