He received his B.E. from Tsinghua University in 2006, M.Phil. from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008, and Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 2012, all in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include cloud computing, data centers, and network economics. He was a recipient of the U.S. NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2015. He also received best paper awards from several conferences, including ACM e-Energy'16, IEEE ICC'16 and IEEE ICC'09.