Dr. Gordon Owusu Boateng is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communications and Networking at XJTLU, Suzhou, China. He received his Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana, in 2014. He received his M.Eng. degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2019 and 2023, respectively. Before joining XJTLU in April 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hybrid Positioning Research Group (HPRG), UESTC, from 2023 to 2024, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the KU 6G Research Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, from 2024 to 2025. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Site Engineer (contractor) for Ericsson (Ghana) and TIGO (Ghana).

Till now, Gordon has co-authored over 50 SCI papers in top journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG), IEEE Systems Journal, and Elsevier's Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) and Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). He has also published and presented at top conference venues such as the IEEE International Conference on Communications (INFOCOM) and the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Dr. Gordon serves as a peer reviewer for over 40 IEEE, Elsevier, and ACM journals. He is currently a Guest Editor for the Special Issue: Positioning and Sensing Technologies for Ubiquitous Mobile Intelligence at MDPI Sensors and a Chair at the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs): Intelligent Communications, Network, and Service Management Workshop at the 22nd International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC), which will be held in Shanghai, China on 1-6 June, 2026.

• Excellent Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2022

• UESTC International Students' Academic Achievement Awards 2022, First Prize

• UESTC International Students' Academic Achievement Awards 2020, First Prize

• UESTC International Students' Academic Achievement Awards 2018, First Prize

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Member

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Professional Membership

Prospective Students:

I am seeking self-motivated students to work with me on LLM-assisted Collaborative Perception for Intelligent Parking Scheduling and Path Planning in Automated Valet Parking and Charging (AVPC) Systems; FYP and Master's students are welcome to reach out via the following email: Gordon.Boateng@xjtlu.edu.cn

Dr. Gordon's research interests include 5G/6G wireless networks, Automated Valet Parking and Charging (AVPC), Large Language Models (LLMs), Reinforcement Learning (RL), vehicular networks, target positioning, blockchain technology, and game theory.