Guiling (Grace) Wang is a computer scientist whose research concerns mobile wireless sensor networks, especially vehicular ad hoc networks, and their applications in intelligent transportation systems. Educated in China and the US, she is a distinguished professor of computer science and associate dean for research in the Ying Wu College of Computing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),[1] and the founding director of the NJIT Center for AI Research.[2]

Education and career

Wang is a graduate of Nankai University. She completed a PhD at Pennsylvania State University in 2006,[1] and joined the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the same year.[3]

Recognition

Wang was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to distributed algorithm design for sensor networks and vehicular networks".[4] In doing so, she became the first female IEEE Fellow at NJIT.[3] She is also a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Grace Wang", Faculty, New Jersey Institute of Technology, retrieved 2023-04-23
  2. "People: Members and collaborators", Center for AI Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology, retrieved 2023-04-23
  3. 1 2 Koblentz, Evan (December 17, 2021), Algorithms Expert is First Woman at NJIT to Become IEEE Fellow, New Jersey Institute of Technology, retrieved 2023-04-23
  4. 2022 Newly Elevated Fellows (PDF), IEEE, retrieved 2023-04-23
  5. Fellows, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, retrieved 2023-04-23
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