Qixin Wang received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Dept. of Computer Sci. and Tech., Tsinghua Univ. (Beijing, China) in 1999 and 2001 respectively; and the PhD degree from the Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. He joined the Dept. of Computing in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2009, and is now an associate professor. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, real-time/embedded systems/networks, and their applications in industrial control, medicine and assisted living. He has authored/coauthored over 40 papers in leading publication venues in these fields, including a featured article in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2008 May Issue and an article winning 2008 best paper award of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.