He received his BEng degree in Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2008, his MSc degree in Communications from the University of Alberta in 2010, and his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Arizona State University (ASU) in 2015. From 2015 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research interests are in the areas of wireless networking and mobile computing, with focuses on crowdsourcing, mobile social networks, fog networking and computing, and privacy in mobile networks. He received the Runner-up Best Paper Award from IEEE INFOCOM 2014 as a co-author, and Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the school of ECEE at ASU in 2015.