Professional Activities

• Senior Member of IEEE
• Fellow of IET
• Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems 2020 – present
• Associate Editor, Aerial and Space Networks in Frontiers in Communications and Networks, 2020 - present
• Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters 2009-2012
• Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications 2012 - 2014
• Associate Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2011 – 2014
• Exemplary Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2016, 2017
• Exemplary Reviewer for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2015
• Exemplary Reviewer for the IEEE Communications Letters 2015, 2016
• TPC Chair, the 2nd Symposium on Signal Processing Systems (SSPS2020)
• Chair of IoT5G Workshop for the 19^th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2019)
• Program co-chair for the 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2014)
• Track Chair of Next-Generation Wireless Networks for 11^th and 13^th IEEE International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2017, CISIS 2019)
• Guest Editor, Special Issue “Cognition and cooperation in advanced wireless and mobile information systems,” Hindawi Mobile Information System, 2016
• Guest Editor, Special Issue “Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer enabled wireless networks,” Elsevier Physical Communications, 2018
• Guest Editor, Special Issue “Cloud and big data-based next-generation cognitive radio networks,” IEEE Access, 2018.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue “Ultra-Reliable-and-Available Low-Latency Communications for 5G/B5G-enabled IoT”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2018
• Guest Editor, Special Issue “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Communications and Networking”, Elsevier Physical Communications, 2019
• Guest Editor, Special Issue “Social and Cognitive Mobile Computing in Industrial Internet of Things”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019
• Guest Editor, “Networking, Caching and Computation Issues in UAV-Enabled B5G Wireless Communication,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019
• Guest Editor, “Enabling Technologies for Agile Maritime Communication Networks,” China Communications, 2020
• Guest Editor, “Integrated Space-Ground-Sea Wireless Networks for B5G,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2021

Honors and Awards

• Highly Cited Researchers 2020 by Web of Science, Nov. 2020
• World’s Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, USA, (the 691st out of 161179 authors in the field of Networking and Telecommunications), Nov. 2020
• Co-recipient of Best Paper Award, “On-Demand Coverage for Maritime Hybrid Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks,” the 12th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2020)
• Co-recipient of Best Paper Award, “Power Allocation for Maritime Cognitive Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks,” the 19th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC’20)
• Co-recipient of Excellent Paper Award, “Cost-effective hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks: optimal beamforming with nonlinear PA and imperfect CSIT,” the 4th Space Information Networks Forum 2019, Natural Science Foundation of China.
• Co-recipient of Best Paper Award, “Secure transmission for UAV-aided NOMA networks with SWIPT via precoding optimization,” the 11th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2019)
• Co-recipient of Best Paper Award, “UAV-enabled accompanying coverage for hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial maritime communications,” the 28th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC 2019)
• Co-recipient of Best Paper Award, “Caching UAV assisted secure transmission in small-cell networks,” the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2018)
• Co-recipient of Best Paper Award, “Internal Collusive Eavesdropping of Interference Alignment Networks,” the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference-Spring (VTC-Spring), 2017
• Co-recipient of Best Paper Award, “Energy-Spectral Efficiency in Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer,” the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2016)