Teresa Meng wins ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award

Theresa H. Meng (photo: Stanford)

EECS alumna Theresa H. Meng (M.S. ’85/Ph.D. ’88 advisor: David Messerschmitt) has won the 2018 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ) SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award.  This award is given for significant and lasting contributions to the research on mobile computing and communications and wireless networking.  Meng, who is a Professor Emerita at Stanford University and founder of Atheros Communications Inc., was cited “for groundbreaking research, engineering and entrepreneurial leadership to make Wi-Fi faster, lower power, and lower cost.”