Ph.D - Mathematics
University of California at Santa Barbara - 1985

M.S. - Operations Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences - 1982

Feng Wang, My T. Thai, Yingshu Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, and Ding-Zhu Du, Fault Tolerant Topology Control for One-to-All and All-to-One Communications in Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2008 - Publication

Yongxi Cheng and Ding-Zhu Du, Efficient constructions of disjunct matrices with applications to DNA screening, Journal of Computational Biology 2007 - Publication

My T. Thai, Feng Wang, Dan Liu, Shiwei Zhu, and Ding-Zhu Du, Connected dominating sets in wireless networks with different transmission ranges, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2007 - Publication

Xiuzhen Cheng, Ding-Zhu Du, Lusheng Wang and Baogang Xu, Relay sensor placement in wireless sensor networks, ACM Wireless Networks 2007 - Publication

My T. Thai, Zhipeng Cai, and Ding-Zhu Du, Genetic Networks: Processing Data, Regulatory Network Modeling, and their Analysis, Optimization Methods and Software 2007 - Publication

Yingshu Li, My T. Thai, Feng Wang and Ding-Zhu Du, On the construction of a strongly connected broadcast arborescence with bounded transmission delay, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2006 - Publication

Ding-Zhu Du, Frank K. Hwang, Weili Wu and Ty Znati, A new construction of transversal designs, Journal of Computational Biology 2006 - Publication

Scott C.-H. Huang, Maggie X. Cheng and Ding-Zhu Du, GeoSENS: geo-based sensor network secure communications protocol, Computer Communication 2006 - Publication

Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2005–Present]

Dean of Science
Xi'an Jiaotong University [2005–Present]

Program Director for CISE/CCF
National Science Foundation [2002–2005]

Honors and Awards

2007: Received the Best Paper Award from International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA'07), Chicago, Illinois, USA, 8/1-3, 2007.

2003: Received the Best Paper Award from the 22nd IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communication Conference at Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 9-11.

1998: Received CSTS Prize from INFORMS (a merge of American Operations Research Society and Institute of Management Science) for research excellence in the interface between Operations Research and Computer Science.

1996: Received the 2nd Class National Natural Science Prize in China.

1996: Fellow of the Center for Management of Operations and Logistics, University of Texas at Austin.

1993: Received the 1st Class Natural Science Prize from Chinese Academy of Sciences.

1992: Received the National Young Scientist Prize from China.

1992: The proof of Gilbet-Pollak conjecture was selected by 1992 Year Book Encyclopaedia, Briticanna, as the first one among six outstanding achievements in mathematics in 1991.

1992: Received $500 personal award from Professor Ronald L. Graham, the President of American Mathematics Society, for proving the Steiner ratio conjecture of Gilbert and Pollak.

Associated Journals

Computer Science

• Theoretical Computer Science
• Journal of Information Science and Engineering
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology
• International Journal of Security and Networks
• International Journal of Sensor Networks
• International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
• Journal of Computers

Operations Research

• Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
• Journal of Global Optimization
• Pacific Journal of Optimization
• Optimization Letters

Mathematics

• Asian Journal of Mathematics
• Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications
• Combinatorics and Graphs
• Internet Mathematics
• Science in China (Mathematics)