Dapeng Oliver Wu
Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Network Science Chair Professor of Data Engineering Department of Computer Science School of Data Science (Affiliate Member) Office: Y6321, AC-1 Building Department
of Computer Science Mailing Address: Department of Computer
Science City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3442-8635 Fax: (852) 3442-0503 Email: dapengwu@cityu.edu.hk or dpwu@ieee.org
Homepage:
https://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~dapengwu/ |
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Education
- Ph.
D. in Electrical
& Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, 2003
- M.
E. in Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Posts
& Telecommunications, Beijing, P. R. China, 1997
- B.
E. in Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of
Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China, 1990
Here is my short biography,
and
long curriculum
vitae (in PDF).
Research Interests
-
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
machine learning
- AI for science
- AI for communication
- Communication for AI
-
Network
Science, Theory of Complex Systems,
Complexity Theory
- Network
science is a new and emerging scientific discipline that examines the
interconnections among diverse physical, informational, biological,
cognitive, and social networks. This field of science seeks to discover
common principles, algorithms and tools that govern network behavior.
- We
would like to answer the following questions: Can we use simple models to
describe the structures, functions, behaviors of complex biological
systems? If yes, how? Can we crack the code of biological
systems or even the universe?
- Natural
Language processing
- Knowledge Centric Networking (KCN)
- Unified approach for logical reasoning and deep learning
- Pleno-health (全健康) with foundations in natural science, social science, and liberal arts (treating body, mind, and social relationships in a holistic manner)
- Wireless
Communications
- Video
Coding, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Medical
Imaging/Bioimaging
- Explore
three basic problems: imaging, compression, image
understanding/interpretation
- Multimedia
Communication over the Internet and over
wireless
- Computer
and Communication Networks, Queueing Theory
- Information
Security (especially, multimedia security) and Network Security
(especially, wireless network security)
- Information Theory
- Communication
Theory
- Signal
Processing, Detection and Estimation Theory
- Control
Theory
- Machine
Learning
- Computational biology
- Unified
theory for matter, energy, and information, where the cyberspace meets the
physical world.
- Computational
complexity theory
- Logic
and plausible reasoning (deductive, inductive, abductive, and transductive reasoning)
- Smart
grid and power grid (including renewable energy)
Affiliations
Research Projects and Topics
- DeepCloud:
a cloud computing platform for machine learning and deep learning
- Quantum computing
- Quantum artificial intelligence
- Artificial
intelligence for medicine
- Artificial intelligence for drug design
- Artificial intelligence for epidemic
outbreak prediction and containment
- Artificial intelligence for education
- Artificial intelligence for arts (music
composition and training, poem writing, etc.)
- Unification of arts and science (music
manifold, circle of fifth)
- Federated learning
- Autonomous vehicles
- Vision
language intelligence, image captioning
- Large-scale real-time hybrid
network emulator (consisting of real nodes and
virtual nodes)
- Large-scale
human brain simulator
- Large-scale power grid and
communication network co-simulator
- 5G
wireless networks
- Online
social networks
- Recommendation systems
- DeerNet: wireless
sensor networking for wildlife behavior analysis and interaction modeling
- Effective
capacity approach to quality of service provisioning in wireless networks
- Computational
information theory (e.g., Blahut's iterative
algorithm for calculating channel capacity and rate distortion function, proof
of convergence, numerical analysis for information theory)
- EncyclopediaNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical
Knowledge Database, which is similar to ImageNet and WordNet.
- Uncertainty
principle in information theory
- C-R-D
theory (C: cost includes computational complexity, power consumption,
memory size, delay; R: rate; D: distortion)
- Computational
probability theory (e.g., Neuts' matrix
geometric approach, belief propagation, proof of convergence, numerical
analysis for probability theory)
- Multiscale geometric analysis: Ripplet, curvelet, ridgelet,
bandelet, wedgelet, contourlet, chirplets, shearlets, noiselets, wavelet packet, and over-complete wavelet
- Distributed
source coding, distributed image/video coding
- Compressed
sensing, sparse approximation
- Linear/nonlinear
integer transform
- Computer
vision based video coding
- Next
generation video coding
- Object tracking
- Change
detection
- Object
classification and pattern classification
- Video
Streaming, IPTV, Mobile TV (p2p video streaming)
- 3D
vision
- Text
mining
- Biometrics, speaker recognition
- Machine learning approach to
network security, information security, and digital forensics
- Structure,
function, and dynamics of networks (biological networks, communication
networks, social networks, economic networks, power grid, transportation
network, etc.)
