Biography

Mianxiong Dong was born in Shanghai, China. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan. He is the Vice President and the youngest ever Professor of Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, and Cyber-physical Systems. He has published over 420 academic papers, of which more than half are published in top journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TPDS, as well as top conferences including IEEE INFOCOM. A total of 7 papers have been selected as ESI Hot Papers (top 0.1%), and 33 papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%). He has received best paper awards from ICA3PP 2014, GPC 2015, DASC 2015, VTC 2016-Fall, FCST 2017, ICCC 2018, AICON 2019, CPSCom 2019, ICPADS 2019, MSN 2020 and MetaCom 2023. Dr. Dong serves as an Editor for IEEE Network, IEEE Networking Letters, Cyber-Physical Systems (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Information and Intelligence, as well as a associate editor for IEEE Access. He has been serving as the Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Satellite and Space Communications (SSC) Technical Committee, Co-Chair of IEEE Communications Society Asia/Pacific Region Technical Affairs Committee (TAC), Student Activities Committee Chair of IEEE Sapporo Section. He serves as the Principal Investigator of more than ten research projects, including Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI and KDDI Foundation, Program Officer (PO) of JST Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING). He is the recipient of The 12th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2017, Funai Research Award 2018, NISTEP Researcher 2018 (one of only 11 people in Japan) in recognition of significant contributions in science and technology, The Young Scientists’ Award from MEXT in 2021, SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award from IEICE in 2021, IEEE TCSC Middle Career Award in 2021. He is currently the Member of Board of Governors and Chair of Student Fellowship Committee of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and Treasurer of IEEE ComSoc Japan Joint Sections Chapter. He is Clarivate Analytics 2019, 2021, 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science) and Foreign Fellow of EAJ.

Muroran-it

Vice President, 2020.01 ~ present

Muroran Institute of Technology

27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan

Muroran-it

Professor, 2019.07 ~ present

Department of Sciences and Informatics

Muroran Institute of Technology

27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan

Muroran-it

Associate Professor, 2016.04 ~ 2019.06

Department of Sciences and Informatics

Muroran Institute of Technology

27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan

Muroran-it

Assistant Professor, 2014.11 ~ 2016.03

Department of Sciences and Informatics

Muroran Institute of Technology

27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan

NICT

Researcher, 2013.11 ~ 2014.10

Universal Communication Research Institute

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

3-5 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0289, Japan

University of Waterloo

Visiting Scholar, 2010.03 ~ 2011.08

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo

200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

The University of Aizu

JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), 2009.04 ~ 2011.03

School of Computer Science and Engineering

The University of Aizu

Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima-ken, 965-8580, Japan

West Virginia University

Visiting Scholar, 2007.01 ~ 2007.03

Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV 26506, United States