I am an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow (APD) and Research Fellow with ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. Before I joined University of Melbourne, I was a Research Scientist (NSERC Industrial R&D Fellow) with Optiwave Systems Inc. in Canada. I received my PhD from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada in Jan. 2006. During my PhD program, I was with Network Systems Group of TRLabs. I received my MSc from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 1999 and BEng from Zhejiang University in P. R. China in 1997. I was also a Research Associate with the laboratory of Network Technology Research Centre (NTRC) of Nanyang Technological University, and then a Senior Research Engineer with Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) of Singapore from 1999 to 2001. My research interest is in telecommunications networks, network survivability, and wireless mesh networks. I have authored and co-authored more than 30 technical papers and/or book chapters. I also hold two US patents and one Canadian patent. I can be contacted at ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia, or email: 
"Shannon’s genius lay in finding the 'right way,' the 'simple way' to look at everyday technological problems.
He built mathematical models to help understand these problems, but his focus was on the underlying problem, not on mathematics per se..."Robert Gallager