Biography (中文简历)
Lionel
M. Ni earned the B.S. degree
in
electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1973, the
M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical
and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in
1980. He is Chair Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering
Department at HKUST. He served as the Department Head from 2002 to
2008. He also serves as the Special Assistant to the President, Dean of
HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, and Director of HKUST China Ministry of
Education/Microsoft Research Asia IT Key Lab. He was the Chief
Scientist of the National Basic
Research Program of China (973 Program) on Wireless Sensor Networks.
Prior to coming to HKUST, Professor Ni was a full Professor in Computer
Science and Engineering at Michigan State University where he stayed
from 1981 to 2002. He was co-founder and CEO of CC&T
Technologies, Inc. (1998-2001). He has directly supervised 42
Ph.D. students and has published over 80 refereed journal articles and
over 200 refereed conferences papers in the areas of sensor networks,
parallel architectures, distributed processing, high-speed networks,
VLSI design automation, operating systems, software tools, fault
tolerant computing, parallel compilers, and benchmarking techniques.
His research papers have been highly cited for over 14,000 times
according to Google
Scholar. He is the owner of 6 US/China patents with more than 10 patents pending.
He co-authored (with Jose Duato and
Sudhakar Yalamanchili) the book "Interconnection
Networks: An Engineering Approach" in 1997 by IEEE Computer Society
Press. The second edition of this book was published by Morgan Kaufmann
in 2002. His second book "Smart Phone and Next
Generation Mobile Computing" (with Pei Zheng) was published in 2006
also by Morgan Kaufmann. His third book "Professional
Microsoft Smartphone Programming" (with Baijian Yang and Pei Zheng)
was published by Wrox in 2007.
Dr. Ni is serving on the editorial
board of Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Sensor
Networks, and International Journal of Pervasive Computing and
Communications. He is Executive Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of
Computer Science in China (Springer and Higher Education Press).He had
served as an IEEE
Computer
Society Distinguished Visitor from 1985 to 1988, an editor for IEEE
Transactions on Computers from 1992 to 1996, an editor for IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems from 1993 to 1997, a
subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed
Computing from 1987 to 1994, an editor of Journal of Information and
Science and Engineering from 1996 to 2002, a program evaluator for the
Computer Sciences Accreditation Commission from 1989 to 1993, a member
of the IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluation Committee from 1996 to
1998, chair of the 1998 IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award (the most
prestigious award in the computer architecture field) Committee, and
the program director of the U.S. National Science Foundation
Microelectronic Systems Architecture Program from 1995 to 1996.
Dr. Ni holds guest or adjunct
positions
at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, XinJiang
University, Beihang University, University of Science and Technology of
China, Hunan University, China Ocean University, and Asia University.
He is a visiting
chair professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and
honorary chair professor
at National Tsinghua University
(Hsinchu). He was the founding director of Institute of Advanced
Computing and Digital Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced
Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He
is a member of the Association
for
Computing Machinery and IEEE. He was elevated to the rank of fellow of
IEEE in 1994 for his contributions to parallel processing and
distributed systems. He served as conference chairs or co-chairs of
over 20 conferences, such as ICPP 2005, ICEBE 2007, ICPADS 2007, Percom
2008, and Infocom 2011. He served as program chairs or co-chairs of
over 10
conferences, such as COMPSAC 1991, HPCA 1997, ICCCN 1997, and ICPP
2001. He has delivered over 30 invited keynote speeches at
national and international conferences. He received the Outstanding
Paper Awards at the 1992 International Conference on Parallel
Processing (with his former student, Arun Nanda), at the 1992
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (with his former
student, Chris Glass), at the 1996 International Conference on Parallel
and Distributed Systems (with his formal student, Y.H. Liu, Dr. P.
Dantzig, and Dr. C.E. Wu), at the 1996 International Conference on
Parallel Processing (with his former student Natawut Nupairoj, Dr.
Julie Park, and Dr. H.A. Choi), at the 2005 IEEE International
Conference on e-Business Engineering (with his formal student, Yanmin
Zhu, Dr. C. Hu, Prof. J. Huai and Dr. Yunhao Liu), an at the 2008 IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (with his
student Yunhuai Liu and Dr. Qian Zhang). In 1998, his paper “The Turn
Model for Adaptive Routing” (co-authored with his former Ph.D. student,
Chris Glass) published at the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International
Symposium on Computer Architecture was selected as one of the 41 most
significant impact papers in the last 25 years in computer architecture
area. He won the Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty
Award in 1994; the Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China
Computer Federation in 2009; the First Class Award in Natural Sciences
for Research Excellence by the Ministry of Education, China in 2010;
and the Second Class Award in Natural Sciences forResearch Excellence by the State Council, China in 2011.
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