Mung Chiang
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies
PhD., Stanford University, 2003
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2000
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Stanford University, 1999
Room: B328 Engineering Quadrangle
Phone: 609-258-5071
Email: chiangm@princeton.edu
Webpage: Chiang's Research Page
Research Areas and Interests
- Communications, Info Theory, Networking, Networked Systems
- Security in Computing and Communications
- Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Optimization
I study communication, social and economic networks. Founded in 2009, the EDGE Lab goes from proofs to prototypes: http://scenic.princeton.edu and some publications can be found at http://princeton.edu/~chiangm/publications.html . The undergraduate course "Networks: Friends, Bytes, and Money" www.network20q.com is going on coursera for open access in Fall 2012.
Honors and Awards
- IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2012)
- IEEE Fellow (2012)
- IEEE Infocom Best Paper Award (2012)
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, White House OSTP (2008)
- TR35 Young Innovator Award, Technology Review Magazine (2007)
- Young Researcher Competition Runner-up, Mathematical Programming Society (2007)
- Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (2007)
- Howard B. Wentz Junior Faculty Award, Princeton University (2005)
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2005)
Concurrent University Appointments
- Department of Computer Science, Associated Faculty
- Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Associated Faculty

