My current research is focused on principles, techniques and tools that enable one to build and deploy distributed applications over large-scale networked embedded systems, such as ad hoc and sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, and internet of things, to embedded sense and intelligence everywhere, and finally build dependable system to improve the daily business and life.

I earned my Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and subsequently joined the faculty of the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. There I pursued research on networked embedded system, parallel and distributed system, and industrial control and automation. From September 2004 till March 2006, I worked in Wireless network Lab at Cornell University as a visiting associate professor, where I investigated various aspects of mobile wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, concentrating on information processing and sharing. As of April 2006,I was back to the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.