Kun Yang - Biography#

After obtaining his PhD in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Eng., University College London (UCL), UK and further 3 years' post-doc research in the same department at UCL working on EU research projects such as FAIN on IP network management, he moved to University of Essex, UK at 2003 where he is now a Chair Professor, leading Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL) and Communications and Networks Research Group. His research activities focus on advancing new technologies related to communication and network systems, and on the fundamentals underlying them. In particular he is interested in energy aspects of future communication systems and networks, promoting energy self-sustainability via both energy efficiency (green) and energy harvesting, mainly via resource allocation and joint optimization. He also conducts experiment-driven research mainly via the NCL laboratory he founded in 2008. His work has attracted over 12,000 citations (google scholar), and was presented as invited talks in many conferences and public events such as London TechCity, and received five times best paper awards. He is an affiliated professor in UESTC (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China).

He is active in EU research initiatives, having participated as the Essex (co-)PI in more than 10 EU FP7/H2020 projects (being project coordinator of one). He was a founding member and one of the six executive committee members of IEEE InterCloud Testbed. He has been serving as a judge for the GSMA GLOMO Awards in Mobile World Congress (Barcelona) since 2019, and a member of UK EPSRC Review College since 2009. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET, a Fellow of BCS (British Computing Society), a Fellow of HEA (Higher Education Academy) and a Fellow of RSA (Royal Society of Arts). He is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021).