• AI for Health

• Park-Reeves Chiari & Syringomyelia Center

• Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CPSL)

Publications

• Full List of Papers
• Google Scholar Profile (citation data)

Selected Talks

• AI for Surgery: From Multimodal Data to Clinical Decisions, Department of Neurosurgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2026.

• AI for Health: Translating Data into Impact, Schmidt Distinguished Talk, William & Mary, April 2026.

• AI and Poverty: Harnessing Data to Understand Health Risks and Inequities, Keynote, Mini-Conference on AI and Poverty, New York University, November 2025.

• AI Across Medicine: Opportunities for Radiation Oncology, Grand Rounds, Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, October 2025.

• Phenotype Chiari Malformation with Artificial Intelligence (Slides), Annual Scientific Update, Redefining Chiari Type I Malformation and Its Impact on Brain Development, February 2025

• AI for Health with Wearables (Slides), Keynote, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week (CPS-IoT Week), May 2024.

• AI for Health with Wearables (Slides) (Video), Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, February 2024.

• Internet of Medical Things: Precision Medicine with AI and Wearables Keynote, IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE'23), June 2023.

• AI for Neurosurgery, Henry G. Schwartz Grand Rounds, Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, May 2023.

• Real-Time Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems, TCRTS Technical Achievement and Leadership Award Speech, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'22), December 2022.

• Reliable Clinical Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks, Test of Time Award Speech, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'22), November 2022.

• Internet of Medical Things: Predicting Clinical Outcomes with Wearables (Slides) (Video), Brown School Open Classroom, Washington University, October 2022.

• Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Medical Things for Healthcare (Slides) (Video), Medicine Grand Rounds, Washington University School of Medicine, September 2022.

• Internet of Medical Things: Predicting Clinical Outcomes with Wearables (Slides) (Video), Keynote, IoT Day, ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'22), June 2022.

• Interdisciplinary Research: Advice and Opportunities, Guest Lecture at UIUC, 2020.

• Internet of Medical Things: Predicting Clinical Outcomes and Digital Phenotyping with Wearables and Machine Learning, Washington University School of Medicine, 2019.

• Predicting Clinical Outcomes with Wearables: Machine Learning from Small Data, mHealth Research Core, 2019.

• Machine Learning for Healthcare: From Wearables to Electronic Health Record, AI in Health, Washington University, 2019.

• Dependable Industrial Internet of Things (Slides, Photos), Keynote, Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS Week), April 2018.

• Real-Time Internet of Things, Keynote, IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Computing (ISORC'17), May 2017.
• Towards Real-Time Cloud Computing (Slides), Uppsala University, February 2017.

• Wireless Control: Opportunities and Challenges, Plenary Panel, ACM Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek), October 2016.

• Dependable Wireless Control through Cyber-Physical Co-Design, Keynote, International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), February 2016.

• Golden Age of Internet of Things (Video), Installation as Fullgraf Professor, February 2015.

• Perspective on the Future of Embedded Systems and ESWeek, Panel on ESWeek at Crossroads: New Applications, New Challenges, and the Road Ahead Toward Designing New "Things", ACM Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek), October 2014.

• Challenges in Wireless Control Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems, Panel on Networking Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems, INFOCOM, May 2014.

• Real-Time Wireless Control Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems, Keynote, International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS'14), January 2014.

• Wireless Clinical Monitoring at Scale, Distinguished Lecture, DGIST Global Innovation Festival (DGIF), November 2013.

• Smart Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks, I-CARES/PARC Events and Topics in Renewable Energy and the Environment, Washington University, November 2013.

• Real-Time Wireless Control Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems, Keynote, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES'13), June 2013.

• Towards Real-Time Clouds for Cyber-Physical Systems, NSF Workshop on Cloud Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems, March 2013.

• Real-Time Wireless Control Networks: Challenges and Directions, NITRD National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Systems, October 2012.

• Cyber-Physical Co-Design for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring, Distinguished Lecture, University of Louisville, November 2011.

• My (biased) Perspective on CPS, Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'11), July 2011.

• Reliable Clinical Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks: Experience in a Step-down Hospital Unit, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'10), November 2010.

• Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, April 2010.

• RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization Platform based on Xen
• WCPS: Wireless Cyber-Physical Simulator for Wireless Control Systems
• Benchmark Problem in Active Structural Control with Wireless Sensor Network
  
• MLA: Component-based MAC Layer Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
  
• FC-ORB: Distributed Real-Time Middleware with Feedback Control
• Agilla: Moble Agent Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
  

PhD Students

Current

• Peiqi Gao
• Hangyue Li
• Patrick Lynch
• Claire Najjuuko
• Sizhe Wang
• Zichen Wang
• Ben Warner
• Ziqi Xu
• Daoyi Zhu

• Ruiqi Wang (PhD 2026): Google.
• Hanyang Liu (PhD 2025): Snap.
• Jingwen Zhang (PhD 2024): Meta.
• Rahav Dor (PhD 2023)
• Bing Xue (PhD 2023): Meta.
• Ruixuan Dai (PhD 2022): Google.
• Dingwen Li (PhD 2021): TikTok.
• Haoran Li (PhD 2021): Amazon.
• Yehan Ma (PhD 2020): Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• Chong Li (PhD 2020): Ant Group.
• Chao Wang (PhD 2019, with Chris Gill): Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University.
• Dolvara Gunatilaka (PhD 2019): Assistant Professor, Mahidol University.
• Jing Li (PhD 2017, with Kunal Agrawal): Associate Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology. NSF CAREER Awardee
• Bo Li (PhD 2015)
• Chengjie Wu (PhD 2014)
• Sisu Xi (PhD 2014, with Chris Gill): Anysphere.
• Mo Sha (PhD 2014): Associate Professor, Florida International University. NSF CAREER Awardee
• Abusayeed Saifullah (PhD 2014): Associate Professor, University of Texas at Dallas. NSF CAREER Awardee
• Yong Fu (PhD 2013): Unity.
• Greg Hackmann (PhD, 2011): Apple.
• Octav Chipara (PhD 2010, with Gruia-Catalin Roman) Professor, University of Iowa. NSF CAREER Awardee
• Chien-Liang Fok (PhD 2009, with Gruia-Catalin Roman): Woven by Toyota.
• Sangeeta Bhattacharya (PhD 2008, with Gruia-Catalin Roman): Intel Research (India).
• Yuanfang Zhang (PhD 2008, with Chris Gill): Microsoft Research (Redmond).
• Xiaorui Wang (PhD 2006): Professor, Ohio State University. NSF CAREER Awardee, IEEE Fellow
• Guoliang Xing (PhD 2006): Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong. NSF CAREER Awardee, ACM/IEEE Fellow
• Qingfeng Huang (PhD 2003, with Gruia-Catalin Roman)

Awards

• Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award, IEEE Technical Community on Real-Time Systems, 2022.
• ACM Fellow, 2020.
• IEEE Fellow, 2016.
• Test of Time Award, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2022. [Paper]
• Influential Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2021. [Paper]
• Best Application Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024. [Paper]
• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023. [Paper]
• Best Paper Award for IoT Data Analytics, ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2023. [Paper]
• Distinguished Paper Award, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 2022. [Paper]
• Outstanding Paper Award, International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), 2021.
• ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2017-2020.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2019.
• Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2016.
• Distinguished Paper Award, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA), 2015.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2014.
• Outstanding Paper Award, Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2013.
• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2011.
• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2006.
• NSF CAREER Award, 2005.
• Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, 2000.

Professional Services

Editorships

• Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2021 - present.
• Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2011 - 2017.
• Area Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2013 - 2018.
• Associate Editor, Real-Time Systems, 2010 - 2018.
• Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Special Issue on Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare, 2013.
• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special Section on Cyber-Physical Systems and Cooperating Objects, 2012.
• Guest Editor, Real-Time Systems, Special Issue on Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks, 2007.

• General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems (RTCSA), 2022.
• Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2021.
• Test of Time Award Committee Chair, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2019.
• General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII), 2018.
• IoT Chair, ACM Embedded Systems Week, 2018.
• General Chair, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2018.
• Program Chair, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2017.
• Program Chair, International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2017.
• Organizer, SC2: US-India Smart and Connected Communities Workshop, 2016.
• Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2016.
• Program Chair, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2014.
• General Chair, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2013.
• General Chair, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2013.
• Program Chair, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2012.
• Program Chair, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2012.
• Program Chair, International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), 2011.
• Program Chair, International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), 2010.
• General Chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2009.
• Program Chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2008.