Dr. Ning Lu

Biography

Ning Lu is an Assistant Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Future Communication Networks at Queen's University. He completed his BEng in 2007 and MEng in 2010 at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, followed by a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2015. Before joining Queen's University, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Science at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada. Prior to this, Dr. Lu was a postdoctoral fellow at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2015 to 2016 and interned at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan during the summer of 2009. His research interests encompass scheduling, distributed algorithms, reinforcement learning, and wireless communication networks. Dr. Lu has published over 60 papers in top IEEE journals and conferences, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM MobiHoc, and IEEE INFOCOM. He has received various awards and fellowships, including a place in the 2014 Valeo Innovation Challenge for excellence in vehicular networking protocol design and a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015. Dr. Lu is also chairing the Special Interest Group on AI Empowered Internet of Vehicles (IoV) within the IEEE Cognitive Networks Technical Committee.

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