Wen Yonggang

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Prof Wen Yonggang
Vice Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean, Graduate College
Alibaba-NTU President's Chair in Computer Science and EngineeringProfessor, College of Computing & Data ScienceDirector for NTU Center in Computational Technologies for Finance (CCTF), Graduate College

Cluster Director
Multi-Energy Systems & Grids
Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)

Email: [email protected]

Yonggang Wen is a Professor and President’s Chair in College of Computing & Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is serving as the Associate Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean of Graduate College at NTU Singapore. Previously he has served as the Associate Vice President (Capability Building) at President’s Office (2023), the Associate Dean (Research) at College of Engineering (2018-2023), the acting Director for Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC) (2017-2019) and the Assistant Chair (Innovation) at the College of Computing & Data Science (2016-2018), at NTU Singapore. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (minor in Western Literature) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, in 2008. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Singapore Academy of Engineering, and an ACM Distinguished Member.

Dr. Wen has published over 300 papers in top journals and prestigious conferences, and his systems research has gained global recognitions. His work in Multi-Screen Cloud Social TV has been featured by global media (more than 1600 news articles from over 29 countries) and received ASEAN ICT Award 2013 (Gold Medal). His work on Physics-Informed Machine Learning and Digital Twin for Data Centre, has won the 2015 Data Centre Dynamics Awards – APAC (the ‘Oscar’ award of data centre industry), 2016 ASEAN ICT Awards (Gold Medal), 2020 IEEE TCCPS Industrial Technical Excellence Award, 2021 W.Media APAC Cloud and Datacenter Technology Leader Award, and 2022 Singapore Computer Society Digital Achiever Tech Leader Award. He was the winner of 2019 Nanyang Research Award and the sole winner of 2016 Nanyang Awards for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, both of which are the highest recognition at NTU. He is a co-recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards from top journals, including 2019 IEEE TCSVT and 2015 IEEE Multimedia, and at international conferences, including 2023 ASPLOS, 2016 IEEE Globecom, 2016 IEEE Infocom MuSIC Workshop, 2015 EAI Chinacom, 2014 IEEE WCSP, 2013 IEEE Globecom and 2012 IEEE EUC.

Currently he is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), serves or has served on editorial boards for multiple IEEE and ACM transactions, and was the elected Chair for IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (2014-2016). His research interests include cloud computing, green data center, big data analytics, multimedia network and mobile computing.