Mingyue Ji | Electrical | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Mingyue Ji | Electrical | Best Researcher Award

Associate Professor, University of Florida, United States

Mingyue Ji is an accomplished Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Computing at The University of Utah. A dedicated researcher in the field of information theory and coding, he has made significant contributions to wireless communications and distributed computing systems. 📡

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Education

Mingyue Ji earned his B.E. degree in Communication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2006. He pursued further studies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the University of California, Santa Cruz, obtaining M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2008 and 2010. He completed his Ph.D. at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, in 2015. 🎓

Experience

After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Ji served as a Staff II System Design Scientist with Broadcom Corporation from 2015 to 2016. His academic career has since flourished at The University of Utah, where he combines teaching and research in various aspects of electrical and computer engineering. 💼

Research Focus

Dr. Ji’s research interests encompass information theory, coding theory, concentration of measure, and statistics, with applications in distributed computing systems, wireless communications, caching networks, distributed machine learning, distributed storage, and statistical signal processing. His work aims to address critical challenges in these rapidly evolving fields. 🔍

Awards and Honours

Dr. Ji has received several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2022, the IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize for the Best IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Paper in 2019, and multiple Best Paper Awards at IEEE conferences. His dedication to research and education has been recognized with the USC Annenberg Fellowship from 2010 to 2014. 🏆

Publication Top Notes

Ji, M., et al. “A Framework for Caching in Wireless Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2020. Cited by 200

Ji, M., & Zhang, S. “Error-Correcting Codes for Distributed Storage Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2019. Cited by 150

Ji, M. “Fundamentals of Information Theory.” Journal of Communication and Networks, 2018. Cited by 100