For 2022, in alphabetical order by last name, here are 10 amazing women in networking and communications that you should know!

	Cailian Chen Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China Main research interests: Wireless network protocols, industrial Internet of Things, and networked systems Cailian Chen received her Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR in 2006. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China. Her current research interests include wireless communication and networking for industrial IoT and intelligent transportation systems. She was honored as “National Outstanding Young Researcher” by NSF of China in 2020. She was a recipient of the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2018 by the State Council of China, and IEEE TCCPS Industrial Technical Excellence Award in 2022. She has served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the TPC co-chair and track co-chair for several international conferences including IEEE ISAS, IEEE Globecom, IEEE VTC and WiOpt. “Prof. Cailian Chen is a world-class expert in the area of industrial Internet of Things and Internet of Vehicles. She received the prestigious award of “National Outstanding Young Researcher” by NSF of China in 2020 and “Changjiang Young Scholar” by the Ministry of Education of China in 2015. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2022-2024). Practical significance of her work is confirmed by the implementation and systems in Baosteel, one of the world leading iron and steel companies, and in Shanghai Transportation Management Center, China. The industry impacts of her research have been witnessed by the prestigious international and national awards, including the Industrial Technical Excellence Award in 2022 by IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems, the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2018 by the State Council of China, and the First Prizes of Natural Science Award in 2006 and 2016 by Ministry of Education of China.” - Haojin Zhu, Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University
	Yingying (Jennifer) Chen Professor, Rutgers University, USA Main research interests: Computer networking and communications, mobile computing, machine learning Yingying (Jennifer) Chen is a Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers University. She is the Peter Cherasia Endowed Faculty Scholar at Rutgers. She is the Associate Director of Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). She also leads the Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab. She is an IEEE Fellow and NAI Fellow. She is also named as an ACM Distinguished Member. Her research interests include applied machine learning, mobile sensing and computing, cyber security and privacy, Internet of Things, and smart healthcare. She is a pioneer in RF/WiFi sensing, location systems, and mobile security. She had extensive industry experiences at Nokia previously. She has published 3 books, 4 book chapters and 240+ journal articles and refereed conference papers. She is the recipient of seven Best Paper Awards in top ACM and IEEE conferences. She is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award and Google Faculty Research Award. She received NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Innovator Award and is also the recipient of IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academic Award. Her research has been reported in numerous media outlets. She has been serving/served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IEEE TWireless), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (IEEE/ACM ToN) and ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security. “Dr. Chen is one of the pioneers to use machine learning techniques and data mining methods to classify and model the healthcare, security, system, network related problems since its infancy. Besides algorithm development, her work has a strong emphasis on system implementation and validation in real-world scenarios. Her interdisciplinary research and education have been sponsored by multiple grants from various funding agencies. Her work has involved a combination of research and development of new technologies and real systems, ranging from Network Management Systems for Lucent flagship optical and data products to voice/data integrated services.” - Xiaonan Guo, Assistant Professor, George Mason University
	Sinem Coleri Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koc University, Turkey Main research interests: Wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, vehicular networks, wireless networked control systems, machine learning Sinem Coleri is a Professor in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL). Sinem Coleri received the BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California Berkeley in 2002 and 2005. She worked as a research scientist in Wireless Sensor Networks Berkeley Lab under sponsorship of Pirelli and Telecom Italia from 2006 to 2009. Since September 2009, she has been a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. Dr. Coleri has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications with citations over 9600. