Yuanyuan Yang's biographical sketch

Yuanyuan Yang received the BEng and MS degrees in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the MSE and PhD degrees in computer science from Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Maryland.

She is currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, New York, which she joined in 1999. From 2018-2022, she served as a program director in the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. She directed the core computer architecture program and was on the management team of several cross-cutting programs. At Stony Brook, she served as the Associate Dean for Diversity and Academic Affairs of College of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2016-2018, a Division Director of New York State Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology from 2007-2016 and the Graduate Program Director of ECE Department from 2001-2016. Prior to joining Stony Brook in 1999, she had held a tenured faculty position at University of Vermont.

Dr. Yang is internationally recognized for her contributions in parallel & distributed computing systems and networking. She was named an IEEE Fellow through Computer Society in 2009 for contributions to the area. She conducts research in the broad area of parallel/distributed computing, cloud computing, edge computing, quantum computing and mobile computing with particular emphasis on interconnection networks for parallel computing systems, data center network architectures, virtual machines and virtual network functions in cloud and edge computing systems, data discovery/retrieval/caching mechanisms in edge computing systems, distributed quantum computing, routing in quantum networks, wireless energy-charging algorithms and mobile data gathering mechanisms in wireless rechargeable sensor networks, and machine-learning enabled computing and networking. She has published over 500 scientific papers in leading refereed journals and conferences with a H-index of 63. She is also an inventor/co-inventor of nine patents in the area of interconnection networks and three of them have been licensed to companies and used in major products.

Dr. Yang is currently the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. She served as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing from 2016-2019, and the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Computers from 2013-2014. She is currently an Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. She served as an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers from 2006-2012, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems from 2001-2005 and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing from 2003-2017. Dr. Yang received the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE INFOCOM in 2020, the 18th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in 2004, and the 7th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2000, a Distinguished Leadership Award from the 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks in 2006 and six Best Paper Runner-up Awards. She received IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Distributed Processing Outstanding Service Award in 2022, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Cloud Computing Outstanding Leadership Award in 2020, IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Big Data Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award in 2019 and an IEEE Region 1 Award in 2002. Dr. Yang has served as a member of IEEE Fellow Committee and a vice-chair for the IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee. She also served as a distinguished visitor of IEEE Computer Society. She has served as a general chair, program chair or vice chair for several major conferences and a program committee member for numerous conferences. Her research has been supported by a number of research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office.