Artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things

Wireless communications, 6G mobile communications

Quantum communications, wireless optical communications

Smart cities, intelligent building control

Communication signal processing

Funded Projects as Principal Investigator:

NSFC Project: “Iterative Multi-User Communication Theory and Methods in Poisson Sparse Impulse Noise”, National Natural Science Foundation of China

NSFC Project: “A Novel Non-Orthogonal Multi-Hop Relay Technology Based on Interleaving Iteration”, National Natural Science Foundation of China

National Science and Technology Major Project: “TD-LTE Terminal Baseband Chip Development”, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

National Science and Technology Major Project: “TD-LTE-Advanced Terminal Baseband Chip Engineering Prototype Development”, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

National Science and Technology Support Programme: “Full Information Traceability and Supervision System for Aquatic Product Processing Industry Chain”, Ministry of Science and Technology

Okawa Information and Communication Research Fund, Japan

Registered Expert, IEC/ISO/TC268 Smart City Assessment International Standard

Chair, National Standard Working Group for Intelligent Building Control

Member, National Technical Committee for Digitalisation of Intelligent Building and Residential Areas (SAC TC426)

Senior Member, China Institute of Communications

Committee Member, Wireless Specialised Committee, Shanghai Institute of Communications

IEEE Senior Member

Extensive collaboration and exchanges with many renowned international universities and scholars, including Stanford University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of British Columbia, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, University of Southampton, University of Sydney, Monash University, etc.

Dean's Award, College of Information Science, Fudan University

Teaching Scholarship, College of Information Science, Fudan University

Shanghai Outstanding Postgraduate Researcher (PhD)

1992–1996: B.Eng., Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics, Department of Technical Physics, Xidian University

1996–1999: M.Eng., Communication and Information Systems, Department of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

1999–2003: Ph.D., Communication and Information Systems, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Undergraduate Course:

Information Theory and Coding

Postgraduate Course:

Digital Communications

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7. Performance and capacity analysis of Poisson photon-counting based Iter-PIC OCDMA systems ， Optics Express ， Nov. 2013 ， vol. 21, no. 22 ， pp. 25954-25967

8. Network-coded multiple-source cooperation aided relaying for free-space optical transmission ， ” International Journal of Communication Systems ， Oct. 2012 ， vol. 25, no. 11 ， pp. 1465-1478

9. Chip-interleaved optical code division multiple access relying on a photon-counting iterative successive interference canceller for free-space optical channels ， Optics Express ， July 2013 ， vol. 21, no. 13 ， pp. 15926-15937

10. A photon-counting spatial-diversity-and-multiplexing MIMO scheme for Poisson atmospheric channels relying on Q-ary PPM ， Optics Express ， Nov. 2012 ， vol. 20, no. 24 ， pp. 26379-26393

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