English Bio
Dr. Cao is currently a Chair Professor of Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He is also the director of the Internet and Mobile Computing Lab in the department and the director of University’s Research Facility in Big Data Analytics. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless sensing and networks, pervasive and mobile computing, and big data and cloud computing. He has co-authored 5 books, co-edited 9 books, and published over 500 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings. He received Best Paper Awards from conferences including DSAA’2017, IEEE SMARTCOMP 2016, ISPA 2013, IEEE WCNC 2011, etc.
Dr. Cao’s research interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless networks and mobile computing, big data and cloud computing, pervasive computing, and fault tolerant computing. He has co-authored 5 books in Mobile Computing, co-edited 9 books, and published over 600 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings (including top journals IEEE Network, TC, TMC, TPDS, TWC, TDSC, JSAC, TCOM, TSE; ACM TOSN, TOIT, TAAS; and PMCJ, TON, JPDC, and top conferences INFOCOM, ICNP, PERCOM, WWW, DSN, ICDCS, SRDS).
Dr. Cao has directed and participated in over 90 research and development projects and, as a principal investigator, obtained over HK$43 million grants from funding agencies such as National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China (MOST), Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC), Hong Kong Construction Industry Council, The Society of Hong Kong Scholars, and industries like Huawei, IBM and Nokia. Professor Cao has also involved in the development of 13 patents.
With exceptional research performance and achievement, Dr. Cao has earned wide recognitions with numerous prizes and awards. He has received several outstanding awards in research from Faculty of Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013) and received The President’s Award for Excellent Performance/Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities in 2009. Dr. Cao also awarded many different national and international honors and recognitions including China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award 2017, Bronze Medal at Brussels Innova 2009, Second Class Award at 2006 National Science and Technology Progress Award, CVIC SE Software Talent Award in 2005, nominee of First Class Award at 2003 Ministry of Education Nominated State Science and Technology Award. He also received several Best Paper Awards (UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SmartWorld 2016, SMARTCOMP 2016, ISPA 2013, WCNC 2011, etc.).
Dr. Cao is a fellow of IEEE, a distinguished member of ACM, a senior member of China Computer Federation (CCF). He is very active in professional activities locally and internationally. He served as the Chair of Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP), IEEE Computer Society (2012-2014), a vice chairman of CCF’s Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (2004-2007). Dr. Cao has also served as chairs and members of organizing and technical committees of many international conferences, including PERCOM, INFOCOM, SMARTCOMP, ICMU, ICPP, MASS, ICPADS, IWQoS, ICDCS, DSN, SRDS, ICNP, and RTSS. Dr. Cao has served as an associate editor and a member of the editorial boards of many international journals, including IEEE TPDS, TCC, TC, IEEE Network, ACM TOSN, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMCJ), Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, and Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Furthermore, Dr. Cao has been invited to give keynotes at many top international academic conferences comprising of WoWMoM, CloudCom, ICA3PP, CollaborateCom, SKG, ICMU, ICDCN, CCBD, PAAP, UMedia, NCTC, ChinaCom, ICPADS, CUTE, PDCAT, IET-WSN, WSNC, etc.
With his expertise in Engineering, Computer Science and related fields, Dr. Cao has been invited as a technical adviser to provide practical advices to the local/ national/ international government bodies and industries. Dr. Cao is currently a member of Innovation and Technology Fund Research Projects Assessment Panel, Innovation and Technology Commission (2017-2018); an admission panel of Incu-Tech Business Incubation Programme, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (2014-2018); a member of IEEE Computer Society Education Awards Selection Committee (2016- ); a member of IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee (2017-2019). He was the panel member in Engineering section of the RGC helping in assessing the project grants applications (2010-2016); a member of Steering Committee on Enriched IT Programme in Secondary Schools, Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) (2014-2016); and a member of IEEE CS Fellows Evaluation Committee (2015, 2016). Moreover, Dr. Cao has served as Academic Advisory Committee member of universities and research institutions in Mainland China, including State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory for Embedded Systems Technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Electric Power Big Data at Guizhou Institute of Technology. Dr. Cao has invited by NSFC and MOST for many years in reviewing research projects and assessing in funding and award applications.
