NCEL News

[2023-12] NCEL 15th Anniversary will be held on December 24, 2023.
 
[2023-08] NCEL Summer 2023 Workshop will be held on August 11, 2023.
 
[2023-08] Jianwei Huang is selected as Research.com Best Computer Science Scientists, 2023.
 
[2022-11] The Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Crowd Intelligence Empowered Low Carbon Energy Network, led by Jianwei Huang, is established.
 
[2022-10] Jianwei Huang reveives IEEE Communications Society TCCN Publication Award, 2022.
 
[2022-07] The paper "Distribution-Level Markets under High Renewable Energy Penetration" cooperated with Xiaojun Lin receives the ACM e-Energy 2022 Best Paper Award.
 
[2022-06] NCEL Spring 2022 Workshop will be held on June 22, 2022.
 
[2022-04] Jianwei Huang is selected as Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researcher, 2021.
 
[2021-11] The paper "Optimal Fresh Data Sampling and Trading" receives the IEEE WiOpt 2021 Best Paper Award.
 
[2021-10] NCEL Fall 2021 Workshop will be held on October 9, 2021.
 
[2021-05] NCEL Summer 2021 Workshop will be held on May 24, 2021.
 
[2021-01] Jianwei Huang serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (Impact Factor: 5.2, JCR Q1). 
 
[2021-01] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICCC 2021, to be held in Xiamen, China in July 2021. 
 
[2020-07] Jianwei Huang becomes a Distinguished Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars Program, Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE).
 
[2019-07] Jianwei Huang serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
 
[2019-06] Jianwei Huang becomes the Vice President of Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society.
 
[2019-01] Jianwei Huang joins the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK Shenzhen) as a Presidential Chair Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Science and Engineering
 
[2018-05] Jianwei Huang serves as the General Co-Chair of WiOpt 2018 in Shanghai. 
 
[2017-12] The GLOBECOM'17 paper "Optimal Privacy-Preserving Data Collection: A Prospect Theory Perspective" received the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Young Professional Best Paper Award. 
 
[2017-11] Jianwei Huang is selected again as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2017. 
 
[2017-12] Jianwei Huang delivers a plenary talk on "Achieving an Efficient and Fair Equilibrium Through Taxation" (joint work with Lin Gao) in the Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) 2017. 
 
[2017-10] Jianwei Huang delivers a keynote talk on "Renewable Energy Investment and Operation in Microgrids" (joint work with Hao Wang) in IEEE SmartGridComm 2017. 
 
[2017-09] Jianwei Huang co-chairs the CUHK Workshop on Fog Computing and Communcations.

[2017-09] Jianwei Huang delivers a keynote talk on "Economic Thinking of Communication Networks" in the Workshop of Communications, Computation, and Caching organized by China Institute of Communications.

[2017-08] Jianwei Huang serves as the Series Editor of Wiley Information and Communication Technology Series.
 
[2017-05] Jianwei Huang delivers five IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lectures in Atlanta, Seattle, Dublin, and Paris in May.
 
[2017-04] NCEL research on Wi-Fi Economics received media coverage.
 
[2017-03] NCEL Spring 2017 Workshop will be held on April 6, 2017.
 
[2017-03] Jianwei Huang serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
 
[2017-02] Jianwei Huang serves as an Area Editor for Springer Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks - Area on Network Economics and pricing.
 
[2017-01] Jianwei Huang serves as an Area TPC Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2018 in Honolulu.
 
[2017-01] Jianwei Huang has been selected again as IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer during 2017-2018.
 
[2017-01] Jianwei Huang will give a half-day tutorial on "Economics of Database-Assisted Spectrum Sharing" with Lin and Yuan in DySPAN 2017.
 
[2017-01] Jianwei Huang will give a half-day tutorial on "Fog Computing and Networking: A New Paradigm for 5G and IoT Applications" with Tao, Tony, Ai-Chun, and Yang in IEEE ICC 2017.
 
[2016-12] Jianwei Huang serves as an Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
 
[2016-12] Jianwei Huang is elected as Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) for the term of 12/2016 - 12/2018.
 
[2016-11] NCEL Fall 2016 Workshop will be held on Nov 24, 2016.
 
[2016-11] Jianwei Huang is selected as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) in Computer Science in 2016. There are 127 HCRs in Computer Science worldwide in 2016, including two from Hong Kong.
 
[2016-10] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium in Singapore. Submission deadline April 2017. 
 
[2016-10] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE WiOpt 2017 in Paris. Submission deadline December 15, 2016. 
 
[2016-10] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM Smart Data Pricing Workshop 2017 in Atlanta. 
 
[2016-10] Jianwei Huang serves as the Area Chair (Wireless Networks and Applications) for International Teletraffic Congress 2017 in Genoa. 
 
[2016-10] Jianwei Huang serves on the inaugural IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professional Award Committee 2016. Application deadline October 15, 2016. 
 
