Professional Service

• ELSEVIER. Role: Associate Editor. ELSEVIER Digital Communications and Networks. 07/2021 - present
• IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Computer Society. Co-chair for Algorithms and Theory Track of IEEE MASS 2021. 03/2021 - present
• IEEE Transactions on Communications. Associate Editor. 10/2020 - present
• Communications Theory (specialty section of Frontiers in Communications and Networks). Associate Editor. 05/2020 - present
• IEEE ISIT. Role: Technical Program Member. Technical Program Member. 02/2020 - present
• IEEE ICC. Role: Technical Program Member. Technical Program Member. 11/2019 - present
• IEEE WCNC. Role: Technical Program Member. Technical Program Member. 10/2019 - present
• IEEE 5G World Forum (WF-5G) . Role: Technical Program Member. Technical Program Member. 10/2019 - present
• IEEE INFOCOM. Role: Technical Program Member. Technical Program Member. 08/2019 - present
• IEEE 5G World Forum 2018. TPC member. 02/2018 - present
• IEEE . Role: TPC. INFOCOM 2018. 02/2018 - present
• IEEE Signal Processing Society. IEEE Signal Processing Society Utah Chapter Chair. 01/2018 - present
• IEEE. Role: TPC. WCNC. 01/2018 - present
• IEEE VTC 2018. TPC member. 01/2018 - present
• IEEE INFOCOM 2018. TPC member. 09/2017 - present
• IEEE WCNC 2018. TPC member. 08/2017 - present
• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. Associate editor. 02/07/2017 - present
• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. Associate Editor. 02/2017 - present
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Reviewer. 08/2016 - present
• IEEE WCNC. TPC member. 05/2016 - present
• IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Reviewer. 08/2015 - present
• IEEE Transactions on Communications. Reviewer. 08/2015 - present
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Reviewer. 07/2015 - present
• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Reviewer. 11/2014 - present
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Reviewer. 02/2014 - present
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Reviewer. 12/2013 - present
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Reviewer. 12/2013 - present
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Reviewer. 02/2013 - present

Honors & Awards

• NSF CAREER Award. NSF, 01/2022
• Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2021. IEEE Communications Society, 12/2021
• Top 15% Undergraduate Teachers Award of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah Fall 2020. College of Engineering of Unviersity of Utah, 08/2021
• IEEE 2019 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award . IEEE, 05/2019
• Exemplary reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Communications. IEEE. 01/2018
• Exemplary reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Communications. IEEE, 02/27/2017
• Best Paper Award for IEEE ICC 2015. 06/2015
• Annenberg Fellowship, USC. 08/2010
• Best Student Paper Award for IEEE EW 2010. 04/2010
• Student Travel Grant . IEEE INFOCOM 2010, 03/2010
• Best Bachelor Degree Thesis Award. BUPT, 06/2006

Internal Service

• Teaching Excellence Committee of College of Engineering. 07/2021 - present. College service.
• Course evaluation. 11/2020 - present. Department service.
• EE Scholarship Applicant Reviewer. 02/2020 - present. Department service.
• ECE Appeals & Petitions Committee. 10/2019 - present. Department service.
• Lab Committee. 09/2018 - present. Department service.
• Undergraduate Committee Member. 08/2018 - present. Department service.
• Faculty search in the area of systems. 01/2018 - present. Department service.
• Faculty search committee member. 12/2017 - present. Department service.
• Faculty Search Committee Member. 02/01/2017 - present. Department service.

Affiliations

• University of Utah (U of U), Assistant Professor, 07/01/2016 - present

Outreach

• ASIAN AMERICAN​ STUDENT ASSOCIATION (AASA) . 01/2018 - present
• ASIAN AMERICAN​ STUDENT ASSOCIATION (AASA). 08/2017 - present