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Edwin K.P. Chong, Ph.D.

	Edwin K.P. Chong, Ph.D.
Biography	Edwin K. P. Chong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He received the B.E.(Hons.) degree with First Class Honors from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1987, graduating top of his class in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1991, respectively, both from Princeton University in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he held an IBM Graduate Fellowship. His Ph.D. advisor at Princeton was Professor Peter Ramadge. From August 1991 to August 2001, he was on the faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, where he was promoted to Professor in 2001. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Professor Chong's research interests are primarily in the areas of control, optimization, and modeling, with applications to computer/communication networks and wireless systems. He received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 1995. Professor Chong is a Fellow of IEEE. He has served as the faculty advisor and branch counselor for the Purdue University IEEE student branch. He received the Outstanding IEEE Branch Counselor and Advisor Award in 1993, and the IEEE Section Recognition Award (IEEE Central Indiana Section) in 1994. Professor Chong was the founding chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems (under the IEEE Control Systems Society). He has served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, and on program/organizing committees for several conferences, including the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC), IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), and IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1994-1997. He is currently an editor of the journal Computer Networks and of the Journal of Control Science and Engineering. Professor Chong is coauthor of a best-selling book, An Introduction to Optimization, Third Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2008. For his contributions to research and education in electrical engineering, Professor Chong received the 1998 Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the ASEE, sponsored by HP (see information on the Terman Award and list of awardees). He was named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar in 1999.
Industry	Higher Education and Research
Title	Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Professor, Dept. of Mathematics
Expertise	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Organization	Colorado State University
Type of Organization	University
Major Product	Higher education, research
Area of Distribution	International
University/Degree	B.E. (Honors, 1st Class Honors), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1987; M.A., Electrical Engineering, 1989; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1991, Princeton University, New Jersey
Born	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Honors & Awards	Numerous including, Outstanding IEEE Branch Counselor and Advisor Award, 1993; IEEE Section Recognition Award (IEEE Central Indiana Section), 1994; National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, 1995; Tarkington Hall Certificate of Appreciation, 1996; Frederick Emmons Terman Award, American Society for Engineering, 1998; Purdue University Faculty Scholar Award, 1999; IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-03; Elected to Full Member of Sigma Xi, 2002; Elsevier Best Paper Award, 2004
Published Works	Numerous publications including- 2 books, "An Introduction to Optimization", 1996, ISBN 0-471-08949-4, xxxi+409 pp and "An Introduction to Optimization, 2nd Edition", 2001, ISBN 0-471-39126-3, xvi+477 pp, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, NY; 200 journal papers, conference proceedings and presentations, book chapters; Papers on philosophy, theology and alologetics
Affiliations	Fellow, I.E.E.E.
Work History	Professor, Mathematics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001-present, Colorado State University; Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1991-97; Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997-2001; Professor/Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001-present, Purdue University; Consultant for various organizations, 1996-present
Children	Madeleine, Isaac
Spouse	Yat-Yee Chong
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