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Edmund Yeh

Associate Professor

Office: 416 Dana
Phone: (617) 373-5400
Fax: (617) 373-8970
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Research areas
Future internet architecture, smart power grids, network science, network information theory and coding, cross-layer control and optimization of wireless networks, and network economics.
Biography

Edmund Yeh received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Distinction from Stanford University in 1994, his M.Phil in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science under Professor Robert Gallager from MIT in 2001.

Since July 2011, he has been Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Prior to coming to Northeastern, he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Statistics at Yale University. He has held visiting positions at MIT, Princeton, University of California at Berkeley, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), and Technical University of Munich.

Professor Yeh is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, the Winston Churchill Scholarship, the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowships, the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award, and the President’s Award for Academic Excellence (Stanford University). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), Phuket, Thailand, July 2012.

Professor Yeh serves as the Secretary of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2012-2015). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He serves as Guest Editor-in-Chief of the Special Issue on Wireless Networks for Internet Mathematics, and a Guest Editor of the Special Series on Smart Grid Communications for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He is a Steering Committee Member for IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm). He serves as General Co-chair of the DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) Workshop on Connectivity and Resilience for Large-Scale Networks. He has served as a General Co-chair for the Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN). He has also served on the technical program committees of many leading conferences and workshops, including IEEE Infocom, Globecom, ICC, SmartGridComm, and ACM MobiHoc.