January 31, 2006

Wang Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Wang (Photo: Roger Winstead)

Dr. Wenye Wang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective March 1, 2006. The Career award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years. Wang will use the funding to support her research project, “Career: A Unified Study of Resilience-to-Failure in Multihop Wireless Networks.” The aim of the research is to develop models and algorithms for a deeper understanding of multihop networks when multiple failures are present, and to design optimal network topology that is resilient to node mobility, potential attacks and misbehaviors.

In conjunction with the research component of the project, Wang has developed an education plan that promotes regular meetings between women faculty and students to capture imagination and creativity through the “Women In Scientific DialOgue prograM” (WISDOM) initiative. The program is designed to promote contest-based discussions related to the research and real-world applications. The students will learn to develop solutions in an engineering effort.

Wang joined the College of Engineering in 2002. She earned her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002.

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