Expertise & Interests
- Internet-of-Things and Data Analytics
- IoT and cloud computing for data collection, fusion, and visualisation
- Machine learning and data analytics for environmental inference and prediction
- Data-driven optimisation for energy efficiency and data quality
- Network Security and Data Privacy
- Intrusion detection using distributed data fusion techniques
- Secure data management and privacy preservation
- Self-adaptive and resilient networked sensing systems
- Smart Cities and E-health
- IoT and mobile crowdsensing for smart cities (e.g. GreenIoT, PM2.5 mobile sensing)
- Integrated decision support tools for smart cities (EU CRUNCH) and citizen engagement (EU SimpliCITY)
- Smart sensing and machine learning for healthcare (e.g. SADHealth, SafeDJ)
Recent Research Projects
| 2018-2021 |
European Commission (EU) and Vinnova (Sweden) - UU leader, EU SimpliCITY - Marketplace for user-centered sustainability services |
| 2018-2021 |
Swedish Research Council (VR) - PI, Towards self-adaptive and resilient networked sensing systems |
| 2018-2021 |
European Commission (EU) and Formas (Sweden) - UU leader, EU CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus |
| 2017-2018 |
STINT Initiation Grant for International Collaboration - PI in Sweden, A blockchain based sustainable IoT system for smart cities in collaboration with Sun Yat-sen University, China |
| 2014-2017 |
VINNOVA Challenge Driven Innovation - Project leader, "GreenIoT: An energy-efficient IoT platform for open data and sustainable development" in collaboration with Ericsson Research, IBM, KTH, SenseAir AB, SICS, Uppsala Municipality, Upwis AB, 4Dialog AB |
| 2015-2017 |
SSF Mobility Grant - Visiting Researcher, "Securing data objects for future Internet" with Ericsson Research AB |
| 2014-2016 |
UU BioMedIT SPARC Fund - Project leader in IT, "Chopsticks: Mobile sensing for rehabilitation" in collaboration with Prof. Gustaf Gredebäck, Baby and Child Lab, Uppsala University |
| 2012-2016 |
"SADHealth: Monitoring seasonal effects to physical and mental health" - PI, UU Internal project, in collaboration with UU Psychology department |
Older Projects
| 2013-2014 |
STINT Initiation Grant for International Collaboration - PI, "Green Mobile Cloud: Energy-efficient mobile content distribution and offloading" in collaboration with Jiangchuan Liu (SFU, Canada) and Victor Leung (UBC, Canada) |
| 2012-2013 |
VINNOVA International Cooperation for Eco-innovations with China, PI, "An information-centric IoT infrastructure for pollution monitoring and sustainable traffic planning" in collaboration with Tsinghua University (China) and BUPT (China) |
| 2011-2013 |
VINN Excellence Center for Wireless
Sensor Networks (WISENET), project member sub-project "Connecting Internet-of-Things with mobile gateways" in collaboration with Per Gunningberg (UU) and Thiemo Voigt (SICS)) |
| 2010-2012 |
VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), PI, "Effective and Secure Collaborative Sensing with Mobile Phones and Sensors" in collaboration with Mani Srivastava (UCLA, USA) |
| 2010-2012 | Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
Center
for Networked Systems (CNS), project member "Network architecture of next generation Internet" in collaboration with Bengt Ahlgren (SICS) |
| 2009-2015 |
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) ProFun Project, project member Co-PI in sub-project "Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks" in collaboration with Pierre Flener and Justin Pearson (UU) |
| 2008-2009 |
VINN Excellence Center for Wireless Sensor Networks (WISENET), project member sub-project "Content based routing in WSNs" in collaboration with Per Gunningberg (UU) |
Awards and Merits
| 2016 | ACM Senior Member |
| 2015 | IEEE Senior Member |
| 2013 | ACM/IEEE IPSN Best Paper Runner-Up (SPOTS Track) |
| 2010 | IEEE IWQoS Best Paper Runner-Up |
| 2009 |
VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) VINNMER Fellow |
| 2005, 2006 |
CSE Dept., The Chinese University of Hong Kong Excellent TAs of the Year Award |
| 2005 |
Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Council Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship Hong Kong Computer Society Epson Foundation Scholarship |
| 2004 |
Hong Kong Computer Society IT Excellence Awards Bronze Award in the post-secondary category |
| 2003 |
Microsoft's Asia Student .NET Competition (Beijing) Most Innovative Application Award |
| 2002 |
Microsoft's Student Developer Xcellence Awards Competition (Hong Kong) The Best .NET Application of the Year Award Most Innovative Application Award Engineering Faculty, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Dean's List in Engineering Faculty |
| 2001 |
Hutchison, Motorola, and Sun Microsystems Silver Award in Hong Kong J2ME Open Competition Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shaw College Certificate of Academic Merit |
Professional Services
Journal Editorial- Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018-
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2017-
- Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2017-
- Associate Editor, EAI endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing, 2015-
- Technical Committee, Elsevier Computer Communications, 2014-
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on IoT for Smart Cities and Urban Informatics (2016), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Cloud Computer for IoT (2015), IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Quality of Service for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (2014), Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Network Systems (2010), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
- IEEE Infocom International Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Informatics, 2016-2017
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Information-centric Networking and Security, 2016
- ACM-W Europe Conference of Women in Computing (womENcourage 2015)
- Symposium on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, 2018
- IEEE International Conference on Smart X, 2017
- IEEE SmartCity Conference, 2015
- IEEE Infocom First International Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Informatics (SmartCity 2015)
- EAI International Conference on Smart Urban Mobility Services Informatics (SUM 2015), collocated with Smart City 360 Summit
- Sensor Networks Track, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2015)
- International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2014)
- Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop (SNCNW 2012)
- ACM conference on Information-centric Networking (ICN 2017)
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2016)
- IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2012)
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2015)
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2014)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006, 2008-2019)
- IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2007, 2010-2019)
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2014-2018)
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015, 2017)
- IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016-2017)
- IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2013-2017)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (Multimedia 2014, 2016)
- IEEE International Conferennce on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2016)
- ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2015)
- IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2015)
- IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2011-2016)
- ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2014)
- IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed System (ICPADS 2014)
- IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2014)
- Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop (SNCNW 2009, 2011-2016)
- IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp 2011, 2012, 2014)
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2010, 2011)
- IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2010, 2011)