Yuguang "Michael" Fang, Ph.D.

University of Florida, where the thirst quencher Gatorade was invented, the termite killer Sentricon was developed, and the Kalman filter's inventor used to work, ...

Emeritus Distinguished Professor
(Google Scholar Profile)
Wireless Information and Networked Things Laboratory (WINET)
Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
435 New Engineering Building, 1064 Center Drive
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Tel: (352) 846-3043, Fax: (352) 392-0044
Email: lastname AT@ ece.ufl.edu, Http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu

In August 2022, I relocated to the Department of Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. You could find more information at https://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~yugufang/. However, I am still part of the Gator Nation, a place I call home where I had spent almost 23 wonderful years of my life, and you could still reach me from my UF email. "Once a Gator, Always a Gator!" Go Gators!!!

Experience

Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, August 2022-present.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, July 2019-Present.
University of Florida Foundation Preeminence Term Professorship, 2019-2022.
University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, University of Florida , 2017-2020, 2006-2009.
University of Florida Term Professorship, University of Florida , 2019-2022, 2017- 2019.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida , August 2005-June 2019
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, August 2003-August 2005 (Also affiliated with Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida).
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, May 2000-July 2003 (Also affiliated with Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida).
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, July 1998-May 2000 (Also affiliated with Department of Computer Science & Information Systems , New Jersey Institute of Technology).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, May 1997-July 1998.
Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, September 1995-May 1997.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, June 1994-August 1995.
Research Associate, Department of Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, January 1994-May 1994.
Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Systems Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, September 1989-December 1993.
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and The Institute of Automation, Qufu Normal University, Shandong, P.R.China, July 1987-October 1988.

Honors and Awards

2019 IEEE Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN) Technical Achievement Award ("For Outstanding Contributions to Medium Access Control and Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks")(the certificate, the plaque, news,and photos 1, 2, and 3).
2019-2020 University of Florida College of Engineering (CoE) Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award.
2019 ECE Faculty Excellence Award (Research) (Photo), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida.
University of Florida Foundation Preeminence Term Professorship, 2019-2022.
Distinguished Professor, University of Florida, July 2019-present.
University of Florida Term Professorship, University of Florida , 2019-2022, 2017- 2019.
2018 IEEE Vehicular Technology Outstanding Service Award ("For outstanding service as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2013-2017)'')(the plague and photos (Award Presentation 1, Award Presentation 2, Award Presentation 3, Photo with Drs. Lajos Hanzo and Sherman Shen, Photo with Dr. Lajos Hanzo, and Photo with Dr. Sherman Shen)).
2018 IEEE TCGCC Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC), for the paper "An energy-efficient strategy for secondary users in cooperative cognitive radio networks for green communications" (Jianqing Liu, Haichuan Ding, Ying Cai, Hao Yue, Yuguang Fang and Shigang Chen) in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (vol.34, no.12, pp.3195-3207, December 2016). The award was presented at the IEEE TCGCC committee meeting at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Presentation Photo and Award Certificate), Kansas City, MO, May 20-24, 2018.
University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, University of Florida , 2017-2020 (Photo with Dr. John Harris and Photo with Dr. David Norton and Photo with Drs. Forrest Masters, John Harris and Jon Dobson); 2006-2009.
Overseas Academic Master, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 2016-2018.
Best Paper Award for the paper "Economic-robust session based spectrum trading in multi-hop cognitive radio networks" (X. Li, M. Pan, Y. Song, Y. Sun and Y. Fang) in Symposium on Cognitive Radio and Wireless Networks at IEEE Globecom, San Diego, California, 6-10 December, 2015.
Best Paper Award for the paper "Privacy-preserving verifiable proximity test for location-based services"(G. Zhuo, Q. Jia, L. Guo, M. Li and Y. Fang) in Symposium on Communications and Information System Security at IEEE Globecom, San Diego, California, 6-10 December, 2015.
AAAS Fellow (2015) ("For distinguished research and teaching contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering, particularly for wireless network design and cybersecurity"). Some news items (University, College, and Department)
2015-2016 University of Florida College of Engineering (CoE) Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award.
Guest Professor, School of Electronics, Information and Electrical Engineering (SEIEE) , Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2015-2018.
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2015-2019.
2015 IEEE Communications & Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) Technical Recognition Award (for "Contributions to Security and Privacy on Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing Systems")(the plague and photos 1, 2, 3).
2014 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award (for "A person with a high degree of visibility and contribution in the field of `Wireless and Mobile Communications Theory, Systems, and Networks'") (the plague and photos 1, 2).
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-2015.
Guest Professor, School of Information Science and Technology , University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2012-2015.
Best Paper Award for the paper "Cutting down electricity cost in internet data centers by using energy storage" (Yuanxiong Guo, Zongrui Ding, Yuguang Fang and Dapeng Wu) in Symposium on the Communications QoS, Reliability, and Modeling at IEEE Globecom'2011, Houston, TX, USA, 2011.
2011 Florida Blue Key/UF Homecoming Distinguished Faculty Award, 2011 ( the plaque and photos 1,2,3)
2010-2011 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, University of Florida, 2011. Here is the plaque.
2010-2011 University of Florida College of Engineering (CoE) Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award.
2009 College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award, University of Florida, 2009.
Guest Chair Professor with Kumar Chair Professor Group, Tsinghua University, China, 2009-2012.
JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, May-July 2009.
IEEE Fellow (2008) (through the IEEE Communications Society) ("For contributions to wireless networks and mobile computing systems"). A small token from IEEE Communications Society.
Changjiang Scholar Chair Professorship (Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, 2015-2018; Xidian University, Xi'an, China, 2008-2011).
Guest Professor, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, 2008-2011.
NSC Visiting Researcher (Professorship sponsored by the National Research Council, Taiwan), Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2007-2008.
Best Paper Award for the paper "Impact of routing metrics on path capacity in multi-rate and multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks" (Hongqiang Zhai and Yuguang Fang) in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Santa Barbara, California, November 12-15, 2006.
2006-2007 University of Florida College of Engineering (CoE) Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award.
2005-2006 University of Florida College of Engineering (CoE) Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award.
Guest Professor, The School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China, 2004-2010.
Guest Professor, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, China, 2004-2007.
The IEEE TCGN Best Paper Award for the paper "Fast Collision Resolution (FCR) MAC Algorithm for Wireless Local Area Networks" (Younggoo Kwon, Yuguang Fang and Haniph Latchman) in IEEE High-Speed Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom'2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002 (given by The IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking (TCGN)).
2004 IEEE Regional Activities Board (RAB) Section Membership Growth Award, given to IEEE Gainesville Section (Fang as the Section Chair).
IEEE Appreciation Award for Notable Services and Contributions towards the Advancement of IEEE and Engineering Professions as IEEE Gainesville Section Chair, given by IEEE Florida Council, both year 2004 and 2005.
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2002.
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2001.
CAST 2001 Academic Excellence Award, Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST), USA, 2001.
IEEE Appreciation Award for the service to IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'2000), held in Chicago, Illinois, September 2000.