- Smart
power grid
- Detection
of economic bubbles or financial crises
- Network
monitoring, network anomaly detection (machine learning approach)
- Distributed
congestion control (optimization-based flow control vs. TCP)
- Software
defined radio
- Simulator
for Channel Estimation and Adaptive Equalization in Fading Channels
- Non-stationary
channel modeling and simulator design for land/satellite/maritime mobile
communication and underwater communication
- Wireless
Video
- Wireless
Sensor Networks
- Video
Distortion Analysis Tool
- Bioinformatics
- Performance
Analysis and Design of Burst-frame-based CSMA/CA Protocols
- Jamming,
anti-jamming
Techniques Developed by My Group and Collaborators
- Effective
capacity of a wireless fading channel
- DyScore: fast and
accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity
- Ripplet transform for signal
processing, image processing, feature extraction, computer vision, machine
learning:
- RED theory for delay constrained
communication
- Evolutionary spectrum approach to
modeling non-stationary fading channels
- Geometric
segmentation for 3D vision
- Gamma
rate theory for source coding and video coding
- Self-Organizing-Queue
based clustering for machine learning: technology licensing
- Social Networking Reduces Peak
Power Consumption in Smart Grid:
technology
licensing
- A Joint Fountain Coding and Network
Coding Approach to Loss-Tolerant Information Spreading: technology
licensing
Openings in my Laboratory
For new applicants who intend to apply
for the Ph.D. program in CS department, City University of Hong Kong:
Refer to notice for
PhD applicants for details.
For postdoc applicants:
Refer to
notice for
postdoc applicants for details.
Students and Visitors
- Jingxuan Chen (postdoc)
- Ning Chen (postdoc)
- Tianyi Chen (postdoc)
- Juntao Hu (RA)
- Hong Huang (Ph.D. student)
- Zhanxiang Huang (Ph.D. student/joint program)
- Yongcan Luo (Ph.D. student)
- Hongming Piao (Ph.D. student)
- Tianli Shi (Ph.D. student)
- Shuguang Wang (Ph.D. student)
- Hao Wang (Ph.D. student)
- Yun Wang (Ph.D. student)
- Renwei Yang (Ph.D. student)
- Zhengjie Yang (postdoc)
- Zhihao Yu (Ph.D. student)
- Guanyi Zhao (Ph.D. student)
- Jiahao Zheng (Ph.D. student)
Alumni
- Dr. Yanlin Zhou,
Employment: Samsung Research, CA, USA
- Dr. Tong Shao, Employment: Dolby, CA, USA
- Dr. Zheng Feng,
Employment: postdoc, UF
- Dr. Yanjun Li,
Employment:
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
- Dr. Qile Zhu,
Employment: Amazon
- Dr. Xiaoyong Yuan, Employment: Assistant
Professor, Michigan Technological University
- Dr. Rajendra Bhat, Employment: Depository
Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), FL, USA
- Dr. Chiranjib Sur, Employment: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
- Dr.
Qi Cai, Employment: Facebook, CA, USA
- Dr.
Manu Chandran, Employment: BeenaVision, GA, USA
- Dr.
Jiade Li, Employment: Facebook, CA, USA
- Dr.
Yun Zhu, Employment: Google, CA, USA
- Dr.
Qiuyuan Huang, Employment: Microsoft Research,
Redmond, WA, USA
- Dr.
Kairan Sun, Employment: Facebook, CA, USA
- Dr.
Xin Li, Employment: Samsung, CA, USA
- Dr.
Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma, Employment: Volkswagon Electronic Research Laboratory, CA, USA
- Dr.
Huazi Zhang, Postdoc, Huawei
- Dr.
Ruigang Fang, Ph.D., Employment: Amazon, USA
- Dr.
Shijie Li, Ph.D., Employment:
Bloomberg, USA
- Dr.
Baohua Sun, Ph.D., Employment:
LSI Corporation, USA
- Dr.
Yuejia He, Ph.D., Employment: Bloomberg,
USA
- Dr.
Christopher Paulson, Ph.D., Employment: Air Force Research Lab, USA
- Dr.
Zheng Yuan, Ph.D.,
Employment: Real Communications, Inc., USA
- Dr.
Hyung Rai Oh, Postdoc, Employment: Samsung, South Korea
- Dr.
Zongrui Ding, Ph.D.,
Employment: Intel, USA
- Dr.
Yakun Hu, Ph.D., Employment:
Bloomberg, USA
- Dr.
Qian Chen, Ph.D.,
Employment: Dolby, USA
- Dr.
Lei Yang, Ph.D.,
Employment: Google, USA
- Dr.
Taoran Lu, Ph.D., Employment:
Dolby, USA
- Dr.
Zhifeng Chen, Ph.D.,
Employment: Professor, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China
- Dr.
Bing Han, Ph.D.,
Employment: Qualcomm, USA
- Dr.
Jun
Xu, Ph.D., Employment: Apple, USA
- Dr.
Xihua Dong, Ph.D.,
Employment: Intel, USA
- Dr.
Youngho Jo, Ph.D., Employment: South Korea Army
- Dr.
Xiaochen Li, Ph.D., Employment: Trellisware Technology, USA
- Dr.
Jieyan Fan, Ph.D., Employment:
Google, USA
- Dr.
Jianfeng Wang, Ph.D.,
Employment: Philips Research North America, USA
- Dr.
Jing
Zhao, Ph.D.
- Dr.
Sinisa Todorovic,
Ph.D., Employment: Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, Oregon State University, USA
- Dr.
Kejie Lu, Postdoc,
Employment: Professor at University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
- Shih-Chieh Huang (M.S.)
- Scott
Arnold (B.S.) continuing graduate study at U.F.
- Ashok
Ayyamani, M.S., Employment: Stretch Inc., USA
- Jeremy
Anderson (M.S.) continuing Ph.D. study at U.F.
- Ted
Belser (M.S.) (Employment: a startup company, USA)
- Ryan
Blanchard (B.S.)
