Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong
Title: Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Campus: New York City
Area(s) of Expertise: High performance network architecture and sustainable data center networks, network security and forensic, geolocation of network devices, assistive medical devices, innovative technology to improve sustainability and resilience of both natural and built environments
Educational Credentials: Ph.D.
Joined New York Tech: 2010
Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was awarded the Hashimoto Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation in Electrical Engineering at NJIT. She is the recipient of 2006 and 2007 Hashimoto Fellowships for outstanding scholarship and also received the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Graduate Student Award for her inventions in network switches. She is the 2015 recipient of the Presidential Engagement Award in Student Engagement in Research and Scholarship at New York Tech, the 2020 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, and Innovate Long Island's fifth annual Innovator of the Year Award.
Her research interests include the architecture, design, and analysis of high-performance packet switches; data center network, network security, and forensics; wireless sensor networks; assistive medical devices; and data analytics and innovative sensing technology to improve sustainability and resilience of both natural and built environments. She has held consultant positions at industry leaders such as AT&T and BOC Gases. She holds six patents and four invention disclosures. Additionally, she has 34 refereed journal publications, 58 refereed conference publications, three book chapters, and numerous poster presentations with her students. She engages students on both undergraduate and graduate levels in her research projects and publishes with them.
Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Motorola, National Collegiate Alliance for Inventors and Innovators, Xilinx, and New York Tech. She was the principal investigator for the New York Tech Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site, funded by the NSF, to engage undergraduates in mobile device and network security research. She also was the founding director of New York Tech's Undergraduate Research and Entrepreneurship Program (UREP) and faculty mentor for the Society of Women Engineers New York Tech student chapter. She is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Women in Engineering, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), ACM, and the Environmental Sensing, Networking, and Decision-Making (ESND) technical committee. She has served on technical program committees of IEEE HPSR, GLOBECOM, ICC, Sarnoff, GreenCom, and ChinaCom, and as a reviewer for IEEE journals, conferences, and NSF panels.
Recent Projects and Research
- City-as-Lab: Food, Energy, and Water Nexus for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development
- Signals in the Soil: Autonomous soil nutrient sensing system
- Assistive Medical Devices: Motorized walker to improve gaits for patients with Parkinson's Disease
Selected Publications
- W. J. Howell, Z. Dong, R. Rojas-Cessa, "EOS: Impact Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Adoption on Peak Load Shaving using Agent-based Modeling," Energies, 2024, 17, 5110.
- M-V. Vladucu, H. Wu, J. Medina, K. M. Salehin, Z. Dong, R. Rojas-Cessa, "Blockchain on Sustainable Environmental Measures: A Review," Blockchains 2024, 2, 334–365.
- Y. Xu, M. Smirnov, M. Kohler, Z. Dong, R.K. Amineh, F. Li, R. Rojas-Cessa, "A Survey of Wireless Soil Sensing Technologies," IEEE Access, 2024.
- M. Vladucu, Z. Dong, J. Medina, and R. Rojas-Cessa, "E-voting Meets Blockchain: A survey," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 23293–23308, 2023.
- K. Shen, R. Shivgang, J. Medina, Z. Dong, and R. Rojas-Cessa, "Multi-Depot Drone Path Planning with Collision Avoidance," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022.
- D. Shakhbulatov, J. Medina, Z. Dong, and R. Rojas-Cessa, "How Blockchain Enhances Supply Chain Management: A Survey," IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 1, pp. 230–249, 2020.
- Z. Dong, N. Liu, and R. Rojas-Cessa, "Greedy Scheduling of Tasks with Time Constraints for Energy-Efficient Cloud-Computing Data Centers," Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems, and Applications, Vol. 4, Issue 1, March 18, 2015.
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Honors and Awards
- New York Institute of Technology Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, 2023
- ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award in non-Ph.D. granting program, 2020
- Innovate Long Island's Fifth Annual Innovator of the Year Award, 2020
- New York Institute of Technology Presidential Engagement Award for Student Engagement in Research and Scholarship, 2015
- Annual Faculty Scholar Award, New York Institute of Technology, 2010–2018
- IEEE Senior member, 2014
- New York Institute of Technology 31 Women of March, 2013
- Provost Certificate of Recognition, 2011
- Motorola Golden-idea Competition 3rd Prize Winner, Nov. 2011
- New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Graduate Student Award, 2009
- Hashimoto Prize (Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Electrical Engineering, NJIT), 2008
- Hashimoto Fellowship, 2006, 2007
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- EENG 105 Career Discovery – Special session: Spatial visualization
- EENG 341/514 Signals and Systems
- EENG 320/512 Control Systems
- EENG 489/BIOE 489 Senior Design Project I
- EENG 491/BIOE 491 Senior Design Project II
- EENG 755 Computer Networks
- EENG 860 Special Topics
- EENG 870 Master's Project
- EENG 755/CSCI 690 Computer Networks
- CSCI 890 Master's Thesis I
- CSCI 891 Master's Thesis II
- DTSC 890 Master's Thesis I
- DTSC 891 Master's Thesis II