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Shiwen Mao

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar Chair

Director, Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center

208 Broun Hall

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Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University
M.S. Systems Engineering, Polytechnic University
M.E. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
B.E. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
B.Ec. Enterprise Management, Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Wireless Networks
Multimedia Communications and Applications
RF Sensing and Healthcare IoT
Smart Grid and Cyberphysical Systems
Machine Learning

In The News

Professor in ECE believes XR platforms can be wireless without compromising quality

Shiwen Mao was awarded a three-year, $170K National Science Foundation grant

Director of Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center earns $300K NSF grant to revolutionize future 6G systems

Shiwen Mao's research will investigate how to integrate drone localization, millimeter wave communications, wireless sensing and security with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for future 6G systems.

Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center finds solutions to everyday communications problems

Established in 2001 and housed within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the center draws upon the expertise of more than 20 faculty members.

Director of Wireless Research and Education Center part of three NSF-funded projects

Shiwen Mao's collaborative research uses RFID to capture posture, identify smart health applications, and create data analysis-aided learning methods for robust wireless measurements.

Assistant professor in ECE wins NSF Early Faculty Development CAREER Award

Yin Sun's project, "Semantic and Goal-oriented Status Updating for Real-time Inference, Monitoring, and Decision-Making," finds measures for operators to receive fresh and important, accurate data simultaneously

Professor in wireless engineering named editor-in-chief at top-tier IEEE journal

Shiwen Mao, director of Auburn's Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, begins his assignment at the Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking journal on Jan. 1.

Professor earns multiple awards from prestigious IEEE conferences

Shiwen Mao, Director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, won Best Paper and Best Demo awards from IEEE conferences this summer

Professor in wireless engineering exploring means to optimize AR/VR device speeds

Shiwen Mao was awarded $993,319 by the NSF RINGS program for his study, "Learning based Resilient Immersive Media-Compression, Delivery, and Interaction."

Director of Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center wins best paper award

Shiwen Mao, director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, co-authored the paper "Optimized Computational Offloading Performance in Virtual Edge Computing Systems Via Deep Reinforcement Learning."

Research to revolutionize wireless engineering earns $320,000 grant

Shiwen Mao, professor in electrical and computer engineering, seeks means to provide sufficient data in order to train complex machine learning models for wireless technology research

Electrical and computer engineering professor wins IEEE Communications Society’s best paper award

Electrical and computer engineering professor Shiwen Mao, along with several collaborators, won the IEEE Communications Society's 2021 Outstanding Paper Award.

Auburn researchers awarded IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award

Auburn researchers Shiwen Mao, Xuyu Wang, Lingjun Gao and Santosh Pandey were awarded the 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award for producing the best paper published in the past five years for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

3 Auburn engineers recognized with university-wide faculty awards

Auburn Engineering faculty members Shiwen Mao, Pradeep Lall and Virginia Davis were honored for their research endeavors and mentorship at the Auburn University Faculty Awards ceremony.