He received the M.A. and Ph.D. degree from Princeton University all in Electrical Engineering. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research interests are in networks, inference in online large data analytics, and optimization theory and its applications. Dr. Tan was the recipient of the 2008 Princeton University Wu Prize for Excellence. He was the Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Society Hong Kong Chapter in 2014 and 2015. He was twice selected to participate at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in 2013 and 2015. He has been actively involved in a number of international conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Globecom, IEEE SmartGridComm. He currently serves as an Editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.