Experiences
Education
PhD (Electronic and Computer Systems), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013.7
MBA (Innovation and Growth), University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2012.10
EU-China Managers Exchange and Training Program (METP), studied business administration courses at the business schools of China-Europe International Business School (Shanghai, China), Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, UK), ESCP Europe Paris (Paris, France), and Solvey Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium), 2010.5 -2010.10,
B.Eng (Electronic Engineering), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2002.6
Industrial experience
Senior Principal Scientist (2019.10-present), Principal Scientist (2017.8-2019.9), Senior Scientist (2016.1-2017.7), Scientist (2013.07-2015.12), Associate Scientist (2011.8-2013.07), ABB Corporate Research, Vasteras, Sweden
· Holding the highest specialist title (Senior Principal Scientist) in industrial communication appointed by global CTO, formulating strategy, and mentoring the R&D activities globally in this area
· Leading the research on 5G and cloud/edge hosted automation system solutions with extensive collaborations with leading ICT vendors (E, I, C, M as first letter of name), ongoing, limited public information
· Made major contributions to ABB’s 5G strategy and defined roadmap for the Connected Systems technology area in 2021
· Led the research on communication and computing architecture and wireless safety for service robots, demonstrated in ABB Mobile YuMi in 2019
· Led the Innovation Big Bets on Smart Logistics – Automation Track, enabled partnership with ABB’s strategic customers JD.COM in e-commerce and logistics industry in 2018
· Led the research of high-performance wireless communications (WirelessHP) for critical control systems with microsecond level latency in 2017, far beyond the start-of-the-art, contributed key patents to the ABB Tropos Wireless Mesh portfolio, contributed disruptive technologies for the ABB HVDC (high voltage direct current) business in 2018 (now Hitachi Energy), impacted 6G (Nokia), WiFi6/7 (Intel), and follow-up research at top universities (MIT, UC Irvine, UPenn, Oxford, Caltech, etc.)
· Led the research on natively IP based communication for building automation, productized in the ABB free@home smart building solution in 2016 and Welcome IP door entry system in 2017.
· Developed one of the earliest functional implementations of WirelessHART stack for industrial wireless sensor networks in 2012
Start-up Entrepreneur/Co-founder, Shanghai Shengyue Electronics Tech Co. Ltd. (China, 2007.7-2008.7), and Ambigua Medito AB (Sweden, 2008.8-2009.9)
· Led start-up team of 10+ engineers, developed application processor SoC (system-on-chip) with Linux OS and multi-standard high-definition video decoder (H.264, MPEG4, RMVB, etc.) for personal multimedia player in 2008
· Developed network-on-chip (NoC) research platform using FPGA which can implement 64 ARM9 CPU cores in 2009
Department Manager (2004-2007.07), Project Leader and Product Manager (2003-2004), Chip Design Engineer (2002.07-2003), Nationalchip Sci&Tech Co. Ltd., Hangzhou, China
· Led R&D team of 80+ engineers, delivered one of the earliest single-chip DVB-S (digital video broadcast - satellite) receiver SoC (system-on-chip) in 2005 which had occupied a major share of global market, winning the “National Great Invention Award” awarded by the Ministry of Information Industry of China
Academic experience
Adjunct Professor (on Industrial IoT), School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2019.2-present
Adjunct Professor (on Industrial Wireless Communication), Department of Intelligent Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021.1-present,
Industrial Supervisor of PhD Student, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 2020.12-present
Affiliated Faculty, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.01-2021.10
Industrial Supervisor of PhD Student, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, 2019.4-2021.6
Industrial Supervisor of PhD Student, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019.11-2020.06
International Advisor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2013-2018
Industrial Supervisor of PhD Students, Electric Engineering School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015-2016
Adjunct Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China. 2014-2018
PhD researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007.12-2011.08
