Professor Yuguang (Michael) Fang

Abstract: Whether we like it or not, our living space has been stealthily and steadily transformed
into a world of connected things! Various devices (things such as sensors, actuators, smart phones
and tablets, etc.) have been deployed or populated in our living environments for various purposes
and, together with our network infrastructure, formed a web of information hovering around us.
These devices or things are connected and organized for system monitoring, information provisioning
and processing, and decision making to, for better or worse, manage and control our living
environments, which are supposed to make our living environments smarter and safer. Unfortunately,
all these connected things create tremendous data (big data), resulting in significant traffic burden on
existing telecommunications infrastructure (networks), and also gradually make each one of us lose
our clothes as the emperor without clothes (privacy). In this talk, the speaker will overview some of
the “connected” issues on connected things (Internet of Things) and then discuss the design
challenges and their potential solutions.

Biography:

Yuguang (Michael) Fang received MS degree from Qufu Normal University, Shandong, China in
1987, PhD degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1994 and PhD degree from Boston
University in 1997. He was an assistant professor in Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000. He then joined the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida in 2000 and has been a
full professor since 2005. Dr. Fang received the US National Science Foundation Career Award in
2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002, 2015 IEEE
Communications Society CISTC Technical Recognition Award, 2014 IEEE Communications Society
WTC Recognition Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards from IEEE Globecom (2015, 2011 and
2002) and IEEE ICNP (2006). He has also received 2010-2011 UF Doctoral Dissertation
Advisor/Mentoring Award, 2011 Florida Blue Key/UF Homecoming Distinguished Faculty Award,
and the 2009 UF College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award. He has been the Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2013, was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Wireless Communications (2009-2012), and serves/served on several editorial boards of journals
including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2003-2008, 2011-present), IEEE Transactions
on Communications (2000-2011), and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2002-2009).
He has been actively participating in conference organizations such as serving as the Technical
Program Co-Chair for IEEE INOFOCOM’2014 and the Technical Program Vice-Chair for IEEE
INFOCOM'2005. He is a fellow of the IEEE (2008) and a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2015).

Email:

Address:University of Florida, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, United States