15th Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering
"Optimization in Networking"
Mung Chiang
Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University
slidesAbstract
Optimization theory has provided both a modeling language and solution methodologies to a wide range of problems in communication networks. Recent successes include P2P streaming, TCP congestion control, IP routing, wireless scheduling, and power control. This talk surveys the current state and latest results on the applications of distributed, stochastic, robust, nonconvex, and combinatorial optimization in networking, and on the emergence of a first-principle based network design perspective enabled by the “optimization way of thinking”. Throughout the talk, we highlight both mathematical challenges raised by these applications and practical impact made by theory to the Internet and wireless networks.
Biographical Information
Mung Chiang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and an Affiliated Faculty of Applied and Computational Mathematics and of Computer Science, at Princeton University. He received the B.S. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999, 2000, and 2003, respectively, and was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University 2003-2008. His research areas include optimization, distributed control, and stochastic analysis of communication networks, with applications to the Internet, wireless networks, broadband access networks, content distribution, and network economics. His awards include Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2008 from the White House, TR35 Young Innovator Award 2007 from Technology Review, Young Investigator Award 2007 from ONR, Young Researcher Award Runner-up 2004-2007 from Mathematical Programming Society, CAREER Award 2005 from NSF, as well as Frontiers of Engineering Symposium participant 2008 from NAE and Engineering Teaching Commendation 2007 from Princeton University. He was a Princeton University Howard B. Wentz Junior Faculty and a Hertz Foundation Fellow. His paper awards include ISI citation Fast Breaking Paper in Computer Science, IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper three times, and IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper finalist. His guest and associate editorial services include IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, IEEE J. Sel. Area Comm., IEEE Trans. Comm., IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., and J. Optimization and Engineering. He has filed 16 patents and co-chaired the 38th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems.
About the Lecture Series:
The
"Simon Stevin Lecture Series on Optimization in Engineering" is set up
in order to promote optimization in engineering. For this aim, every
quarter of the year an outstanding international scholar is invited to
report on latest progress in the development of optimization algorithms
and their applications in engineering.
Simon Stevin
(1548-1620) was
a Flemish mathematician and engineer. Among other, he helped to advance
the use of decimal fractions, was the first to explain the tides by the
attraction of the moon, and discovered the hydrostatic paradox. He made
numerous inventions, among them a wind propelled carriage with sails,
the "land yacht", which once impressed Prince Maurice of Orange as it
moved faster than horses, in around 1600 on the beach between
Scheveningen and Petten. Simon Stevin was fond of promoting the use of
science in daily life and in craftmanship, and translated various
mathematical terms into dutch. Among other, he introduced the dutch
word for mathematics, "wiskunde".
Directly after
this Simon Stevin Lecture, a little reception will be given at 18:00 in
the salons of Arenberg Castle, to which all attendants of the lecture
are most warmly welcome!
