Short Biography
Jun-Hong Cui received her B.S. degree in Computer Science from Jilin University , China in 1995, and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Institute of Comput ing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998. After she came to the United States, she spent her first year at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and got M.S. degree in Computer Science. From 1999 to 2003, she worked as a Ph.D student in the Network Research Lab led by Professor Mario Gerla at University of California, Los Angeles. In August 2003, she joined the Computer Science & Engineering Department at University of Connecticut as an assistant professor. Her research interests cover the design, modelling, and performance evaluation of networks and distributed systems. Recently, her research mainly focuses on exploiting the spatial properties in the modeling of network topology, network mobility, and group membership, scalable and efficient communication support in overlay and peer-to-peer networks, algorithm and protocol design in underwater sensor networks. She is a member of ACM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Communications Society. She won NSF CAREER Award for proposal "Tackling Fundamental Networking Problems in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks" in 2007 and ONR YIP Award for proposal "A Networking Perspective: Towards Reliable Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks" in 2008.
Recently she received the United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professorship in Engineering Innovation award at UConn. The UTC Professorships in Engineering Innovation are in recognition of the exceptional achievements of young faculty who exemplify excellence, being at the very top of their area of research.