Short Bio

I was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida, where I directed the Real-Time Intelligent Systems Lab. As of August 16, 2022, I joined Department of Computer Science of North Carolina State University. Thus I no longer update my website at UCF and you can find my new website here.

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016. (advisor: Prof. Sanjoy K. Baruah)
• M. Phil., Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. (advisor: Prof. Jun Wang)
• B. E., Computer Science and Technology (with Honor), Tsinghua University, 2009.
• High School Diploma, National Talented Class in Science Olympiad, Ministry of Education, High School Attached to Tsinghua University, 2005. (~80 selected from >22,500,000 nationwide, all with direct admission to Tsinghua Univ. or Peking Univ., with the exemption from National College Entrance Examination)

Research Interests

• Real-Time Systems
• Neural Networks and Machine Learning
• Applications to Intelligent Systems
• Two 12-minute seminar talks about my recent and ongoing research efforts in general (July 2020) and on scheduling (April 2022)

Honors and Awards

• UCF Reach for the Stars Award, 2022.
• Best Industry Solution Award, RTSS 2021.
• Best Paper Award, EMSOFT 2020.
• Best Student Paper Award, RTSS 2019.
• Outstanding Paper Award, RTSS 2019.
• Outstanding (Faculty) Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2014-2015.

My google scholar page

Service

• I review about 40 papers per year, as PC/Senior PC member in conferences (including RTSS, RTAS, EMSOFT, AAAI, DAC, etc.) and reviewer for journals (such as TPDS, TNNLS, TECS, TII, TCAD, TCPS, TIME, TNSE, TETCI, etc.). I actively serve in research communities (mainly IEEE TCRTS) as members of subcommittees and chair roles in conference organizations. I also frequently serve in NSF panels and review industry proposals.