Shiwen Mao received his BE and ME, both in Electronic Engineering, from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1994 and 1997, respectively.  He also received a BEc in Enterprise Management from Tsinghua University in 1994 and an MS in Systems Engineering from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), Brooklyn, NY, in 2000. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University in 2004. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then a Research Scientist in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA from 2003 to 2006. In 2006, he joined Auburn University, Auburn, AL as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He held the McWane Endowed Professorship from 2012 to 2015 and the Samuel Ginn Endowed Professorship from 2015 to 2020. Currently, he is a Professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar, and Director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC) at Auburn University.

Dr. Mao's research interest includes wireless networks, multimedia communications, smart health, and smart grid. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), IEEE Council of RFID, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2014-2021). He received the IEEE MMTC Outstanding Research Award in 2023, SEC 2023 Faculty Achievement Award for Auburn, IEEE ComSoc TC-CSR Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in 2019, Auburn University Creative Research & Scholarship Award in 2018, NSF CAREER Award in 2010, and several service awards from the IEEE. He is a co-recipient of the 2022 Best Journal Paper Award of IEEE ComSoc eHealth Technical Committee (TC), the 2021 Best Paper Award of Elsevier/KeAi Digital Communications and Networks Journal, the 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Best Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, the 2018 Best Journal Paper Award and the 2017 Best Conference Paper Award from IEEE ComSoc Multimedia TC, and the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards from WCSP 2024, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 (two), 2019, 2016, and 2015, IEEE ICC 2022 and 2013, and IEEE WCNC 2015, and the Best Demo Awards from IEEE INFOCOM 2024, 2022, and IEEE SECON 2017. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, a member-at-large of ComSoc Board of Governors (BOG), and the Vice President of Technical Activities of IEEE Council of RFID (2024-2026). He was the General Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2022, a TPC Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2018, and a TPC Vice-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2022. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a life member of ACM.

Last Updated: Dec. 13, 2024