- Peter
Borenstein (B.S.)
- David
Box (B.S.)
- Alexander
Chebaro, M.S., Employment: Exxon Mobil Corp, USA
- Qin
Chen (M.S.) (Employment: Qualcomm, USA)
- Huanghuang Li
(M.S.) (Employment: Google, USA)
- Ivan
Cheung (B.S.)
- Deepika
Dwivedi (M.S.) (Employment: Extreme Networks, USA)
- Travis
Escoffery (B.S.)
- Donald
Perry Fowlkes (B.S.)
- Eddie
Goude (B.S.)
- James
Greco (B.S.)
- Cancan
Huang (M.S.) (Employment: ZTE Corporation, USA)
- Ashish Jain
(M.S.) continuing Ph.D. study at Carnegie Mellon University
- Matthew
Koenn (B.S.) continuing graduate
study at U.F.
- Vignesh
Krishnan (M.S.) (Employment: Mathworks,
USA)
- Huanghuang Li (M.S.)
- Yiran
Li (M.S.) Employment: NXP Semiconductors, USA
- Feng
Liu (B.S.)
- Shuang
Liu (M.S.) Employment: Apple, USA
- Emanuel
Manco (B.S.)
- David
Mohammed (B.S.)
- Stuart
G. Nielson (M.S.) (Employment: Raytheon, USA)
- Alvaro
Obregon (B.S.)
- Martin
Parks (B.S.)
- Manasa
Raghavan (M.S.) (Employment: Neurotronics
Inc., USA)
- Archana
Rao (M.S.) (Employment: Microsoft, USA)
- Forrest
Voight (B.S.)
- Dong
Wang (M.S.) (Employment: Amazon, USA)
- Jiangping Wang (M.S.)
- Wenxing Ye (M.S.) Google, USA
- Wen
Ping Yeh (B.S.)
Past Visitors
- Rui Yang (visiting Ph.D. student)
- Pei Liu (visiting Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Changqiao Xu (visiting professor)
- Dr. Lujie Zhong (visiting professor)
- Jian Wu (visiting Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Gaoyun An (visiting professor)
- Dr. Zengshun Zhao (visiting professor)
- Xu Zhang (visiting
Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Wei Wang (visiting
professor)
- Yong Niu (visiting
Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Zhengchuan Chen (visiting Ph.D. student)
- Dr.
Liquan Shen (visiting professor)
- Dr. Kwang-deok Seo (visiting professor)
- Chenglin Li (visiting Ph.D.
student)
- Dr.
Hwangjun Song
- Dr.
Lei Sun
- Dr.
Tao Han
- Dr.
Pengwei Hao
- Dr.
Yunzhao Li
- Dr.
Wang Liu
- Dr.
Zhi Chen
- Yi
Chen
- Dr.
Qing Wang
Student Mentoring
Teaching
CS5187:
Vision and Image, Dept. of
CS,
City University of
Hong Kong, Semester
A, 2024/25
CS4486:
Artificial Intelligence, Dept. of
CS,
City University of
Hong Kong, Semester B, 2023/24
CS5187:
Vision and Image, Dept. of
CS,
City University of
Hong Kong, Semester
A, 2023/24
GE2340:
Artificial Intelligence
-- Past, Present, and Future, Dept. of
CS,
City University of
Hong Kong, Semester A, 2022/23
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2022
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2021
EEE 6512: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of
ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2021
Artificial
Intelligence: Principles and Practice, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Summer
2021
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2021
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2020
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2020
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2019
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2019
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2018
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2017
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2017
CNT 6805: Network Science and Applications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2016
EEE 6512: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of
ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2016
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2016
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2016
EEE 6512: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of
ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2015
CNT 6805: Network Science and Applications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2015
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2015
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2015
EEE 6512: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of
ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2014
EEL
6935: Network Science and Applications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2014
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2014
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2014
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE, University
of Florida, Fall 2013
EEL
6935: Network Science and Applications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2013
EEL 6825: Pattern Recognition,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2013
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2013
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE, University
of Florida, Fall 2012
EEL
6935: Network Science and Applications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2012
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2012
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE, University
of Florida, Fall 2011
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE, University
of Florida, Fall 2010
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2010
EEL
4514: Communication Systems and Components, Dept. of ECE,
University of Florida, Fall 2009
EEL 4514L: Communications Laboratory,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2009
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2009
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE,
University of Florida, Fall 2008
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2008
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE,
University of Florida, Fall 2007
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2007
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE, University
of Florida, Fall 2006
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2006
EEL
6562: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Dept. of ECE,
University of Florida, Fall 2005
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2005
EEL
6935: Multimedia Communications and Networking, Dept. of ECE,
University of Florida, Fall 2004
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications,
Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2004
EEL 6935: Special Topics in Multimedia
Communications and Networking, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Fall 2003
Teaching
Philosophy
Publications
List of journal publications according
to topics
List of conference publications
according to topics
Awards and Honors
Top 2% Most
Highly Cited Scientists, by Stanford
University,
2019,
2020,
2021,
2022
IEEE
Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)
Outstanding Paper Award for Year 2025
AI
Industry Scientist, International Artificial
Intelligence Industry Alliance, 2023
Asia-Pacific
Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow, 2021
IEEE Distinguished
Speaker, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2021
University of
Florida Term Professorship Award, 2019 - 2022
IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2018
University of
Florida Term Professorship Award, 2017 - 2019
IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2016
IEEE Fellow, Class of 2013
Best
Paper Award, IEEE GLOBECOM 2011
Best Associate Editor Award of IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society, 2010
University of Florida Research
Foundation Professorship Award, 2009 - 2011
Outstanding Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society, 2009
AFOSR Young Investigator Program
(YIP) Award, 2009
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Award, 2008
National Research Council/AFOSR
Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, 2008
NSF Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Award, 2007
National Research Council/AFOSR
Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, 2007
Best Paper Award,
International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless
Networks (QShine 2006)
IEEE CSVT Transactions Best Paper Award
for Year 2001
Certificate of Appreciation, IEEE International
Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), London,
UK, Sept. 18-21, 2000.
