Ben Liang

Professor Ben Liang is a faculty member at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, holding the L. Lau Chair. He has served on editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Wiley Security and Communication Networks.

His research focuses on networked systems, mobile communications, and distributed machine learning, with applications in wireless network virtualization, edge computing, and resource optimization. He explores stochastic scheduling, computation-communication co-design, and multi-resource fair allocation.

• Key publication trends:
  • Wireless federated learning (2024-2025)
  • Network virtualization and MIMO systems (2022-2025)
  • Online distributed optimization (2023-2025)
  • Stochastic resource management (2020-2024)

Scientific Awards:

• Fellow of IEEE
• Best Paper Award, ACM MSWiM 2013
• INFOCOM 2010 Finalist
• Ontario ERA Award 2007
• IFIP Networking 2005 Best Paper
• Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2000
• Polytechnic University valedictorian 1997

Affiliated with IEEE, ACM, and Tau Beta Pi, he teaches courses like ECE368: Probabilistic Reasoning and ECE421: Machine Learning, emphasizing stochastic networks and random processes.