Alumni Yung Yi and Song Chong Receive 2016 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize

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April 26, 2016
 
Alumni Yung Yi (PhD '06) and Song Chong (PhD '95) received the 2016 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize for their paper "Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?," from the April 2013, Volume 21 edition of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. The prize is given to the best original paper published in any communication networking journal sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society during the previous three calendar years. Drs. Yi and Chong will receive the prize at the IEEE ICC 2016 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 24th.
 
Dr. Chong is receiving this prestigious prize for the second time, and is only the second person to receive it more than once since the prize was established in 1994. Song received his first Bennett Prize in 2013 for his paper “On the Levy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility”, which was published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 3 in June 2011.
 
Yung Yi is a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He was the recipient of two best paper awards at IEEE SECON 2013 and ACM Mobihoc 2013. He is an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. While at WNCG, Dr. Yi was advised by Prof. Sanjay Shakkottai.
 
Song Chong is a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Founding Director of KAIST 5G Mobile Communications & Networking Research Center. Prior to joining KAIST, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was the General Chair of WiOpt 2009 and the Program Committee Chair of IEEE SECON 2015. He received the 2013 IEEE SECON Best Paper Award.