Recent News:
March 2023
Promoted to Staff Research Engineer.
December 2022
I received Samsung 2022 Outstanding Inventor Award for being the lead inventor of the highest number of A1-graded patents in Samsung Research America in the year 2022.
December 2021
I received Samsung 2021 President’s Outstanding Inventor Award for being the lead inventor of the highest number of A1-graded patents in Samsung Research America in the year 2021.
February 2021
Received the 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award from IEEE Transactions on Communication.
February 2020
I have defended my PhD dissertation!
Dec 16, 2019
I have joined Standards and Mobility Innovation (SMI) Lab at Samsung Research America as Senior Research Engineer.
Mar 14, 2019:
Patent Filed: “Method and Apparatus for Machine Learning Based Wide Beam Optimization in Cellular Network”. This was part of my summer 2018 work with Samsung Research America.
Feb 15, 2019:
I passed the Virginia Tech PhD preliminary exam.
Feb 03, 2019:
Our paper titled, “Low Latency Scalable Point Cloud Communication in VANETs using V2I Communication”, has been accepted to IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC) 2019.
Jan 22, 2019:
I, along with my colleague, visited MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) for a two-day discussion with Prof. Lizhong Zheng regarding our collaboration on Machine Learning-based advanced communication strategies.
Nov 01, 2018:
Our paper, ‘Realizing Green Symbol Detection Via Reservoir Computing: An Energy-Efficiency Perspective’, received the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC)’s Best Conference Paper Award. This paper also received the IEEE TAOS Best Paper Award in IEEE ICC 2018!
Nov 01, 2018:
Our paper, Multi-Cell Multi-User Massive FD-MIMO: Downlink Precoding and Throughput Analysis, has been accepted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun!
Oct 29, 2018:
Our work on Deep Learning for physical-layer wireless communication has been featured in Virginia Tech News.
Oct 25, 2018:
My 2018 internship work on Deep Learning for PHY layer communication with Samsung Research America (SRA) has been granted approval for Commercial A1 Patent by Samsung patent review board!
Aug 20, 2018:
I resumed my work at Wireless@Virginia Tech.
Aug 17, 2018:
I concluded my summer internship at Samsung Research America. It was a rewarding experience. Especial thanks to my mentor, Hao!
May 29, 2018:
Started working as a Research Intern at Samsung Research America.
May 22, 2018:
Received the prestigious IEEE TAOS Best Paper Award for our work on Reservoir Computing for Symbol Detection presented in IEEE ICC 2018.
May 21, 2018:
We presented three papers in different symposiums at IEEE ICC 2018.
April 30, 2018:
I received the Virginia Tech Graduate Student Association (GSA) Travel Award for our work on Reservoir Computing for MIMO Symbol Detection to be presented in IEEE ICC 2018.
March 24, 2018:
I received the prestigious IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant for our three papers in IEEE ICC 2018.