Lionel M. NI (Ph.D., Purdue 1980)

Teaching Assignment

COMP 660I (Spring 2004): Pervasive Computing
COMP 252 (Fall 2004): Principles of Systems Software
COMP 680F (Fall 2005): Wireless Sensor Networks
COMP 680J (Fall 2006): Self-Organizing Networks and Systems
COMP 680M (Spring 2008): Multicore Computing
COMP 252 (Fall 2008): Operating Systems
 

Research Interests

Wireless sensor networks; Pervasive/Ubiquitous computing; Grid computing; Peer-to-peer computing; Mobile computing; High-speed networking; High-performance computer architecture; Parallel and distributed systems; Multicore computing; Network security.
 

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Biography

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 Director of HKUST China Ministry of Education/Microsoft Research Asia IT Key Lab, Director of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School Digital Life Research Center, and Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) on Wireless Sensor Networks. Before joining HKUST in July 2002, he was a professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at Michigan State University, where he started his academic career in 1981. He has directly supervised 35 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 5000 times. Here is the list of his top 10 highly cited papers according to Google Scholar.

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 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 distinguished professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, an honorary chair professor at  National Tsinghua University (Hsinchu), and honorary president of South China Institute of Software Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangdong, China.

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, and Percom 2008. 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 also won the Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award in 1994.