Biography

Shugang Hao will join SUTD as postdoctal research fellow in Sep. 2022. He obtained PhD degree in the Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2022, and received B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from South China University of Technology in 2017. His research interests are economics of age of information, network economics and mechanism design.

Education

• 08/2022: Doctor of Philosophy (major in Telecommunication Engineering), Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
• 06/2017: Bachelor of Engineering (major in Information Engineering), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests

Economics of Age of Information, mobile crowdsourcing, network economics and mechanism design

Publication

• Shugang Hao and Lingjie Duan, “To Help or Disturb: Introduction of Crowdsourced WiFi to 5G Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), early access, 2022.
• Shugang Hao and Lingjie Duan, “Regulating Competition in Age of Information under Network Externalities,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 697-710, 2020.
• Shugang Hao and Lingjie Duan, “Economics of Age of Information Management under Network Externalities,” in ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc) (acceptance rate 23.7%), Catania, Italy, July 2-5, 2019.

Patent

• Quansheng Guan and Shugang Hao, ”A Distributed Optimization Flow Control Method under Limited Buffer Length in Networks”, Chinese Invention Patent, application number: 201710096319.2, authorization number: CN106850452B, May 2020.

Services

• Reviewer for conferences:
  – ACM MobiHoc 2019-2020, 2022,
  – IEEE SECON 2019,
  – IEEE ICC 2019,
  – IEEE GLOBECOM 2020-2021.
• Reviewer for journals:
  – IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,
  – IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing，
  – IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications，
  – IEEE Transactions on Communications,
  – ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks,
  – IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
  – IEEE Communications Letters.

Awards

• SUTD President Graduate Fellowship, 2017-2022.
• ACM MobiHoc 2019/SIGMOBILE student travel grant.

Invited Talks

• “Economics of Age of Information Management under Network Externalities,” Guangdong University of Technology, 31/08/2019.
• “Economics of Age of Information Management under Network Externalities,” Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 30/08/2019.
• “Economics of Age of Information Management under Network Externalities,” South China University of Technology, 27/08/2019.