Jiannong Cao at Hong Kong PolyU

Jiannong Cao

BSc (Nanjing), MSc , Ph.D. (Washington State)

MACM, SMIEEE, SMCCF

Professor

Department of Computing	Office: PQ816, Mong Man Wai Building
Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.	Phone / Fax: (852) 27667275 / 27740842
Hung Hom, Kowloon	E-mail: csjcao@comp.polyu.edu.hk
Hong Kong	URL: http://www2.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csjcao

Dr. Jiannong Cao is a professor in the Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from Nanjing University, China, in 1982, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington State University, USA, in 1986 and 1990, all in computer science. From 1982 to 1983, he studied as a MSc. student in the Graduate School of the Chinese Acadmy of Science in Beijing. Before joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997, he has been on faculty of computer science in James Cook University and The University of Adelaide in Australia, and the City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Cao is an adjunct professor of BJTU, NUDT and NWPU, and a guest professor of CSU in China. He also held several visiting positions, including a visiting research professor in the National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University of China, a visiting fellow in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, a visiting scholar at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, and Peking University Overseas Scholar Lecture Program.

Dr. Cao is the Coordinator in Asia of the Technical Committee on Distributed Computing (TPDC) of IEEE Computer Society . He is a vice chairman and member of the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, a member of the Technical Committee on System Software and the Technical Committee of Pervasive Computing, and a senior member of China Computer Federation. He is a senior member of the IEEE (including the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communication Society), and a member of the ACM. He is also a memeber of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, IEEE Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Computing, and ACM SIG-Mobile. Dr. Cao has served as associate editor and member of editorial boards of several international journals, a reviewer for international journals / conference proceedings, and also as chair and member of organizing / programme committees for many international conferences, including ICDCS, IPDPS, PerCom, ICC, Globecom, SRDS, ICNP, MobiQuitous, DSN-PDS, WirelessCom, ICCCN, ICPP, SCC, PRDC, Cluster, MDC, EUC, AINA, ICPADS, I-SPAN, ACSC, ICA3PP, ISSRE, etc.

Dr. Cao's research interests include mobile and pervasive computing, wireless networking, parallel and distributed computing, fault tolerance, and distributed software architecture and programming. His main areas of expertise are the design and analysis of algorithms and protocols for parallel/distributed system functions and services, and the development of models and software tools for programming parallel/distributed systems. He has authored or co-authored over 180 journal and conference papers in the above areas. His recent research has focused on how to develop protocols and build high-performance network and distributed applications, more specifically within the context of Wireless Networking, Pervasive and Mobile computing, Peer-to-Peer computing, and Grid.

Dr. Cao has directed many funded research/teaching projects and participated in several research labs and centers. He is the director of the Internet and Mobile Computing Lab in the Computing Department, and members of the Software Development and Management Lab, Biometrics Technology Center, Centre for Computer-Aided Construction, and Advanced Research Center for Spatial Information Technology.