Education

PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1997.
PhD, Department of Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, January 1994.
MS, Department of Mathematics, Qufu Normal University, Shandong, The People's Republic of China, July 1987.
About Me

Research

Wireless Information and Networked Things Laboratory (WINET)
People
Current Research Interests
- Cybersecurity in Cyber-physical systems (CPS), Big Data Systems, Connected or Networked Things (Internet of Things (IoT)), ...
  - E-Health/m-Health Systems: Secure Data Storage, Access Control, Cross-domain Authentication, and Emergency Access
  - Online Social Networks: Reputation-based Information Sharing and Dissemination, Privacy-preserving Data Search and Friend Search, Privacy-preserving Profiling
  - Wireless Networks: Key Management, Authentication, Anonymous Communications, Location Privacy, Trust-based Routing Algebra and Formal Analysis
  - Secure Connectivity and Network Performance
- Spectrum Sharing, mmWave, and Opportunistic Communication and Computing
  - Architectural Design, C/U Decoupling, and Software Defined Networking
  - Spectrum/Computing Resource Harvesting and Management
  - Stochastic Optimization and Cross-layer Design
- Wireless Networks, Mobile Computing, Data Transportation,...
  - M2M/D2D Communications and Networking, Internet of Things, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs)
  - Wireless Mesh Networks
  - Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  - Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
  - Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC)
  - Mobility Management and Resource Management
- Machine Learning (ML) and its Applications
  - ML for Wireless and Wireless for ML
  - Federated Learning (FL)
  - Privacy in ML/FL
  - Collaborative Distributed ML
Funded Research Projects and Sponsors
News
Selected Publications

Teaching

EEL6507: Queueing Theory and Dada Communications, Spring 2022.
EEL6591: Wireless Networks, Spring 2022.
EEL4598/5718: Computer Communications, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015.
EEL4598: Computer Communications, Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Fall 2008.
EEL5718: Computer Communications, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000.
EEL6591: Wireless Networks, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2010, Spring 2006, Summer 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003.
EEL6507: Queueing Theory and Data Communications, Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2002.
EEL6935: Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Spring 2007.
EEL6935: Selected Topics in Networking, Spring 2004.
EEL6935: Wireless Networks, Spring 2002, Spring 2001.
EE683: Computer Network I, NJIT, Spring 2000.
EE783: Computer Networks II, NJIT, Fall 1999.
EE683: Computer Network Design and Analysis, NJIT, Spring 1999, Fall 1998.
EE8390: CDMA Communications Systems, UTD, Summer 1998.
EE6390: Introduction to Wireless Communications Systems, UTD,Spring 1998.
CS6390: Computer Networks, UTD, Summer 1997.

