• Short Bio for Publications:

(Photo in EPS, TIFF) Ben Liang received honors simultaneous B.Sc. (valedictorian) and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with computer science minor from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 2001. In the 2001 - 2002 academic year, he was a visiting lecturer and post-doctoral research associate at Cornell University. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2002, where he is now an Associate Professor. His current research interests are in mobile networking and multimedia systems. He received an Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 2000 and an Ontario MRI Early Researcher Award (ERA) in 2007. He was a co-author of the Best Paper Award at the IFIP Networking conference in 2005. He is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and an associate editor for the Wiley Security and Communication Networks journal. He serves on the organizational and technical committees of a number of conferences each year. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and Tau Beta Pi.

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• Professional Services:

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2008 - present
Associate Editor, Wiley Security and Communication Networks, 2007 - present
Guest Editor, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Ambient Media and Systems, 2008

Invited-paper session co-organizer and co-chair, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2008
General Co-chair, Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-sys), 2008
Publicity Chair, Symposium on Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN), 2007
Technical Vice Co-chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2006
Technical Track Co-chair, Int. Conf. on Communications Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS), 2006  

Technical Program Committees:
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom): 2008 – 2010
IEEE ComSoc Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Comm. and Net. (SECON): 2008 - 2010
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): 2007 – 2010
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom): 2005 – 2008, 2010
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM): 2010
Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC): 2006, 2008, 2010
Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE): 2004, 2009
International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine): 2006 - 2009
IFIP Networking Conference (Networking): 2007, 2008
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC): 2005, 2008
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom): 2007
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS): 2005, 2007
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC): 2007
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA): 2007
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC): 2006, 2007
ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN): 2006
IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN): 2005, 2006
IEEE International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch): 2006
International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC): 2004, 2005