Yuanyuan Yang

Yuanyuan Yang is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose interests include parallel and distributed computing, and wireless sensor networks. She is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Stony Brook University, Associate Dean for Diversity and Academic Affairs in the Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Sciences,[1] and program director for software and hardware foundations and principles and practice of scalable systems at the National Science Foundation.[2]

This article is about the Chinese-American computer scientist. For the Chinese aviator and politician, see Yang Yuanyuan.

Education and career

Yang earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and engineering at Tsinghua University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Johns Hopkins University in 1992.[3] She moved to Stony Brook in 1999, from a previous faculty position at the University of Vermont.[1]

Recognition

Yang was named an IEEE Fellow in 2009 "for contributions to parallel and distributed computing systems".[4] She was named SUNY Distinguished Professor in 2016.[5] In 2022 she won the Outstanding Service Award of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.[6]

References
  1. Yuanyuan Yang's biographical sketch, retrieved 2021-02-22
  2. "Yuanyuan Yang", Staff Directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2021-02-22
  3. Author biography from Gong, Dawei; Yang, Yuanyuan; Pan, Zhexi (September 2013), "Energy-efficient clustering in lossy wireless sensor networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 73 (9): 1323–1336, doi:10.1016/j.jpdc.2013.02.012
  4. "Fellows from the IEEE Computer Society", IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-02-22
  5. "Class of 2016", The State University of New York Distinguished Academy, State University of New York System, retrieved 2021-02-22
  6. "TCDP Award Recipients", Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, IEEE Computer Society, retrieved 2022-07-12
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