Kun Yang#
| Membership Number: | 5660 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/yangk82907/kun-yang |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - now Chair Professor, Head of Network Convergence Lab (NCL), University of Essex, England, UK
- 2008 - 2011 Reader (Associate Professor), Head of Network Convergence Lab (NCL), University of Essex, UK
- 2003 - 2008 Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Essex, UK
- 2000 - 2003 Research Fellow, University College London (UCL), UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Internet of Things
- Wireless networks and wireless communications including 6G
- Future internet technologies
- Mobile computing and mobile edge computing
- Data and energy integrated communication networks including RF-based wireless power transfer
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering)
- 2022 Distinguished Member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery)
- 2020 Fellow of BCS (British Computing Society)
- 2020 Fellow of HEA (Higher Education Academy)
- 2020 IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021)
- 2016 1st-Class/Grade of S&T Advancement Award, Jilin Province, China, for joint research with Jilin University in communication-computation cooperation for wireless networks
- 2015 Honorary Professor of UESTC (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
- 2013 EU FIA (Future Internet Architecture) Award to the EU FP7 Project PURSUIT the applicant participated in, only one winner a year
- 2011 Fellow of IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology), previously called IEE
- 2009 “Interdisciplinary Study” Award by KC Wong Education Foundation (Hong Kong) for research in mobile social networks (cooperating computation with communications)
- 2007 Visiting Research Fellow of British Telecom