Professional Activities
Editorship for international
journals
- Founding Editor-in-Chief for Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2024--present
- Editor-in-Chief
for IEEE
Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2017--2020.
- Editor-at-Large
for IEEE Open Journal of the
Communications Society, 2020--present
- Founding
Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Multimedia,
July 2006 -- December 2008.
- Founder
of IEEE Transactions on Network
Science and Engineering, 2013.
- Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud
Computing, 2021--present.
- Associate
Editor for Wireless Networks,
Springer, November 2019--present.
- Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, June
2016--Dec. 2018.
- Senior
Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
Jan. 2015--Dec. 2017.
- Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal and
Information Processing over Networks, Nov. 2014--Dec. 2017.
- Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, March 2006 -- Nov. 2010.
- Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology, Jan. 2006 -- March 2016.
- Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology, Jan. 2004 -- Nov. 2007.
- Associate
Editor for Journal of Visual Communication and
Image Representation, Elsevier, June 2010 -- Dec. 2013.
- Associate
Editor for International Journal of Ad Hoc and
Ubiquitous Computing, INDERSCIENCE, Sept. 2004 -- Dec. 2013.
- Editor for SigPort,
IEEE Signal Processing Society, April 2016--Dec. 2017
- Guest
Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on Emerging Visual
IoT Technologies for Future Communications and Networks, 2020
- Guest
Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Airborne
Communication Networks, 2018
- Guest
Editor for Computers & Electrical Engineering, Special Issue on
Software Architecture and Modeling for Industrial Internet of Things, 2015
- Guest
Editor for IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia, Special Issue on Cloud-based Video Processing and Content
Sharing, 2015
- Guest
Editor for IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Machine and
Robotic Networking, 2011.
- Guest
Editor for Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
(JVCI), Special Issue on Network
Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services, 2008. CFP link
- Guest
Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Cross-layer
Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications, 2006.
- Guest
Editor for Special Issue on HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS, ACM Mobile
Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, 2005.
Membership of steering committees or
advisory boards for international journals
- Member
of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and
Engineering, 2016-2017
- Member
of the Steering Committee of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, representing
the IEEE Signal Processing Society, January 1, 2014--December 31, 2017
- Member
of the Advisory Board of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial
Networks and Intelligent Systems, January 2014--present
Organizer or member of executive
committee for international conferences
- General Chair for International Conference on Digital Economy and Computer Science (DECS 2024), Xiamen, China, September 20--22, 2024.
- Area Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 20--23, 2024.
- Area Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2023, New York, USA, May 17--20, 2023.
- Track Chair for IEEE International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Track of Machine
Learning on or for Distributed Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 10--13, 2022.
- Area Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2022, London,
UK, May 2--6, 2022.
- Member of the Advisory Committee, the 7th
International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies, virtual
conference, March 11--13, 2022.
- Technical Program Committee Chair for
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and
Algorithm (AI2A 2021), Singapore, July 23--25, 2021.
- Area Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2021,
Vancouver, Canada, May 10--13, 2021.
- Award Chair for NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on
Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning (SpicyFL 2020),
Vancouver, Canada, December 5--12, 2020.
- Technical Program Committee Chair for the
3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence
(MLMI 2020), Hangzhou, China, September 18--20, 2020.
- Area Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2020, Toronto,
Canada, July 6--9, 2020.
- General Chair for IEEE International
Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), Tianjin, China, August
9---11, 2019.
- Technical Program Committee Chair for
World Transport Convention, Track for Communication, Navigation and
Surveillance in Air Transportation, Beijing, China, June 13---16, 2019.
- General Chair for IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on
Machine Learning for Networking, Paris, France, April 29, 2019.
- Technical Program Committee Chair for
World Transport Convention, Track for Communication, Navigation and
Surveillance in Air Transportation, Beijing, China, June 18---21, 2018.
- General Chair for IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on
Knowledge Centric Networking
(KCN), Honolulu, HI, USA, April 16, 2018.
- Conference
Board Liaison for IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
(GlobalSIP), Montreal, Canada, November 14--16, 2017.
- General Chair for International Conference
on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), Dalian, Liaoning, China, August
18---19, 2017.
- Technical
Program Committee Chair for World Transport Convention, Track for
Communication, Navigation and Surveillance in Air Transportation, Beijing,
China, June 4---6, 2017.
- Area
Chair for IEEE VCIP 2016, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R. China, November 27--30,
2016.
