Dr. Daji Qiao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. He received his PhD degree from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan under the guidance of Prof. Kang G. Shin. Prior to that, he recevied his MS and BE degrees from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, respectively.

Since joining Iowa State University in 2004, Dr. Qiao has been teaching various courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He teaches Cpr E 489 "Computer Networking and Data Communications" in every fall semester except in fall 2009 when he taught Cpr E 310 "Theoretical Foundations of Computer Engineering." In the spring semesters, he teaches Cpr E 546 "Wireless and Sensor Networks." Currently, he is coordinating Cpr E/E E/S E 492 "Senior Design Project: Part II." Dr. Qiao was awarded the department's Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2008.

Dr. Qiao's research interests are in the area of wireless networking and mobile computing. He is particularly interested in algorithm innovation and implementation for IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks, system modeling and performance analysis of wireless sensor networks, and pervasive computing applications. Dr. Qiao has served on the organizing and technical program committees of numerous networking conferences. Currently, he serves as the tutorial co-chair of European Wireless (EW) 2010 and the publication chair of IEEE WoWMoM 2010.