Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, Wireless Communications, Smart Grid

1983.09—1987.06 B.S., Electrical Engineering, Xidian University
1987.08—1990.03 M.S., Electromagnetic Engineering and Microwave Technology,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
1992.08—1995.07 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, New York University

1995.10—1997.04 Staff. GTE Labs Inc., GTE Corp.
1997.05—2000.04 Staff. Bell Labs,
2000.05—2003.07 Founder & CEO, Wiscom Technologies Inc.
2003.08—2015.03 Professor, Tennessee Technological University
2014.06—Now Endowed-chair-professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Prior to Qiu's startup experience, he spent nearly 5 years in industrial labs (GTE Labs and Bell Labs), to
conduct applied research in wireless cellular industry. In GTE Labs, he participated in the first CDMA
field trial jointly conducted by AT & T, GTE, and Qualcomm. CDMA technology is the industrial standard
for the second-generation (2G) and third-generation (3G) wireless system. At Bell Labs, he was one of
the pioneers in designing the core physical layer system algorithms for the 3G WCDMA base transceiver
station that turns into multi-billion dollars business later for Lucent.

• Elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2015, with the following citation: for contributions to
ultra-wideband wireless communications.
• My current PhD student, Bettt Witherspoon whom joined my group three years ago in his sophomore
year, won the first place in 2014 DARPA Spectrum Challenge Award (with $50,000 cash)—together
with another junior faculty in our department.
• Productivity Award, College of Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, 2012-2013.
• One of three finalists, Gerald August Dobelman Distinguished Chair in Electrical Engineering,
Colorado School of Mines, on-site interview on Feb. 25 and 26, 2013.
• Caplenor Faculty Research Award (highest research award by the university), Tennessee Technological
University, 2012-2013.
• Best paper award of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011 – “Decoding
the ‘Nature Encoded’ Messages for Distributed Energy Generation Control in Microgrid”

Big Data and Smart Grid

1) R. C. Qiu, Massive MIMO and Big Data, John Wiley, 200 pages, 2015, commitment.
2) R. C. Qiu and P. Antonik, Smart Grid and Big Data: Theory and Practice, John Wiley, 500+ pages,
2014.
3) R. C. Qiu and M.C. Wicks, Cognitive Networked Sensing and Big Data, Springer, 623 pages, 2013.
4) R. C. Qiu, Z. Hu, H. Li, and M.C. Wicks, Cognitive Radio Communication and Networking:
Principles and Practice, John Wiley, 514 pages, 2012.
5) S. Shen, R. C. Qiu, M. Guizani, T. Le-Ngoc, (Edited), Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications,
John Wiley, March 2006. (Google citations: 122)