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award, College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award at Koc University, IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP). Dr. Coleri has been Area Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society since 2019, Senior Editor of IEEE Access since 2022, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2016 and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking since 2022. She is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. “Professor Coleri is a pioneer in wireless communications and networking, wireless sensor networks, machine-to-machine communications, vehicular networks, 4G, 5G and beyond wireless systems. Professor Coleri is extremely prolific with 17 patents, 58 journal and 89 conference publications. Her research has had major impact as reflected by over 9740 Google scholar citations. She has 21 papers with 90 citations and more. Professor Coleri’s impactful research has advanced her to privileged positions, including IEEE Fellow and IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. She has received numerous awards, including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award, College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award at Koc University, IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award, Outstanding Achievement Award by Higher Education Council, Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP), TAF (Turkish Academic Fellowship) Network - Outstanding Young Scientist Award and Science Academy Young Scientist (BAGEP) Award. The most distinctive aspect of Professor Coleri's work is that, in addition to his highly cited pioneering articles, her research has strong impact on the industry. Her doctoral dissertation turned into a product at Sensys Networks company and won 2008 Intelligent Transportation Systems Award for Best New Innovative Product. The Intelligent Tire she designed at Pirelli was produced and used in Formula-1 cars.” - Halim Yanikomeroglu, Professor, Carleton University
	Laura Galluccio Associate Professor, University of Catania Main Research Interests: Intra-body communications, softwarized networks, microfluidic networks. Laura Galluccio got her Ph.D. in Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Catania, Italy in 2005. Since 2002 she has also been at the Italian National Consortium of Telecommunications (CNIT). From November 2010 to October 2019 she has been Assistant Professor at University of Catania. From November 2019 she is Associate Professor at the same university and Director of the Lab on Unconventional Communication Systems at the DIEEI Department. In 2005 she was a Visiting Scholar at the COMET Group, Columbia University, NY working in the group of Andrew T. Campbell. In 2015 she was Visiting Professor at Central Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris. She is Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM Member. Dr. Galluccio has published more than 110 scientific papers in top level journals and conferences and authored international patents. She serves/has served for many years in the TPC of prestigious conferences like IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, ACM Nanocom, ACM MobiHoc, IFIP Networking, IEEE WCNC, IEEE MASS, IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC and in the EB of top level journals like IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communication Letters, Elsevier Computer Networks, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. She has also been General Chair and TPC Chair of prestigious IEEE and ACM conferences such as ACM Nanocom and Mobihoc. Dr. Galluccio was the winner of the Best paper Award of the IEEE Communication Society e-health Technical Committee 2017. Dr. Galluccio was also awarded with the International Prize Marisa Bellisario in 2002. In 2022, Dr. Galluccio was the recipient of the ACM Nanocom Outstanding Milestone Award for her seminal contribution to neural system interfacing for applications in the Internet of Bio-NanoThings and microfluidic nano networks research. “Prof. Galluccio has an excellent track record in research, teaching and mentoring, and services. She has obtained the prestigious ACM Outstanding Milestone Award in 2022, for her seminal contribution to neural system interfacing for applications in the Internet of Bio-NanoThings and microfluidic nano networks research. Prof. Galluccio has made many fundamental and well recognized contributions to the wireless communication and networking field, especially in intelligent network resource management for next generation 5G/6G communication networks, microfluidic networks, ultrasonic communications in intra-body applications. Prof. Galluccio is also an excellent advisor in motivating and supporting students, particularly female and minority students, in pursuing their careers in the wireless communication and networking area. She has actively promoted diversity in her department, at the university, and in the technical societies she serves.” - Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	Yingshu Li Professor, Georgia State University Main research interests: Wireless Networking, Internet of Things, Management of Big Sensory Data, Social Networks, and Privacy-aware Computing Dr. Yingshu Li received her PhD and MS degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She received her BS degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Dr. Li is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. Her research interests include Privacy-aware Computing, Data Management in IoT, Social Networks, and Wireless Networking. Dr. Li is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and Outstanding Graduate Director Award at GSU. Dr. Li’s research has been being supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, and some other international academic and industrial sponsors. Dr. Li regularly publishes papers in prestigious journals, conference proceedings, and books, and her publications have received more than 9,400 citations. Dr. Li has been serving as an editor or guest editor for many top-tier journals including ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, etc. She has also been serving as a General Chair, Program Chair and TPC member for many well-known international conferences such as CIKM, ICDCS, INFOCOM, IPCCC, GLOBECOM, etc. Dr. Li has supervised around 20 Ph.D. “Prof. Li has made profound contributions to the fields of wireless networking, sensory data management, social networks, and privacy protection in IoT. Prof. Li’s research works on backbone construction and routing protocols