Graduate Students' Achievements:
    I always fight side by side with my graduate and undergraduate mentees in the frontline of those research projects that I truly love, from visible system build-up, physical data collection, to cyber programming and verbal project deliverables. I am very fortunate to work with and dedicate to the following self-motivated students with excellent working ethics:

• Hao Wang
  • Predoctoral Honorable Mention Fellowship, UConn School of Computing, 2024 Summer
• Yawen Deng
  • Synchrony Fellowship, Connecticut Advanced Computing Center, 2025 Spring​
• Md. Mahbub Hasan
  • Synchrony Fellowship, Connecticut Advanced Computing Center, 2024 Fall
• Mahan Tabatabaie (PhD 2021-2024; Current Position: Autonomous Systems Engineer@PassiveLogic)
  • PhD Thesis: Ubiquitous Computing for Micromobility Systems​
  • 5 x ACM UbiComp (first author), 2022, 2023 (x2), 2024 (x2)
  • 1 x IEEE/RSJ IROS (first author), 2023
  • ​1 x ACM SIGSPATIAL (first author), 2021​
  • ​IEEE ICDE Student Travel Grant, 2023
  • GE Fellowship of Excellence, 2023
  • Marion and Frederick Buckman Engineering Fellowship, UConn School of Computing, 2024
  • Predoctoral Fellowship for Outstanding Scholarly and Research Accomplishments, UConn School of Computing, 2022, 2023 
• Xi Yang (Master's in Data Science 2019-2020; PhD 2020-2023; Current Position: Sr. Research Scientist@AspenTech) 
  • PhD Thesis: Spatio-Temporal Human Mobility Analytics and Prediction
  • 1 x IEEE Transactions on Big Data (first author), 2024
  • ​1 x ACM SIGSPATIAL (first author), 2023
  • 1 x ACM UbiComp (first author), 2022
  • 1 x EWSN (first author), 2022 ​
  • ​1 x IEEE MASS Best Paper Runner-up Award (first author), 2020
  • ACM KDD Student Travel Grant, 2020
  • Predoctoral Fellowship for Outstanding Scholarly and Research Accomplishments, UConn School of Computing 2022, 2023 
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Undergraduate Students' Achievements:

• Third Place in School of Computing Senior Design Project Competition, UConn's College of Engineering, 2024​
• Illy Hoang, University of Connecticut McNair Scholar, 2024

Celebration of Xi's Graduation

Attending IROS with Mahan

Halloween x Pokemon

Basketball

Dining with Mahbub and Hao

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Selected Awards and Recognitions: ​

• ACM Senior Member, 2024
• IEEE Senior Member, 2024
• NSF CAREER Award, 2023
• Stanford’s World's Top 2% Scientists [link], 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
• UConn Research Excellence Program (REP) Award, 2022 
• Google Research Scholar Program Award in Geo, 2021
• NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Program Award, 2021
• IEEE RTSS Outstanding Paper Award, 2021
• UConn Office of the Provost Excellence in Teaching Award, 2020
• IEEE MASS Best Paper Runner-Up Award, 2020
• UConn Research Excellence Program (REP) Award, 2020 ​
• ​HKTIIT (Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology) Post-graduate Excellence Scholarships, 2016
• HKUST SENG (School of Engineering) PhD Fellowship Award, 2015
• Google PhD Fellowship in Mobile Computing, 2015
• ​Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Paper (top 0.1%), Hubei Province, China, 2012
• National Scholarship x 2 (two consecutive years; voluntarily declined the 3rd-year award for classmates who were in more needs), Ministry of Education of China, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
• Quintessence of All Merit Students (top 12 awardees of top 1% students; 特優生標兵)，HUST, 2011 
• Star of Qiming College Runner-Up Award (啟明之星) [link], HUST, 2010
• Highest Academic Achievement Award (top 1%; 特優生 [link]), HUST, 2009-2011 
• ​National Championships (3 Gold Medals, 3 Silver Medals, and 1 Bronze Medal in Humanoid Robots), National FIRA (Federation of International Robot-soccer Association) Robot Competition, China, 2010​

Conference & Journal Organization:

• Editor, IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN), 2023 - Present
• Track Chair, Interdisciplinary Distributed Systems and Applications, IEEE ICPADS, 2024
• Publicity Co-Chair, COMSNETS, 2025 
• TPC, WWW, 2023
• TPC, AAAI, 2022
• TPC, IEEE INFOCOM, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• TPC, ACM BuildSys, 2021
• TPC, ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• TPC, UrbComp, 2024
• TPC, IEEE SECON, 2021
• TPC, ACM SIGCOMM (Poster & Demo), 2023, 2024
• TPC, IEEE MASS, 2020 (Session Chair), 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• TPC, IEEE IPCCC, 2020 (Session Chair), 2021
• TPC, IEEE ICPADS, 2020
• TPC, IEEE LCN, 2020, 2021
• TPC, IEEE MSN, 2020
• TPC, IEEE CCNC, 2022
• ​TPC, WASA, 2021
• TPC, IPIN, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• TPC, SLICE, 2023, 2024
• TPC, AI4NET, 2024
• Guest Editorship, Electronics Special Issue : Advances in Data Mining and Machine Learning for Location Analytics; Journal of Computer and Communications Special Issue on Indoor Localization: Technologies and Challenges

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Reviewing for: 

• National Science Foundation Panel, 2021, 2023
• AAAI
• IEEE INFOCOM
• ACM UbiComp (Proc. ACM IMWUT)
• IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)
• ​ACM/IEEE ICCPS
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
• ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (TON)
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
• ​ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ)
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• ​IEEE Access
• IEEE Pervasive Computing
• ​Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing
• IEEE Communications Letters
• ​IEEE Sensors Journal
• International Journal of Production Research
• Springer Wireless Networks
• IEEE ICC
• MDPI Sensors/Electronics/Applied Sciences
• IET Wireless Sensor Systems
• Frontiers of Computer Science
• International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
• PV Workshop

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