Biography

Min Dong received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 2004 and a B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1998. From 2004 to 2008, she was with Corporate Research & Development at Qualcomm Research, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA. Since 2008, she has been with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Ontario Tech University, where she is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering. She served as the Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science from January 2017 to June 2017 (interim) and during 2021 and 2022. She also holds a status-only Professor appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.  

Prof. Dong is an IEEE Fellow. She received the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation in 2012, the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCC 2012, and the 2004 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Transactions).  She is also a co-author of The Best Student Paper at IEEE SPAWC 2021 and the Best Student Paper of Signal Processing for Communications and Networks at IEEE ICASSP 2016. She is a recipient of the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS award) in 2019.

Research Interests

• Signal processing techniques, algorithms, and computational methods for wireless communication systems and networks

• Learning techniques, communication techniques and systems for optimization and control applications in cyber-physical systems

Publications

• Selected publications by topics

• Full list of publications

Research Group

Current

• Ahmed Al-mehdhar (Ph.D., U. of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2022- )

• Faeze Moradi-Kalarde (Ph.D., U. of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2021- )

• Chong Zhang (Ph.D., U. of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2021- )

• Fariha Rahman (MASc., 09/2023 - )

• Reza Soleimanimajd (MASc., 09/2022 - )

• Mitra Hekmat (MASc., 01/2023 -)

Alumni

• Juncheng Wang (Ph.D., U. of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2018- 05/2023), Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.  

• Niloofar Mohamadi (Ph.D., co-supervised, 01/2018- 03/2023), Principle Software Engineer at Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, Northeastern University, USA

• Yong Deng (Ph.D., 01/2018- 10/2021; Postdoc at U. of Toronto, 11/2021-12/2022), Assistant Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada 

• Sara Sharifi (Ph.D., co-supervised, 09/2017-04/2022), DSP Engineer at Ciena, Ottawa, Canada

• Sharareh Kiani (Ph.D., co-supervised, 01/2016-01/2021 ), System Developer at Ericsson Canada

• Zhiming Peter He (Postdoc, 01/2019-04/2020), Postdoc, Toronto Metropolitan University

• Ahmad Abu Al Haija (Postdoc at U.of Toronto, co-supervised, 11/2016-04/2019), Huawei R&D Center, Canada

• Meng-Hsi Chen (Ph.D., U.of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2013-08/2017), Machine Learning Researcher at MediaTek Inc., Taiwan

• Ali Ramezani-Kebrya (Ph.D., U.of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2012-08/2017), Associate Professor at Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

• Ruhallah AliHemmati (Postdoc at U.of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2014-12/2016), Connected Vehicle System architect at Ford Motor, Canada

• Sun Sun (Ph.D., U.of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2011-11/2015), Researcher at National Research Council Canada

• Mahdi Hajiaghayi (Ph.D., U.of Toronto, co-supervised, 08/2008-08/2012), Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Microsoft, USA

• Fatemeh (Sheida) Amirnavaei  (Ph.D., 01/2013-06/2017), Senior Design Engineering at AMD Canada

• Tianyi Li (Ph.D., 09/2011-09/2015; Research Associate, 10/2015-04/2016), TELUS, Canada.

• Marjan Zandi (Ph.D., 01/2010-10/2014), full-time professor at Centennial College, Ontario

• Shiqi Yin (MASc., 09/2021- 09/2023), IT Engineer, Toronto, Canada

• Mohammad Ebrahimi (MASc., 09/2021- 09/2023), now with Thales, Toronto, Canada

• Mehran Esmaeli (MASc., co-supervised, 09/2019- 11/2021), with Qualcomm, Toronto, Canada

• Shadi Mohammady (MASc., co-supervised, 09/2019-09/2021, Research Assistant, 10/2021-12/2021), GenAI Developer at TELUS Communications, Toronto, Canada

• Chong Zhang (MASc., U. of Toronto, co-supervised, 09/2019-08/2021), currently PhD student at U. of Toronto

• Qiqi Wang (MASc., 09/2017- 09/2019; Research Assistant, 09/2019-01/2020), Research Engineer at Sunnybrook Research Institute

• Jiawei Yu (MASc., 09/2016- 08/2018; Research Associate, 01/2019-08/2019), VR Developer at Neurofit VR

• Zilong Yang (MASc., 09/2014-08/2016; Research Associate, 09/2016-11/2016), Senior Design Engineer at AMD Canada

• Wen Li (MASc., 09/2014-08/2016; Research Associate, 09/2016-03/2017), RF Specialist at Xplornet Inc.

• Mingchun Chang (MASc., 09/2012-08/2014), Senior RAN designer at Rogers Communications, Canada

• Jiangwei Chen (MASc., 09/2012-09/2014), Engineer at WSP in Canada

• Qiang Xiao (MASc., U.of Toronto, 09/2010-09/2012, co-supervised), LinkedIn Inc., USA

• Min Zheng (MASc., 01/2010-03/2012), RAN Engineering Manager at Xplornet Inc.

• Fangzhi Zuo (MASc., 09/2009-08/2011; Research Assistant, 01/2012-08/2012), Senior Software Engineer at AMD Canada

Teaching

• ENGR 5605: Convex Optimization (Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Winter 2019)

• ENGR 5640: Advanced Wireless Communications (Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2017)

• ELEE 4500: Wireless Communications (Winter 2024, Winter 2020, Winter 2019)

• ELEE 4130: Digital Communications (Fall 2020, Fall 2017)

• ELEE 3110: Signals and Systems (Fall 2023, Fall 2019, Fall 2018)

• ENGR 1015: Introduction to Engineering (Fall 2016)

• Senior Capstone Design Projects (2011- present)

Professional Activities

• Senior Area Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2024 - present

• Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 2022 - present

• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2018 - 2023

• Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019 - 2021

• Elected member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC), 2013-2018

• Associate Dean, Academic, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 01/2021-06/2022.

• Associate Dean, Academic (Interim), Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 01/2017-06/2017.

• Inaugural Program Director, Women in Engineering, 2013-2017.

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2010-2014

• Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2009-2013

• Publication Lead Co-Chair, ICASSP2016.

• Lead Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm2014) -- Communications and Networks to Enable Smart Grid Symposium, 2014.

• Finance Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC2014), 2014.

• Technical Track Co-Chair, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Communication and Networking Symposium, 2011.

• Member of Technical Program Committees for various international conferences

• Technical reviewers for IEEE transactions and journals, EUROSIP journals, and IEEE international conferences.