Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Associate Professor (by courtesy), Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering Virginia Tech Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) Editor, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) Research Lab: Synergistic Networking and Augmented Intelligence Lab (SNAIL) Contact Information Email: boji AT vt DOT edu and boji AT cs DOT vt DOT edu Phone: +1 (540) 231-0331 Fax: +1 (540) 231-9218 Office: Gilbert Place, Room 4203 Address: 220 Gilbert Street, Blacksburg, VA 24060

Biography: Bo Ji received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Information Science and Electronic Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2004 and 2006, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 2012. Dr. Ji is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy) and a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University, where he was an Assistant Professor from July 2014 to June 2020. He was also a Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs, San Ramon, CA, from January 2013 to June 2014.

Dr. Ji's research focuses on the design, analysis, control, and optimization of complex networked systems, including wireless and wired communication networks, edge and cloud computing, data centers, information-update systems, Internet of Things, and cyber-physical systems. With a strong emphasis on the synergy between network systems and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), his research aims to address fundamental challenges by integrating theoretical insights with empirical investigation, driven by two tightly connected objectives: (1) Exploiting advanced AI/ML techniques to design next-generation network systems and support emerging applications such as extended reality (XR, including MR/VR/AR); (2) Designing high-performance computer and network systems optimized for large-scale, distributed AI/ML. Additionally, He is also interested in addressing critical security and privacy challenges across these systems and applications.

He has been the general co-chair of IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2021 and the technical program co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2027, IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2026, ACM MobiHoc 2023, and ITC 2021, and he has also served on the editorial boards of various IEEE/ACM journals (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society). Dr. Ji is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM and a member of the AAAS. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2017, the NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award in 2017, the IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best Paper Award, the IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2022 Best Student Paper Award, the IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award (three times), the IEEE INFOCOM Distinguished TPC Member Award (five times), and the Dean's Faculty Fellow Award from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2023.