Professor Haipeng Dai Elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Congratulations to Professor Haipeng Dai of Nanjing University on being elected a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET Fellow).
Recently, after selection by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Professor Haipeng Dai of Nanjing University was elected an IET Fellow. This marks an important achievement for the laboratory in developing high-level and leading talent.
About IET
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a leading global professional society in engineering and technology. It currently has 167,000 members across 150 countries and is the largest professional engineering institution in Europe and the second largest in the world. IET Fellow is the highest academic honor granted by the IET to outstanding senior professionals who have made significant achievements in science and engineering. Each year, the IET selects about 200 to 300 Fellows, with recipients from mainland China accounting for about 10%.
About Professor Haipeng Dai
Haipeng Dai is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer Science, Nanjing University. He is a recipient of a national young-talent program, an IET Fellow, a CCF Distinguished Member, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE. He has received honors including the ACM China Rising Star Award, the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Middle Career Researcher Award, and the Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics. His research focuses on the Internet of Things, data mining, and mobile computing.
He has published more than 300 papers in leading international conferences and journals, including more than 130 CCF-A papers in venues such as NSDI, UbiComp, INFOCOM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, WWW, EuroSys, and ATC. He has received more than ten best-paper and distinguished-paper awards from top conferences and journals, including outstanding scientific papers recognized by the China Association for Science and Technology and four best-paper awards at CCF-A/B conferences. He has led a key task under the National Key R&D Program and has hosted or participated in more than ten projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China general and key joint-fund projects.
Professor Dai received the first prize of the 2024 Jiangsu Computer Society Science and Technology Award as the first contributor and the second prize of the 2025 China Invention Association Invention and Entrepreneurship Achievement Award as the second contributor. He serves as secretary-general of ACM SIGCOMM China and as a standing committee member of the CCF Technical Committee on Internet of Things and the Technical Committee on Network and Data Communications. He has chaired more than ten conferences including ISPA, HPCC, ICNP, and COCOON, and serves as area editor of COMNET, editorial board member of TII, and youth editorial board member of Acta Electronica Sinica. He has been included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list.
Professor Dai’s election as an IET Fellow recognizes his outstanding contributions to the Internet of Things, edge computing, and related fields. It also reflects the laboratory’s growing international influence and academic reputation. We congratulate Professor Dai on this honor and look forward to his continued achievements in research and talent cultivation.