Biography I am an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, with appointments in the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) and Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) with Professor Tarek F. Abdelzaher. I got my Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Peking University (PKU), and Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Research Interests Social Sensing and Crowdsourcing, Human-Cyber-Physical Systems Big Data Analytics, Reliable Information Distillation Systems Smart Cities, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing, Disaster and Emergency Response Network Science, Online Social Networks, Trust and Credibility Analysis Honors and Awards Google Faculty Research Award: Google: Spring 2018 Young Investigator Program Award (YIP): Army Research Office (ARO): Fall 2017 NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award: Spring 2016 Wing Kai Cheng Fellowship: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: Fall 2012 Best Paper Award: 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Stockholm, Sweden: April 2010 Outstanding EECS Graduate Research Award: Peking University: July 2007 Graduate Research Elite Award: Peking University: April 2007