Jie Gao

Rank/Position Title:

Assistant Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~jgao

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

July 2004: Assistant Professor (deferred for a year)

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

Research computer science conferences such as MobiHoc, INFOCOM, and SoCG.

Other related computing experience:

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

Principal publications of the last five years:

• J. Bruck, J. Gao, A. Jiang, "Localization and Routing in Sensor Networks by Local Angle Information", to appear in the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc'05), May, 2005.
• J. Gao, L. J. Guibas, An Nguyen, "Distributed Proximity Maintenance in Ad Hoc Mobile Networks", to appear in the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'05), June, 2005.
• Q. Fang, J. Gao, L. J. Guibas, V. de Silva, L. Zhang, "GLIDER: Gradient Landmark-Based Distributed Routing for Sensor Networks", Proc. of the 24th Conference of the IEEE Communication Society (INFOCOM'05), March, 2005.
• J. Gao, L. J. Guibas, J. Hershberger, L. Zhang, A. Zhu, "Geometric Spanners for Routing in Mobile Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (J-SAC), 23(1), 174-185, Jan, 2005.
• J. Gao, L. Zhang, "Tradeoff between Stretch Factor and Load Balancing Ratio in Wireless Network Routing", ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'04), 189-196, July, 2004.
• J. Gao, L. J. Guibas, A. Nguyen, "Deformable Spanners and Applications", Proc. of the 20th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG'04), 190-199, June, 2004.
• J. Gao, L. J. Guibas, J. Hershberger, L. Zhang, "Fractionally Cascaded Information in a Sensor Network", Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'04), 311-319, April, 2004.
• J. Gao, L. Zhang, "Load Balanced Short Path Routing in Wireless Networks", The 23rd Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM’04), vol. 23, no. 1, 1099-1108, March, 2004.
• Q. Fang, J. Gao, L. J. Guibas, "Locating and Bypassing Routing Holes in Sensor Networks", The 23rd Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM’04), vol. 23, no. 1, 2458-2468, March 2004.
• J. Gao, L. Zhang, "Well-Separated Pair Decomposition for the Unit-Disk Graph Metric and its Applications", Proc. the 35th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC'03), 483-492, June, 2003.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

ACM, IEEE

Honors and awards:

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term section of the same course separately

Academic advising:

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

Conducting research in algorithms, ad hoc communication and sensor networks, and computational geometry. Reviewing paper submitted to major journals and conferences in the field.