Dr. Ning Lu

Associate Professor

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Biography

Ning Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University, where he holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Future Communication Networks. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in 2007 and his Master of Engineering (MEng) in 2010 from Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2015. Prior to joining Queen’s University, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Science at Thompson Rivers University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2015 to 2016. Additionally, he has conducted research internships at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo in 2009. His research focuses on the design, optimization, and deployment of next-generation wireless networks, edge computing systems, and distributed machine learning algorithms. He has published extensively in top-tier venues such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and actively chairs and participates in major conferences in the field.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2016-01-01 — Present

Queen’s University • Kingston, Canada

Teaching and conducting research in electrical and computer engineering.

Assistant Professor

2015-01-01 — 2016-01-01

Thompson Rivers University • Kamloops, Canada

Conducted research and taught in computing science.

Postdoctoral Fellow

2015-01-01 — 2016-01-01

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Urbana-Champaign, USA

Conducted research in coordinated sciences.

Courses

ELEC 373 Computer Networks ELEC 829 Optimization Machine Learning ELEC 860 Communication Network Analysis ELEC 326 Probability Random Processes

Requirements for Queen's University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:88
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Honours Bachelor degree Background in Computing, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Statement of Research Interest
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Two academic references
  • Transcripts
Specialization Notes

Department of Computing offers research-based, project-based, and course-based patterns.