Dr. Mao's research interest includes wireless networks, multimedia communications, and smart grid. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc, 2021-2022), IEEE Council of RFID (2021-2022), and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS, 2014-2018), and a Distinguished Speaker of IEEE VTS (2018-2021). He received the IEEE ComSoc TC-CSR Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in 2019, the Auburn University Creative Research & Scholarship Award in 2018, the NSF CAREER Award in 2010, and several service awards from IEEE ComSoc. He is a co-recipient of the 2021 Best Paper Award of Elsevier/KeAi Digital Communications and Networks Journal, the 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Best Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, the 2018 Best Journal Paper Award and the 2017 Best Conference Paper Award from IEEE ComSoc MMTC, and the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards from IEEE ICC 2022 and 2013, IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, 2016, and 2015, and IEEE WCNC 2015, and the Best Demo Awards from IEEE INFOCOM 2022 and IEEE SECON 2017. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CIC China Communications, an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and ACM GetMobile, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Network, and IEEE Networking Letters, among others. He is the General Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2022, a TPC Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2018, and a TPC Vice-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2022. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and AAIA, and a member of the ACM and the IET.