[2016-10] Dr. Lin Gao (NCEL Postdoc 2010-2015) received the IEEE Comsoc APB Young Researcher Award 2016. Dr. Gao is an Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). 
 
[2016-10] Dr. Xu Chen (NCEL PhD 2012) joins SYSU as a Full Professor in September 2016. Dr. Chen received the runner-up Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in 2014. 
 
[2016-10] Dr. Yuan Luo (NCEL PhD 2015) receives the CUHK Postgraduate Research Output Award 2015 and CUHK Young Scholar Thesis Award 2015. Yuan is the only awardee from Faculty of Engineering for these two awards this year. 
 
[2016-09] Our research on TV white space economics is featured on CUHK homepage (Chinese version here). 
 
[2016-07] Jianwei Huang delivers three IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lectures in Tsukuba, Hakodate, and Osaka in July 2016. 
 
[2016-05] Our INFOCOM 2016 paper "Economics of Public Wi-Fi Monetization and Advertising" is a Best Paper Award finalist and is selected for fast track publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (a total of 5 out of 300 accepted papers in INFOCOM 2016).
 
[2016-02] Jianwei Huang co-edits the special issue on "Game Theory for Networks" of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 
 
[2016-02] The paper "Secondary Spectrum Trading with Spatial Reuse in Spot and Futures Markets" with Lin Gao, Biying Shou, and Ying-Ju Chen has been accepted by the top business journal Operations Research. 
 
[2015-12] Dr. Lingjie Duan (NCEL PhD 2012) received the IEEE Comsoc APB Young Researcher Award 2015. Dr. Duan is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at SUTD. 
 
[2015-12] Dr. Liqun Fu (NCEL PhD 2010) received the Chinese Thousand Talents Award for Young Professionals 2015. Dr. Fu is an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Tech University. 
 
[2015-12] Huang delivers a three-hour tutorial (together with Leandros Tassiulas from Yale University) on "User-Provided Networks" in IEEE GLOBECOM 2015. 
 
[2015-11] Jianwei Huang delivers a three-hour tutorial (together with Yuan Luo and Lin Gao from CUHK) on "Economics of TV White Space" in IEEE ICCC 2015. 
 
[2015-11] Jianwei Huang becomes an IEEE Fellow (Class of 2016).
 
[2015-11] NCEL Fall 2015 Workshop will be held on Nov 30, 2015. Hao Wang received the Best Student Presentation Award. Congratulations!
 
[2015-11] Jianwei Huang co-edits an IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on "Game Theory for Networks".
 
[2015-10] Jianwei Huang co-chairs IEEE Smart Data Pricing Workshop 2016, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2016. 
 
[2015-10] Jianwei Huang receives the CUHK Young Researcher Award 2014.
 
[2015-09] Jianwei Huang serves as the Workshop Co-Chair of WiOpt 2016.
 
[2015-09] The paper "Capacity Allocation and Pricing Strategies for Wireless Femtocell Services" co-authored by Lingjie Duan, Biying Shou, and Huang is accepted by Production and Operations Management, a top business journal in Operations Management.
 
[2015-09] The paper "Cooperative Spectrum Sharing: A Contract-based Approach" co-authored by Lingjie Duan, Lin Gao and Huang becomes an ESI Highly Cited Paper. This is the most cited paper among all papers published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing since January 2014.
 
[2015-07] Qian Ma and Haoran Yu received the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence Award from CUHK, which supports them to visit UIUC and Yale University for half a year, respectively. Congratulations!
 
[2015-05] Jianwei Huang will deliver a three-hour tutorial (together with Leandros Tassiulas from Yale University) on "User-Provided Networks" in IEEE GLOBECOM 2015.
 
[2015-06] Jianwei Huang delivers three lectures during an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour in Barcelona (CTTC), London (Imperial College), and Cambridge (University of Cambridge) in June 2015. You can find the tour report here.

[2015-05] NCEL 2015 Spring Workshop is held on April 21. Yuan Luo received the Best Student Presentation Award. Lin Gao received the Best Team Player Award of the Year. Congratulations!

[2015-05] The paper "A Game-Theoretic Analysis of User Behaviors in Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks" receives the IEEE WiOpt 2015 Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations to Qian Ma and Lin Gao!

[2015-05] Jianwei Huang receives the IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2015.

[2015-01] Jianwei Huang serves as a founding editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.

[2015-01] Jianwei Huang is elected as IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer during 2015-2016.

[2015-01] Jianwei Huang serves as the Guest Editor of the special issue of "Big Data Analytics of Grid Modernization" of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Short paper submission deadline Feb 28, 2015.

[2015-01] Jianwei Huang serves as the Lead Guest Editor of the special issue of "Smart Data Pricing" of IEEE Network. Submission deadline August 1, 2015.

[2014-12] Jianwei Huang serves as the Vice Chair of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) during 2014 - 2015.

