FBIT postdoctoral fellow receives prestigious Fulbright award

Dr. Yang Wang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT) at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), has been selected for the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Wang is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Wei Shi, Assistant Professor in FBIT’s Mobile and Distributed Computing Research Group.

The chair carries a value of $25,000 for one semester in the 2014-2015 academic year to support Dr. Wang in his project, entitled Nahanni+: A Distributed Shared-Memory Programming Paradigm for Autonomic HPC in Clouds. Dr. Wang’s research involves investigating the use of virtualized datacentres/cloud computing in combination with autonomic (self-controlling, managing and protecting) high-performance computing (HPC) grids used in scientific exploration and discovery.

"Congratulations to Dr. Wang on receiving this award," said Dr. Shi. "His scholarship excellence is reflected through this important accomplishment, and we are excited about the opportunity he has to participate in an exciting academic exchange that will advance research into high-performance computing.”

The Fulbright program operates in more than 150 countries worldwide. With the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada and the United States Department of State, Fulbright Canada is the gold standard for academic exchanges and intellectual opportunity. The decision process is subject to a rigorous review and the selection is highly competitive. Typically, each year no more than 20 Canadian scholars are chosen.