Recently, Southeast University alumni, and Distinguished Professor of “*****************************************” Yao Yundong was elected to the Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Professor Yao graduated from the Department of Radio Engineering of Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1985, learning from Professor Wu Boxiu and Professor Cheng Shixin. In 1988, he received a doctorate in communication and electronic system from the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University. He was an exchange student in Carleton University, Canada, from April 1987 to December 1988. He had worked in Carleton University, Spar Aerospace Ltd and Qualcomm Inc, engaging in research and development of satellite communications and wireless communications. Since 2000, he worked in New Jersy Hoboken Stevens Institute of Technology. He has one Chinese patent and thirteen American patents, and has published more than 150 academic papers. His research areas include wireless communications, cognitive and software radio, health care applications of Internet of things, machine learning and health medical big data analysis. He was the editor of IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Due to his contribution to the wireless communication system, he was elected to the IEEE Fellow in 2011. In 2015, he was elected to the Fellow of National Academy of Inventors and in 2016 he was elected to the Distinguished Professor of “*****************************************”.
Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering is the honorary title that the Canadian government awards to scientists of the engineering field. Those scientists serves as a national think tank and provide authoritative views for national projects. There are currently more than 300 academicians.
