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Yu Cheng (程雨)

Associate Professor, IEEE Senior Member

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
3301 South Dearborn Street, Siegel Hall 320
Chicago, IL, 60616-3793

Phone: (312) 567-7996
Fax: (312) 567-8976
Email: cheng@iit.edu

Open positions for PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers

Yu Cheng received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2003. From September 2004 to July 2006, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Since August 2006, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, and he is now an Associate Professor. His research interests include next-generation Internet architectures and management, wireless network performance analysis, network security, and wireless/wireline interworking. He received a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in 2004, and a Best Paper Award from the conferences QShine 2007 and ICC 2011. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER AWARD in 2011 and IIT Sigma Xi Research Award in the junior faculty division in 2013. He served as a Co-Chair for the Wireless Networking Symposium of IEEE ICC 2009, a Co-Chair for the Communications QoS, Reliability, and Modeling Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, a Co-Chair for the Signal Processing for Communications Symposium of IEEE ICC 2012, a Co-Chair for the Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, and a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for WASA 2011. He is a founding Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications and Computing. He is an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.and the New Books & Multimedia Column Editor for IEEE Network.

Research Interests

Performance analysis, protocol design, and energy efficiency of wireless networks
Next-generation Internet architecture, protocols, and management
Internet and wireless network security
Internet measurement, performance analysis, and resource allocation
Integration of heterogeneous networks

FUTURE NETWORKING RESEARCH LABORATORY
(under development)

Last Updated: June 5, 2013