B.Eng. (BJTU), M.Sc. (UVic), PhD (UofT)


• Assistant Professor

Contact Information:


Ph: 709-864-8962
Em: jingrongw[at]mun.ca
Office: CSF4117

Expertise

• Distributed Machine Learning
• Online Optimization
• Wireless Communications

Research Interests

• Communication-efficient decentralized learning
• Resource allocation in wireless and mobile networks
• Scalable machine learning systems
• Enhancing AI via efficient systems and networks

Personal Profile
 Dr. Jingrong Wang received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2024, after which she was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the same department. Prior to that, she earned her M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria in 2019 and her B.Eng. in Electronic and Information Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2017. Her research focuses on distributed and online machine learning, mobile edge computing, and wireless communications with an emphasis on scalable and resource-efficient algorithms for decentralized networks.

Honours/Awards/Accreditation

• Chair, IEEE Women in Engineering Newfoundland and Labrador Section (since 2024)
• Lieutenant Governors Silver Medal for outstanding thesis (UVic), 2020.
• UofT Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Scholarships for PhD Program in ECE, 2019.
• ACM SIGCOMM N2Women Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan Travel Grant, 2019.
• IEEE Pacific Rim Wu-Sheng Lu Graduate Scholarship, 2018.
• The Martlet Chapter IODE Graduate Scholarship for Women, 2018.
• N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship at IEEE LCN, 2018.
• UVic Fellowship Award for Graduate Program in CS, 2017.