Jason Yi-Bing Lin, a 1990 Ph.D. alumnus of UW CSE, has been recognized with the 2011 Prize in Engineering Sciences from TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world.
Jason is Dean of the College of Computer Science, lifetime Chair Professor, and Vice President of the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He has been widely recognized for his many contributions to wireless communication, including (among many other honors) being named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of three textbooks: Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (co-author with Imrich Chlamtac, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (2008).
Congratulations Jason!