My research interests
are broadly in experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and novel RF applications. I lead the UB Wireless Networking and Systems Lab (UB WiNS Lab).
I received the UB Teaching Innovation Award in 2018, the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senior Teacher of the Year Award in 2017 and the Early Career Researcher of the Year Award in 2015, and the CSE Early Career Faculty Teaching Award in 2015.
09/28/2019: IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award.
09/27/2019: PhD openings in UB WiNS Lab for Spring 2020/Fall 2020 in topics related to millimeter wave networking and mobile apps (VR, video streaming) over 5G networks. I am looking for students with strong
coding skills (mainly C and Python) and good systems/networking background. Experience in any of the following is a plus: kernel programming,
wireless drivers, Android, wireless communications/PHY layer, signal processing, LabView. Interested students should apply online
and email me their CV.
07/12/2019: Paper accepted to ACM MobiCom 2019.
03/30/2019: Paper accepted to ACM MobiHoc 2019.
07/18/2018: Three papers accepted to ACM MobiCom 2018.
06/25/2018: UB Teaching Innovation Award.
05/01/2018: Joerg Widmer and I are organizing the 2nd ACM Workshop on Millimeter Wave Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets 2018), colocated with MobiCom 2018.
12/06/2017: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senior Teacher of the Year Award.
11/27/2017: Paper accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2018.
11/16/2017: Best Paper Award Runner-Up in CoNEXT 2017.
10/20/2017: Best Paper Award Runner-Up in WiNTECH 2017.
CSE 701 Seminar: Advanced Topics
in Wireless Networks (Spring 2011).
Software/Datasets
Software
MuSher: Source code of our Musher MPTCP scheduler and a set of MPTCP instrumentation tools
from our MobiCom 2019 paper.
Networking Programming Assignments: a set of three networking programming assignments, along with an automated tester/grader,
available to both students and instructors. The assignments have been used in CSE 489/589, a joint senior undergraduate/introductory graduate
class at UB.
Pacifier:
An application-layer implementation of our reliable, high-throughput multicast
protocol (presented in INFOCOM 2009)
and the MORE protocol in Linux.
Datasets
MPTCP performance characterization over 802.11ad/802.11ac dataset from our MobiCom 2019 paper.
X60 dataset (SNR, Impulse Response, Power Delay Profile, RSSI, Throughput, Phase, etc.) from our COMCOM 2018 paper.
WiFi dataset (scan results and connection status collected using the PhoneLab
smartphone testbed) from our INFOCOM 2016 paper.
802.11n/ac dataset (throughput, power, energy) from our ICDCS 2014 paper.
Awards
IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award, September 2019.
UB Teaching Innovation Award, June 2018.
Distinguished TPC Member Award, INFOCOM 2018, 2017.
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senior Teacher of the Year Award, December 2017.
Best Paper Award Runner-Up, ACM CoNEXT 2017.
Best Paper Award Runner-Up, ACM WiNTECH 2017.
Best Paper Award, IEEE WCNC 2017.
NSF CAREER Award, February 2016.
CSE Early Career Faculty Teaching Award, December 2015.
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, November 2015.
1st place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2009.
3rd place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2008.
Best Paper Award, SENSORCOMM 2007.
Professional
Service
Senior member of IEEE, ACM, member of USENIX, ACM SIGMOBILE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, NIST 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance.
Steering Committee Member, ACM WiNTECH, December 2016 - present.
Steering Committee Member, ACM mmNets, November 2018 - present.
Editorial Board
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Millimeter Wave Networking", 2019.
IEEE Networking Letters (LNET), Editor, June 2018 - present.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Associate Editor, February 2017 - present.
Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN), Old City Publishing, 2011 - 2015.