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Announcement of New Head in Computer Science Department
I am pleased to inform you the appointment of Professor Lionel Ni as our
new Head and Professor of the Department of Computer Science with effect
from 2 July 2002.
The Search Committee for the Head of the Department of Computer Science
recommends unanimously Professor Ni for the headship after an
international search process. I would like to take this opportunity to
thank members of the Search Committee for their time and dedicated effort.
Professor Ni is a renowned scientist and leader in the networking area,
particularly in the web-based routing systems. During his appointment as
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State
University, he has directly supervised over 26 Ph.D. students and has
published one book and over 170 technical articles in refereed journals
and proceedings in the areas of parallel architectures, distributed
processing, high-speed networks, VLSI design automation, operating
systems, software tools, fault tolerant computing, parallel compilers, and
benchmarking techniques.
Prof Ni was an editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions
on Prarallel and Distributed Systems, and Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing. He was the program director of the US National
Science Foundation Microeletronic Systems Architecture Program and was
appointed as fellow of IEEE in 1994. He chaired many conferences and
received many outstanding paper awards. He won the Michigan State
University Distinguished Faculty Award in 1994. In 1998, his paper "The
Turn Model for Adaptive Routing" was selected as one of the 41 most
significant impact papers in the last 25 years in computer architecture
area.
Please join me in extending our welcome to Professor Ni, and lend him your
generous support as you have done so for Profs. Derick Wood and Roland
Chin in the past. I am sure that with your support, the Department will
move forward to attain next higer goals.
Meanwhile, I would also like to extend my special thanks to Professor
Derick Wood for his help to the Department out as Acting Head. We owe him
a great deal for his willingness to serve the Department in the interim
period.
Kang L. Wang
Dean of Engineering