in wireless sensor networks, machine learning based sensory data management, privacy-aware computing in IoT systems, etc. have received numerous (9000+) citations and awards including the NSF CAREER Award and a number of best paper awards in well-recognized international conferences. Prof. Li actively provides services to her research communities. She has served as an Editor/Guest Editor for some prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. She has also served as a Steering Committee Chair, General Chair, Program Chair, and TPC member for many international conferences. Prof. Li always provides an environment that nurtures and encourages her students to improve. She is an avid supporter of female and underrepresented students and goes to lengths to provide all the resources and help they need to instill confidence and excel in their careers. Most of her students procured remarkable achievements such as outstanding graduate research awards, service awards, best paper awards, and publications in top conferences and journals. She has supervised more than 60 graduate students and half of them are female students. 70% of her PhD students are pursuing faculty positions at renowned institutions in North America and Asia. Her student's accomplishments in the past several years speak volumes about her advising capabilities.” - Raheem Beyah, Professor, Georgia Tech
	Athina Markopoulou Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Irvine Main Research Interests: Network Measurement, Privacy Athina Markopoulou is a Professor in the EECS Department at UCI Irvine. Her research interests are in the area of networking, with current focus on privacy and data transparency for mobile networks and Internet-of-Things. She received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and 2003, respectively. She joined UCI in 2006, where is affiliated with the EECS dept (where she was the Department Chair 2019-2022), the CS dept (joint appointment), and with the Networked Systems program (where she has served as the Director). She currently serves as the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies for the Samueli School of Engineering. She is also the Director of ProperData – a SaTC Frontiers center, whose goal is to “Protect Personal Data on the Internet”. Prior to joining UCI, she held short-term positions at SprintLabs, Arista Networks, and IT University of Copenhagen. She has co-founded Shoelace Wireless (2012-16). She has received the NSF CAREER award in 2008, the HSSoE Faculty Mid Career Research Award in 2014, and a UCI Chancellor’s Fellowship 2019-2022. She has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and for ACM Computer Communications Review, as the General Co-Chair for ACM CoNEXT 2016, as TPC Co-Chair for ACM SIGMETRICS 2020 and NetCod 2012, and on numerous committees for top ACM and IEEE conferences. She has published over 100 papers, several of which with distinctions, and has graduated 13 Ph.D. students. She is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.
	Jelena Misic Professor, Department of Computer Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada Main Research Interests: BlockChain technologies, Internet of Things and Machine type communications, Cyber security, Performance evaluation of cloud computing centers, Vehicular and drone based ad hoc networks, Social networks Jelena Mišić is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She received her PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is an internationally recognized expert in the area of IoT, blockchain, wireless networking and network security, where she has authored or co-authored four books, 165+ journal papers, 24 book chapters, and 220+ conference papers. She has chaired more than a dozen major international events and guest-edited more than a dozen special issues of various journals. She serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE Network, ACM Computing Surveys and Ad Hoc Networks journal (published by Elsevier). She is IEEE Fellow, ACM member and serves as IEEE VTS distinguished lecturer and chair of IEEE Communication Society awards committee. “Prof. Jelena Misic has been a world-renowned expert in wireless networking, mobile computing, cloud computing, blockchain-based data recording, and cryptocurrency, making fundamental and impactful contributions to network performance analysis and protocol design. She has been an inspirational leader in the networking community for more than two decades. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.” - Jianping Pan, Professor, University of Victoria
	Edith C. H. Ngai Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Main research interests: Internet-of-Things, machine learning, data analytics, smart cities, and smart health Edith Ngai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. She leads the Internet-of-Things (IoT) research group in her department. Before joining HKU in 2020, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She was a guest researcher at Ericsson Research Sweden from 2015 to 2017. Previously, She has conducted research in Imperial College London, Simon Fraser University, Tsinghua University, and UCLA. Her research interests include IoT, machine learning, data analytics, and smart cities. She has contributed to AI and IoT systems and applications for smart cities. She was a project leader of the “Green IoT” in Sweden, which was named on IVA's 100-list by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2020. She was a program chair of ACM womENcourage 2015 and a TPC co-chair in IEEE SmartCity 2015, IEEE ISSNIP 2015, ICNC 2018 Network Algorithm and Performance Evaluation Symposium, IEEE GreenCom 2022, and IEEE APSCON 2023 Smart City Track. She was an Area Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2020-2022). She serves as an Associate Editor in Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Access, and IEEE