Stony Brook Faculty, Dr. Jie Gao, Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

STONY BROOK , N.Y. - Dr. Jie Gao, Assistant Professor at the Stony Brook Department of Computer Science, has received an National Research Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award of $400,000 for 5 years starting from this January.

The CAREER Program supports "the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization." It is expected that the activities will make lifetime contributions to research and education.

She was awarded the prestigious CAREER award for her proposal, "Geometric Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks." This project takes a geometric approach to study algorithms in sensor networks and investigates a number of fundamental ideas about: how the geometric embedding of sensor networks influences; how the network can operate; and how to exploit the geometric characteristics for efficient and scalable network design.

Dr. Gao obtained her Ph.D degree from Department of Computer Science at Stanford University in 2004 and her B.S. degree from the Special Class for the Gifted Young at University of Science and Technology of China in 1999. She also spent one year at the Center for the Mathematics of Information, California Institute of Technology.

In her research, Gao takes a geometric approach to study algorithms in sensor networks, for a number of important architecture components including network topology discovery, network localization, geometric routing, information brokerage and retrieval. Embedded networked sensing devices are used in manufacturing and industrial sensing, agriculture and environmental monitoring, hospital operations and patient observation, or battlefield awareness and other military applications.