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PhD Candidate in Wireless Communications
5G NR Wireless Spectrum Sharing Network Economics Game Theory Wireless Communications Reinforcement Learning
Updated on Dec 20, 2025
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Awards

Best Student Paper Award at IEEE WiOpt 2024

Best Student Paper Award

IEEE WiOpt 2024

Recognized for outstanding research at IEEE International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks.

Best Paper Award (Policy Track) at IEEE DySPAN 2024

Best Paper Award (Policy Track)

IEEE DySPAN 2024

Recognized for outstanding research on spectrum sharing policies at IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks

News

May 2025

Presented Our Paper at IEEE DySPAN2025.

I had the privilege of presenting our paper “Compete or Coordinate? Analysis of Spectrum Sharing Strategies for Local Wireless Services”. Huge thanks to my incredible co-authors for their collaboration and guidance throughout this project Zongyun Xie Igor Kadota Randall Berry Carlos Caicedo William Lehr!

DySPAN 2025 presentation
Oct 2024

Received Best Student Paper Award at IEEE WiOPT2024!

Thrilled to share that our paper, "Impact of Geographical Separation on Spectrum Sharing Markets," co-authored with Zongyun Xie, Igor Kadota, Randall A Berry has received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT) 2024!

WiOpt 2024 reception
Jun 2024

Presented Our Paper at IEEE ICC2024.

Had a great time at IEEE ICC 2024 presenting our work "Market Impacts of Relaxed Incumbent Protection in Spectrum Sharing," co-authored with Prof. Randall Berry. Great to meet our alumnus Dr. Cheng Chen, now a Wireless Standards Engineer at Intel!

ICC 2024 IEEE ICC 2024 conference photo
May 2024

Received Best Paper Award (Policy Track) at IEEE DySPAN2024!

Thrilled to share that our paper, "Market Impacts of Pooling Intermittent Spectrum," co-authored with Prof. Randall Berry has received the Best Paper Award (policy track) at the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) 2024!

Dyspan 2024 Award Photo 1 Dyspan 2024 Award Photo 2
Nov 2023

Passed PhD Qualifying Exam.

This is the first milestone of my PhD journey!

Education

PhD, ECE — Northwestern University, IL, US

Sept 2022 – Now

MS, ECE — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US

Aug 2020 – June 2022

BS, Telecommunications Engineering — Xidian University, China

Sep 2016 – Jun 2020

GPA: 3.90/4.00

Graduated #1 in major (Class of 2020)