Dr. Sihua Shao currently serves as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at New Mexico Tech. He obtains the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and the Hashimoto Prize for best doctoral dissertation from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2018. He is honored to receive the NSF CRII Award and NM EPSCoR Mentor Award in 2023. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. His area of expertise is wireless communication and networking, mainly focusing on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication, optical wireless communication, backscatter communication, machine learning in communications and networking, wireless communication and networking in harsh environments, UAV assisted wireless networks, heterogeneous radio-optical wireless networks, positioning, navigation and timing.