Bo Ji
Bo Ji is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, and affiliate faculty at the Sanghani Center.
Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. He was also a senior member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs, San Ramon, California, from January 2013 to June 2014.
He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in information science and electronic engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from The Ohio State University.
In the early stages of his academic career, his research centered on the design, analysis, control, and optimization of complex networked systems, including wireless and wired communication networks, edge and cloud computing, data centers, information-update systems, and Internet of Things. Over the years, his focus has expanded significantly to include the multidisciplinary intersections of Computing and Networking Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Security and Privacy, and Extended Reality (XR, including MR/VR/AR).
He has been the general co-chair of IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2021 and the technical program co-chair of ACM MobiHoc 2023 and ITC 2021, and he has also served on the editorial boards of various IEEE/ACM journals: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review; IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering; IEEE Internet of Things Journal; and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
Ji is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2017; the NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award in 2017; the IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best Paper Award; the IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2022 Best Student Paper Award; the IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award in 2021 and 2022; and the Dean's Faculty Fellow Award from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2023.