Maggie Cheng

Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng (Chinese: 程晓燕) is an applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network scientist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation. Her research interests include wireless ad hoc networks and user modeling in computer security.[1]

Education and career

Cheng has a bachelor's and master's degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering in 2003 from the University of Minnesota.[3] Her dissertation, Resource efficiency in ad hoc wireless networks: problems and solutions, was supervised by Ding-Zhu Du.[4][5]

After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of computer science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She moved to the Martin Tuchman School of Management of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2016,[2] and moved again to the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2018, succeeding Fred Hickernell as director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation.[6] There, she was promoted to full professor in 2020.[2]

References
  1. "Maggie Cheng", Directory, Illinois Institute of Technology, retrieved 2020-11-04
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-11-04
  3. "Maggie X. Cheng", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, retrieved 2020-11-04
  4. Resource efficiency in ad hoc wireless networks: problems and solutions listing in the ACM Digital Library, accessed 2020-11-04
  5. Maggie Cheng at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Department of Applied Mathematics Welcomes Two New Faculty Members", Illinois Tech Today, November 1, 2018, retrieved 2020-11-04
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