Hello! I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at UC Riverside, CSE Department. I am a cooperating faculty member at ECE department. My research interests are in the broad area of networking, systems, and cybersecurity, aiming to build performant, intelligent, secure, and resilient networked systems. My recent research specifically targets IoT, 5G, and next-generation wireless networked systems.


Before joining UCR, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA, working with Prof. Songwu Lu. I received my Ph.D. degree from the same research group in 2022. Prior to UCLA, I got my BS degree (with honor) in CS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), under supervision of Prof. Xinbing Wang and Prof. Xiaofeng Gao.


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Research Group (GeNeLa)

I'm fortunate to work with the following talented people.


For more details, see GeNeLa Lab Page.

If you are interested in working with me, please read this note.

Selected Publications (Complete list)

Underlined names indicate students (co-)advised by me

Teaching

CS 169: Mobile Wireless Networks. Winter 2025
CS 179I: Project in Computer Science (Networks). Spring 2024, Spring 2025
CS 110: Principles of Web Development. Summer 2025, Summer 2026
CS 183: Unix System Administration. Spring 2026
CS 204: Advanced Computer Networks. Fall 2023, Fall 2025
CS 257: Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing. Winter 2026
CS 260: Seminar in Computer Science. Fall 2024

Professional Activities

TPC

ACM MobiCom 2026, 2027
USENIX NSDI 2027
ACM MobiSys 2025, 2026
ACM CoNEXT 2024, 2026
ACM HotMobile 2026, 2027
IEEE INFOCOM: 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027
ACM Open-AI RAN 2024, 2025, 2026
free5GC World Forum 2025, 2026
HOLODECKS 2023, 2024

Organizing Committee

ACM SIGCOMM '27 (Publication Chair)
ACM MobiSys '25 (Local Arrangement Co-Chair)
ACM CCS '25 (Proceedings Co-Chair)
ACM HotMobile '25 (Local Arrangement Co-Chair and Student Travel Grant Co-Chair)
ACM HotMobile '26 (Registration Chair)
ACM CoNEXT '24 (Web Chair and Local Arrangement Co-Chair)
ACM Open-AI RAN 2024 with MobiCom (Publicity Chair)
HOLODECKS '23 '24 (Publicity Chair)
IEEE CNS '23 (Publicity Co-Chair)

Journal Reviewer

IEEE/ACM TNeT, IEEE TMC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TR
Editor: Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PACMNET)

Software

Flora: Flexible software-defined 4G LTE/5G system
LRP: Reducing mobile network latency at the application layer
MobileInsight: In-phone mobile network analytics
Sonica: Software-defined Open NB-IoT Research Platform

Research Grants

Active
2026-2029
NSF Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (VINES)
Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-JST: SCALE: Smart Collaborative Aerial Logistics Ecosystem - A Vertically-Integrated Networked System for Urban On-Demand Delivery
2026 -
Delfino Agricultural Technology Research Initiative Grant
Drone-Enabled Root-Zone Soil Salinity Mapping for Precision Leaching Management in Desert Agriculture
2025-2029
DoD Centers of Excellence: AASHI
Adaptive Autonomous and Secure Heterogeneous Integrated System of Systems
2024-2027
NSF NeTS Medium
A Systematic Approach to Diagnostic Testing of Next-Generation Radio Access Networks.
Project website
Past
2025-2026
OASIS Medium: AGLINK
Enhancing Drone-Based Remote Sensing for Digital Agriculture
2025-2026
OASIS Medium: SEE-V2X
Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Communication Testbed for Connected Transportation and Infrastructure

Honors