He received the Ph.D. degree from College of William and Mary in 2010 (under the supervision of Prof. Li) and B.S. from Nanjing University (China) in 2000, both in Computer Science. Before joining UMass Boston in 2010. He spent 9 months at Northeastern University as a postdoctoral research associate working with Prof. Noubir. His research interests include mobile computing, big data, cloud computing, cyber security, and wireless networks. He published 9 papers on IEEE Transactions. He published over 35 proceeding papers on INFOCOM, MobiHoc, ICDCS, et al. His total citation exceeds 1900 (h-index: 23, i10-index: 28). He served as TPC member of over 60 international conferences, including INFOCOM, MobiHoc, SECON, ICC, and GLOBECOM.