Dr. Warren Perger presenting Matt Wolf Award to Chao Zou
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Chao Zou is in the 4th year of his PhD study, and he has accomplished outstandingly as a PhD candidate from many perspectives. Chao's exceptional accomplishments distinguish himself as a worthy Matt Wolfe Award recipient, a role model for the graduate students striving to be outstanding researchers here in the department, evidenced by the following:
1) Three Journal articles and one conference paper and one book chapter plus two IEEE Transactions articles submissions. Chao Zou has published three articles in top Journals, including Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks and Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications. Two more journal papers based on his PhD dissertation research have been recently submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; Chao is the leading author of one conference paper published in the IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences - IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC); Chao is also the leading author of 1 book chapter for one of the first books on Cognitive Radio Networks. Chao Zou Research Webpage
2) With his substantial publication record, even as a PhD candidate, Chao has already been frequently invited to review journal articles and conferernce papers for prestigeous Journals and Conferences in the last two years.
3) Chao has developed a ns-2 based software simulator for Cognative Radio Networks. This simulator will be released to the international network research community shortly. And we expect it will promote the reputation of MTU largely as this will be the first ns-2 based simulator of its kind.
4) One of our NSF proposals that is mainly based on Chao's research work has been ranked as "Competitive" recently.
Chao distinguishes himself as an outstanding PhD student researcher, not only by the quality and productivity of his research, but also by his "seeking the truth" research spririt. He often initiates constructive discussions among labmates, and he has become the role model for the other PhD students in our lab.
Many of his labmates mentioned that Chao has been an inspirational influence on them since he sets the goals high, and then he reached those goals with his hardworking and truth seeking attitude |