- General
Chair for IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP 2015), Orlando,
FL, USA, December 14--16, 2015.
- Technical
Program Committee Chair for International Conference on Future Internet
Technologies (CFI), Seoul, Korea, June 8--10, 2015.
- Area
Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April 27--May 2, 2014.
- Tutorial
Chair for Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Kuching,
Sarawak, Malaysia, November 24--27, 2013.
- Panel
organizer, IEEE Computer Communications Workshop
(CCW), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, November 13--15, 2013.
- Chair,
NSF Workshop on Future Directions
of Wireless Networking, Arlington, VA, USA, November 4--5,
2013.
- Member
of Steering Committee for International Conference on Advances in
Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Mysore, India, August
22--25, 2013.
- General
Chair for International Symposium on Security in Computing and
Communications (SSCC), Mysore, India, August 22--24, 2013.
- Area
Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April 14--19, 2013.
- Panel
organizer, NSF Workshop on Big Data: From
Signal Processing to Systems Engineering, Arlington, VA, USA,
March 21--22, 2013.
- Special
Session Organizer, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing
Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference, Hollywood, CA, USA,
December 3--6, 2012.
- Program
Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications in China,
Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, Beijing, China, August
15--18, 2012.
- Chair
for Best Paper Award Committee of IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, USA,
March 25 -- March 30, 2012.
- Technical
Program Committee Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012,
Orlando, FL, USA, March 25 -- March 30, 2012.
- Poster
& Demo Chair for International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous
Multimedia (MUM) 2011, Beijing, China, December 7--9,
2011.
- Area
Chair for IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP),
Brussels, Belgium, September 11--14, 2011.
- Publicity
Chair for IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless
Communications (SPAWC 2011), San Francisco, CA, USA, June
26 -- June 29, 2011.
- Area
Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China, April 10--15, 2011.
- General
Chair for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
2009, Workshop on Emerging Technology in Multimedia Communication and
Networking, New York City, NY, USA, June 28 -- July 3, 2009.
- Program
Co-Chair for International Conference on Communications (ICC
2008), Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, May
19-23, 2008.
- Program
Co-Chair for International Conference on Aging, Disability, and
Independence (ICADI 2008), Research
and Development Theme, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, February 20--23,
2008.
- Track
Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2007 Fall conference),
Wireless Applications Track, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 1--3, 2007.
- Student
Travel Grant Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2007,
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6-12, 2007.
- Publicity
Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2007,
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6-12, 2007.
- Track
Chair for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME
2006), Multimedia Networking Track, Toronto, Canada, July
9--12, 2006.
- Publicity
Chair for International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC 2006), Vancouver,
Canada, July 3--6, 2006.
- Publicity
Co-Chair for IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC
2006), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 7--10, 2006.
- Publicity
Co-Chair for First International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom
2005), San Jose, California, USA, December 19--21, 2005.
- Student
Travel Awards Chair for First International Conference on Security and
Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2005), Athens,
Greece, September 2005.
- Organizer
of Special session on mobile and wireless multimedia, IEEE International
Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), Seoul, Korea,
May 16 - 20, 2005.
- Program
Co-Chair for IEEE/ACM First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless
Services and Applications (BroadWISE 2004), San Jose, CA, USA, October 25, 2004.
Member of Technical Program
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- IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France, April 29
-- May 2, 2019.
- IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA,
April 15--19, 2018.
- IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA, May
1--4, 2017.
- IEEE
INFOCOM 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 10--April 15, 2016.
- IEEE
INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, China, April 26--April 30, 2015.
- IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, France,
October 27--30, 2014.
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INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April 27--May 2, 2014.
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China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information
Processing (ChinaSIP
2013), Beijing, China, July 6--10, 2013.
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International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2013), Beijing,
China, May 19--23, 2013.
- IEEE
International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Tainan City,
Taiwan, November 5--8, 2012.
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International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Banff,
Canada, September 17--19, 2012.
- IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Melbourne,
Australia, July 9--13, 2012.
- IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 25--30, 2012.
- IEEE
International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications
(ESPA), Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 12--14, 2012.
- IEEE
SmartGridComm, Symposium on Architectures and
Models for the Smart Grid, Brussels, Belgium, October 17--20, 2011.
- IEEE
International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Hangzhou,
China, October 17--19, 2011.
- IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, Belgium,
September 11--14, 2011.
- Workshop
on Simplifying Complex Network for Practitioners (SIMPLEX'11),
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 24, 2011.
- IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 22--27, 2011.
- International
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Caen, France,
June 28 -- July 2, 2010.
- IEEE
INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, California, USA, March 15-19, 2010.
- IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Dallas, TX, USA, March 14 --- 19, 2010.
- IEEE
Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom
2009), Wireless Networking Symposium, Hawaii, USA, November 30 --December
4, 2009.
- IEEE
International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2009), Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, October 5-7, 2009.
- IEEE
International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Wireless Networking
Symposium, Dresden, Germany, June 14--18, 2009.
- IEEE
INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19--25, 2009.
- IEEE
Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom
2008), Wireless Networking Symposium, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 30 --
December 4, 2008.
- IEEE
INFOCOM
2008, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 13--19, 2008.
- IEEE
Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom
2007), Wireless Networking Symposium, Washington, D.C.,
USA, November 26 -- 30, 2007.
