2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Prof. Shiwen Mao Auburn University [biography]

   Dr. Shiwen Mao received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2004. Currently, he is the McWane Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University in Auburn, AL. Dr. Mao's research interests include performance analysis, optimization, and algorithms for wireless networks. He was awarded the McWane Endowed Professorship in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University in 2012. He received Auburn Alumni Council Research Awards for Excellence—Junior Award and two Auburn Author Awards in 2011. He received NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2010. He is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems and the Best Paper Runner-up Award of QShine 2008. He is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, and ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications.

2. Mr. Yingsong Huang Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University [biography]

   Yingsong Huang received the M.S. degrees in Control Theory and Control Engineering and the B.S. in Automation, both from Chongqing University at Chongqing, China. Since 2007, he has been pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University,
   Auburn, AL. His research interests include modeling, control and optimization in computer networks and
   multimedia communication.

3. Dr. Yihan Li Auburn University [biography]

   Dr. Yihan Li received her B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tsinghua University at Beijing, P.R. China in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and 1997, respectively. She also received her M.S. in System Engineering in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004 from Polytechnic University (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University) at Brooklyn, NY, in 2000.
   Currently, she is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University in Auburn, AL. She was a research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University from 2004 to 2006, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University from 2006 to 2009.
   Dr. Li's research interests include scheduling in-wired and wireless networks, wireless ad hoc networks, and high-speed packet switching. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi.

4. Prof. Prathima Agrawal Auburn University [biography]

   Dr. Prathima Agrawal is the Sam Ginn Distinguished professor of Electrical Engineering and the director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center at Auburn University. Before arriving at Auburn University in 2003, from 1978 to 1998, she worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, NJ in various capacities. There she created and became the head of the new Networked Computing Research Department. From 1998 to 2003, she was assistant vice president of the Internet Architecture Research Laboratory and executive director of the Networking research department at Bellcore (Telcordia), at Morristown, NJ. Dr. Agrawal is widely published in the fields of mobile computing, computer architecture and VLSI design. She holds 51 US patents. She is a fellow of IEEE. Dr. Agrawal received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, CA.

5. Prof. Jitendra K Tugnait Auburn University [biography]

   Jitendra Tugnait received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, India in 1971; the M.S. and the E.E. degrees from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY; and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign in 1973, 1974, and 1978, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
   From 1978 to 1982, he was an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa at Iowa City, IA.
   Tugnait was with the Long Range Research Division of the Exxon Production Research Company at Houston, TX, from June 1982 to Sept. 1989. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University in Auburn, AL, in September 1989 as a professor. He currently holds the title of James B. Davis Professor. His current research interests are in statistical signal processing, wireless and wireline digital communications, cognitive radio, multiple sensor multiple target tracking and stochastic systems analysis.
   Dr. Tugnait is a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He is currently an associate editor and an area editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and a Senior Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

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