January 2019

Prof. Shen has received the 2019 Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award

Prof. Shen has received the 2019 Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award

Prof. Shen and former BBCR members attended the Globecom 2019 at Hawaii, USA, on Dec. 9-13, 2019. Prof. Shen has received the 2019 Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award for "his exceptional contributions to resource management in wireless networks". Congratulations! 

Prof. Shen attended the International Workshop on Advances in Information Coding and Wireless Communications (AICWC' 2019)

Prof. Shen attended the International Workshop on Advances in Information Coding and Wireless Communications (AICWC' 2019)

Prof. Shen attended the International Workshop on Advances in Information Coding and Wireless Communications (AICWC' 2019), Chengdu, China, October 31 - November 2, 2019.

Dr. Nan Chen and Dr. Wen Wu attended the convocation on Oct. 26, 2019

Dr. Nan Chen and Dr. Wen Wu attended the convocation on Oct. 26, 2019

Dr. Nan Chen and Dr. Wen Wu attended the convocation on Oct. 26, 2019. 

Dr. Qiang Ye joins the Minnesota State University as an Assistant Professor since Sep. 2019

Dr. Qiang Ye (BBCR, 2012-2019) will join the Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, as an assistant professor. Congratulation

Dr. Qiang Ye (BBCR, 2012-2019) will join the Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, as an assistant professor. Congratulations to Dr. Ye! Wish you all the best for your future career!

Prof. Shen recognized with the 2019 Award of Merit from FCCP Education Foundation

Prof. Shen has received the FCCP Education Foundation - 2019 Award of Merit.

"The FCCP Education Foundation was established in 1981 to promote the advancement of higher education. It funds more than 50 permanent scholarships and awards in over 13 Ontario universities and post-secondary institutions, as well as McGill University in Quebec."

Congratulations to Prof. Shen

Prof. Shen and former BBCR members attended the SYSU Workshop on Intelligent Networks and Edge Computing

Prof. Shen and former BBCR members attended the SYSU Workshop on Intelligent Networks and Edge Computing

Prof. Shen and former BBCR members attended the SYSU Workshop on Intelligent Networks and Edge Computing, at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, on August 14, 2019.

Nan and Wen successfully defended the Ph.D. thesis

Nan and Wen successfully defended the Ph.D. thesis.

On July 26, Nan Chen and Wen Wu successfully defended the Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations to Nan and Wen!

Dr. Yujie Tang and Dr. Jianbing Ni will join Canadian Universities as Assistant Professors since Jul. 2019

jianbing

Dr. Yujie Tang and Dr. Jianbing Ni will join the Faculty of Computer Science, Algoma University, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, as tenure-track assistant professors, since July 1st, 2019, respectively.

Prof. H. Vincent Poor and Prof. David Tse gave the distinguished lectures and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the University of Waterloo

Poor

We warmly welcomed Prof. H. Vincent Poor, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor at Princeton University, and Prof. David Tse, the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor at Stanford University, to visit our BBCR group on June 13-15, 2019. They not only gave distinguished lectures, titled "Machine Learning Meets Mobile Communications" (Prof. Poor) and "Operating Blockchains Near Physical Limits" (Prof.

Our BBCR members Won Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2019

BPW_OCC19

Our work titled "Big Data Analytics for User Association Characterization in Large-Scale WiFi System" by Feng Lyu, Ju Ren, Nan Cheng, Peng Yang, Minglu Li, Yaoxue Zhang, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen was honored with a Best Paper award at the IEEE ICC'19, Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019. Congratulations!

Prof. Shen attended the 110th Founding Anniversary Celebration of Dalian Maritime University

Shendalian

Prof. Shen attended the 110th Founding Anniversary Celebration of Dalian Maritime University on June 08, 2019, and delivered a speech to extend the heartfelt congratulations to the alma mater and the sincere gratitude to the hard-working teachers on behalf of more than 200,000 alumni all over the world.

Prof. Shen visited Shanghai Jiaotong University

Shanghai Jiaotong

Prof. Shen visited Shanghai Jiaotong University and delivered a research seminar, titled "Space-Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Networks", at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, on May 20, 2019.

Prof. Shen and BBCR members attended 2019 Control and System Security Scientists Joint Studio Annual Conference

Zheda

Prof. Shen and BBCR members attended 2019 Control and System Security Scientists Joint Studio Annual Conference at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, on May 18-19, 2019.

Prof. Shen attended the Smart Computing and Smart Grid forum

Dianli2

Prof. Shen and our former BBCR members attended the Smart Computing and Smart Grid forum at Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China, May 17, 2019.

Prof. Lin Cai received the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship

Lincai

Canada’s 2019 Top Natural Sciences and Engineering Researchers Awards Celebration was held on May 6, 2019. Our BBCR Alumni, Prof. Lin Cai, received the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowships, which are awarded annually to 6 outstanding and highly promising scientists and engineers who are faculty members of Canadian universities. Prof. Lin Cai received her MASc and Ph.D at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, and now is a full professor at the Department of  Electrical and Computer Engineering, Victoria University.

Professor Sherman Shen selected 2019 recipient of the IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Silver Medal Award

IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Silver Medal Award

Prof. Shen has been selected by IEEE Canada as the 2019 recipient of the IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Silver Medal Award. The Medal is awarded to outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for their important contributions to the field of telecommunications engineering. Congratulations! News

Prof. Zhisheng Niu, from Tsinghua University, China, visited BBCR group

Prof. Niu visited BBCR

Prof. Zhisheng Niu, from Tsinghua University, China, visited BBCR group and delivered a research seminar titled "Mobility-enhanced Edge Intelligence for Ultra-reliable and Low-latency Communications (MEET-U)" on Feb. 07, 2019.