Prof. Jianwei Huang, Associate Dean and Presidential Chair Professor at the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), with the term beginning in January 2021. Professor Huang is the third Editor-in-Chief of the journal, following Professor Ali Jadbabaie of MIT and Professor Dapeng Wu of the University of Florida.

IEEE TNSE is one of the highest quality and most selective journals in the field of network science. As of 2019, its impact factor was 5.213 according to Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2020. TNSE is ranked 3/106 and falls into the highest quartile (Q1) in the Multidisciplinary Engineering journal category.

About TNSE

The IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering is the leading journal in the field of network science, spanning across communication, society, and biology studies. It is committed to timely publishing of peer-reviewed technical articles that deal with the theory and applications of network science and the interconnections among the elements in a system that form a network. The types of networks covered include physical or engineered networks, information networks, biological networks, semantic networks, economic networks, social networks, and ecological networks. 

About Prof. Jianwei Huang

Jianwei Huang is a Presidential Chair Professor and the Associate Dean of the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He also serves as the Vice President of  Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS) and Director of the institute’s Research Center on Crowd Intelligence. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society, and a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science. He received the PhD degree from Northwestern University (USA) in 2005, worked as a Postdoc Research Associate at Princeton University (USA) during 2005-2007, and worked as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong during 2007-2018.  

Dr. Huang has published 280+ papers in leading international journals and conferences on communications and networking, with a total Google Scholar citations of 12000+ and an H-index of 58. He is the co-author of 9 Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2011.

Dr. Huang has served as an Associate Editor of several JCR Q1 journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Cognitive Radio Series, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He has served as an Editor of Wiley Information and Communication Technology Series, Springer Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks, and Springer Handbook of Cognitive Radio. He has served as the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Cognitive Network Technical Committee and Multimedia Communications Technical Committee. He is the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2015 and IEEE GLOBECOM Outstanding Service Award in 2010.