Lang Tong

Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center for Applied Mathematics
384 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone/Fax: (607) 255 - 3900/9072
    E-Mail: ltong@ece.cornell.edu


Biography:
Lang Tong joined Cornell University in 1998 where he is now the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in Engineering.  Prior to joining Cornell University, he was on faculty at the West Virginia University and the University of Connecticut. He was also the 2001 Cor Wit Visiting Professor at the Delft University of Technology.  He received the B.E. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China in 1985, and PhD degree in EE from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana in 1991. He was a  Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University in 1991.
 
Lang Tong's research is in the general area of statistical signal processing, communications, and complex networks. Using theories and tools from statistical inferences, information theory, and stochastic processes, he is interested in fundamental and practical issues that arise from wireless communications, security, and complex networks including power and energy distribution networks.  

Lang Tong received the 2004 Best Paper Award (with Min Dong) from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2004 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society (with Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam and
Srihari Adireddy), and the 1993 Outstanding Young Author Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He is a coauthor of six student paper awards, including two IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Awards (Qing Zhao in 2000 and Animashree Anandkumar in 2008) for papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He was the recipient of the 1996 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
 
Lang Tong is a Fellow of IEEE. He is named as a 2009 Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.  
Curriculum Vitae

Research Group:
Adaptive Communications and Signal Processing Group
Honors and Awards

Selected Recent Publications:

  • Statistical inference and signal processing
  • Wireless communications and networks
  • Information theory and network theory
  • Complete Publications:

  • Journal Publications
  • Books and Book Chapters
  • Recent Conference Publications
  • Technical Reports

    Projects:

  • Stochastic Control of Multi-scale Networks: Modeling, Analysis, and Algorithms (ARO-MURI)
  • SING: Toward a Theoretical Foundation of Anonymous Wireless Networking (NSF)
  • A Statistical Signal Processing Framework for Secure Wireless and Sensor Networking (NSF)
  • Network Centric Signal Processing (ARO)
  • NETS-NOSS: Ultra Low-Power Self-Configuring Wireless Networks (NSF)
  • Communications and Networking Collaborative Technology Alliance (Army Research Laboratory)
  • Trust: Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (NSF)
  • Past Projects
  • Course Offering:

  • Fall 2009: ECE 5640 Detection and Estimation.
  • Fall 2009: ECE 5990 Topics on Power Networks and Smart Grids

  • Quote:
    "Each morning before breakfast every single one of us approaches an urn filled with white and black balls. We draw a ball. If it is white, we survive the day. If it is black, we die. The proportion of black balls in the urn is not the same for each day, but grows as we become older.... Still there are always some white balls present, and some of us continue to draw them day after day for many years."---J. Neyman and E.L. Scott

    "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."---René Descartes.

    Random Photos:
    Forest and Sofia in Yunnan, China, 2008
    Forest and Sofia in Peurto Rico 2006
    Forest and Sofia in Ithaca 2004
    Forest and Sofia at the Great Wall 2001

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