About President Mung Chiang

Mung Chiang is the President of Purdue University and the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previous to being elected the university’s president in 2022, he was the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering and executive vice president for strategic initiatives at Purdue University.   

Prior to 2017, Chiang was the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He founded the Princeton EDGE Lab in 2009 and co-founded several startup companies and industry consortia since the early years of edge computing. Most of his 26 U.S. patents are licensed for network deployment. In 2020, as the Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, he initiated Tech Diplomacy programs in the U.S. government. In 2024, he started serving on the inaugural board of the U.S. Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation, and was elected to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee as an Independent Director.

Chiang received BS (1999), MS (2000) and PhD (2003) from Stanford University and an honorary doctorate (2024) from Dartmouth College. He co-authored two textbooks based on massive open online courses: “Networked Life” (2012) and “Power of Networks” (2016). For his research in communication networks, wireless technology, and network optimization, he received the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award (2013), as well as IEEE Founders Medal (2025), IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award (2022), IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2012), and Guggenheim Fellowship (2014). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Class of Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2024), the National Academy of Inventors (2020) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2020).