Education

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, 2008
• M.S. in ELectrical Engineering, North China ELectric Power University, 2011
• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, May 2021

Work experience

• July 2016 – present: Research Assistant (University of Houston)
  • Underwater MI wireless communications (MI channel modeling, testbed establishment, coil antenna design, simulation and field tests)
  • Stress wave communication through pipelines(Stress wave channel modeling, testbed establishment, deploy different modulation schemes (OFDM, PSK, FSK))
• Apr. 2011 – July 2014: Embedded System Engineer (Baoding Sifang Sanyi Electric Co., Ltd.)
  • Main circuit design (circuit topology, MOSFET/IGBT part selection, gate driver, heat dissipation) for different power electronic devices (e.g. PV inverter, APF, DC/DC converter)
  • Control algorithms (PWM, PID) design to fulfill the performance requirements of different power electronic devices
  • Embedded real‑time coding for the control algorithm deployment on DSP/FPGA and subsequently verify the system performances on real‑time simulation environments as well as through field tests.

Skills

• Softwave
  • Verilog, Matlab, Python, C
  • Bash, Git, LaTex
  • VSCode, Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, Gurobi
• Hardware
  • DSP, FPGA, Raspberry Pi
  • SCI (UART), SPI, I²C
  • OrCAD, Altium Designer
  • Oscillascope, Signal Generator, Impedance Analyzer, etc.
• Simulation
  • Matlab/Simulink
  • COMSOL
  • RTDS
• Language
  • English
  • Chinese

Areas of expertise

• Wireless Communications
  • PHY/MAC: Modulation, Pulse Shaping, Synchronization, Equalization, Channel Coding, MIMO
  • 5G NR, LTE
  • SDR, USRP
  • 802.11, Bluetooth, Zigbee
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
• Power ELectronics
  • Electric Power Conversion (DC/DC, DC/AC, AC/DC), PWM (SVPWM, Deadbeat)
  • Wireless Power Transfer
  • Green Energy (PV Inverter)
  • Power Quality Control (APF, SVG)
  • Smart grid, Microgrid
• Digital Signal Processing
  • Fourier Transform
  • Digital Filter (IIR, FIR)
  • Matrix Analysis
  • Statistics

Service

• Reviewer for Journals
  • Journal of Communications and Networks
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
  • Sensors
  • Applied Sciences
• Reviewer for Conferences
  • IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet)
  • EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
  • IEEE Sarnoff Symposium