{"id":595,"date":"2025-12-02T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/personal.hkust-gz.edu.cn\/lingjieduan\/?page_id=595"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:45:18","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/personal.hkust-gz.edu.cn\/lingjieduan\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"595\" class=\"elementor elementor-595\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2659372 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2659372\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7922d7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7922d7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Research interests\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Human-in-the-loop AI<\/li><li>Distributed machine learning<\/li><li>Algorithmic game theory<\/li><li>Agentic economics<\/li><li>Computer communications\u00a0<\/li><li>Robotic networks and intelligence \u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d177c0f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d177c0f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a10f168 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a10f168\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Research awards\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>The Top 2% Scientists, Released by Stanford University, 2021-\u00a0<\/li><li>First Prize Paper Award, Computer Academy of Guangdong (CAGD), 2024.<\/li><li>Finalist of best paper award, WiOpt 2024.\u00a0<\/li><li>Highly Ranked Scholar \u2013 Prior Five Years by ScholarGPS, 2022.<\/li><li>SUTD Excellence in Research Award, SUTD, 2017.<\/li><li>2017 SUTD Long Service Award, SUTD, 2018.<\/li><li>Runner-up of IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professionals Award, 2016.\u00a0<\/li><li>The 10th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award,\u00a0 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), 2015.<\/li><li>Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2014 (Finalist in Engineering Science track), Hong Kong Institution of Science, 2014.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-090ac86 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"090ac86\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2965bab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2965bab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Research grants\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>PI, \u201cDistributed Autonomous Wi-Fi Algorithms (DAWA) for Channel Access and Sharing,\u201d SUTD Wireless Innovation Centre (SWIC), SGD 0.79 million (~4.2 million RMB), 2024\/9 \u2013 (PI role transfer to another due to departure from SUTD)<\/li><li>Advisor, &#8220;Semantic short-range communication empowered by generative models,&#8221; 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Shin (IEEE Fellow), Kevin and Nancy O\u2019Connor Professor, Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Michigan, USA.\u00a0<\/li><li>Ness Shroff (IEEE Fellow), Department of Computer Science Engineering, Ohio State University, USA.<\/li><li>Yingbin Liang (IEEE Fellow), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, USA.<\/li><li>Richard Weber, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, UK. \u00a0<\/li><li>Qian Zhang (IEEE Fellow), Chair Professor, Dept. of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology (HKUST).<\/li><li>Jianwei Huang (IEEE Fellow), Chair Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen).<\/li><li>Costas Courcoubetis, Chair Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen).\u00a0<\/li><li>Rui Zhang (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore<\/li><li>Biying Shou, Professor, Dept. of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.<\/li><li>Xiaojun Lin, Chair Professor, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/li><li>Minming Li, Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. \u00a0<\/li><li>Tony Quek, Professor, Information Systems and Technology Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.\u00a0<\/li><li>Alex W. Min, Research Scientist, System Architecture Lab, Intel Labs, USA.<\/li><li>Teruyuki Hasegawa, Senior Research Engineer, KDDI R&amp;D Labs, Japan.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research interests\u00a0 Human-in-the-loop AI Distributed machine learning Algorithmic game theory Agentic economics Computer communications\u00a0 Robotic networks and intelligence \u00a0 Research awards\u00a0 The Top 2% Scientists, Released by Stanford University, 2021-\u00a0 First Prize Paper Award, Computer Academy of Guangdong (CAGD), 2024. 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