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 B.degree (Software Engineering) at Wuhan University, China, in 2008 and PhD (Electronic Engineering) at Dublin City University, Ireland, in 2012.
My research interests lie in communications and networking field. I was the postdoc researcher (2012-2014) funded by Ericsson and the visiting scholar (2014)
at the Network Research Lab in UCLA, U.S. I was the 3GPP delegate and Senior Engineer (2014-2015) on 5G at Huawei (Shanghai). During 2015-2019, I was the Associate Professor in the Key Lab of RF Circuits and Systems (Ministry of Education) at Hangzhou Dianzi Univeristy, China. I was the co-founder and CTO (2015-2019) at
RobSense (Hangzhou) Technology Co.Ltd ,
a SME that designs UAVs and robotic swarm products. RobSense received over 10 million RMB venture investment
since 2015. In 2020, I became a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, UK. Since 2023, I have been an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, leading the Connected Robotics Lab. I won the best paper awards at IEEE ICCRE 2016
and IEEE BMSB 2014. I served as the Guest Editor in IEEE Network and IEEE IoT-Journal, and the Associate Editor at IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and Journal. Pervasive Computing & Communications. I'm a voting member for IEEE P1954 on UAV communications.