Mung Chiang
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| Born | 1977 China |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen P. Boyd and Thomas M. Cover |
| Known for | Communication networks |
| Notable awards | Alan T. Waterman Award (2013) Guggenheim Fellow (2014) IEEE Tomiyasu Award (2012) |
Mung Chiang (born 1977) is an American engineering researcher, educator, and entrepreneur. He is the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, and an affiliated faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics and in Computer Science.
Mung Chiang was born in 1977 in Tianjin, China. He immigrated to Hong Kong in 1988, where he enrolled at a local middle and high school, Queen's College, and served as the school's Head Prefect in 1995. He entered Stanford University as a freshman in 1996.
He received the B. S. (Hons.) 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 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 (NSF) and the National Science Board (NSB). 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 Electronic Engineers (IEEE). 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 (ASEE) 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 (OSTP) in 2008, Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award in 2007 (Technology Review), ONR Young Investigator Award in 2007, NSF CAREER Award in 2005 (NSF), Princeton University H. B. Wentz Junior Faculty Award in 2005, and Hertz Graduate Fellowship in 1999.
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