Mung Chiang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He received the B.S. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He joined the faculty at Princeton University in 2003, and has previously worked as a consulting systems engineer at three telecom startup companies and as a Principal Member of Technical Staff in Network Systems Engineering at SBC Communications Inc.

Professor Chiang conducts research in the areas of efficient nonlinear optimization of communication networks, resource allocation and congestion control algorithms in wireless networks, information theory and stochastic analysis of communication systems, and network capacity management and architecture design. He has been awarded as a Hertz Foundation Fellow, Stanford Graduate Fellow, NSF Graduate Fellow, and received Stanford University School of Engineering Terman Award and SBC Communications Inc. ‘New Technology Introduction’ Contribution Award. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE Globecom 2004, and the Program Co-Director of the 38^th Conference on Information Science and Systems to be held at Princeton University in March 2004.