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Dr. Sihua Shao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, where he began his appointment in August 2024. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2018, where he was awarded the Hashimoto Prize for the best doctoral dissertation. In 2023, Dr. Shao received the NSF CRII Award and the New Mexico EPSCoR Mentor Award and was elevated to IEEE Senior Member. He serves as an Associate Editor for the ACES Journal and has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC and IEEE ICNC since 2024, as well as for OPTICA SPPCOM from 2020 to 2022. Dr. Shao’s research focuses on wireless communication and networking, supported by the NSF, NIOSH, NM EPSCoR, and CO-WY Engine. His work spans diverse applications, including vertiport–drone–based methane sensing, smart stormwater filtration monitoring, biomimetic swarm sensing in harsh environments, intelligent mine rescue systems, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)–based indoor robot navigation, and acoustic backscatter multiple access.

Education

• B.S., Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, 2011
• M.S., Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 2012
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 2018

Research

• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
• Backscatter Communication
• Optical Wireless Communications
• Integrated Sensing and Communication
• Machine Learning in Communications and Networking
• UAV Assisted Wireless Networks
• Smart Grid Communications
• Wireless Communications in Harsh Environments
• Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Networks

Publications

• Adrian Salustri, Alexander Williams, Mathew Salas, Hassan Khaniani, Mostafa Hassanalian, Pedram Roghanchi and Sihua Shao*. "Organic Photovoltaic Cell-Powered Backscatter Communication System: A Compact Design." Proceedings of 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 9 – 13, 2024.
• Sihua Shao*, Adrian Salustri, Abdallah Khreishah, Chenren Xu and Shuai Ma. "R-VLCP: Channel Modeling and Simulation in Retroreflective Visible Light Communication and Positioning Systems". IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 10, No. 13 (2023). Impact Factor: 10.238.
• Michelle Sherman, Sihua Shao*, Xiang Sun and Jun Zheng. "Optimizing AoI in UAV-RIS Assisted IoT Networks: Off Policy vs. On Policy". IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 10, No. 14 (2023). Impact Factor: 10.238.
• Sihua Shao*, Mahmoud Nazzal, Abdallah Khreishah and Moussa Ayyash. "Self-optimizing Data Offloading in Mobile Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach". IEEE Network, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2022). Impact Factor: 9.3.
• Shuai Ma, Fan Zhang, Songtao Li, Hang Li, Ruixin Yang, Sihua Shao*, Jiaheng Wang and Shiyin Li. "Optimal Discrete Constellation Inputs for Aggregated LiFi-WiFi Networks". IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 21, No. 6 (2021). Impact Factor: 10.4.
• Sihua Shao*, Abdallah Khreishah, and Juan Paez. "PassiveRETRO: Enabling Completely Passive Visible Light Localization for IoT Applications". Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 29 – May 2, 2019, pp. 1540-1548. Acceptance rate: 19.7.
• Sihua Shao*, Abdallah Khreishah, and Issa Khalil. "RETRO: Retroreflector based Visible Light Indoor Localization for Real-time Tracking of IoT Devices". Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 15-19, 2018, pp. 1025-1033. Acceptance rate: 19.2.
• Sihua Shao* and Abdallah Khreishah. "Delay Analysis of Unsaturated Heterogeneous Omnidirectional-Directional Small Cell Wireless Networks: The Case of RF-VLC Coexistence". IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 12 (2016). Impact Factor: 10.4.

For a more thorough list of publications, please visit Dr. Shao's personal website.

Additional Information

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