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Biography
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, hosted by Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in Jan. 2018, and my B.Eng. degree with First Class Honor from the Department of Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2012. From Oct. 2015 to May 2016, I was a visiting research fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Research
I am currently working on smart energy and distributed computing systems, with a focus on improving energy sustainability and algorithmic efficiency. Examples of past and current research projects include demand-side management in smart grids, electric vehicle networks in smart cities, and resource management in cloud/edge computing. For more information, please see Current Research and Publication.
I am also broadly interested in the optimization of networked systems, focusing on designing incentives and decision-making algorithms for network operators such that a desired performance can be achieved through a collective behavior of its users/customers/agents. In particular, my research tends to focus on applications where online and sequential decision making under uncertain customer behaviors plays an important role, drawing on tools from online algorithms, economics, mechanism design, Markov decision process and stochastic models (e.g., queueing theory, Markov chain).
Latest News
10/2018: Our conceptual paper, “Autonomous Mobility and Energy Service Management in Future Smart Cities: An Overview”, was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Universal Village 2018. [arXiv version].
08/2018: Our paper, “Asymptotic Performance Evaluation of Battery Swapping and Charging Station for Electric Vehicles”, appears in the list of Most Downloaded Performance Evaluation Articles.
07/2018: Our paper, “Online Price-based Vehicle-to-Station Recommendations for EV Battery Swapping”, was accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm 2018.
07/2018: Our paper, “Eliciting Multi-dimensional Flexibility from Electric Vehicles: A Mechanism Design Approach”, was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
07/2018: I joined University of Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, hosted by Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia.