Chonggang Wang

Director, Industry Communities at IEEE Communications Society

Chonggang Wang received the Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2002. He is currently a Principal Engineer with InterDigital, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of communications, networking, and computing, including R&D and standardization of wireless systems, Internet of Things (IoT), quantum internet, and internet protocols. He participates in industry standardization activities with IETF, ETSI, 3GPP, oneM2M, and IEEE. He holds more than 120 granted U.S. patents.

His current research interests include blockchain technologies and applications, 5G/6G wireless systems, distributed and federated intelligence, and quantum internet. Dr. Wang is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and a steering committee member of IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network Magazine and the Educator-in-Chief of the IEEE Academy on IoT. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to IoT enabling technologies.


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