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K. Wendy Tang is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University, affiliated with the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She also serves as the Associate Provost for Online Education. Her research focuses on parallel and distributed processing, computer architecture, neural networks, and wireless sensor networks.
Her academic career includes advising PhD students such as Mahdin Mahboob Divith A. Babu and former advisees like Dongsoo Kim (Microsoft) and Jaewook Yu (Intel Labs). She has published extensively on graph theory applications in communication networks, including works on Borel Cayley Graph topologies and routing protocols. Notable contributions include the 'Best Paper Award' at the 1997 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference.
- Key Research Themes: Distributed systems, network topology design, and algorithm optimization
- Collaborations: Multidisciplinary work in healthcare (e.g., speech recognition for disabilities education) and robotics.
Her recent articles emphasize scalable communication topologies for multi-agent systems and energy-efficient wireless sensor networks. She has pioneered graph-based resizing algorithms for ultrafast information distribution.