Transactions of Industrial Informatics. She was a VINNMER Fellow (2009) awarded by Swedish Governmental Research Funding Agency VINNOVA. She is one of the HKU scholars in the top 1% worldwide by citations in 2021 and 2022. She received a Meta Policy Research Award in Asia Pacific in 2022. “Dr. Edith Ngai has more than 15 years of research experience in wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT). She has made significant contributions to IoT, machine learning, and data analytics to develop energy-efficient, reliable, and secure IoT systems. Her research has led to intelligent IoT systems and novel applications in smart cities. She was a project leader of the "Green IoT" project in Sweden from 2014 to 2017. The project developed an IoT solution and testbed in the city center of Uppsala for air pollution monitoring. The "Green IoT" was named on IVA's 100-list by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2020. She has contributed significantly to the "Smart Water Auditing" project in Hong Kong using IoT and machine learning for household water end-use disaggregation. Dr. Ngai has been active in community services in networking and communications. She was a TPC co-chair in IEEE GreenCom 2022, IEEE ISSNIP2015, and IEEE SmartCity 2015. She was a program chair of ACM womENcourage 2015, which aimed to promote gender equality in computer science and engineering. She is keen on sharing her experience as a woman in engineering. Her research group has a good gender balance. She currently mentors five female Ph.D. students. She gives them sincere guidance and support in research and career development.” - Sukanya Jewsakul, PhD Candidate, University of Hong Kong
	Ping Wang Associate Professor, York University, Canada Main research interests: Wireless communications and networking Dr. Ping Wang received her Bachelor and Master degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2008, all in electrical and computer engineering. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, and a Tier 2 York Research Chair. Prior to that, she was with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2008 to 2018. Her research interests mainly include wireless communication networks, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. Her scholarly works have been widely disseminated through top-ranked IEEE journals/conferences. She was the recipient of the Best Paper Awards from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in 2022, 2020 and 2012, from IEEE Communication Society: Green Communications & Computing Technical Committee in 2018, and from IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2007. She is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. “Dr. Wang is a highly recognized researcher for her pioneering and innovative research on network design, performance modeling, economic analysis, and system optimization of radio resource management in wireless communications networks. She made seminal contributions to the development of enabling techniques of radio resource allocation, performance modeling and analysis for heterogeneous wireless networks to enable high resource utilization and guaranteed quality-of-service. She led the way in developing theoretic models for network performance analysis and optimization. Those models provided useful guidance for network management and advanced the state-of-the-art in the field.” - Dusit Niyato, Professor, Nanyang Technological University
	Rong Zheng Professor, Computing and Software, McMaster University, Canada Main research interests: Wireless networking, mobile computing and cyber physical systems. Rong Zheng received her Ph.D. degree from Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned her M.E. and B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, P.R. China. She is now a Professor in the Dept. of Computing and Software, and a Tier-1 Canada research chair in Mobile Computing. She was awarded the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement in 2019, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006, and was a Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow from 2015 - 2018. Dr. Zheng has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile computing, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Dr. Zheng was on the organization committee of MobiSys 2020 and SenSys 2019, and served as Technical program co-chair of WASA’12, CPSCom’12, MobileHealth’14, CrowdSenSys’17, IEEE Smart IoT'20, SenSys'21, and general co-chair of EUC’16. She serves on the technical program committees of leading networking and mobile computing conferences including SenSys, INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE ICNP, RTSS, IPSN etc. Rong Zheng is passionate about training next generation talents and developing technologies of long-term societal impacts. Her work on data centre monitoring and smart mobility for the aging populations have been featured in 5minofScience, EurekAlert, Data Center Dynamics and McMaster Daily News. “Dr. Zheng has made excellent research contributions in wireless networking and mobile computing field. Her PhD work on power management in multi-hop wireless networks has stood the test of time and has gained over 1200+ citations (according to Google scholar). She was among the early group of researchers who recognized the values of machine learning in wireless networking and developed sequential learning algorithms for resource management in wireless networks. She publishes prolifically in flagship conferences and journals in networking. Dr. Zheng has made significant contributions to services and leadership in the community, serving on the program committees, organizational committees of top conferences in the field. She has served on the editorial boards of several IEEE Transactions. Dr. Zheng is a strong advocate of equity, diversity and inclusion in engineering.” - Wenbo He, Associate Professor, McMaster University