Edmund Yeh

About

Edmund Yeh received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1994. He then studied at Cambridge University on the Winston Churchill Scholarship, obtaining his M.Phil in Engineering in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT under Professor Robert Gallager in 2001.

He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, with a Khoury College of Computer Sciences courtesy appointment. He was previously Assistant and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Statistics at Yale University. Prof. Yeh has held visiting positions at MIT, Stanford, Princeton, University of California at Berkeley, New York University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Technical University of Munich, and National Taiwan University.   He is a Faculty Fellow of the Internet Society Project at Yale Law School.  Prof. Yeh has been on the technical staff at the Mathematical Sciences Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, at the Signal Processing Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and at the Space and Communications Group, Hughes Electronics Corporation.

Prof. Yeh has led and participated in funded research projects worth more than $38 million, supported by NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, ARO, DTRA, Cisco, Intel, American Tower, and Raytheon. He served as a PI for the $7.9 million NSF Future Internet Architecture (FIA) grant which launched the Named Data Networking (NDN) project. He served as a PI for the $10 million industry-collaborative DARPA Dispersed Computing (DCOMP) Generalized Network Assisted Transport (GNAT) project. He serves as the lead PI for the $1 million NSF CC* SDN-Assisted NDN for Data Intensive Experiments (SANDIE) and the $1 million CC* NDN for Data-Intensive Science Experiments (N-DISE) projects. Prof. Yeh serves as a co-PI for the $1 million NSF CNS Data-Centric Networks for Distributed Learning project, and for the $6.1 million Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office, which collaborates with NSF and industry partners to accelerate fundamental research on wireless communication and networking technologies by establishing and overseeing multiple city-scale testing platforms across the U.S. Prof. Yeh has also served as co-PI on two NSF Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) Type 2 projects, each worth $2.5 million.

Professor Yeh is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2021-2022. He is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award. He has received four Best Paper Awards: at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015, at the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) 2023, at ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN) 2017, and at IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN) 2012.  He received the Best Poster Award at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2023.  Prof. Yeh is the recipient of the Winston Churchill Scholarship, the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowships, the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award, and Stanford University President’s Award for Academic Excellence.

Professor Yeh served as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for ACM MobiHoc 2021, and as General Chair for ACM SIGMETRICS 2020. He has served as both Treasurer and Secretary of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He served as a Steering Committee Member for IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) and as General Co-Chair for ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN) 2018. Professor Yeh has served as Chair of the U.S. National Academies Panel on Review of the In-house Laboratory Independent Research in Network Sciences at the Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs). He also served on the U.S. National Academies Panel on Review of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Professor Yeh serves as the inaugural Area Editor in Networking and Computation for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. He served as the Guest Editor-in-Chief of the Special Issue on Wireless Networks for Internet Mathematics, and a Guest Editor of the Special Series on Smart Grid Communications for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

Professor Yeh is the holder of 8 patents.  He has interacted extensively with industry, serving as PI on grants from Cisco, Intel, American Tower, and Raytheon, and serving as consultant to Verizon Wireless.  Professor Yeh is a frequent speaker, serving as plenary lecturer and panelist, and giving more than 110 invited talks at leading institutions worldwide.  He is also actively involved in exploring the societal impact of technology, serving as Faculty Fellow of the Internet Society Project at Yale Law School.

Selected Publications

• Yuezhou Liu, Lili Su, Carlee Joe-Wong, Stratis Ioannidis, Edmund Yeh, and Marie Siew, “Cache-Enabled Federated Learning Systems.” Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc, October 23-26, 2023.
• Derya Malak, Yuanyuan Li, Stratis Ioannidis, Edmund Yeh, and Muriel Medard, “Joint Optimization of Storage and Transmission via Coding Traffic Flows for Content Distribution.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Singapore, August 24-27, 2023.
• Bahman Abolhassani, John Tadrous, Atilla Eryilmaz, Edmund Yeh, “Fresh Caching of Dynamic Content over the Wireless Edge.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 30, No. 5, October 2022, pp. 2315-2327.
• Y. Wu, F. Mutlu, Y. Liu, E. Yeh, R. Liu, C. Iordache, J. Balcas, H. Newman, R. Sirvinskas, M. Lo, S. Song, J. Cong, L. Zhang, S. Timilsina, S. Shannigrahi, D. Pesavento, J. Shi, L. Benmohamed, “N-DISE: NDN-based Data Distribution for Large-Scale Data-Intensive Science Experiments” Proceedings of ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), Osaka, Japan, September 19-21, 2022.
• Jinkun Zhang, Yuezhou Liu, and Edmund Yeh, “Optimal Congestion-aware Routing and Offloading in Collaborative Edge Computing.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Turin, Italy, September 19-23, 2022.
• Khashayar Kamran, Edmund Yeh, and Qian Ma, “DECO: Joint Computation, Caching and Forwarding in Data-Centric Computing Networks.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 30, No. 3, June 2022, pp. 1058-1072.
• Yuezhou Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Lili Su, Edmund Yeh, and Stratis Ioannidis, “Experimental Design Networks: A Paradigm for Serving Heterogeneous Learners under Networking Constraints.”  Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2-5, 2022.
• Dirk Bergemann, Edmund Yeh, and Jinkun Zhang, “Nonlinear Pricing with Finite Information.” Games and Economic Behavior. Vol. 130, November 2021, pp. 62-84.

• Armin Moharrer, Khashayar Kamran, Edmund Yeh and Stratis Ioannidis, “Robust Regression via Model Based Methods.” Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), September 13-17, 2021.

• Yuezhou Liu, Alireza Alizadeh, Mai Vu and Edmund Yeh, “Joint User Association and Caching in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks with Backhaul.” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 14-23, 2021.

• Khashayar Kamran, Armin Moharrer, Stratis Ioannidis, and Edmund Yeh, “Rate Allocation and Content Placement in Cache Networks.” Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 10-13, 2021.

• Qian Ma, Edmund Yeh, and Jianwei Huang, “Selfish Caching Games on Directed Graphs.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 29, No. 2, April 2021, pp. 709-722.

• Yuezhou Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Qian Ma, Stratis Ioannidis and Edmund Yeh, “Fair Caching Networks.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP Performance), November 2-6, 2020.

• Milad Mahdian, Armin Moharrer, Stratis Ioannidis, and Edmund Yeh, “Kelly Cache Networks.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 28, No. 3, June 2020, pp. 1130-1143.

• Jianan Zhang, Edmund Yeh, and Eytan Modiano, “Robustness of Interdependent Random Geometric Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Vol. 6, No. 3, July-Sept. 2019, pp. 474-487.

• Derya Malak, Muriel Medard, and Edmund Yeh, “Tiny Codes for Guaranteeable Delay.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Vol. 37, No. 4, April 2019, pp. 809-825.

• Ran Liu, Edmund Yeh, and Atilla Eryilmaz, “Proactive Caching for Low Access-Delay Services under Uncertain Predictions.” Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems – SIGMETRICS. Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2019, Article No. 2.

• Ying Cui, Muriel Medard, Edmund Yeh, Douglas Leith, and Ken Duffy, “Optimization-Based Linear Network Coding for General Connections of Continuous Flows.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 26, No. 5, October 2018, pp. 2033-2047.
• Stratis Ioannidis and Edmund Yeh, “Jointly Optimal Routing and Caching for Arbitrary Network Topologies.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Vol. 36, No. 6, June 2018, pp. 1258-1275.

• Stratis Ioannidis and Edmund Yeh, “Adaptive Caching Networks with Optimality Guarantees.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2018, pp. 737-750.

• Susmit Shannigrahi, Christos Papadopoulos, Edmund Yeh, Harvey Newman, Artur Jerzy Barczyk, Ran Liu, Alex Sim, Inder Monga, Jean-Roch Vlimant, and John Wu, “Named Data Networking in Climate Research and HEP Applications.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physic (CHEP), April 13-17, 2015.

