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Mung Chiang serves as President of Purdue University and holds the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering within the College of Engineering. Previously, he was John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering (2017-2022) and Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives (2021-2022), and formerly the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.
His academic credentials include:
- BS (Honors) in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Stanford University
- MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University
- PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University
Chiang's research pioneered breakthroughs in edge computing, network utility maximization, and wireless resource allocation, with significant impact across internet congestion control, wireless power systems, cloud optimization, and social learning networks. His interdisciplinary work bridges engineering, entrepreneurship, and technology policy, driving innovations in mobile networks, AI, and IoT through academic-industry collaborations.
His exceptional contributions have earned prestigious recognition:
- National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award (2013), the highest U.S. honor for researchers under 40
- IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award (2022) for lifetime contributions to networking
- Multiple best paper awards at top-tier conferences (IEEE INFOCOM 2012, IEEE SECON 2013, ACM MobiHoc 2021)
- Election to National Academy of Inventors (2020) and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2021)
- Textbook "Networked Life" honored with ASEE Frederick E. Terman Award (2013)
- Distinguished Teaching Award at Princeton University (2016) for innovative pedagogy
Chiang has mentored over 50 PhD students and postdocs, 24 of whom now hold faculty positions at research universities. His entrepreneurial leadership spans three startups commercializing mobile network, AI, and IoT technologies, plus founding the OpenFog Consortium and serving as CEO of DataMi (serving 60M+ users globally). As U.S. Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State, he initiated national tech diplomacy programs before co-founding Purdue's Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy.
He established the Princeton Edge Lab driving 25 U.S. patents and industry deployments, and currently advances Purdue's strategic initiatives in semiconductor manufacturing, national security technology, and the Discovery Park District aerospace cluster under the vision that "technology must advance freedom".
