Curriculum Vitae:

Songwu Lu

Office Address

 

Home Address

4731C Boelter Hall, 
UCLA Computer Science Dept.
Tel: (310) 794-9289
Fax: (310) 794-5057
E-mail: slu@cs.ucla.edu 

 

715 Gayley Avenue, #201 
LA, CA 90024
(310) 208-5991 
Homepage: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~slu 



Education

01/96 - 08/99, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dissertation: "Adaptive Resource Management for Wireless Mobile Computing Environments: Architecture and Algorithms"

08/93 - 10/95, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thesis: "Nonlinear System Identification Using Neural Network Models"

08/85 - 07/90, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China

Thesis: "CCD based Robotic Vision System"

Experience

          07/05 - : Associate Professor of Computer Science, UCLA.

07/99 – 06/05: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UCLA

01/96 – 06/99: Graduate Student Researcher.

The Illinois Mobile computing Environments LaboratorY (TIMELY), headed by Prof. Vaduvur Bharghavan<

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC.

08/93 - 09/95: Research Assistant of Prof. Tamer Basar

Decision and Control Laboratory,

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

09/90 - 07/93: Research Engineer

Shenzhen Industrial Research Institute, Shenzhen, China


Major Honors and Awards

·  NSF CAREER Award, 2001

·  Recipient of Okawa Foundation Research Grant, 2005.

·  IEEE Senior Membership

·  Mac Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award for demonstrated excellence in doctoral research, ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.

·  Best Paper Award, IFIP IWQoS'97.

·  Motorola Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-1997.

·  Second Prize for Outstanding Paper Award, CSEMI' 90, Beijing.

·  Numerous Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards at USTC

Professional Activity

·       Program Committee Co-Chair, ACM MOBICOM 2005

·       Program Committee Memeber, ACM MOBICOM 2007, IEEE INFOCOM 2007, ACM MOBIHOC 2006, IEEE INFOCOM 2006, ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop 2005, IEEE INFOCOM 2005, WICON 2005, ACM MOBICOM 2004, IEEE ICNP 2004, IWQoS 2004, IEEE Qshine 2004, ACM SASN 2004, IEEE IPSN 2004, BroadWISE 2004, ACM MOBICOM 2003, IEEE INFOCOM 2003, IEEE/IFIP MMNS 2003, IEEE ICC 2003, ACM WSNA'03, ACM SASN'03, ICPP'03, ACM MOBICOM 2002, IEEE/IFIP MMNS 2002, IEEE ICNP 2001, IWQoS 2000.

·       Poster Session Co-chair, ACM MOBIHOC 2005, ACM MOBIHOC 2003; Tutorial Chair, ACM MOBISYS 2003; Publicity Co-chair, ACM MOBIHOC 2001.

·       Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; Editor, ACM Wireless Networks; Member of Board of Editors, Journal of Network and Systems Management; Feature editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine; Guest Co-editor, Special Issue on Internet Traffic Engineering, Journal of Netowrk and Systems Management, 2002.

·       Panelist, NSF ITR, NSF ANIR, NSF NeTS.

·       Selected invited presentation, DragonStar Lecture, 2005; ARO Workshop on wireless security, 2004; NSF wireless networking workshop 2003; IEEE CCW 2002.

·       Paper Reviewer for IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Transaction on Computers, IEEE Pervasive Computing, ACM Wireless Networks, ACM MONET, et al.

Patents

"Fluid flow fair scheduling emulation in wireless shared channel packet communication network," US patent 6728257B1, April 27, 2004.

"DIRAC: Distributed Wireless Router Architecture," US Provisional Patent, Nov. 2003.

Research Publications
        
Dr. Lu's research interests include wireless Internet, mobile computing and computer networks, neural networks and system theory. You can access a list of his publications. The updated papers can be accessed from his research group homepage.