Purdue University will welcome its first Chinese-American president in history. 
On June 10, local time, the Purdue University board of directors announced the appointment of 45-year-old Chinese scientist Mung Chiang as the next president of Purdue University, and 73-year-old president Mitch Daniels will be appointed in January 2023. 1 day to resign.
Purdue University is a member of the "Public Ivy League" and is a well-known old school in science and engineering. Purdue University has 13 Nobel Prize winners, including Deng Jiaxian, the father of China's two bombs, Liang Sili, a first-generation rocket expert, and Chen Xuejun and Wang Buxuan, the founders of thermal energy engineering.
In fact, this is not the first time Jiang Meng has received an invitation to the post of principal. In December 2021, Jiang Meng, then Purdue's executive vice president and dean of the College of Engineering, was elected president of the University of South Carolina.
But then, Purdue University’s School of Engineering stated that Jiang Meng had withdrawn from the race and remained at Purdue. In a statement, Purdue University spokesman Tim Doty said, "Meng Jiang is one of America's most respected thinkers and sought-after academic leaders. We are grateful that this is not the first time he has chosen to decline to serve as a prestigious president. position, choose to stay with us.”
After the news came out, Jiang Meng himself also tweeted, "Considering various family factors, after discussing with my family, it was agreed that the best course of action is for me to focus on the responsibilities of my family and my current institution, and other opportunities. will not be considered for the time being.”
Jiang Meng was born in Tianjin in 1977, studied in Hong Kong in 1988, and entered Stanford University in 1995. In 1999, 2000 and 2003, he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and mathematics, a master's degree and a doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Since 2004, Jiang Meng has taught at Princeton University and is one of the youngest professors at Princeton University. He became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2004, a tenured associate professor in 2008, and was promoted to professor in 2011. In 2013, Jiang Meng received the Alan T. Waterman Award, the highest honor for a researcher in the United States under the age of 40, for "fundamental contributions to the analysis, design, and optimization of wireless networks."
Since 2017, Jiang Meng has served as dean of the John A. Edwardson School of Engineering at Purdue University, and is the youngest leader of a major school in the modern history of an American university. Purdue University's School of Engineering is consistently ranked in the top five in engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report. In the 2021 and 2022 rankings, it ranked fourth in the United States for two consecutive times. The School of Engineering has more than 20 academicians of the American Academy of Engineering and is known as the "Mother of American Aerospace". It has trained 22 American astronauts, including Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon, and Eugene, the last astronaut to land on the moon. Cernan.
In April 2021, Jiang Meng assumed the role of Vice President for Strategy Execution and the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, while continuing to serve as Dean of the School of Engineering.
Michael Berghoff, Chairman of the Purdue University Board of Regents, said, "Meng Jiang is the ideal person to lead Purdue University's next leap forward. The Board of Trustees is confident in this choice because we have witnessed his outstanding performance over the past five years."
During his five-year tenure at Purdue, Jiang Meng led the School of Engineering to its highest-ever ranking, with a significant rise in both undergraduate and graduate rankings. Purdue University currently ranks 4th in graduate programs, 3rd in online correspondence programs, and 10th in undergraduate education. It is the largest undergraduate program among the top 10 universities in the United States, and both government and industry-funded research funding hit a record. new record.
At the same time, Jiang Mengzai played a central role in forging new relationships with federal agencies in the Departments of National Security and Economic Development, as well as recruiting new companies to invest and create jobs in Purdue's Discovery Park District. He served as Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State in 2020, responsible for an intergovernmental personnel act appointment.
According to Berghoff, “He has demonstrated not only academic excellence, but also a keen administrative and public communication skills, building effective relationships with academia, government and business partners. He has everything we need to take us further. Talent and experience. The Board of Directors appreciates his loyalty to Purdue University.”
On May 10, 2022, Meng Jiang received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) INFOCOM Achievement Award, and the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award for contributions to fundamental research and industrial impact on edge computing, data pricing, and network utility maximization research (2012) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2014).
Jiang Meng's research works on Internet congestion control and routing, wireless power control and scheduling, cloud and video optimization, intelligent data pricing, and social learning networks have received more than 30,000 citations, with an H-index of 81, and were published in IEEE INFOCOM (2012). ), IEEE SECON (2013) and ACM MobiHoc (2021) for best paper awards. In addition, he was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2012, and was elected to the National Academy of Inventors (2020) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2021)
An inventor and entrepreneur, Jiang Meng also co-founded three startups in edge computing, decentralized AI, and network optimization, and co-founded the OpenFog Alliance, a global non-profit organization, which is now part of the Global Industrial Internet Alliance.
Regarding the appointment of the president of Purdue University, Jiang Meng said that this is the highest and most humbling honor. In his inaugural statement, Jiang Meng wrote that Neil Armstrong said that knowledge is the foundation of all human achievement and progress. My own life was freed from want thanks to education. I am forever grateful that I have the honor of serving talent at a university that reserves a place for all minds pursuing open inquiry.
