team

opening

I am recruiting fully-funded Ph.D. students and Research Assistants in quantum and agentic networking. See the openings page for the current positions, research directions, and how to apply.

mentoring

Note: bold venue names indicate that the mentored student is the first author; I am typically the second or third author.

University of Massachusetts Amherst — CICS (with Prof. Don Towsley and Prof. Mohammad Hajiesmaili)

  • Fatemeh Ghaffari (Ph.D. student, UMass Amherst, with Prof. Hajiesmaili), 2024–Present: L4DC’25, KDD’26
  • Amirmahdi Mirfakhar (Ph.D. student, UMass Amherst, with Prof. Hajiesmaili), 2023–Present: AAAI’25
  • Janice Y.Z. Chen (Ph.D. student, UMass Amherst, with Prof. Towsley), 2022–Present: QCNC’26, SIGMETRICS’25, AAAI’25, UAI’23, ICLR’23, AISTATS’23
  • Matheus Andrade (Ph.D. student, UMass Amherst, with Prof. Towsley), 2023–Present: QCNC’26, AAAI’25
  • Anvi Gunjikar (Undergraduate, UMass Amherst, with Prof. Hajiesmaili), 2025–Present
  • Ezra R. Johnson (Undergraduate, Caltech, with Prof. Hajiesmaili), 2026–Present

Chinese University of Hong Kong — CSE (with Prof. John C.S. Lui)

  • Maoli Liu (Ph.D. student, CUHK), 2023–Present: INFOCOM’25, ICLR’25, INFOCOM’26
  • Xiangxiang Dai (Ph.D. student, CUHK), 2024–Present: AAAI’26
  • Yu Jiang (Ph.D. student, CUHK), 2025–Present
  • Mengmeng Wang (Ph.D. student, CUHK), 2026–Present

City University of Hong Kong — CS (with Prof. Jinhang Zuo)

  • Qirun Zeng (Ph.D. student, CityU), 2024–Present: ICML’25

Nanjing University — SIST (with Prof. Lin Yang)

  • Haoran Zhang (Ph.D. student, NJU), 2023–Present: NeurIPS’25, UAI’25
  • Jingyuan Liu (Undergraduate, NJU), 2023–Present
  • Dakai Yang (Undergraduate, NJU), 2026–Present

Shanghai Jiao Tong University — John Hopcroft Center (with Prof. Shuai Li)

  • Zichun Ye (Master’s student, SJTU), 2025–Present
  • Runqi Wang (Undergraduate, SJTU), 2025–Present