Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University
Office: CST 4-189
Email: yliang06@syr.edu
Dr. Yingbin Liang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. In 2005-2007, she was working as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 2008-2009, she was an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii. Since December 2009, she has been an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Syracuse University. Dr. Liang's research interests include communications, wireless networks, and information theory.
Dr. Liang was a Vodafone Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during 2003-2005, and received the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation Fellows Initiative Research Merit Award in 2005. She also received the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award from the ECE department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2005. In 2009, she received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the State of Hawaii Governor Innovation Award.
My research is on developing new innovations to advance wireless technologies and enhance quality of services for wireless communication networks, and analyzing the impact of these technologies on performance of wireless networks via mathematical tools in information theory, probability theory and statistics, and graph theory.
Some specific topics are: cognitive radio network management via probabilistic graphical models, information theoretic security, information security over mobile ad hoc networks, network information theory, reliable communication over compound channels, analysis of Poisson channels, relay and user-cooperative networks, and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications.