He was a recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2014, and five best paper awards in international conferences and technical committee including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, and IEEE TCGCC.
Research Interests
Cybersecurity
◦Differential Privacy Preserving Deep Learning
◦Data-Driven Optimization with Differential Privacy
◦Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) with Differential Privacy
◦Privacy Preserving Deep Reinforcement Learning
◦Privacy Preservation for Emergency Demand Response (EDR) in Colocation Data Centers
◦Location/Trajectory Privacy Preservation for Mobile Networks
◦Operational Privacy for Cognitive Radio Networks
◦Customers' Energy Profile Privacy Preservation in Smart Grids

Cyber-Physical Systems
◦Stress Wave Communications Assisted Hybrid Underwater/Subsea Networks
◦Magnetic Induction Inspired Underwater/Underground Wireless Applications
◦Data Collection in Hybrid Underwater/Subsea
Networks
◦Renewable Energy Integration in Smart Grids
◦Resource Management in Cloud Computing
Cognitive Radio Networking
◦Wireless Network Architecture Design for Cognitive Radio Networking
◦Optimization and Performance Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks
◦Distributed Spectrum Trading and Network Economics