F. Richard Yu

FCAE, MAE, FEIC, FIEEE, FIET, PEng, PhD
Professor, School Info. Tech. and Depart. Systems&Computer Eng.
Director, NSERC CREATE Program for Building Trust in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (TrustCAV)
Carleton University
(On Leave)

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Prof. F. Richard Yu received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2003. His research interests include connected/autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and wireless systems. He has been named in the Clarivate’s list of ``Highly Cited Researchers" in computer science for five consecutive years (2019-2023), Standford’s ``Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientist" and AMiner's ``Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention" for four consecutive years (2020-2023). He has published 800+ papers in prestigious journals and conferences with 48,000+ and an H-index of 107+ (Googel Scholar). He has been ranked #13 in Canada and #345 globally among the top researchers in Computer Science (Research.com). Additionally, he holds the #9 position in Canada and is ranked #165 globally among the leading researchers in Electronics and Electrical Engineering (Research.com). He received several Best Paper Awards from some first-tier conferences, Carleton Research Achievement Awards in 2012 and 2021, and the Ontario Early Researcher Award (formerly Premiers Research Excellence Award) in 2011. He is a Board Member the IEEE VTS and the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE VTS Mobile World newsletter. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), IEEE, and IET. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE in both VTS and ComSoc.

Awards and Honors

  • 2024 – Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).
  • 2023 – Best Paper Award, 12th ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications 2023 (DIVANet'23), Nov. 2023.
    • P. Zhao, C. Li, F. Richard Yu, and Y. Fu “Enhanced 3D Sensor Deployment Method for Cooperative Sensing in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles,” in Proc. ACM DIVANet'2023, Montreal, QC, Canada.
  • 2023 – Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Canada Leader Award, from Research.com (Research.com).
  • 2020-2024 – Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention, from AMiner (AMiner.org).
  • 2022 – Best Paper Award, IEEE ICC'2022, May 2022.
    • Z. Wang, H. Yao, T. Mai, Z. Xiong, and F. Richard Yu, “Cooperative Reinforcement Learning Aided Dynamic Routing in UAV Swarm Networks,” in Proc. IEEE ICC'2022, Seoul, South Korea.
  • 2021 – Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). (Carleton News)
  • 2021 – Research Achievement Award, from Carleton University, “in recognition of outstanding research achievements”.
  • 2020 – Highly Cited Researcher, the Web of Science Group. (Fewer than 0.1% of the world's researchers, across 21 research fields, have earned this exclusive distinction.) (Carleton Story, Carleton News)
  • 2020 – Best Paper Award, IEEE Globecom'2020, Dec. 2020.
    • Q. Zhang, J. Miao, Z. Zhang, F. Richard Yu, F. Fu, and T. Wu, “Energy-Efficient Video Streaming in UAV-Enabled Wireless Networks: A Safe-DQN Approach,” in Proc. IEEE Globecom'2020, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2020 – Faculty Research Award, from the Faculty of Engineering and Design, Carleton University, “in recognition of the high quality of research work”.
  • 2020 – Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention, from AMiner, “in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of the Internet of Things between 2009 and 2019” (AMiner.org).
  • 2019 – Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).
  • 2019 – Highly Cited Researcher, the Web of Science Group. (Fewer than 0.1% of the world's researchers, across 21 research fields, have earned this exclusive distinction.) (Carleton’s Richard Yu Recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher Globally)
  • 2019 – IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) Distinguished Service Award.
  • 2019 – Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE TCGCC, Int'l Conf. Comm. (ICC'2019), Shanghai, China, May 2019.
    • Jing Guo, Nan Zhao, F. Richard Yu, Xin Liu, and Victor C.M. Leung, “Exploiting Adversarial Jamming Signals for Energy Harvesting in Interference Networks,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 1267-1280, Feb. 2017.
  • 2018 – Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society.
  • 2018 – Outstanding Paper Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS'2018), Haikou, China, June 2018.
    • Y. Wei, Z. Wang, D. Guo, and Richard Yu, “Q-Learning based Computation Offloading Strategy for Mobile Edge Computing,” in Proc. ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf. Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS)’18, Haikou, China, June 2018.
  • 2018 – Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC’2018), Maui, Hawaii, USA, Mar. 2018.
    • F. Cheng, G. Gui, N. Zhao, F. Richard Yu, Y. Chen, J. Tang, and H. Sari, “Caching UAV Assisted Secure Transmission in Small-Cell Networks,” in Proc. Int’l Conf. Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)’18, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Mar. 2018.
  • 2017 – Elevated to IEEE Fellow. (Carleton News)
  • 2017 – Elected as the Vice President - Membership of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Sept. 2017.
  • 2017 – Best Paper Award, IEEE VTC’2017Spring, Sydney, Australia, June 2017.
    • N. Zhao, F. Richard Yu, Y. Chen, B. Chen, and V.C.M. Leung, “Internal Collusive Eavesdropping of Interference Alignment Networks,” in Proc. IEEE VTC’17S, Sydney, Australia, June 2017.
  • 2017 – Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
  • 2016 – Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
  • 2016 – Elected as a member of Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Sept. 2016.
  • 2016 – Certificate of Appreciation, from IEEE Access Journal, Jan. 2016.
  • 2015 – IEEE Outstanding Service Award, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom’2015), Vancouver, Canada, Dec., 2015.
  • 2015 – Certificate of Appreciation, for the outstanding service as a Technical Program Committee Chair at IEEE Online GreenComm’15, from IEEE Communications Society, Nov. 2015.
  • 2014 – Certificate of Appreciation, for the outstanding service as a Symposium Co-Chair at IEEE Globecom’14, from IEEE Communications Society, Dec. 2014.
  • 2014 – Best of Globecom, IEEE Globecom'2014, Austin, TX, Dec. 2014.
    • Z. Yin, F.R. Yu, and S. Bu, “Joint Cloud Computing and Wireless Networks Operations: A Game Theoretic Approach,” in Proc. IEEE Globecom’2014, Austin, TX, Dec. 2014.
  • 2014 – Best Paper Award, IEEE ICC’2014, Sydney, Australia, June 2014:
    • Gang Liu, Hong Ji, F. Richard Yu, Yi Li, and Renchao Xie, “Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Full-Duplex Relaying Networks,” in Proc. IEEE ICC’2014, Sydney, Australia, June 2014.
  • 2013 – IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom’2013), Beijing, China, Aug., 2013.
  • 2013 – Best Paper Award Runner Up, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing’2013, Baltimore, MD, May 2013.
    • Y. Wang, H. Tang, F.R. Yu, and M. Huang, “Mean Field Game Theoretic Approach for Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” in Proc. SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing’13, Baltimore, MD, May 2013.
  • 2012 – Best Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society TAOS Technical Committee, IEEE Globecom’2012, Anaheim, CA, Dec. 2012:
    • S. Bu and F.R. Yu, “Dynamic Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Cognitive Heterogeneous Wireless Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Globecom’12, Anaheim, CA, Dec. 2012.
  • 2012 – Research Achievement Award, from Carleton University, “to recognize outstanding research achievement”.
  • 2011 – Early Researcher Award (ERA) (formerly Premier’s Research Excellence Award), from the Province of Ontario, “for demonstrated excellence of research contributions, to attract and retain the very best and brightest research talent in Ontario”.
  • 2010 – Excellent Contribution Award, IEEE/IFIP TrustCom’2010, HongKong, P.R. China, Dec. 2010.
    • R. Ramamoorthy, F.R. Yu, H. Tang and P. Mason, “Joint Authentication and Quality of Service (QoS) Design in Cooperative Communication Networks”, in Proc. IEEE/IFIP TrustCom’10, HongKong, P.R. China, Dec. 2010.
  • 2009 – Leadership Opportunity Fund Award, from Canada Foundation of Innovation, “to attract and retain the very best of today’s and tomorrow’s researchers in Canada at a time of intense international competition”.
  • 2009 – Best Paper Award at IEEE/IFIP TrustCom’2009, Vancouver, BC, Aug. 2009.
    • F.R. Yu, H. Tang, F. Wang and V.C.M. Leung, “Distributed Node Selection for Threshold Key Management with Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Network,” in Proc. IEEE/IFIP TrustCom’09, Vancouver, BC, Aug. 2009.
  • 2009 – Certificate of Appreciation, from Defence R&D Canada (DRDC) - Ottawa.
  • 2005 – Best Paper Award, Int’l Conference on Networking’2005, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
    • F. Yu and V. Krishnamurthy, “Efficient Radio Resource Management in Integrated WLAN/CDMA Mobile Networks,” International Conference on Networking 2005 (ICN’05), Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3421, pp. 912-919, ISBN 3540253386, 2005.