Meixia (Melissa) Tao ( zh, 陶梅霞) is a Chinese electrical engineer whose research concerns

resource allocation In economics, resource allocation is the assignment of available resources to various uses. In the context of an entire economy, resources can be allocated by various means, such as markets, or planning. In project management, resource allocation ...

wireless network A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and business installations avoid the costly process of introducing c ...

s, beamforming, and edge computing. She is a distinguished professor of electronic engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Education and career

Tao studied electronic engineering at Fudan University, graduating in 1999. She completed her Ph.D. in 2003 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. After postdoctoral research at the

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) was established by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2000 as an R&D centre for information and communications technologies. The Insti ...

, and an assistant professorship from 2004 to 2007 at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

, she moved to her present position at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Recognition

Tao was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to resource allocation in broadband wireless networks".

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