Dean Chiang receives IEEE INFOCOM's highest award
Mung Chiang is the recipient of the 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) INFOCOM Achievement Award.
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technology professional association. IEEE INFOCOM is a research community in the areas of computer networking and communication systems, centered around an annual conference that also publishes highly competitive research articles. The annual Achievement Award is bestowed to a researcher with a body of work that has significant impact on the networking community.
Mung Chiang, Purdue University executive vice president for strategic initiatives, John A Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, and Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the award with the citation: “for contributions to fundamental research and industry impact of edge computing, data pricing, and network utility maximization.” Last several years’ recipients were Steven Low at Caltech, Eytan Modiano at MIT, and Victor Bahl at Microsoft Research.
According to IEEE, Chiang has made multiple pioneering contributions to wireless communications and computer networking, ranging from network utility maximization and “layering as decomposition” to smart data pricing and edge/fog computing. He is also known for taking mathematical rigor to practical relevance through technology transfer and entrepreneurial endeavor. He founded the Princeton Edge Lab in 2009, and co-founded three startups and a global industry consortium in the areas of edge computing, dispersive AI, and network optimization. His research impact has led to the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award (2013), the highest honor to an American researcher under age 40 each year, as well as the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2012) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014). His research publications received Best Paper Awards of IEEE INFOCOM (2012), IEEE SECON (2013), and ACM MobiHoc (2021). In 2020, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Inventors and to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. His research papers across many areas in communication networking have been cited over 30,000 times with an H-index of 80.
“While I hope this does not mark the end of my active research life, I am deeply humbled by the honor,” Chiang said. “It’s a reflection of the research impact from all of my former PhD students and postdocs, 24 of whom have become faculty members in research universities, and excellent collaborators that I got to work with.”
Prior to arriving at Purdue, Chiang was the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He received his bachelor's (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering and in mathematics, and master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering, from Stanford University.