- The
Fourth International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and
Systems (BROADNETS 2007), Wireless Symposium, Raleigh, North Carolina,
USA, September 2007.
- IEEE
Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, August
26--29, 2007.
- 16th
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN
2007), Emerging Technologies and Standards Track, Turtle Bay Resort,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 13--16, 2007.
- IEEE
International Conference on Communications (ICC
2007), Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium,
Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 24--28, 2007.
- IEEE
INFOCOM
2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6--12, 2007.
- IEEE
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, (WCNC
2007), Hong Kong, March 11--15, 2007.
- IEEE
Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2006), Wireless
Communications Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 27 -- December
1, 2006.
- IEEE
International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS
2006), Vancouver, Canada, October 9 - 12, 2006.
- International
Conference on Algorithms, Systems, and Applications of Wireless Networks (WASA
2006), August 15--18, 2006, Xi'an, China.
- IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME
2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9--12, 2006.
- IEEE
International Conference on Communications (ICC
2006), General Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11--15, 2006.
- IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2006), May 21--24,
2005, Kos, Greece.
- IEEE
INFOCOM
2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 24-27, 2006.
- IEEE
Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2005), Wireless Communications Symposium, St. Louis,
MO, USA, November 28 -- December 2, 2005.
- IEEE/ACM
Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous
Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2005), Orlando,
Florida, USA, August 22--24, 2005.
- IEEE
Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN'05),
Chania, Island of Crete, Greece, September 18-21, 2005.
- IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME
2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005.
- The
2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-05),
Georg Sverdrups House, University of Oslo,
Norway, June 14-17, 2005.
- IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS
2005), May 23-26, 2005, Kobe, Japan.
- IEEE
International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), General
Conference, Seoul, Korea, May 16 - 20, 2005.
- IEEE
International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), Multimedia
Communication and Home Networking Symposium, Seoul, Korea, May 16 - 20,
2005.
- International
Workshop on Standardization, Interoperability and Deployment of Wireless
Access Solutions (SID-WAS 2005), Orlando, Florida, USA, April 21, 2005.
- IEEE
International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN'05), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 7-9,
2005.
- IEEE
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, (WCNC 2005),
New Orleans, LA, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
- IEEE
INFOCOM
2005, Miami, Florida, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
- IEEE
International Packet Video Workshop (PV2004), Irvine, CA, USA, December 13-14, 2004.
- IEEE
Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2004), General Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA,
November 29 -- December 3, 2004.
- IEEE/ACM
First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Services and
Applications (BroadWISE 2004), San Jose, CA, USA, October 25, 2004.
- IEEE/ACM
First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous
Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2004),
Dallas, Texas, USA, October 18 -- 20, 2004.
- IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME
2004), Taipei, Taiwan, June 27 -- 30, 2004.
- IEEE
International Conference on Communications (ICC
2004), Multimedia Technologies and
Services Symposium, Paris, France, June 20 -- 24, 2004.
- IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS
2004), May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- IEEE
Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN'04),
Mill Valley, CA, USA, April 25--28, 2004.
- IEEE
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC
2004), Atlanta, GA, USA, March 21 -- 25, 2004.
- 2nd
International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC
2004), Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, February 5 -- 7, 2004.
- IEEE
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC
2004), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 5 -- 8, 2004.
Keynote/Plenary
Speech
-
``Scalable Video Transport over Wireless Networks,'' Keynote Speech, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Processing, Tampa, FL, USA, December 7, 2008.
Advisor, Interest Group (IG) on Media Streaming, Technical
Committee on Multimedia Communications, IEEE Communications Society,
2014--present
Advisor,
Interest Group (IG) on Distributed and Sensor Networks for Mobile Media
Computing and Applications, Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications,
IEEE Communications Society, 2014--present
Chair,
Conference Committee, SigPort, IEEE Signal Processing Society, April
2016--present
Chair,
Special Committee of Area Chairs, Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Technical
Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Jan. 2011--Dec. 2012
Chair,
Mobile and wireless multimedia Interest Group (MobIG),
Technical
Committee on Multimedia Communications, IEEE
Communications Society, July 2004 -- June 2010.
Chair, Award Committee, Technical
Committee on Multimedia Communications, IEEE
Communications Society, Sept. 2008 -- June 2010.
Member
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Publications Board, January 1,
2014--December 31, 2017
Member
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board, January 1,
2016--December 31, 2017
Member,
EDICS committee for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology, Nov. 2007--present.
Member, Best Paper Award Committee, Technical
Committee on Multimedia Communications, IEEE
Communications Society, July 2004 -- present.
Member,
Best Paper Award Committee, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and
Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9--12, 2006.
Director of Communications, IEEE
Gainesville Section, Jan. 2004 -- Dec. 2005.
Member of IEEE
- Aerospace
& Electronic Systems Society
(AESS)
- Circuits
and Systems Society (CAS)
- Communications
Society (ComSoc)
o
Member
of Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
Technical Committee, 1/1/2009--12/31/2012
·
Vehicular
Technology Society
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Education
Summaries and References for Theories (including textbooks)
Memorizing a theory does
not mean mastering the theory. It is essential to understand the
underlying principles and the insights of the theory. When the theory
looks very natural and logical to you, you are at the stage of commanding the
theory. Then you do not have to forcefully memorize it at
all. A good habit in learning theories is to record and summarize
how you grow from intellectual infancy to intellectual maturity on each
research area. Here
(http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/books/books.html) are
the summaries and references for the subjects of my interests.
