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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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. 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 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, on May 18-19, 2019.
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.