On the left is the current Principal Mitch Daniels, on the right is the next Principal Mung Chiang
On June 10, local time, the Purdue University board of directors announced the appointment of 45-year-old Chinese scientist Mung Chiang as the next president of Purdue University, and 73-year-old president Mitch Daniels will be appointed in January 2023. 1 day to resign.
Purdue University is a member of the "Public Ivy League" and is a well-known old school in science and engineering. Purdue University has 13 Nobel Prize winners, including Deng Jiaxian, the father of China's two bombs, Liang Sili, a first-generation rocket expert, and Chen Xuejun and Wang Buxuan, the founders of thermal energy engineering.
In fact, this is not the first time Jiang Meng has received an invitation to the post of principal. In December 2021, Jiang Meng, then Purdue's executive vice president and dean of the College of Engineering, was elected president of the University of South Carolina.
But then, Purdue University’s School of Engineering stated that Jiang Meng had withdrawn from the race and remained at Purdue. In a statement, Purdue University spokesman Tim Doty said, "Meng Jiang is one of America's most respected thinkers and sought-after academic leaders. We are grateful that this is not the first time he has chosen to decline to serve as a prestigious president. position, choose to stay with us.”After the news came out, Jiang Meng himself also tweeted, "Considering various family factors, after discussing with my family, it was agreed that the best course of action is for me to focus on the responsibilities of my family and my current institution, and other opportunities. will not be considered for the time being.”
Jiang Meng was born in Tianjin in 1977, studied in Hong Kong in 1988, and entered Stanford University in 1995. In 1999, 2000 and 2003, he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and mathematics, a master's degree and a doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Since 2004, Jiang Meng has taught at Princeton University and is one of the youngest professors at Princeton University. He became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2004, a tenured associate professor in 2008, and was promoted to professor in 2011. In 2013, Jiang Meng received the Alan T. Waterman Award, the highest honor for a researcher in the United States under the age of 40, for "fundamental contributions to the analysis, design, and optimization of wireless networks."
Since 2017, Jiang Meng has served as dean of the John A. Edwardson School of Engineering at Purdue University, and is the youngest leader of a major school in the modern history of an American university. Purdue University's School of Engineering is consistently ranked in the top five in engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report. In the 2021 and 2022 rankings, it ranked fourth in the United States for two consecutive times. The School of Engineering has more than 20 academicians of the American Academy of Engineering and is known as the "Mother of American Aerospace". It has trained 22 American astronauts, including Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon, and Eugene, the last astronaut to land on the moon. Cernan.
In April 2021, Jiang Meng assumed the role of Vice President for Strategy Execution and the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, while continuing to serve as Dean of the School of Engineering.
Michael Berghoff, Chairman of the Purdue University Board of Regents, said, "Meng Jiang is the ideal person to lead Purdue University's next leap forward. The Board of Trustees is confident in this choice because we have witnessed his outstanding performance over the past five years."
During his five-year tenure at Purdue, Jiang Meng led the School of Engineering to its highest-ever ranking, with a significant rise in both undergraduate and graduate rankings. Purdue University currently ranks 4th in graduate programs, 3rd in online correspondence programs, and 10th in undergraduate education. It is the largest undergraduate program among the top 10 universities in the United States, and both government and industry-funded research funding hit a record. new record.
At the same time, Jiang Mengzai played a central role in forging new relationships with federal agencies in the Departments of National Security and Economic Development, as well as recruiting new companies to invest and create jobs in Purdue's Discovery Park District. He served as Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State in 2020, responsible for an intergovernmental personnel act appointment.
According to Berghoff, “He has demonstrated not only academic excellence, but also a keen administrative and public communication skills, building effective relationships with academia, government and business partners. He has everything we need to take us further. Talent and experience. The Board of Directors appreciates his loyalty to Purdue University.”
On May 10, 2022, Meng Jiang received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) INFOCOM Achievement Award, and the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award for contributions to fundamental research and industrial impact on edge computing, data pricing, and network utility maximization research (2012) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2014).
Jiang Meng's research works on Internet congestion control and routing, wireless power control and scheduling, cloud and video optimization, intelligent data pricing, and social learning networks have received more than 30,000 citations, with an H-index of 81, and were published in IEEE INFOCOM (2012). ), IEEE SECON (2013) and ACM MobiHoc (2021) for best paper awards. In addition, he was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2012, and was elected to the National Academy of Inventors (2020) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2021)
An inventor and entrepreneur, Jiang Meng also co-founded three startups in edge computing, decentralized AI, and network optimization, and co-founded the OpenFog Alliance, a global non-profit organization, which is now part of the Global Industrial Internet Alliance.
Regarding the appointment of the president of Purdue University, Jiang Meng said that this is the highest and most humbling honor. In his inaugural statement, Jiang Meng wrote that Neil Armstrong said that knowledge is the foundation of all human achievement and progress. My own life was freed from want thanks to education. I am forever grateful that I have the honor of serving talent at a university that reserves a place for all minds pursuing open inquiry.
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