Biography

Dr. Ning Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Queen’s University. He is also a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Future Communication Networks. Dr. Lu received the BEng (2007) and MEng (2010) degrees from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and a PhD degree (2015) from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, all in electrical engineering. Prior to joining Queen’s University, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computing Science at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada. From 2015 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also spent the summer of 2009 as an intern at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

His current research interests include scheduling, distributed algorithms, and reinforcement learning for wireless communication networks. He has published more than 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, etc.

Dr. Lu has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships. He and his team won second place in the 2014 Valeo Innovation Challenge for excellence in vehicular networking protocol design. He was presented with the best paper award at the 2014 IEEE GLOBECOM conference. He received an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015. Dr. Lu is currently chairing the Special Interest Group (SIG) on AI Empowered Internet of Vehicles (IoV), IEEE Cognitive Networks Technical Committee. He also served as Vice Chair of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for ICCSPA'22 and 24.