Biography:
Suining (Henry) He is currently working as the Associate Professor (with tenure) at the School of Computing, College of Engineering, the University of Connecticut (UConn) since 08/2025. Before that, Suining (Henry) He was working as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, the University of Connecticut (UConn) (U.S. CSRanking in UbiComp/Pervasive/IMWUT under HCI: 12~16; overall CSRanking in U.S.: 62~67) since 09/2019. He leads the UConn's Ubiquitous and Urban Computing Lab.
Suining (Henry) He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2023, Google Research Scholar Program Award in Geo in 2021 and NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Program Award in 2021, and two UConn Research Excellence Program (REP) Awards in 2022 and 2020, and held the Google PhD Fellowship in Mobile Computing in 2015, HKUST School of Engineering (SENG) PhD Research Fellowship Award in 2015--2016, and Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology (HKTIIT) Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarship in 2016. His scholarly works appear in WWW, SenSys, UbiComp, INFOCOM, TKDE, and TMC, and received the IEEE MASS Best Paper Runner-up Award in 2020 and IEEE RTSS Outstanding Paper Award in 2021. He has been ranked among the Stanford's World's Top 2% Scientists since 2020. He serves as the Editor of IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN) since 2023 and the Human Dynamics Section Editor of Springer Computational Urban Science since 2025. He served as the Publicity Co-Chair in the International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) in 2025, and the Track Chair of the Interdisciplinary Distributed Systems and Applications, the IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) in 2024. He received the UConn Office of the Provost Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. He is the IEEE Senior Member and ACM Senior Member since 2024.
Henry's research is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Google, NVIDIA, General Electric (GE), Cigna, Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC), Department of Transportation (DOT), CT Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (DEMHS), SafeGraph, Honda Research Institute (HRI), StreetLight Insight, and internal grants from UConn's Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR).
Before joining UConn, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Real-Time Computing Lab (RTCL), at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI during 11/2016 -- 08/2019. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), from the Hong Kong University of Science and Engineering (HKUST) in 08/2016, and the B.Eng degree (summa cum laude) in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, and Automation, the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 06/2012.
Contact Me: The best way to contact me is via emails. If you don't get my reply in 48 hours, please feel free to send it again.
[Openings] We are looking for self-motivated PhD students who are committed to mobile computing and human-centered computing research for 2026 Fall. Please feel free to contact [email protected] with CV, Transcripts, as well as TOEFL and GRE Scores attached if you are interested.
Contact Information:
Email: suining.he[AT]uconn[DOT]edu
ITE 337, 371 Fairfield Way Unit 4155
Storrs, CT 06269-4155
Some Talks & Presentations:
Research Interests [Research]:
My Recent Publications [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [Pub List] [Research Gate] [ORCiD]:
Resources for Current and Prospective Students:
Miscellaneous:
Suining was born and raised in the City of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. He graduated (with highest honors; 广东省创新人才培养实验班) from the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University (HSFZ) in 2008. He was selected to early enroll in CSE@HKUST in 2012 Fall, through the 2011 Postgraduate Student Early Recruiting program.
Suining (Henry) He is currently working as the Associate Professor (with tenure) at the School of Computing, College of Engineering, the University of Connecticut (UConn) since 08/2025. Before that, Suining (Henry) He was working as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, the University of Connecticut (UConn) (U.S. CSRanking in UbiComp/Pervasive/IMWUT under HCI: 12~16; overall CSRanking in U.S.: 62~67) since 09/2019. He leads the UConn's Ubiquitous and Urban Computing Lab.
Suining (Henry) He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2023, Google Research Scholar Program Award in Geo in 2021 and NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Program Award in 2021, and two UConn Research Excellence Program (REP) Awards in 2022 and 2020, and held the Google PhD Fellowship in Mobile Computing in 2015, HKUST School of Engineering (SENG) PhD Research Fellowship Award in 2015--2016, and Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology (HKTIIT) Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarship in 2016. His scholarly works appear in WWW, SenSys, UbiComp, INFOCOM, TKDE, and TMC, and received the IEEE MASS Best Paper Runner-up Award in 2020 and IEEE RTSS Outstanding Paper Award in 2021. He has been ranked among the Stanford's World's Top 2% Scientists since 2020. He serves as the Editor of IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN) since 2023 and the Human Dynamics Section Editor of Springer Computational Urban Science since 2025. He served as the Publicity Co-Chair in the International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) in 2025, and the Track Chair of the Interdisciplinary Distributed Systems and Applications, the IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) in 2024. He received the UConn Office of the Provost Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. He is the IEEE Senior Member and ACM Senior Member since 2024.
Henry's research is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Google, NVIDIA, General Electric (GE), Cigna, Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC), Department of Transportation (DOT), CT Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (DEMHS), SafeGraph, Honda Research Institute (HRI), StreetLight Insight, and internal grants from UConn's Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR).
Before joining UConn, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Real-Time Computing Lab (RTCL), at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI during 11/2016 -- 08/2019. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), from the Hong Kong University of Science and Engineering (HKUST) in 08/2016, and the B.Eng degree (summa cum laude) in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, and Automation, the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 06/2012.
Contact Me: The best way to contact me is via emails. If you don't get my reply in 48 hours, please feel free to send it again.
[Openings] We are looking for self-motivated PhD students who are committed to mobile computing and human-centered computing research for 2026 Fall. Please feel free to contact [email protected] with CV, Transcripts, as well as TOEFL and GRE Scores attached if you are interested.
Contact Information:
Email: suining.he[AT]uconn[DOT]edu
ITE 337, 371 Fairfield Way Unit 4155
Storrs, CT 06269-4155
Some Talks & Presentations:
- [VXI-SUR] MASS 2025 @ Chicago, IL [video]
- [CG-IRL] SIGSPATIAL 2023 [video]
- [CG-HMI] UbiComp 2023 @ Cancun, Mexico [video]
- [FCRIL] UbiComp 2023 @ Cancun, Mexico [video]
- [EIGDES] WWW 2022 [video]
- [GBikes] WWW 2020 [video]
- [GCScoot] WWW 2020 [video]
- [CBikes] MobiHoc 2018 @ LA, CA [video]
Research Interests [Research]:
- Human-Centered AI (HCAI), Geospatial AI (GeoAI), Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)
My Recent Publications [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [Pub List] [Research Gate] [ORCiD]:
Resources for Current and Prospective Students:
- Work Hard, Play Hard: Every Week: Watch a Movie, Talk with Parents, and Go to the Gym (by Prof. Kazem Kazerounian)
- How to read, write and present papers (by Prof. Vaidya at UIUC)
- How to give a talk (by Profs. Jones, Hughes and Launchbury)
- Student mentoring (by Prof. Wu)
- Writing skills
- Writing technical articles
- Advice on research and writing
- A link on writing
- Advice for writing papers (From Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic)
- Writing a math paper (by Profs. Kleiman and Tesler)
- Paper writing with MS Words (by Prof. Lionel Ni)
- Task of a referee (good to know before you write a paper)
- Academic career
Miscellaneous:
Suining was born and raised in the City of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. He graduated (with highest honors; 广东省创新人才培养实验班) from the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University (HSFZ) in 2008. He was selected to early enroll in CSE@HKUST in 2012 Fall, through the 2011 Postgraduate Student Early Recruiting program.
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