Professor, Department of Cyber Security Engineering
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Research Hall, Room 331
Email: zwang52@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-1578
Personal Websites
Biography
Zhengdao Wang’s interests lie in the areas of machine learning, cybersecurity, communications, signal processing, and information theory. Before joining George Mason University, he was a professor at Iowa State University from 2002 to 2023, during which time he also served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems from 2020 to 2022.
His work has been recognized with several best paper awards, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Magazine Paper Award in 2003, the IEEE Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications in 2004, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2008. He served as an Associate Editor for several IEEE and international journals and played leading roles in the organization of several international conferences and workshops. He served as the Regional Director at Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for Regions 1-6 (USA) in 2017 and 2018. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2016.
Degrees
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota (2002)
- MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia (1999)
- BEng, Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China (1996)