Yuanyuan Yang is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer
Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Dr. Yang
received the BEng and MS degrees in computer science and engineering
from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the MSE and PhD degrees
in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland.  Dr. Yang's research interests include parallel and
distributed computing and systems, high speed networks, optical and
wireless networks and high performance computer architecture.
Dr. Yang has published over 100 papers in major journals and refereed
conference proceedings related to these research areas.  Dr. Yang is
an inventor/co-inventor of six U.S. patents in the area of multicast
networks. She is currently an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems and the Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing.  Dr. Yang has served as a chair/vice
chair/program committee member for a number of international
conferences in her areas of research.  Her webpage is at
http://www.ece.sunysb.edu/~yang