Mung Chiang (born 1977) is a

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engineering researcher, educator, technology entrepreneur, foreign policy official, and 13th President of

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. Starting January 1, 2023, Chiang is President of Purdue University. He is the youngest president of an AAU university. Previously he was both Executive Vice President of Purdue University and the John A. Edwardson Dean of its College of Engineering. Previously he was the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of

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, and an affiliated faculty in applied and

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and in

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. On June 10, 2022, Chiang was named the next President of Purdue University, succeeding

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Early life and education

Born in

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and immigrated to

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and then to the

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, Mung Chiang received his secondary education at

Queen's College, Hong Kong Queen's College () is a sixth form college for boys with a secondary school and the first public secondary school founded in Hong Kong by the British colonial government. It was initially named The Government Central School () in 1862 and l ...

. He then received a B.S. (''Hons.'') in both

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and

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in 1999, M.S. in electrical engineering in 2000, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2003 at Stanford University.

Career

Chiang became an assistant professor at

in 2004, an associate professor with tenure in 2008, a professor in 2011, and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2013. While at Princeton, Chiang founded the Princeton EDGE Lab in 2009. In 2015, Mung Chiang, along with

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and Tao Zhang, met to discuss the creation of a consortium to promote the standardization of

fog computing Fog computing or fog networking, also known as fogging, is an architecture that uses edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of computation ( edge computing), storage, and communication locally and routed over the Internet backbone. Conce ...

, which eventually was formed as the

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. In 2017, Chiang was named dean of the College of Engineering at

. He was simultaneously appointed the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At age 40, he is among the youngest in modern history to become the leader of a major college in an American university. Starting in December 2019, Chiang took a one year leave of absence to serve as the science and technology adviser to the secretary of state

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in a non-political appointment. In 2021, he was named Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Purdue University while continuing as Dean of College of Engineering. On June 10, 2022, the Purdue University Board of Trustees announced its unanimous election of Chiang to become the university’s 13th president on January 1, 2023.

Teaching

He received the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award at Princeton University Engineering School.

University leadership

On May 1, 2017,

announced that it has chosen Chiang as the next dean of its

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. He assumed office on July 1, 2017 as the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University. Under his leadership, Purdue Engineering became the largest ever top-5 engineering college in the United States and reached milestones in education, research, fund-raising, physical infrastructure, online learning, industry partnership, economic development, global engagement, diversity and visibility. On April 23, 2021,

named Chiang as Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives while he continues to lead College of Engineering simultaneously. On June 10, 2022, Purdue named Chiang its 13th President, effective January 1, 2023.

Awards and honors

* 2007 – ONR Young Investigator Award * 2007 – Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award * 2008 –

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. The White ...

* 2012 – IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award * 2012 – IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award * 2012 –

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

* 2013 –

Alan T. Waterman Award The Alan T. Waterman Award, named after Alan Tower Waterman, is the United States's highest honorary award for scientists no older than 40, or no more than 10 years past receipt of their Ph.D. It is awarded on a yearly basis by the National Scien ...

* 2013 – ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award in Engineering Education * 2013 – IEEE SECON Best Paper Award * 2014 –

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 2014 – INFORMS Information Systems Design Science Award * 2016 – Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Distinguished Teacher Award * 2020 –

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fellow * 2020 –

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which promo ...

international fellow. * 2022 - IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award

Bibliography

Chiang co-authored a technical undergraduate textbook ''Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012; ) and a popular science book ''The Power of Networks: Six Principles That Connect Our Lives'' (Princeton University Press, 2016; ). The first book received the

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in Science and Technology Writing in 2013 from the

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. The second book was mentioned in various popular media, such as in

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References

External links

Chiang homepage
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