[2014-12] Jianwei Huang will give the tutorial on "Mobile Data Offloading" in IEEE ICC 2015 in London.

[2014-11] NCEL 2014 Fall Workshop is held on November 19. Haoran Yu received the Best Student Presentation Award. Congratulations!

[2014-11] NCEL alumni Xu Chen (PhD 2012) receives the runner-up award of 2014 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in Physical/Mathematical Science from Hong Kong Institute of Science.

[2014-11] NCEL alumni Lingjie Duan (PhD 2012) is a finalist of the 2014 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science from Hong Kong Institute of Science.

[2014-09] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE Smart Data Pricing Workshop, co-located with INFOCOM 2015 in Hong Kong. Submission deadline Dec. 1, 2014.

[2014-09] Jianwei Huang gives the tutorial on "Wireless Network Economics and Games" in IEEE Signal Processing M2M Summer School 2014 and the CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures 2014.

[2014-05] Lin Gao received the "NCEL Best Team Player Award" for the year of 2013-2014.  

[2014-05] The paper "Trade Information, Not Spectrum: A Novel TV White Space Information Market Model" received the IEEE WiOpt 2014 Best Paper Award. Congratulations to Yuan Luo and Lin Gao!

[2014-05] NCEL 2014 Spring Workshop will be held on May 5 in ERB 1106. Hao Wang received the "NCEL Best Student Presentation Award". 

[2014-04] NCEL alumni Xu Chen (PhD 2012) received the IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Best Paper Runner Up Award. Congratulations!

[2013-12] Jianwei Huang serves as the Vice Chair of IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board Technical Affairs Committee.

[2013-12] Jianwei Huang serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Society Technology News.

[2013-12] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of Internet Conference on NETworks Games, COntrol, and OPtimization (NetGCoop) 2014.

[2013-12] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of the Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing Symposium ofIEEE SmartGridComm 2014.

[2013-12] NCEL alumni Xu Chen (PhD 2012) receives the Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship. 

[2013-12] NCEL 2013 Fall Workshop is held on December 2. Yuan Luo receives the "NCEL Best Student Presentation Award". 

[2013-10] NCEL publishes three monographs: Wireless Network Pricing,  Monotonic Optimization in Communication and Networking Systems, and  Cognitive Mobile Virtual Network Operator Games.

[2013-05] The paper "An Iterative Double Auction for Mobile Data Offloading" received the Best Paper Award inIEEE WiOPT 2013. Congratulations to Lin Gao!

[2013-05] NCEL Spring Workshop 2013 will be held on May 7. Hao Wang receives the "NCEL Best Student Presentation Award".  

[2013-03] Jianwei Huang offers an online short course of "How Do We Play Games?"  through the Princeton University 3 Nights & Done Education Initiative, CUHK iTunesU, and YouKu.

[2012-08] NCEL Fall Workshop 2012 will be held on September 10. 

[2012-07] Lingjie Duan graduated from NCEL and becomes a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SUTD

[2012-07] Xu Chen graduated from NCEL and becomes a Postdoc Fellow in Arizona State University.

[2012-07] Shuqing Li graduated from NCEL and becomes a Research Scientist in Shanghai Bell Labs. 

[2012-06] Jianwei Huang is elected as Chair of IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee for 2012-2014.

[2012-04] Jianwei Huang is appointed as Guest Professor of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

[2011-12] The NCEL Fall Workshop 2011 will be held on December 15 (Thursday). 

[2011-11] Jianwei Huang receives the Best Paper Award in WiCON'11 with the paper "Dynamic Bayesian Spectrum Bargaining with Non-Myopic Users" (co-authored with Y. Yan and J. Wang). 

[2011-07] Jianwei Huang serves as the editor of IEEE JSAC Series on Cognitive Radio

[2011-07] Jianwei Huang co-edits an IEEE JSAC special issue on "Economics of Communication Networks and Systems". The submission deadline is December 1, 2011. 

[2011-05] Jianwei Huang serves as the TPC Co-Chair of WiOpt (International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks) 2012, to be held in Paderborn, Germany. 

[2011-04] The NCEL Spring Workshop 2011 will be held on April 8 (Friday). 

[2010-07] Jianwei Huang serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[2010-02] Jianwei Huang serves as the Director for IEEE MMTC E-letter since February 2010.

[2009-12] Jianwei Huang serves as the Co-Chair of International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) Mobile Computing Symposium, Caen, France, 2010. 

[2009-11] Jianwei Huang co-chairs the technical program of IEEE GLOBECOM Wireless Communications Symposium, Miami, USA, 2010.

[2009-10] Jianwei Huang receives the Best Paper Award from Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications for the paper “Revenue Management for Cognitive Spectrum Underlay Networks: An Interference Elasticity Perspective” (co-authored with X. Huang).

[2009-06] Jianwei Huang receives the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award of 2009.