Many textbooks
present theories from the theorist's perspective, rather than the user's
perspective. The reader is presented with various theories, and applications of
the theories based on a methodological taxonomy. A danger with this
approach of presentation is that the thinking behind the theories will
not be grasped, leading to misuse of the theories. Such presentation
typically does not provide answers to "why does it work?",
"under what condition does it work?", "Compared with other
approaches, what are the pros and cons of this approach?" In
textbooks divided on methodological grounds, the opportunity for comparing
alternative methodologies is diminished, lessening the guidance in method
selection. In some sense, the textbooks teach the reader the dead knowledge
but leave the job of method selection (the thinking) to the reader. The
reader needs to spend years on understanding the trade-off among various
methods, and the conditions, under which a method is more
suitable.
A textbook typically
follows the deductive reasoning rather than inductive/plausible
reasoning. Such a textbook starts with a rigorous formulation of a
problem, then presents the theories to solve the problem. It seldom
provides the insight and the information about how the theorist came up with
the theory; it rarely discusses about the underlying principle/design
philosophy; and it seldom tries to make the theory natural and logical to the
reader (e.g., pointing out its similarity to other familiar things, simplifying
the presentation, stressing the key point).
If a textbook is to be
presented from the user's perspective, I suggest the following five steps.
- Exploring
the problem and solution spaces.
The textbook should start with plausible reasoning, provide the
information about how the theorist attacked the problem (e.g.,
try-and-errors examples, no-brainer/naive approaches,
run-of-a-mill/classical approach, advanced approach), discuss which one
works, which one does not work, and why it works or does not work; after
some try and errors, the theorist hit upon an idea due to some magical
reason.
- Developing
the theory. The book should address how the
magical idea was developed into the full-blown theory, how the theorist
systematically studied the problem using the new theory (recording all the
thoughts instead of only final version of the theory), and how to make the
theory rigorous. At this stage, the specific problem has been
abstracted to a general problem.
- Presenting
the theory (in depth). The book
should present the theory using a deductive reasoning/framework, i.e.,
formulate the general problem, present the theory (final version) as a
solution, provide rigorous proofs.
- Discussing
related theories (in breadth). The book
should summarize related theories in a concise and clear manner, address
the pros and cons in solving the problem, compare all the theories in all
possible aspects, and discuss the applications of the theories,
significance of the problem and the theories. (People learn
things by comparison.)
- Organize
the knowledge around important principles, concepts, and ideas. Make connections between the new knowledge and the
familiar things. Help the student develop conditionalized
knowledge, which includes a specification of the contexts where the
theory is applicable, and the condition-action pairs required for problem
solving. In other words, help students learn how to organize
the knowledge and how to recognize the patterns of problems and solve them
effectively. In contrast, most textbooks are much more
explicit in enumerating the laws of math or of nature than in saying
anything about when these laws are applicable in solving
problems.
The five steps are natural
and logical to the reader, and hence is easily accessible to the reader!
The steps are first from the specific to the general (induction), making it
rigorous, and then from the general to the specific (deduction).
Typically, a textbook only
presents final version of the theories, which is not natural and logical
to a beginner. So it is the reader's job to make the theories
logical to himself/herself. This may be achieved by independent,
critical, and creative thinking. Independent thinking means that the
reader should have his/her own views (e.g., trying to solve the problem by
his/her own approach and comparing his/her own approach with the theory).
This is the first cut. Critical thinking means that the reader
should relentlessly attack the theory from all possible angles. Attack
its limitations and weaknesses or even tend to disprove the theory.
Unless the theory is completely justified, do not accept the theory.
After identifying the weaknesses of the theory, the reader is ready to think
creatively. Creative thinking means that the reader makes efforts
to produce something which is not in the book (e.g., insights, simpler proofs,
new theorems). For example, the theory may only provide the
necessary condition but the reader can provide a sufficient condition. In
sum, most readers have comparable intelligence but the results of the reading
(i.e., understanding of the theory and capability of applying the theory) may
be quite different. The difference may be caused by the degree of
curiosity, imagination, and efforts made on independent, critical, and creative
thinking.
Leisure
Useful Links
Advice on Creative Thinking, Research,
Writing, Speaking
Impact Factors of Scientific Journals, Journal Citation Report by ISI and Journal
Ranking in EE by ISI
The Web's most comprehensive list of
U.S. federal funding sources for scientific research
Wireless
Technology Companies and Institutions
Lifespan of Electronic Products
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
2e
Oxford Advanced American Dictionary for
Learners of English
English
Dictionary with Voice Pronunciation
Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia or use google to find the definition of a word
(define: the word)
Online Reference Dictionary, Thesaurus,
Encyclopedia & more
(http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryHome.aspx?lextype=2)
Millennium
Prize Problems (Want to try to win $1,000,000 by solving one of
the seven millennium prize problems?)
