Dr. Weiqiang Sun is currently a full professor in the department of electronic engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Dr. Sun is actively involved in the research of high speed networks, network control and management, and network applications. He has over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He was actively involved in the standardization of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) performance measurement in IETF, and is the co-editor of RFC 6777 and RFC 5814. He has served as the organizer of the Sino-Korea Workshop on IPTV and NGN (2007-2010) and  one of the TPC co-chairs of IEEE HPSR 2017.

Dr. Sun founded the "SJTU-Health" project, an online health management platform that serves the SJTU community. Since then, Dr. Sun is interested in health informatics. The "SJTU-Health" project has over 10,000 registered users and is actively providing online services to faculties, alumni and students.

Dr. Weiqiang is a senior member of IEEE and life member of OSA.

Google scholar profile:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2ezpfqcAAAAJ&hl=en

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Dec. 2013 – Dec. 2014

Visiting scholar (MIT LGO && AA), MIT

Dec. 2014 – Current

Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, SJTU

Dec. 2008 – Dec. 2014

Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, SJTU

Sep. 2008 – Dec. 2008

Visiting scholar (MIT LGO), MIT

Jun. 2004 – Dec. 2008

Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, SJTU

EDUCATION HISTORY

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

Ph.D, Communications and Information Systems (With honors)

Date of graduate: Jun. 2004

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

B. Sci., Electronic Engineering (With honors), in the Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY)

Date of graduate: Jun. 1999

• Communication Networks
• Data Driven Decision Making
• Network Science

• Modeling of communication networks
• Health Informatics
• Community Development

• Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation, 2012
• Rising-Star Scholar, Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, Jun. 2009
• Chenxing Young Scholar, SJTU, Jun. 2008
• Graduate of excellence, USTC, Jul. 2004
• Samsung Scholarship, USTC, Jul. 2003
• Microsoft Fellowship, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) , Sep. 2003
• “Awarded because of your academic achievements…”
• Yin-Gang Peng Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Jul. 2001
• Award of Excellence for the undergraduate students, USTC, 1994~1999 (annually)

• EI243: "Digital Fundamentals"
• EE377: "Models and Algorithms in Communication Networks"

• MARCONI：Models and AlgoRithms in a Compute and Optical Network Converged Infrastructure, NSFC key project, 2024.1 - 2028.12

• “GMPLS for future applications –performance characterization andmeasurements”,in“Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design,”IGI Global Publishing, 2013

• R. Liu, W. Sun and W. Hu, "Placement of High Availability Geo-Distributed Data Centers in Emerging Economies," in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 3274-3288, 1 July-Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2023.3280983.
• S. Yue, X. Lin, W. Sun and W. Hu, "Modeling Sparse Store-and-Forward Bulk Data Transfers in Inter-Datacenter Networks With Multiple Congested Links," in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 2725-2738, 1 July-Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2022.3225977.
• Keqin Shi, Zhen Chen, Xuejing Li, Zhifei Xiao, Weiqiang Sun, and Weisheng Hu. 2023. Inferring Activity Patterns from Sparse Step Counts Data with Recurrent Neural Networks. ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 4, 1, Article 4 (January 2023), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3560468
• Junyi Shao, Shuai Zhang, Weiqiang Sun, and Weisheng Hu, "Dynamic frequency slot allocation on IP-over-EON access links with multiple-type and time-varying traffic," J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 15, 304-317 (2023)
• J. Yu, M. Ding, Q. Wang, W. Sun and W. Hu, "Community Sports Organization Development From a Social Network Evolution Perspective— Structures, Stages, and Stimulus," in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 878-889, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCSS.2021.3135809.
• Junyi Shao, Shuai Zhang, Weiqiang Sun, and Weisheng Hu, "Dimensioning access link capacity for time-varying traffic with mixed packet streams and circuit connections," J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13, 276-288 (2021)
• Qian Liu, Weiqiang Sun, Shengnan Yue and Weisheng Hu, A Routing Scheme for Bulk Data Transfers in Multi -domain OCS Networks with Assistive Storage, IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China
• Xiao Lin, Weiqiang Sun, Shengnan Yue and Weisheng Hu, Design of an SnF Scheduling Method for Bulk Data Transfers over Inter-Datacenter WANs, IEEE HPSR 2019, Xi’an, China