Bo Ji (季博), Synergistic Networking And Intelligence Lab (SNAIL)
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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 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. His research interests lie in the modeling, analysis, control, and optimization of computer and network systems, such as next-generation (NextG) networks, edge/cloud computing, information-update systems, and cyber-physical systems. He works broadly on various topics at the intersection of networking, machine learning, security/privacy, and augmented/virtual/mixed reality. He has been the general co-chair of IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2021 and the technical program co-chair of 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. 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 in 2021 and 2022, and the Faculty Fellow Award from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2023.
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[August 2023]: Thanks to the NSF for funding our project on “Black-box Optimization of White-box Networks: Online Learning for Autonomous Resource Management in NextG Wireless Networks.” This is a joint project led by Dr. Bo Ji, with Dr. Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University), Dr. Xingyu Zhou (Wayne State University), and Dr. Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University).
[July 2023]: Thanks to the NSF for funding our project on “SWEET: Hardware and Software for Sustainable Wearable Edge Intelligence.” This is a joint project with Dr. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Virginia Tech), Dr. Hans Vandierendonck (Queen's University Belfast), and Dr. Deepu John (University College Dublin).
[June 2023]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as Workshop Co-Chair and Publication Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2024.
[July 2023]: Ph.D. student Osama Bajaber received the Bitshares Fellowship. Congratulations to Osama!
[May 2023]: Former Ph.D. student Fengjiao Li received the Ph.D. Research Award from Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Congratulations to Fengjiao!
[April 2023]: Ph.D. student Matthew Corbett received the Richard E. Nance Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science. Congratulations to Matt!
[April 2023]: Dr. Bo Ji received the College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Award. Thank you very much, College of Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, for the recognition. Many thanks to my students and collaborators, as well as colleagues who have helped and supported me!
[March 2023]: Ph.D. students, Matthew Corbett and Osama Bajaber, were selected for the CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship. Congratulations, Matt and Osama!
[November 2022]: Dr. Bo Ji received the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) Excellent Editor Award in two consecutive years (2021 and 2022) since the inauguration of this award.
[September 2022]: Our paper “Differentially Private Linear Bandits with Partial Distributed Feedback” received the IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2022 Best Student Paper Award. Big congratulations to Fengjiao!
[August 2022]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as Publicity Co-Chair of ACM e-Energy 2023.
[August 2022]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as TPC Co-Chair of ACM MobiHoc 2023. Please consider submitting your best work.
[June 2022]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2023.
[May 2022]: Dr. Bo Ji was elevated to a senior member of the ACM.
[April 2022]: Ph.D. student Fengjiao Li received the Dr. Dennis G. Kafura Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science. Congratulations to Fengjiao!
[February 2022]: Dr. Bo Ji was awarded Distinguished Member of the 2022 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.
[December 2021]: Dr. Bo Ji received the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) Excellent Editor Award.
[September 2021]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as TPC Co-Chair of The 5th Age of Information Workshop, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
[July 2021]: Thanks to the NSF for funding our project on “Information Freshness in Scalable and Energy Constrained Machine to Machine Wireless Networks.” This is a joint project with Dr. Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University), Dr. Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University), and Dr. Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University).
[May 2021]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as Demo/Posters Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
[January 2021]: Dr. Bo Ji is invited to serve as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE). Please consider submitting your work.
[October 2020]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as General Co-Chair of IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2021. Please consider submitting your work.
[September 2020]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as TPC Co-Chair of ITC 2021. Please consider submitting your work.
[August 2020]: Ph.D. student Fengjiao Li received the N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship. Congratulations to Fengjiao!
[August 2020]: Dr. Bo Ji joined Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech as an Associate Professor.
[July 2020]: Gamal Sallam has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and will thereafter join Facebook. Congratulations to Gamal!
[June 2020]: Dr. Bo Ji will serve as Demo/Posters Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
[April 2020]: Thanks to the NSF for funding our project on “Designing Infrastructure to Probe Distributed System Configurations” This is a joint project with Dr. Krishna Kant (Temple University).
[April 2020]: Dr. Bo Ji is invited to serve as Associate Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J). Please consider submitting your work.
[April 2020]: Ph.D. student Fengjiao Li received the Scott Hibbs Future of Computing Award. Congratulations to Fengjiao!
[April 2020]: Ph.D. student Gamal Sallam received Temple University Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant. Congratulations to Gamal!
[March 2020]: Dr. Bo Ji is invited to serve as Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), effective May 1, 2020. Please consider submitting your work.
[February 2020]: Student Travel Grants for ACM SIGMETRICS 2020 are available. For full details about eligibility and instructions, please see here. Please also feel free to distribute the information.
[January 2020]: Dr. Bo Ji was awarded Distinguished Member of the 2020 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.
[November 2019]: Dr. Bo Ji serves as Workshop Co-Chairs of ACM MobiHoc 2020. The Call for Workshop Proposals is now available. Please consider submitting your workshop proposals.
[October 2019]: Ph.D. student Gamal Sallam received the College of Science and Technology Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award. Congratulations to Gamal! (News: CST@Temple)
[July 2019]: Dr. Bo Ji is invited to serve as Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IEEE OJ-COM). Please consider submitting your work.
[July 2019]: Ph.D. student Fengjiao Li received the IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best-in-Session Presentation Award. Congratulations to Fengjiao!
[June 2019]: Yu Sang has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and will thereafter join Facebook. Congratulations to Yu!
[April 2019]: Our paper “Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints” received the IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best Paper Award. Big congratulations to Fengjiao! (News: CIS@Temple, CST@Temple Twitter, CST@Temple Facebook, CS@ISU, and ECE@OSU)
[April 2019]: Congratulations to former undergraduate researchers of our group on their admissions to graduate schools. In Fall 2019, Aamir Mandviwalla is joining RPI as a Ph.D. student; Hoang Nguyen Khanh Ho is joining UMass Amherst as a Ph.D. student; Keita Ohshiro is joining NYU as a Master's student.
[April 2019]: Ph.D. student Gamal Sallam received the Department of Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award. Congratulations to Gamal!
[April 2019]: Keita Ohshiro, an undergraduate researcher of our group, received the Scott Hibbs Future of Computing Award. Congratulations to Keita!
[January 2019]: Dr. Bo Ji was awarded Distinguished Member of the 2019 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.
[November 2018]: Congratulations to Gamal Sallam and Fengjiao Li on their papers accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2019, including Gamal's second INFOCOM paper in a row, as well as Fengjiao's first INFOCOM paper since she joined our group only in Spring 2018!
[May 2018]: Ph.D. student Gamal Sallam received the IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Best-in-Session Presentation Award. Congratulations to Gamal!
[Feburary 2018]: Dr. Bo Ji was elevated to a senior member of the IEEE.
[Feburary 2018]: Dr. Bo Ji was awarded Distinguished Member of the 2018 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.
[April 2017]: Ph.D. student Yu Sang received the Scott Hibbs Future of Computing Award from Dept. of CIS at Temple University. Congratulations to Yu!
[Febuary 2017]: Dr. Bo Ji received the NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award.
[January 2017]: Dr. Bo Ji received the NSF CAREER Award.
[April 2016]: Dr. Bo Ji received Best-in-Session Presentation Award from IEEE INFOCOM 2016.
[January 2016]: Dr. Bo Ji was awarded Distinguished Member of the 2016 IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.