Prof. Edith C. H. Ngai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU in 2020, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests include the Internet of Things, mobile computing, edge intelligence, smart cities, and smart health. She received a Meta Policy Research Award in Asia Pacific (2022) and N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications (2022). She is recognized by Clarivate Analytics as a top 1% scholar in citations (2021-2025). She is a Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Communications Society (2023-2024). She is an ACM Distinguished Member (2025).
She was an Area Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal from 2020 to 2022. She is currently an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing, IEEE Network, and IEEE Transactions of Industrial Informatics. She served as a program chair in ACM womENcourage 2015 and a TPC co-chair in IEEE SmartCity 2015, IEEE GreenCom 2022, IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2024, and IEEE CloudCom 2025.