International Mathematical Olympiad
Free online courses
- Stanford Engineering
Everywhere http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx
- Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/
- Massachusetts Institute of
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- Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
- Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
- Tufts University http://ocw.tufts.edu/
- Stanford University http://itunes.stanford.edu/
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Berkley http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
- Utah State University http://ocw.usu.edu/
- Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/course_listing.asp
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Irvine http://ocw.uci.edu/
Mottos:
- Be
open-minded. Always challenge oneself with intellectually
stimulating problems.
- Pursuing
Ph.D. is to push forward the frontier of knowledge and develop new ways of
thinking. For an undergraduate, finishing programming/simulations,
collecting data, and plotting performance figures are the end of the
task. But for a Ph.D., these are not the end. The final result
should be original contributions that are somewhat surprising to the
community of science and technology.
- A
Ph.D. in Engineering is expected to apply fundamental approaches to
solving practical problems. It could be application of new
approaches to new/old problems. It could be application of old
approaches to new problems. To achieve this, mastering the related
theories is critical.
- Memorizing
a theory does not mean mastering the theory. It is essential to
thoroughly understand the underlying principles, the way of thinking and
the insights of the theory. When the theory looks very natural and
logical to you, you are at the stage of commanding the theory.
Then you do not have to forcefully memorize it at all.
- The
cornerstone of Ph.D. education is cultivation of independent, critical,
and creative thinking.
- The
key to success is keeping yourself motivated. In my view,
long-distance running is an effective way to stay motivated and improve
mental toughness.
- Passion
and enthusiasm are the best way for success.
- Insatiable
curiosity is a driving force for doing excellent research.
- Put
teaching, learning, and understanding ahead of any thought of impressing
colleagues with the esoteric or the obscure.
- A
good research paper consists of clean problem formulations, clean
notations, and clean solutions.
- Many
practical problems do not have closed-form solution. So people
resort to numerical algorithms or simulations to get solutions. What
distinguishes a good researcher from the rest is not on nice numerical or
simulation results, but on how to analyze (mathematically justify) the
results and provide sound physical interpretation/insight/intuition.
- The
hard part of doing research is to be a leader rather than a follower.
- Give
a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll take
care of himself.
- To
some, academia is all about the disinterested pursuit of truth; another
view is that academia is all about politics. People with mature outlooks
fall into the realistic middle between these extremes.
- An
important goal of education is to help students develop the learning
strategies needed to acquire new knowledge and skills.
- Life
is good. Life will become good if it is not good now. Do what
you like. Like what you do.
- Jogging
is a life style. It can improve your health, de-stress your busy
life, release your frustration/anxiety/animosity/fear of uncertainty, and
make you more efficient/optimistic. Jogging may be the best medicine
for many of your problems in your everyday life.
- A
way to develop creativity: When you read a book, try to write another book
(which may be as short as one page); the new book may include your new
interpretation about the problem, new angle to look at the problem, new
methods to solve the problem, even new theory to address the problem.
- In
system modeling, a model should be accurate enough to be useful and should
be simple enough to be implementable.
- A
difficult problem is like your opponent in the battlefield: the more frightened you are, the stronger your opponent becomes
(the more difficult the problem becomes).
- Mental
toughness is essential to success.
- Never
too old to dream.
- Work
like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been
hurt. Sing like no one is listening. Dance like no one is
watching. Live every day as if it were your last.
- To
some, a tenured faculty position is the best job in the world because 1)
you have job security, 2) you can work on any topic of your choice, 3) you
always work with young people (i.e., students), which makes you feel
young, 4) you have a flexible work schedule, 5) you can work with or
consult many talented people on and off campus, from whom you can learn a
lot, 6) you enjoy a high degree of freedom, 7) you receive decent salary,
8) your high quality work helps you achieve satisfaction and recognition
from the community and society.
- To
some, working is due to a desire rather than a need to make a living.
- Why
do painful things stay much longer in the memory of a person than happy
things? This is because human memory is like discharge of
charge in a capacitor with very large time constant for painful things and
very small time constant for happy things. So a method to keep
happiness is to frequently refresh the memory by the past happy things,
e.g., seeing photos; a way to keep away from unhappiness is to make
oneself tired, e.g., running long distance.
- ''Concentration"
and "faith in one's self" are essential requisites in every avenue of human
endeavor.
Quotations:
The Master in the art of
living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and
his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love
and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision
of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is
working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
Zen Philosophy
The mathematician's
patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like
the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty
is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly
mathematics.
An intelligent
problem-solver tries first of all to understand the problem as fully and as
clearly as he can. Yet understanding alone is not enough; he must
concentrate upon the problem, he must desire earnestly to obtain its
solution. If he cannot summon up real desire for solving the problem, he
would do better to leave it alone. The open secret of real success
is to throw your whole personality into your problem.
Intellectual courage,
intellectual honest, and wise restraint are the moral qualities of the
scientist. (Intellectual courage = dare to challenge authority;
intellectual honest = dare to admit that yourself made a mistake if you did;
wise restraint = do not follow others without some good reason)
By endurance, we conquer.
We may have knowledge of
the past and cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge
of it.
There will be plenty of
time to rest in the grave.
Private property is a
nuisance.
Nothing is more important
than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting
than the inventions themselves.
Luck favors the prepared
mind.
Genius is 1% inspiration
and 99% perspiration.
If I have seen further than
others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
I was like a boy playing on
the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.
If we knew what it was we
were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
