F. Richard Yu#
| Membership Number: | 6698 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1006-7594 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Professor, School of Information Technology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- 2006 - 2015 Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- 2005 - 2006 Director, Protocol Stack Department, Mobilepeak Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
- 2002 - 2004 Engineer, Protocol Stack Department, Ericsson Mobile Platforms Inc., Lund, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Mobile wireless networks
- Connected and autonomous vehicles
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Security and privacy in networks
Honours and Awards
- 2023 - 2019 Highly Cited Researcher for five consecutive years, Clarivate
- 2023 Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Canada Leader Award, from Research.com
- 2022 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (Flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society), Seoul, South Korea, May 2022
- 2021 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)
- 2021 Research Achievement Award, from Carleton University, “in recognition of outstanding research achievements”
- 2020 Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society), Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2020
- 2019 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)
- 2019 IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) Distinguished Service Award
- 2019 Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing
- 2018 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society
- 2017 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- 2017 Best Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) (Flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society), Sydney, Australia, June 2017
- 2017 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
- 2016 Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
- 2014 Best of Globecom Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society), Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 2014
- 2014 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (Flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society), Sydney, Australia, May 2014
- 2012 Best Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society TAOS Technical Committee, Anaheim, CA, USA, Dec. 2012
- 2012 Research Achievement Award, from Carleton University, “in recognition of outstanding research achievements”
- 2011 Early Researcher Award (ERA) (formerly Premier’s Research Excellence Award), from the Province of Ontario
- 2009 Leadership Opportunity Fund Award, Canada Foundation of Innovation
- 2009 Best Paper Award, IEEE/IFIP TrustCom’2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada
