Yu-Dong Yao (S'88-M'88-SM'94) has been with Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, since 2000 and is currently a professor and department director of electrical and computer engineering. He is also a director of Stevens' Wireless Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (WISELAB). Previously, from 1989 and 1990, he was at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, as a Research Associate working on mobile radio communications. From 1990 to 1994, he was with Spar Aerospace Ltd., Montreal, Canada, where he was involved in research on satellite communications. From 1994 to 2000, he was with Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, where he participated in research and development in wireless code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems.
He holds one Chinese patent and twelve U.S. patents. His research interests include wireless communications and networks, spread spectrum and CDMA, antenna arrays and beamforming, cognitive and software defined radio (CSDR), and digital signal processing for wireless systems. Dr. Yao was an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1988, all in electrical engineering.