Qing Ling

I joined School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University in December 2017.

Qing Ling received the B.E. degree in automation and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA, from 2006 to 2009, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, from 2009 to 2017. He is now a Professor in the School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. His current research interests include decentralized network optimization and its applications. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

Ph.D. (Supervised by Prof. Gang Wu and Prof. Qiuping Wang), 2001.9-2006.7
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China

B.S. (Supervised by Prof. Gang Wu), 1997.9-2001.7
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China

Professor, 2017.12-
School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University

Associate Professor, 2009.9-2017.11
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Supervised by Prof. Zhi Tian), 2006.9-2009.8
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Young Author Best Paper Award (As Coauthor), 2017.12
IEEE Signal Processing Society

Distinguished Paper Award, 2017.12
International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians

Hundred-Talent Program Professor, 2017.12
Sun Yat-Sen University

Best Student Paper Finalist (As Coauthor), 2017.10
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers

KC Wong Educating Award, 2017.9
KC Wong Education Foundation

President Award, 2006.7
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visiting Scholar (Hosted by Prof. Georgios Giannakis), 2016.11-2016.12
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

Visiting Scholar (Hosted by Prof. Georgios Giannakis), 2016.7-2016.8
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

StarTrack Visiting Young Scholar (Hosted by Dr. David Wipf), 2014.9-2015.2
Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia

Visiting Scholar (Hosted by Prof. Alejandro Ribeiro), 2013.9-2014.2
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Scholar (Sponsored by China Scholarship Council), 2012.8-2013.8
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston (Hosted by Prof. Zhu Han)
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University (Hosted by Prof. Wotao Yin)
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania (Hosted by Prof. Alejandro Ribeiro)

Visiting Scholar (Hosted by Prof. Zhiquan Luo), 2012.5-2012.6
School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University

Visiting Scholar (Hosted by Prof. Xiaoming Yuan), 2011.7-2011.8
Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University

Visiting Scholar (Hosted by Prof. Georgios Giannakis), 2008.9-2009.1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

Senior Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Associate Editor, 2018.1-
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Associate Editor, 2016.10-
IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Guest Editor, 2018
Special Issue on Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Guest Editor, 2017
Special Issue on Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Technical Program Committee Chair
Symposium on Distributed Information Processing, Optimization, and Resource Management over Networks
The 2017 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GLOBALSIP 2017)

Technical Program Committee Chair
Symposium on Distributed Information Processing, Optimization, and Resource Management over Networks
The 2016 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GLOBALSIP 2016)

Organizing Committee Member
The 2012 International Workshop on Signal Processing, Optimization, and Control (SPOC 2012)

Technical Program Committee Member
The 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017)
The 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2016)

Technical Program Committee Member
The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017)
The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016)
The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015)

Technical Program Committee Member
The 2018 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018)
The 2017 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017)
The 2016 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016)