Cui graduated from the
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in radio engineering (ranked 1st), and the
McMaster University in 2000 with a M.Eng in electrical engineering, and then got his Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from
Stanford University in 2005. Following graduation, he worked as an assistant, associate, full, and Chair Professor at
University of Arizona,
Texas A&M University, and
UC Davis. Cui was also a visiting processor at the
ShanghaiTech University in 2013 to 2014. Cui served as an editor for
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine as well as associate editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Big Data, the
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the
IEEE JSAC Series on Green Communications and Networking, and the
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. From 2009 to 2014, Cui served as elected member of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee and three years later, until 2018, served as an elected Chair for IEEE ComSoc Wireless Technical Committee. He currently serves as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technology Committee as well as the Steering Committee for both IEEE Transactions on Big Data and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He was named a Fellow of the
IEEE Information Theory Society and in 2014 became a
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to cognitive communications and energy efficient system design. ==Awards==