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. Dr. Yang is a Professor and Graduate Program Director of Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, a Professor of Department of Computer Science, the Director of Communications & Devices Division of New York State Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) , and the Director of High-Performance Computing and Networking Research Lab at Stony Brook University. Prior to joining Stony Brook in 1999, she had held a tenured faculty position at University of Vermont.