Lang Tong | Cornell Engineering

Biography

Lang Tong joined Cornell University in 1998 where he is now the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in Engineering and the Cornell site director of the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC). His current research focuses on optimization, machine learning, and market operations of smart grid and future energy systems.

A Fellow of IEEE, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the 2018 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy, Professor Tong has made contributions in multiple technical fields in electrical engineering, including signal processing, communications, networking, and power systems, for which he received best paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Power and Energy societies, and his students received seven student paper awards.

Research Interests

Optimization, machine learning, and power system and market operations. Electric vehicles and smart transportation systems. Cyber security. Internet of Things.

Information Theory and Communications
Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation
Energy Systems
Signal and Image Processing
Energy and the Environment
Systems and Networking
Information, Networks, and Decision Systems

Teaching Interests

Statistical inference, machine learning, optimization, power and energy systems, electricity markets.

Select Publications

Zhe Yu, Yunjian Xu, and Lang Tong. 2018. “Deadline scheduling as restless bandits,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2018.2807924.
Ye Guo, Yuting Ji, and Lang Tong. 2018. “Generalized coordinated transaction scheduling: a market approach to seamless interfaces.” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2803749.
Daniel Munoz-Alvarez and Lang Tong. 2017. “On the efficiency of connection charges—Part I: a stochastic framework; Part II: integration of distributed energy resources. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2782802
Shanjun Li, Lang Tong, Jianwei Xing, and Yiyi Zhou. 2017. “The market for electric vehicles: indirect network effects and policy design” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. DOI:10.1086/689702
Oliver Kosut, Lang Tong, and David Tse. 2014. “Polytope codes against adversaries in networks.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2014.2314642

Lang Tong's Google Scholar

Select Awards and Honors

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy 2018
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society General Meeting Best Conference Papers 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Price Paper Award 2014
IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award 2004
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award 1996
IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author Award 1993

Education

B.Sc., Automation, Tsinghua University 1985
M.S., Electrical Engineering 1988
Ph.D., Electrical and Communications Engineering, University of Notre Dame 1990
Post-Doctor, Stanford University 1991