Professor Yu-Dong Yao

Deep learning (DL) is a new machine learning (ML) methodology that has found successful implementations in many application domains. This presentation discusses research results in the use of ML and DL in radio spectrum activity identification, modulation classification, medium access protocol classification, and wireless service identification.

Biography:

Dr. Yu-Dong Yao has been with Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, since 2000 and served as a Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2007 to 2018. He is also a director of Stevens’ Wireless Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (WISELAB). Previously, from 1989 to 2000, Dr. Yao worked for Carleton University, Ottawa, Spar Aerospace Ltd., Montreal, and Qualcomm Inc., San Diego. His research interests include wireless communications, cognitive radio, and machine learning and deep learning. He holds one Chinese patent and thirteen U.S. patents. Dr. Yao was an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2000-2008) and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2001-2006), and an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2001-2005). For his contributions to wireless communications systems, he was elected a Fellow of IEEE (2011), National Academy of Inventors (2015), and Canadian Academy of Engineering (2017). In 2018, he received an honorary degree, Master of Engineering (Honoris Causa), from Stevens Institute of Technology.