• Edmund M. Yeh, Tracey Ho, Ying Cui, Michael Burd, Ran Liu, and Derek Leong, “VIP: A Framework for Joint Dynamic Forwarding and Caching in Named Data Networks.” Proceedings of ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), September 24-26, 2014, pp. 117-126.
• Eren Sasoglu, Emre Telatar, and Edmund M. Yeh, “Polar Codes for the Two-user Multiple-access Channel.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 10, October 2013, pp. 6583-6592.
• Dirk Bergemann, Ji Shen, Yun Xu, and Edmund M. Yeh, “Multi-Dimensional Mechanism Design with Limited Information.” Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2012, pp. 162-178.
• Zhenning Kong and Edmund M. Yeh, “Resilience to Degree-dependent and Cascading Node Failures in Random Geometric Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 11, November 2010, pp. 5533-5546.
• Lixia Zhang, Deborah Estrin, Jeff Burke, Van Jacobson, James Thornton, Diana Smetters, Beichuan Zhang, Gene Tsudik, Dan Massey, Christos Papadopoulos, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lan Wang, Patrick Crowley, and Edmund Yeh. “Named Data Networking (NDN) Project.” Technical Report ndn-0001, PARC, October 31, 2010.
• Yufang Xi and Edmund M. Yeh. “Node-Based Optimal Distributed Power Control, Routing, and Congestion Control in Wireless Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 9, September 2008, pp. 4081-4106.
• Zhenning Kong and Edmund M. Yeh, “On the Latency for Information Dissemination in Mobile Wireless Networks.” Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), May 26-30, 2008, pp. 139-148.
• Edmund M. Yeh and Randall A. Berry, “Throughput Optimal Control of Cooperative Relay Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 53(10), 2007, pp. 3827-3833
• Ming Cao, Daniel A. Spielman and Edmund M. Yeh, “Accelerated Gossip Algorithms for Distributed Computation.” Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. Monticello, IL, September 27-29, 2006, pp. 952-959.
• Randall A. Berry and Edmund M. Yeh, “Cross-Layer Wireless Resource Allocation.” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 21(5), 2004, pp. 59-68
• Edmund M. Yeh and Aaron S. Cohen, “Throughput and Delay Optimal Resource Allocation in Multiaccess Fading Channels.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2003, p. 245
• Anand Bedekar, Sem Borst, Kavita Ramanan, Philip Whiting, Edmund Yeh, “Downlink Scheduling in CDMA Data Networks.” Global Telecommunications Conference 1999, pp. 2653-2657

Faculty

Aug 30, 2023

Researchers Win Best Paper Award for Content Distribution Framework

A team of researchers from Northeastern University, MIT, and EURECOM won the best paper award at the 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2023) for their paper on “Joint Optimization of Storage and Transmission via Coding Traffic Flows for Content Distribution.”

Faculty

Jul 14, 2023

Improving Efficiency of Data-Centric Computing

ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for “Network and method for servicing a computation request.”

Faculty

Jan 17, 2023

Spring 2023 Spark Fund Awardees

ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons, ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes, and MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li are recipients of the Spring 2023 Spark Fund Awards.

Faculty

Dec 12, 2022

SC22 Demo Shows Record Performance for NDN-based Data Delivery Platform

The NSF-supported multi-university N-DISE (NDN for Data-Intensive Science Experiments) project, led by ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, has finished a highly successful demo at SC22 in Dallas.  The Northeastern-Caltech-UCLA-Tennessee Tech team demonstrated a record average throughput of 50 Gbps and peak throughput of 63 Gbps for the N-DISE data delivery platform on a transcontinental wide area network testbed.

Faculty

Jun 09, 2022

Improving Computer Networks with Distributed Cached Content

ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for designing a “Distributing cached content in a network.” Abstract Source: USPTO The invention relates to a computer-implemented method, a corresponding a computer program product and a corresponding apparatus for distributing cached content in a network, the computer-implemented method comprising: collecting statistics […]

Faculty

May 18, 2022

Delivering Network Content More Effectively

ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for a “network and method for delivering content while minimizing congestion costs by jointly optimizing forwarding and caching strategies.”

Faculty

Apr 22, 2022

Yeh to Speak at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Professor Edmund Yeh will give an invited seminar titled “Data-Centric Networking: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” in the Electrical Engineering Seminar Series at Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Faculty

Feb 25, 2022

Handling Both Routing and Caching Effectively

ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for “Joint routing and caching method for content delivery with optimality guarantees for arbitrary networks.”

Faculty

Sep 07, 2021

Yeh Pioneers Application of Information Theory to Mechanism Design in Microeconomics

ECE Professor Edmund Yeh and Jinkun Zhang, PhD’22, in collaboration with Dirk Bergemann, Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics at Yale University, has published the paper titled “Nonlinear Pricing with Finite Information” in the November 2021 issue of Games and Economic Behavior, a leading journal on game theory and economics.  The paper is one […]

Faculty

Jul 19, 2021

Yeh Named Inaugural Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

ECE Professor Edmund Yeh has been named the inaugural Area Editor in Networking and Computation for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.  The IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a leading journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.

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