Alumni Profile
 Chao Gui

Ph.D. Computer Science '07

Chao Gui has found himself in an interesting place. The recipient of the College of Engineering’s 2007 Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation, Gui was hired by a start-up company in San Diego to just follow his interests.

Gui received the Zuhair A. Munir Award for his research titled "Routing Performance and Power Conservation in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" under the mentorship of Prasant Mohapatra, professor and department chair of Computer Science.

Kiyon Networks examined the young scholar’s research and said, "What you’re doing is very useful," Gui remembers. They have given him the freedom to see where his research will lead. Gui hopes that destination will include new wireless technology making a difference in everyday life for all of us.

Gui predicts that computers will become integrated into elements of our living spaces, such as the walls, the furniture and the fixtures. "Right now, our photos, our text, all our data is locked inside a digital world," Gui says. "We come home, sit down, open our computer and visit that world. But someday that world will be incorporated into our own environments in a way that will make computers, as we once knew them, unrecognizable."

The critical element in this new digital world is wireless technology, Gui says. He will design the devices that enable us to interact with our increasingly digital environment and make possible the brave new computing world of the future.