Shiwen Mao received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China in 1994 and 1997, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering. He also received the B.A. degree in Business Management from Tsinghua University in 1994 and the M.S. degree in System Engineering from Polytechnic University (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University), Brooklyn, NY, in 2000. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Polytechnic University in 2004.

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Before joining Auburn University, he has been a Research Scientist in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA for over two years. He was a research staff member with IBM China Research Lab from 1997 to 1998.

Dr. Mao's research interests include algorithmic, optimization, and performance issues in wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor networks, cross-layer design and optimization, cognitive networks, and multimedia communications. He is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems and the Best Paper Runner-up Award of QShine 2008.  He received a Certificate of Appreciation from the IEEE Computer Society in 2007. Dr. Mao is the co-author of a textbook, TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab-Based Approach, published by the Cambridge University Press in 2004. A Chinese version was published by the Post & Telecommunication Press in 2006, in the Turing Book Series of selected textbooks in Computer Science. Dr. Mao is on the Editorial Board of Hindawi Advances in Multimedia Journal, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications, and Bentham Open Transportation Journal. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and a Senior Member of the IEEE (Communications Society and Vehicular Technology Society).

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