Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2350
Yuanyuan Yang received the B.E. and M.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Johns Hopkins University ,Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, New York, which she joined in 1999. From 2018-2022, she served as a program director in the National Science Foundations's Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. She directed the core computer architecture program and was on the management team of several cross-cutting programs. At Stony Brook, she served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2016-2018, a Division Director of New York State Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) from 2007-2016 and the Graduate Program Director of ECE Department from 2001-2016. Prior to joining Stony Brook in 1999, she held a tenured faculty position at University of Vermont.
Yuanyuan Yang is affiliated with High Performance Computing and Networking Research Laboratory at Stony Brook, which conducts research in the broad area of parallel/distributed computing, edge computing, quantum computing and mobile computing with particular emphasis on data discovery/retrieval/caching mechanisms in edge computing systems, distributed quantum computing, routing in quantum networks, and machine-learning enabled computing and networking. She has published over 500 scientific papers in leading refereed journals and conferences with a H-index of 70. She is also an inventor/co-inventor of nine patents in the area of interconnection networks and three of them have been licensed to companies and used in major products.