Yuguang "Michael" Fang, Ph.D.

Professor

Wireless Networks Laboratory (WINET)

Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Florida

Gainesville

lastname AT ece.ufl.edu

Http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu

Experience

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida , August 2005-Present
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida , 2006-2009
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

IEEE Fellow (2008) (through the IEEE Communications Society) ("For contributions to wireless networks and mobile computing systems").
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-2013.
2011 Florida Blue Key/UF Homecoming Distinguished Faculty Award, 2011
2010-2011 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award, University of Florida, 2011.
2009 College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award, University of Florida, 2009.
University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship, 2006-2009.
Guest Chair Professor, Tsinghua University, China, 2009-2012.
JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, May-July 2009.
Changjiang Scholar Chair Professorship, National Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, 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.
College of Engineering (CoE) Nominee for the 2006-2007 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award at University of Florida. Not selected in the Graduate School (University) level.
College of Engineering (CoE) Nominee for the 2005-2006 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award at University of Florida. Not selected in the Graduate School (University) level.
Guest Professor, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, China, 2004-2007.
Guest Professor, The School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China, 2004-2010.
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.
The 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.
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)).
Best Paper Award for the paper "Cutting Down Electricity Cost in Internet Data Centers by Using Energy Storage" (Yuanxiong Guo, Zongrui Ding, Yugang Fang and Dapeng Wu) in the Communications QoS, Reliability, and Modeling Symposium at IEEE Globecom'2011, Houston, TX, USA, 2011.
IEEE Appreciation Award for the service to IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'2000), held in Chicago, Illinois, September 2000.
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.

Education

Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1997.
Ph.D., Department of Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, January 1994.
M.S./B.S., Department of Mathematics, Qufu Normal University, Shandong, The People's Republic of China, July 1987.
About Me
My Resume
Descriptive Biography

Research

Wireless Networks Laboratory (WINET)
Current Research Interests

Cognitive Radio Networks

Architectural Design
Spectral Harvesting and Management
Stochastic Optimization and Cross-layer Design

Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

Wireless Mesh Networks
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC)
Mobility Management and Resource Management

Online Social Networks and Applications
Wireless Security and Privacy

Funded Research Projects and Sponsors

News exposure in the Florida Engineers

Selected Publications

Teaching

EEL6507: Queueing Theory and Data Communications, Spring 2012.
EEL4598: Computer Communications, Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Fall 2008.
EEL5718: Computer Communications, Fall 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000.
EEL6591: Wireless Networks, Spring 2010, Spring 2006, Summer 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003.
EEL6507: Queueing Theory and Data Communications, 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

Fellow of the IEEE ("For contributions to wireless networks and mobile computing systems")

Member of the ACM

Chair, IEEE Gainesville Section, December 2003-December 2005 (Vice-Chair, December 2001-December 2003).
Founding Co-Chair for the Steering Committee, International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine), 2004-2008.
Member of Advisory Board for the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2011.
Editor for IEEE Network, May 2012-present.
Editor for Tsinghua Science and Technology, January 2011-present.
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2011-present.
Editor for Wireless Networks (WINET), April 2001-present.

Advisory Board, IEEE Wireless Communications , February 2012-present.
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Wireless Communications , February 2009--February 2012.
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 2000-February 2012.

Member of the Steering Committee for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2008-December 2010.
Editor for Journal of Computer Science and Technology, November 2006-December 2009.
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, January 2002-January 2009.
Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications , January 2003-January 2009.
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, November 2003-January 2008.
Editor for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), April 2000-January 2004.

Area editor for ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), September 1998-December 2003.

Guest editor for Special Issue on Mobility and Resource Management, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2003-2004.
Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Wireless Communications Series, May 1999-December 2001.

Feature Editor for Scanning the Literature, IEEE Wireless Communications (formerly IEEE Personal Communications), April 2000-April 2003.

Technical Program Co-Chair for 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.

Other Interesting Links

Academic Career Help
Broadband and Wireless Networking Lab at Georgia Tech.

WNCG at University of Texas at Austin

WINLAB

Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD

Wireless Networks at Cornell

The Berkeley Wireless Research Center

The Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group at Virginia Tech

Wireless Communications Lab at Texas A&M

Mobile Multimedia Research at University of Southampton

NIST Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Bibliography

Network Bibliography

IEEE Digital Library

ACM Digital Library

MIT Theses Online

CS Technical Reports Library

Twin Towers

Alumni Link of Qufu Normal University

Yi Meng Shan Ren

Chinese Association of Science and Technology, USA

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Chewable Quotes

Professional Quotes

Lao Tze: Tao Te Ching and its Translations

Sun Tzu: the Art of War

David Hilbert and his famous 1900 speech on 23 problems

Paul Erdos

Paul Halmos

Famous Paper Rejection

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