Min Dong, PhD
Professor
Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Best-in-class researcher explores energy efficient technologies to sustain wireless communications and storage solutions for energy systems.
Full biography
Wireless communication has exploded in recent years, allowing any time, anywhere access to an abundance of resources, and transforming global communication. According to a recent study, mobile data traffic is expected to grow 700 per cent from 2014 to 2019 in Canada alone, a compound annual growth rate of 46 per cent, putting unprecedented demands on energy resources to support wireless communications systems and networks. Min Dong, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, is focused on developing new technologies to improve energy efficiency and storage in this burgeoning industry. An award-winning leader in her field, Dr. Dong's research is highly tapped into the development of statistical signal processing algorithms and techniques for communication networks, cooperative communications and networking techniques, and stochastic network optimization in dynamic networks and systems. Generating these advanced communications technologies will bring significant scientific, economic and social benefits to Canada across the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to emerging applications such as Smart Grid, healthcare monitoring, and cloud computing. Dr. Dong gained industry expertise as a systems engineer within the Corporate Research and Development Division of Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego, California before joining as an assistant professor in July 2008. She now heads Women in Engineering Project in partnership with Hydro One, inspiring female students to pursue technology and engineering. Additionally, she holds a status-only associate professorship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her aptitude for designing algorithms to solve engineering problems bolstered her interest in wireless communications. In 1998, Dr. Dong received her Bachelor of Engineering from Tsinghua University in China, and in 2004, she earned her Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. A beacon for success, Dr. Dong received one of only two Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Awards in her field in 2012; Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2012; and the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. Ontario Tech University Ontario Tech University's
Areas of expertise
Courses
- ENGR 1015UIntroduction to EngineeringAn introduction to engineering, the profession and core skills of engineers. Topics include: history of engineering; fields in engineering; how systems work; an overview of computer systems; information technology trends and state-of-the-art applications (scientific computing, communications and signal processing); role of engineers in society; core engineering skills including freehand sketching, basic engineering graphics and drafting techniques, engineering report writing and introduction to MAT programming; occupational health and safety, and safety standards.
- ELEE 3110USignals and SystemsContinuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems; basic system properties, linear time invariant (LTI) systems; impulse response and transfer function; autocorrelation and power spectrum; convolution; Fourier series, Laplace and Fourier transforms, frequency-domain representation and analysis in LTI systems; poles and zeros, stability of analog filters.
- ELEE 4500UWireless CommunicationsDigital wireless phones, cordless phones and wireless data; the first and second generation wireless mobile cellular network standards; characteristics of wireless propagation channels, including slow and fast fading, Doppler shift, multipath delay spread; bandpass transmission over wireless channels; digital modulation over wireless channels; wireless channel impairment mitigation techniques; fundamental of cellular communication concept, including cellular traffic and layout, frequency reuse, co-channel and adjacent channel interferences, call-processing, hand-off process; Multiple access techniques, including Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)/ Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).
- ELEE 4130UDigital CommunicationsDigital Communications covers optimum receiver principles: AWGN, geometric representation of signals, maximum likelihood criterion and optimum decision regions, correlation receivers and matched filters, probability of error and union bound; digital bandpass modulation (FSK, PSK, QAM), baseband systems; performance comparisons: bit error rate, bandwidth, power, complexity; adaptive equalization techniques and algorithms; carrier and symbol synchronization; fundamental limits in information theory: entropy and the source coding theorem; channel capacity and the channel coding theorem; information capacity theorem and design trade-offs.
- ENGR 5640GAdvanced Wireless CommunicationsThis course covers wireless communications systems, technologies and standards; statistical modeling of wireless channels; capacity of wireless channels; channel equalization; diversity techniques including time, frequency, code and space diversity; cooperative communications and user co-operation diversity; adaptive modulation; multiple antennas and space-time communications; multicarrier communications; multiuser communication and multiple access schemes; cognitive radio and game theory; and ad hoc and wireless sensor networks.
Education
- 2004PhD - Electrical and Computer Engineering & Minor in Applied MathematicsCornell University, USA
- 1998BEng - Automation (Electrical Engineering)Tsinghua University, China
Speaking Engagements
- Florence, Italy September 5, 2014Multi-Antenna Relay Network Beamforming Design for Multiuser Peer-to-Peer CommunicationsIEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
- Florence, Italy April 5, 2014Channel-Aware Distributed Dynamic Spectrum Access via Learning-Based Heterogeneous Multichannel AuctionIEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
- Florence, Italy April 5, 2014Optimal Power Allocation and Network Beamforming for OFDM-Based Relay NetworksIEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
- Pacific Grove, California March 11, 2013Real-Time Energy Storage Management with Renewable Energy of Arbitrary Generation Dynamics47th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
- Vancouver, British Columbia December 31, 1969Distributed Regulation Allocation with Aggregator Co-ordinated Electric VehiclesIEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications
- Darmstadt, Germany December 31, 1969SNR-Based Channel Pairing for MABC-Based Two-Way Relaying14th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications
- Vancouver, British Columbia December 31, 1969Learning-Stage Based Decentralized Adaptive Access Policy for Dynamic Spectrum AccessIEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
- Vancouver, British Columbia December 31, 1969Online Control for Energy Storage Management with Renewable Energy IntegrationIEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Institute of Wireless Communications, Shanghai, China 2012-08-27 December 31, 1969Cooperative Relaying Optimization From Multichannel Resource Assignment to Multi-Antenna Processing DesignInvited Seminar
- McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario January 12, 2011Resource Assignment and its Optimization in Multichannel Cooperative RelayingInvited Seminar
Affiliations
- Professional Engineers Ontario
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE Communications Society
- IEEE Signal Processing Society