Guiling (Grace) Wang

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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. She currently teaches at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) where she is a distinguished professor of computer science and associate dean for research at its Ying Wu College of Computing and the founding director of the university's Center for AI Research. [1] [2]

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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]

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References

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  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
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