Princeton University Chiang became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2004, an associate professor with tenure in 2008, While at Princeton, Chiang founded the Princeton EDGE Lab in 2009. In 2015, Mung Chiang, along with
Helder Antunes and Tao Zhang, met to discuss the creation of a consortium to promote the standardization of
fog computing, which eventually was formed as the
OpenFog Consortium. He received the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award at the
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Purdue University On May 1, 2017, Purdue University announced that it had chosen Chiang as the next dean of its College of Engineering. He assumed office on July 1, 2017, as the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University. He was simultaneously appointed the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At age 40, he was among the youngest in modern history to become the leader of a major college in an American university. Starting in December 2019, Chiang took a one-year leave of absence to serve as the science and technology adviser to the secretary of state
Mike Pompeo on an
IPA. On April 23, 2021, Purdue University named Chiang as Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives while continuing to lead the College of Engineering. On June 10, 2022, the Purdue University Board of Trustees announced its unanimous election of Chiang to become the university's 13th president on January 1, 2023. ==Awards and honors==