Mung Chiang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Affiliated Faculty of Applied and Computational Mathematics and of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is currently serving as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Electrical Engineering Department. He received the B.S. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999, 2000, and 2003. He was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University 2003-2008, and has been a technical consultant to several major telecom and IT companies, a number of networking startups, and patent litigation cases. His research areas include optimization, distributed control, and stochastic analysis of communication networks, with applications to the Internet, wireless networks, broadband access networks, content distribution, green IT, telecare, network pricing, and social networks. In 2009, he founded the Princeton EDGE Lab. 

His awards include Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2008 from the White House,TR35 Young Technologist Award 2007 from Technology Review,  Young Investigator Award 2007 from Office of Naval Research , Young Researcher Award Runner-up 2004-2007 from Mathematical Programming Society, CAREER Award 2005 from NSF, as well as Frontiers of Engineering Symposium participant 2008 from NAE and Engineering Teaching Commendation 2007 from Princeton University. He was a Princeton University Howard B. Wentz Junior Faculty a Hertz Foundation Fellow. His paper awards include Fast Breaking Paper in Computer Science by ISI citation , IEEE Infocom best paper finalist, and IEEE Globecom best student paper. He also has many patents filed, given plenary talks at IEEE WiOpt, MPS MOPTA, and several workshops, and served as co-chair of 38th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems and of 1st ACM Mobihoc Wirelss S3 Student Workshop. His guest and associate editorial services include IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, IEEE J. Sel. Area Comm., IEEE Trans. Comm., IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., and J. Optimization and Engineering. His TPC services include IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, ISIT, ICC, GLOBECOM, WiOpt, ACM Mobihoc, as well as CollaborateComm, PCCCC, CDGO, RAWNET, Wicon, WiMD, and GamesNet.