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Jingpeng (JP) Tang

Biography

Before joining Utah Valley University, Dr. Jingpeng Tang was a tenured Associate Professor in the Software Engineering and Information Technology Management at the University of Minnesota Crookston.

Education

PhD, North Dakota State University, 2008

Major: Computer Science

MS, North Dakota State University, 2003

Major: Computer Science

PhD, North Dakota State University, 2002

Major: Engineering

MS, China Academy of Railway Sciences, 1996

Major: Engineering

BS, Southwest Jiaotong University, 1992

Major: Engineering

Teaching

CS 6510

Design and Simulation of Operating Systems, Spring 2026

CS 6600

Graduate Project I, Spring 2026

CS 6610

Graduate Project II, Spring 2026

CS 3450

Principles and Patterns of Software Design, Spring 2026

Presentations

Tang, Jingpeng (JP) (Author Only), 29th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications CATA-2014, "Optimization Modeling for Wireless Sensor Scheduling and Coverage", Las Vegas, USA. (March, 2014)
Tang, Jingpeng (JP) (Author Only), 28th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications CATA-2013, "An Artifiical Immune System Heuristic in a Smart Grid", Honolulu,vHawaii, USA. (March, 2013)
Tang, Jingpeng (JP) (Author Only), IEEE SmartGridComm 2010 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore, "Agent-oriented Designs for a Self Healing Smart Grid", IEEE, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. (March, 2013)
Tang, Jingpeng (JP) (Author Only), 8th Internatinal Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, "Adaptive Swarm Emergent Intelligent Methodologies, Development and Validation", Florida, USA. (February, 2008)
Tang, Jingpeng (JP) (Author Only), 8th Internatinal Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, "Hierachical Control for Forward Air Controller UAV Agents", Florida, USA. (February, 2008)
Tang, Jingpeng (JP) (Author Only), WSEAS Transactions on Systems, "Agent Oriented Simulation of Cooperative UAV Missions", Agent Oriented Simulation of Cooperative UAV Missions. (April, 2006)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Cao, Ting , Tang, Jingpeng (JP) , "AI Curriculum Integration Grant – Kahlert Applied AI Institute, Transforming Software Engineering Education with AI-Assisted Projects and Dedicated AI Courses, $5,000." .
Tang, Jingpeng (JP) , Rudolph, George , Thackeray, Lynn , "USHE Talent Ready Utah Workforce Initiative Grant – Online MCS Degree, $84,000. " .
Chen, Xi , Liang, Jingsai , Kuo, Rita , Tang, Jingpeng (JP) , (2025) "Exploring COVID-19's Impact on Computer Science Education Using Student Reviews" . Orem: IETC 2025_ 2025 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC).
Garrett, Braden , Tang, Jingpeng (JP) , Chen, Xi , (2025) "Predicting Heat of Combustion from SMILES with Machine Learning" . Orem: IETC 2025_ 2025 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC).
Inani, Dishank , Tang, Jingpeng (JP) , Kuo, Rita , (2025) "Smart University Assistant_ Leveraging Graph Databases and Vector Embeddings for Efficient Information Retrieval" . Orem: IETC 2025_ 2025 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC).
Hunt, Austin , Tang, Jingpeng (JP) , (2025) "Zone and Policy Based Network Firewall" . Orem: IETC 2025_ 2025 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC).

Awards

Graduate Researcher of the Year

North Dakota State University

NSF/ND-EPSCoR (National Science Foundation/ND-Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Doctoral Dissertation Assistantship Award

National Science Foundation/ND-Experimental Program - January, 2000