Chunming Qiao

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Professor Chunming Qiao directs the Lab for Advanced Network Design, Evaluation and Research ( LANDER ) at University at Buffalo (SUNY), which conducts cutting-edge research related to optical networks, wireless and mobile networks, and recently, Internet traffic engineering.

Dr. Qiao pioneered research on next generation Optical Internet, and in particular, optical burst switching (OBS) in 1997, which has become an active research area being pursued by many R&D groups in both industry and academia world-wide. Several major conferences in the field (e.g., ICC, Infocom, Opticomm, OFC) had dedicated sessions on OBS. In addition, about two hundreds papers on OBS have been published in these conferences as well as several major journals/magazines (e.g., IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Networks Magazine). Dr. Qiao's work on integrated cellular and ad hoc relaying (or iCAR) systems, started in 1999, is also the harbinger of today's push towards convergence between cellular and wireless LAN technologies. The work on iCAR has been featured in magazines such as Businessweek and Wireless Europe, and at international web sites such as CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) and New Scientists (UK), in addition to local media such as The Buffalo News and UB Reporter.

Dr. Qiao have published almost 80 papers in leading technical journals such as ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks (WINET), IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technology (JLT), IEEE J. Selected Area in Communications (JSAC), IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (ToN), IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Trans. on Computers, and IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems. In addition, he has published over 120 technical papers in refereed conferences (including Infocom and ICNP). One of his papers received the IEEE ComSoc's Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2005 (see photos) and another (co-authored by his student) received the Best Student Paper award from Opticomm'00. Dr. Qiao has contributed to 7 book chapters, and given a couple of keynote talks, a few tutorials as well as more than a dozen invited talks at places such as Georgia Tech, MIT Lincoln Lab, University of Michigan, Alcatel, Intel, Telcordia and Sprint Advanced Technology Lab.

Dr. Qiao has served as a chair or co-chair for about a dozen technical symposiums, conferences and workshops since 1997. He has spoken as a panelist and led a discussion group at an NSF workshop, and participated in a couple of NSF and Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) workshops (whose attendance is by invitation only). Dr. Qiao is the founding chair of the SPIE Technical Group on Optical Networks (TGON), and was the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on High Speed Networking (TCHSN). He is on the editorial board of IEEE Trans. on Paralle and Distributed Computing (TPDS). He was an Area Editor responsible for launching IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc)'s new IEEE Optical Communications (previously served as an Editor-at-Large for IEEE ComSoc). He was also an editor of the IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (ToN) from 2001-2008 and several other journals and magazines . In the past, He has served as the lead guest-editor of an IEEE JSAC issue, and a co-guest-editor for two other upcoming IEEE JSAC issues, two issues of Optical Networks Magazine, and one issue of MONET.

Dr. Qiao's research has been sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Alcatel Corporate Research Center,  NEC Labs America, Nokia Research Center, Nortel Networks, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, Telcordia (formerly known as Bellcore), and Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan). He hold several US patents and a couple of them have been licensed. At UB, Dr. Qiao has taught several undergraduate courses to sophomores and seniors, as well as introductory and advanced graduate courses, most of which have above average enrollments. He has served on several school-wide and departmental committees. He has graduated many PhD and MS students, and two of his Ph D students have won the NSF CAREER awards.

Dr. Qiao received the Andrew-Mellon Distinguished doctoral fellowship award from University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he entered University of Science and Technology (USTC) of China at age 15, and earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from one of the only two 5-year BS programs in China at that time.