Lu Ruan

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1040

Office: 204 Atanasoff Hall
Phone: (515)294-2259
Fax: (515)294-0258
Email: ruan_AT_cs.iastate.edu

Education

     B.E., Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1996

     M.S., Computer Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, MN, 1999

     Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities , MN, 2001

Research Interests

Optical Networks, Wireless Networks.

Research Grants

CAREER: Resilience Schemes for Survivable IP over WDM Networks, National Science Foundation, 2003-2008, $447,403.

Teaching

Fall 2008: CS586 Computer Network Architectures

What’s new?

• I will serve on the Program Committee for the Optical Networking Track at ICCCN 2007, August 13-15, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• I will serve on the Program Committee for the Optical Communications and Networking Symposium at CHINACOM 2007, August 22-24, 2007, Shanghai, China.
• I will serve on the Program Committee for the Optical Networks and Systems Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2007, Nobember 26-30, Washington, DC.
• My Erdos number is 3 (through Ding-Zhu Du ).

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

For graduate students: Advice on research and writing

My favorite quote:

God does not roll dice. --Albert Einstein