I am the Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering with a secondary appointment in Computer Science at Duke University. I direct the FuNCtions Lab, working with a group of talented students on projects across the networking, communication, sensing, and energy-efficient computing aspects of wireless, mobile, optical, and quantum networked systems.
My research focuses on both theoretical and experimental aspects of massive antenna systems and millimeter-wave networks, optical and quantum networks, and spectrum sharing systems, and their convergence with edge cloud, energy-efficient computing, and AI/ML. I enjoy building efficient hardware–software systems and experimental testbeds at scale.
Before joining Duke in Fall 2021, I was a postdoc in Electrical Engineering at Yale University (2020–2021), working with Prof. Leandros Tassiulas and Prof. Lin Zhong. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2020 (advisor: Prof. Gil Zussman) and my B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014.
I am always looking for motivated B.S., M.S., Ph.D. students and Postdocs to join my group at Duke ECE. If interested, email me your CV, transcript, and a brief note on your research interests.
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All newsOne paper on skilled AI agents for embedded and IoT systems development was accepted to the System Demonstrations Track at ACM CAIS’26. [tech report] [Code and Benchmark]
Three papers papers were accepted to IEEE DySPAN’26: (i) Multi-channel real-time D-band beamformer based on the RFSoC ZCU216 platform, (ii) Real-time imaging processing for spectrum energy detction, and (iii) Radio dynamic zone management system design for the PAWR COSMOS testbed.
Our paper on simultaneous radar-based odometry and synthetic-array sensing for UAVs was accepted to IEEE ICRA’26.
Our paper on mmWave ISAC with sub-symbol beam switching was accepted to IEEE MTT-S RFSA’26.
Our paper in collaboration with the Duke Quantum Center on the first coexistence field Trial of 1092 nm quantum link, coherent 400 GbE, and 5G Service was accepted to IEEE/Optica OFC’26.
Our education mateiral on the design and control of IoT systems via LLMs using MCP was selected as a contributed talk at the Education Track at NeruIPS 2025. Please also check our our poster and booth at this year’s NeurIPS! [techical paper at ACM WiNTECH’25]
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Acknowledgments
Our research projects are supported in part by grants from NSF (CAREER, CIRC GRAND/ENS, CC* Integration-Large, NewSpectrum, EAGER, SII-NRDZ, CISE Core, SWIFT, and Athena AI Institute for Edge Computing), ARO (W911NF2510241), SRC/DARPA JUMP 2.0 Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC), Duke Science & Technology Initiative and Pratt School of Engineering, as well as grants and gifts from ACM SIGMOBILE, Enegis, Google, IBM, NEC Labs America, NTT, and NVIDIA. The findings, positions, or opinions of our research projects do not necessarily represent the official policy of any of these organizations.
