PhD Scholarship
Open Position: 1x fully-funded PhD scholarship (3.5 years, long-term available) for UK candidates. Tuition fee might be waived for international candidates with strong background.
Other scholarships:
I am very happy to host joint-PhD/Postdoc/Visiting Researchers. Please feel free to reach out!
NEWS!
- Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine Special Issue on Edge AI for Internet of Robotic Things, deadline: May 15th, 2025. Call-for-Papers
- Lead Chair, 3rd workshop on "6G-empowered Robotic Vehicles for Sustainable Development" in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 8–12 June 2025, Montreal, Canada. VeSUS website
- Lead Chair, 2nd workshop on "6G-empowered Robotic Vehicles for Sustainable Development" in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Singapore, 2024. VeSUS website
- Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF:10.238, Q1) Special Issue on Integrated Sensing, Computing and Communication for Internet of Robotic Things, deadline: Apr 15th, 2024. Call-for-Papers
- Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Network (IF:9.3, Q1) Special Issue on Internet of Robots, deadline: Oct 15th, 2023. Call-for-Papers
- Lead Chair, 1st workshop on "6G-empowered Robotic Vehicles for Sustainable Development" in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Italy, 2023. VeSUS website
Teaching
- ES96T “Advanced Wireless Systems and Networks”, University of Warwick
- ES9ZC “Communication and Information Engineering Design Group Project”, University of Warwick
BIO
I received my BEng degree in Software Engineering from Wuhan University, China, in 2008, and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University, Ireland, in 2012. My research focuses on machine learning in networking and IoT. From 2012 to 2014, I was a postdoctoral researcher funded by Ericsson, followed by a visiting scholar position at the Network Research Lab at UCLA in 2014. Between 2014 and 2015, I served as a 3GPP delegate and Senior Engineer on 5G at Huawei (Shanghai).
From 2015 to 2019, I was the co-founder and CTO of RobSense Technology, an SME specializing in UAVs and robotic swarm products, which secured over 10 million RMB in venture investment. During the same period, I was an Associate Professor at the Key Lab of RF Circuits and Systems (Ministry of Education) at Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. In 2020, I joined Northumbria University, UK, as a Senior Lecturer, and since 2023, I have been an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, where I lead the Connected Robotics Lab.
I have received Best Paper Awards at IEEE ICCRE 2016 and IEEE BMSB 2014. Additionally, I have served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Network and IEEE IoT Journal and as an Associate Editor for IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and the Journal of Pervasive Computing & Communications. I am also a voting member of IEEE P1954 on UAV communications.