Mung Chiang
Mung Chiang is an American engineering researcher/educator, technology entrepreneur, university leader, and foreign policy official. He is the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University. Previously he was the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, and an affiliated faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics and in Computer Science.
Education and career
Mung Chiang received secondary education in Hong Kong at Queen's College, Hong Kong. He then received the B. S. in both Electrical Engineering and Mathematics in 1999, M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2000, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from Stanford University.He became an Assistant Professor at Princeton University's Electrical Engineering Department in 2004, an Associate Professor with tenure in 2008, a Professor in 2011, and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2013. He is among the youngest faculty at Princeton University to become an endowed chair professor.
In 2017, he was named Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University. At age 40, he is among the youngest in modern history to become the leader of a major college in an American university.
Awards
In 2013, Chiang became the 38th recipient of the Alan T. Waterman Award, the highest honor to young scientists in U.S. and administered by the National Science Foundation and the National Science Board. He is the only researcher in the field of networking to receive the Waterman Award.In 2014, he was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow, in the category of Natural and Social Sciences.
In 2012, he received the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the youngest recipient of an IEEE-wide Technical Field Award.
He has also received other awards on research and education, including Frederick Emmons Terman Award in Engineering Education in 2013, INFORMS Information Systems Design Science Award 2014, IEEE SECON Best Paper Award in 2013, IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award in 2012, IEEE Fellow in 2012, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2008, Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award in 2007, ONR Young Investigator Award in 2007, NSF CAREER Award in 2005, Princeton University H. B. Wentz Junior Faculty Award in 2005, and Hertz Graduate Fellowship in 1999.
Research
Chiang is best known for his work on networks, especially Optimization of Networks, Network Utility Maximization and Smart Data Pricing. He is known as a founder of the field of Fog/Edge Computing.Chiang's Ph.D. dissertation in 2003 made contributions to information theory and optimization theory. Since then he has contributed to many areas in networking research, including wireless networks, the Internet, broadband access, content distribution, network function optimization, network economics and social learning networks. In 2009, he founded the , which bridges the theory-practice divide in networking research by spanning from proofs to prototypes and is the nation's first laboratory dedicated to edge computing.
He was the Chairman of founding Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering in 2013-14. He co-edited the Program's report on Complex Engineered Networks in 2013, and co-chairs the first Fog World Congress Research Program and the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing in 2017.
Teaching and Writing
Chiang co-authored a technical undergraduate textbook: ' and a popular science book '. The first book received the PROSE Awards in Science and Technology Writing in 2013 . The second book was mentioned in various popular media, such as the.He created an undergraduate course at Princeton University: in 2011, which led to a Massive Open Online Course in 2012 with about 400,000 enrolled students since 2012. He received the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award at Princeton University Engineering School.
Invention and Entrepreneurship
Chiang is an inventor of about 20 issued U.S. patents. He initiated a number of technology transfers from university lab to networking industry in the areas of network optimization, mobile, and big data. He is a co-inventor of various smart data pricing technologies and the deep personalization in e-learning.He is a co-founder and the first CEO of DataMi, a startup company that enables Open Toll Free mobile data and the Peak Valley Technology globally, a co-founder of Zoomi, a startup company on big data for learning and training, and a co-founder of Smartiply, a startup company on fog networking. He is a member of the advisory board of several other startup companies and technology investment funds.
He is a founding board member of "OpenFog Consortium, a global, non-profit, industry-academia consortium launched in 2015 to develop and promote fog computing and fog networking technologies, based off on concept developed by Chiang, alongside IEEE ComSoc CIO Tao Zhang and Cisco executive Helder Antunes. The consortium was co-founded by Chiang's Princeton Edge Lab, ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel and Microsoft, and currently has over 60 member companies and universities from around the world. It merged with Industrial Internet Consortium in 2019.
University Leadership
During 2014-17, he was the Director of the "" at Princeton University. In 2014, he was named a New Jersey CEO of the Year by New Jersey Technology Council.He was the Chair of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee "" in 2014 to make recommendations on the vision, structures, and mechanisms of entrepreneurship at Princeton University. In 2015, he created and was named the inaugural Chairman of the "", part of the Princeton University Provost's Office in charge of entrepreneurship and innovation programs. In 2015-17, Princeton University rolled out the first incubator, the first seed investment fund, a New York and Silicon Valley engagement strategy, a certificate program in entrepreneurship, and the Princeton Innovation Center.
On May 1, 2017, Purdue University announced that it has chosen Chiang as the next dean of its College of Engineering. He assumed office on July 1, 2017 as the of the College of Engineering at Purdue University. Under his leadership, Purdue Engineering became the largest top-10 engineering college in the United States and reached milestones in education, research, fund-raising, physical infrastructure, online learning, industry partnership, economic development, global engagement, diversity and visibility.