Rate My Professor Ben Liang

Ben Liang is a Professor and L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He received honors-simultaneous B.Sc. (valedictorian) and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 2001. In the 2001-2002 academic year, he was a visiting lecturer and post-doctoral research associate at Cornell University. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2002, where he is now a Professor and L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research interests are in networked systems and mobile communications.

He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Wiley Security and Communication Networks. He is an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He regularly serves on the organizational and technical committees of a number of conferences and is a member of the steering committee for IEEE INFOCOM. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of ACM and Tau Beta Pi. His awards and honors include the Best Paper Award in the ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) in 2013, the Best Paper Award in the IFIP Networking Conference in 2005, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award in 2007, the Finalist for Best Paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) in 2010, the Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 2000, and the Richard W. Block Award for the highest ranking graduate from Polytechnic University in 1997.