I am a Professor within the College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Fudan University and a Vice Director of the Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing. Before joining Fudan, I was a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Computer Science, Duke University. My recent research interests include social computing & networking, interdisciplinary network analysis (for example, online/mobile social networks), network architectures and protocols, urban computing, and AI for Social Science. I serve as a Senior Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Social Computing. I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. (E-mail: 
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Experience
Professor (Dec. 2023 – present)
Associate Professor (Dec. 2017 – Dec. 2023)
Pre-tenure Associate Professor (Oct. 2014 – Nov. 2017)
College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University (formerly School of Computer Science, Fudan University)
Leading the Big Data and Networking (DataNET) Group of the SONIC Laboratory (WeChat: fudan-datanet)
Postdoctoral Associate (Apr. 2011 – Sep. 2014)
Networks and Distributed Systems (NDS) Lab, Department of Computer Science, Duke University
Worked together with Prof. Xiaowei Yang
Research Associate (Sep. 2009 – Apr. 2011)
Computer Network Group, Institute of Computer Science, Georg-August-University of Goettingen
Worked together with Prof. Xiaoming Fu (Member of Academia Europaea & IEEE Fellow)
Research Intern (Apr. 2006 – Mar. 2007, Jul. 2007 – Jan. 2008)
Wireless and Networking Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Worked together with Dr. Yongqiang Xiong and Dr. Guobin (Jacky) Shen
Education
PhD (Sep. 2004 – Jul. 2009)
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
Advisor: Prof. Xing Li (Deputy Director of China Education and Research Network)
Exchange Graduate Student (Apr. 2007 – Jun.2007)
Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Stanford University
Advisor: Prof. Pei Cao (Member of National Academy of Engineering)
Bachelor of Engineering (Sep. 2000 – Jul. 2004)
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
Comprehensive rank: 1/30
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