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Electric vehicles and smart transportation systems. Cyber security. Internet of Things.</p><ul><li><a href="/information-theory-and-communications" hreflang="en">Information Theory and Communications</a></li><li><a href="/research-and-faculty/strategic-areas-research/complex-systems-network-science-and-computation" hreflang="en">Complex Systems, Network Science and Computation</a></li><li><a href="/energy-systems" hreflang="en">Energy Systems</a></li><li><a href="/signal-and-image-processing" hreflang="en">Signal and Image Processing</a></li><li><a href="/research-and-faculty/strategic-areas-research/energy-and-environment" hreflang="en">Energy and the Environment</a></li><li><a href="/systems-and-networking" hreflang="en">Systems and Networking </a></li><li><a href="/information-networks-and-decision-systems" hreflang="en">Information, Networks, and Decision Systems</a></li></ul></section><section class="section--faculty-detail faculty-detail__teaching-interests" aria-labelledby="nf-c-1460"><h2 id="nf-c-1460">Teaching Interests</h2><p>Statistical inference, machine learning, optimization, power and energy systems, electricity markets.</p></section><section class="section--faculty-detail faculty-detail__publications" aria-labelledby="nf-e-1460"><h2 id="nf-e-1460">Selected Publications</h2><ul><li>Zhe Yu, Yunjian Xu, and Lang Tong. 2018. "Deadline scheduling as restless bandits," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. DOI:<strong> </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2018.2807924" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10.1109/TAC.2018.2807924.</a></li><li>Ye Guo, Yuting Ji, and Lang Tong. 2018.  "Generalized coordinated transaction scheduling: a market approach to seamless interfaces."  IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2803749" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2803749</a>.</li><li>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: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2782802" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2782802</a></li><li>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.  <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/689702">DOI:10.1086/689702</a></li><li>Oliver Kosut, Lang Tong, and David Tse. 2014.  "Polytope codes against adversaries in networks."  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2014.2314642" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10.1109/TIT.2014.2314642</a></li></ul></section><section class="section--faculty-detail faculty-detail__awards" aria-labelledby="nf-f-1460"><h2 id="nf-f-1460">Selected Awards and Honors</h2><ul><li>Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy, 2018</li><li>IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting Best Conference Papers, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019</li><li>IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2004 </li><li>IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Price Paper Award, 2014</li><li>IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author Award, 1993</li><li>ONR Young Investigator Award, 1996</li></ul></section><section class="section--faculty-detail faculty-detail__education" aria-labelledby="nf-g-1460"><h2 id="nf-g-1460">Education</h2><ul><li>B.Sc. (Automation), Tsinghua University, 1985</li><li>M.S. (Electrical Engineering), 1988</li><li>Ph.D. (Electrical and Communications Engineering), University of Notre Dame, 1990</li><li>Post-Doctor, Stanford University, 1991</li></ul><p> </p></section><section class="section--faculty-detail faculty-detail__websites" aria-labelledby="nf-i-1460"><h2 id="nf-i-1460">Websites</h2><ul><li><a href="http://people.ece.cornell.edu/ltong/">Lang Tong Website</a></li></ul></section><section class="section--global-spacing section--bg-white section--listing-small" aria-label="In The News"><div class="padded-row"><div class="section__lead-in"><h2 class="section__lead-in__title">In the News</h2></div><div class="grid-max-9 listing-small--horiz"><div class="views-element-container"><div class="js-view-dom-id-ea15a715712b2ff1cecabf93306f89215f9b8fed10df95b0763c604b03f8b9e6 view-news view-display-id-faculty_related_news_embed"><article class="listing-small listing-small--news" aria-label="News Post: Tong Group Wins Best Paper Award at HICSS'50"><div 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