Meixia (Melissa) Tao ( zh, 陶梅霞) is a Chinese electrical engineer whose research concerns

resource allocation In economics, resource allocation is the assignment of available resources to various uses. In the context of an entire economy, resources can be allocated by various means, such as markets, or planning. In project management, resource allocatio ...

wireless network A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications networks, and business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables int ...

beamforming Beamforming or spatial filtering is a signal processing technique used in sensor arrays for directional signal transmission or reception. This is achieved by combining elements in an antenna array in such a way that signals at particular angles ...

, and

edge computing Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. More broadly, it refers to any design that pushes computation physically closer to a user, so as to reduce the Latency (engineer ...

. She is a distinguished professor of electronic engineering at

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) is a public university in Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 98 ...

Education and career

Tao studied electronic engineering at

Fudan University Fudan University (FDU) is a public university, national public university in Yangpu, Shanghai, Yangpu, Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education and is co-funded with the Shanghai Municipal ...

, graduating in 1999. She completed her Ph.D. in 2003 at the

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Founded in 1991, it was the territory's third institution to be granted university status, and the firs ...

. After postdoctoral research at the

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) is a research institute that was founded by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong's competit ...

, and an assistant professorship from 2004 to 2007 at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national university, national Public university, public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merging of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University ...

, she moved to her present position at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Recognition

Tao was elected as an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to resource allocation in broadband wireless networks".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tao, Meixia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Chinese electrical engineers Women electrical engineers Fudan University alumni Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Fellows of the IEEE 21st-century Chinese women engineers 21st-century Chinese engineers