Professional Activities

AAAS Fellow (2015) ("For distinguished research and teaching contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering, particularly for wireless network design and cybersecurity") (An AAAS member since 2011).
Fellow of the IEEE ("For contributions to wireless networks and mobile computing systems") (An IEEE member since 1992).
Member of the ACM (An ACM member since 1999).
A Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors, IEEE Communications Society, 2022-2024.
Chair of the Steering Committee, 2022-2023, a Member, 2018-2021, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
Director of Magazines, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE , 2018-2019.
Chair, IEEE Gainesville Section, December 2003-December 2005 (Vice-Chair, December 2001-December 2003).
Founding Co-Chair of the Steering Committee, International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine), 2004-2008.
Senior Advisor, IEEE Wireless Communications , February 2012-present.
Member of Advisory Board, the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2011.
Member of the Steering Committee for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, March 1, 2019-present (Representing IEEE Communications Society), January 2008-December 2010 (Representing IEEE Computer Society).
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, April 2013-June 2017.
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Wireless Communications, February 2009-February 2012.
Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE, January 1, 2018-December 31, 2023.
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, March 2019-present; November 2003-January 2008, January 2011-December 2016.
Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), January 2017-present.
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS), March 2020-present.
Editor, Tsinghua Science and Technology, January 2011-present.
Editor, IEEE Network, May 2012-January 2018.
Editor, Wireless Networks (WINET), April 2001-March 2013.
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 2000-February 2012.
Editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, November 2006-December 2009.
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, January 2002-January 2009.
Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications , January 2003-January 2009.
Editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), April 2000-January 2004.
Area editor, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), September 1998-December 2003.
Guest editor, Special Issue on Mobility and Resource Management, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2003-2004.
Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Wireless Communications Series, May 1999-December 2001.
Feature Editor, Scanning the Literature, IEEE Wireless Communications (formerly IEEE Personal Communications), April 2000-April 2003.
Technical Program Co-Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'15), Hong Kong, China, 2015.
Technical Program Co-Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'14), Toronto, Canada, 2014.
Area Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'13)
Area Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'12)
Area Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'11)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC'2010)
Area Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'10)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for The 10th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc'2009)
Area Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'09)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc'2008)
Mobile and Wireless Networks Track Co-Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'2008)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'08)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'07)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'06)
Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'2005), Berlin, Germany, September 11-14, 2005.
General Chair for the Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine'05)
Vice-Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'05)
Vice General Chair for the First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine'04)
Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'04), Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.
Member of the Technical Program Committee for The 24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'2004), Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004.
Program Co-Chair for Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom'2004, Dallas, Texas, Nov.29-Dec.3, 2004.
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2nd International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC'2004), Frankfurt (ODER), Germany, February 2004.
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'04)
Member of Technical Program Committee for High Speed Networks Symposium, IEEE ICC'2004
Member of Technical Program Committee for Wireless Communications Symposium, IEEE ICC'2004
Member of Technical Program Committee for International Workshop on Applications of Ad Hoc Networks, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2003.
Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE PIMRC'2003
Member of Technical Program Committee for Next Generation Networks and Internet, IEEE Globecom'2003
Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'2003), Fall 2003
Member of Technical Program Committee for the Posters in The Fourth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc'2003)
Chair of the Publicity Committee for SCS International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'2003)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'03)
Member of Technical Program Committee for the 22nd IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC'2003), Phoenix, Arizona, April 9-11, 2003.
Symposium Organizer, Symposium on Telecommunication and Networking, 2002 US-China Conference on Science, Technology, Business and Entrepreneurship and CAST-USA 10-Year Anniversary, Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Sheraton, Newark Airport, New Jersey, November 15, 2002.
Member of Technical Program Committee for 2002 China Wireless Congress, Hang Zhou, China, October 2002.
Co-Chair of the Committee for Student Travel Award, The Eighth ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'2002)
Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'2002), Fall 2002
Member of Technical Program Committee for High Speed Networks Symposium 2002, IEEE Globecom'2002
Chair of the Publicity Committee for SCS International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'2002)
Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'02)
Member of Technical Program Committee for the Seventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking ( Mobicom'2001 )
Technical Program Vice-Chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2000 (WCNC'00)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2000 International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'00)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 1999 (WCNC'99) (an expanded format of ICUPC)
Technical Program Vice-Chair for the 1998 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'98)
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 1998 International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'98)
Member of Technical Program Committee for the First International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WOW-MOM'98) in conjunction with ACM/IEEE MobiCom'98, Dallas, Texas, October 1998.