Dr. Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong

Ziqian Dong is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Her research interests include communication networks, network security and forensics, wireless sensor networks, assistive medical devices, and data analytics and innovative sensing technology for sustainable and resilient natural and built environments. She is a senior member of the IEEE Communications Society, Computer Society, and Women in Engineering and a member of ACM, and the Environmental Sensing, Networking and Decision-Making (ESND) technical committee. She has served on the Technical Program Committee of IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, HPSR, Sarnoff, and GREENCOM and as a reviewer for IEEE journals, conferences, and U.S. National Science Foundation panels. She received the 2006 and 2007 Hashimoto Fellowship for outstanding scholarship, the 2008 Hashimoto Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation in electrical engineering at NJIT, the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Graduate Student Award for her inventions in network switches, the 2015 NYIT Presidential Engagement Award in Student Engagement in Research and Scholarship, the 2020 Innovate Long Island's Fifth Annual Innovator of the Year Award, and the 2020 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award.