Academia

PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University, USA
Aug 2019 – Present

MEng (1st Class Honours), Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems
The University of York, UK
Oct 2006 – July 2010

Industry
Digital Marketing Executive
Nativve
Sep 2018 – May 2019

Freelance Technology Writer
Various Publications inc. SecureWorldExpo [Author Profile]
Feb 2017 – Aug 2018

English as a Foreign Language Teacher
Various Institutions
June 2014 – Aug 2018

Technology Consultant
IBM UK
May 2011 – Feb 2014

Awards
Best Paper Award for ‘Invisible Textures: Comparing Machine and Human Perception of Environment Texture for Augmented Reality’
ImmerCom ’23 (1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Immersive Computing, Networking, and Systems, co-located with ACM MobiCom ’23), Madrid, Spain
October 2023

Best Poster Award for ‘IoT-Enabled Environment Illuminance Optimization for Augmented Reality’
2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Cambridge, UK
September 2022

Royal Academy of Engineering Prize for Best Final Year Performance
The University of York, UK
July 2010

Reviews
ACM MobiCom 2023, ACM HotMobile 2023, ACM MobiHoc 2023, ACM SenSys 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, IEEE Network Magazine 2023, ACM IPSN 2021, 2022, IEEE ICDCS 2020, 2022, IEEE ISMAR 2021, IEEE INFOCOM 2020, IEEE ICNP 2020
Mentoring
Siwen Dong (Master’s student, Duke University)
Xichu Xiao (Master’s student, Duke University)
Shivani Karanth (Undergraduate REU student, North Carolina State University)
Ritvik Janamsetty (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Liuren Yin (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Darius Huang (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Jeremy Suh (Undergraduate REU student, University of Virginia)
Jason Dong (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Achilles Dabrowski (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Mary Jiang (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Alex Xu (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Megan Mott (Undergraduate REU student, University of North Carolina)
Mohammad Kahtami (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Orion Hsu (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Priya Rathinavelu (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Shreya Hurli (Undergraduate, Duke University)
Boyung Kim (Undergraduate, Duke University)

Code+ students, Summer 2020 (https://ece.duke.edu/about/news/students-code-alternate-realities)

Talks
The International Workshop on Perception for Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems (PerCPS), May 2023.
Research Seminar at Hitachi America Ltd. R&D Group, November 2022.
Research Seminar for REU Students at Duke University, July 2021 and July 2022.
Invited Lecture at Duke Blockchain Lab, March 2022.