中文簡歷
曹建農教授於1982年畢業於南京大學計算機科學系計算機軟件專業獲得學士學位，1986年和1990年在美國華盛頓州立大學獲得計算機碩士和博士學位。1997年加入香港理工大學電子計算學系。
現任香港理工大學電子計算學系講座教授、博士生導師、互聯網和移動計算實驗室主任，以及理大大數據分析中心實驗室總監，並曾於2011-2017年擔任學系系主任。
曹教授之前還在澳大利亞的兩所大學：詹姆斯庫克大學和阿德萊德大學，以及香港城市大學任教。多年以來，曹教授和國內外許多大學和研究機構有著緊密的合作，參與組織國際會議，合作研究與項目申請，並聯合培養指導研究生。曹教授還是國內其他重點大學的客席教授／兼職教授和博士生導師，包括中山大學、深圳大學、上海交通大學、中南大學、國防科學技術大學、東北大學、西北工業大學、和北京交通大學。2010-2013年兼任湖南省「芙蓉學者計劃」特聘講座教授。
曹建農教授的研究興趣涵蓋並行和分佈式計算、無線網絡和移動計算、大數據和雲計算、普適計算、容錯計算等方面。曹教授編著了5本在移動計算和無線網絡方面的著作，參與編寫9部其他著作，並在國際權威期刊(如IEEE系列期刊IEEE Network, TC, TMC, TPDS, TWC, TDSC, JSAC, TCOM, TSE; ACM 系列期刊TOSN, TOIT, TAAS; 及PMCJ, TON, JPDC等)和頂級國際會議(INFOCOM, ICNP, PERCOM, WWW, DSN, ICDCS, SRDS等)上發表學術論文600餘篇。
曹建農教授主持和參與開發超過90個科研項目。作為第一負責人承擔並完成超過45個跨學科和國內外合作科研項目，其中包括先進異構無線網絡中的無縫通信與移動問題研究和應用所需的測試床；跨學科合作運用無線傳感器網絡來監控結構性的健康以及智慧交通系統，物聯網平台等。累計項目總經費超過4,200萬港幣，其中異構無線網絡Internet接入項目獲得香港政府創新及科技基金(Innovation and Technology Fund)超過1,500萬港幣的資助。曹教授的研究受到政府和工業界的支持，包括中國國家自然科學基金委員會、國家科學技術部、香港研究資助局、創新科技署創新及科技基金、香港建造業議會、香港學者協會、華為、IBM 和諾基亞。並且參與研發共13項專利。
由於傑出的研究表現與成就，曹建農教授於2017年獲得中國計算機學會海外傑出貢獻獎，以表揚其在電腦科學領域所取得的成就及所作出的突出貢獻。曹教授多次榮獲香港理工大學工程學院的科研基金傑出貢獻獎，並於2009年獲香港理工大學校長傑出科研獎、工程學院傑出科研獎；2009年比利時布魯塞爾「世界創新科技博覽會」銅獎；2006年國家科學技術進步二等獎；2005年中創軟件人才獎；2003年度獲教育部提名國家科學技術一等獎（排名第9，獲獎項目：物件導向與移動Agent技術研究）；以及多次最佳論文獎（包括UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SmartWorld 2016、2016年SMARTCOMP 2016、ISPA 2013、WCNC 2011等）。
曹建農教授為國際電機電子工程師學會(IEEE)會士，計算機協會(ACM)傑出會員，中國計算機學會(CCF)高級會員。曾於2012-2014年擔任IEEE計算機學會分佈式計算技術委員會主席，在2004-2007擔任中國計算機學會計算體系專委會副主席。同時，曹教授擔任很多國際學術會議，包括INFOCOM, PERCOM, SMARTCOMP, ICMU, ICPP, MASS, ICPADS, IWQoS, EUC/CSE, UIC/ATC, QShine等大會主席(General Chair)和程式委員會主席(PC Chair)，以及ICDCS, PERCOM , INFOCOM, IPDPS, ICNP, ICPP, ICC, WCNC, GLOBECOM, RTSS, SRDS, ICCPS等國際會議的程式委員會委員。以及擔任眾多國際著名期刊的編輯編委工作，包括分佈式計算領域頂級期刊IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Network, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), 國內計算機頂級雜誌JCST等等。曹教授還應邀在多個國際頂級學術會議上做過重要報告(包括WoWMoM, CloudCom, ICA3PP, CollaborateCom, SKG, ICMU, ICDCN, CCBD, PAAP, UMedia, NCTC, ChinaCom, ICPADS, CUTE, PDCAT, IET-WSN, WSNC, HHME, TSP, WISA, CSSE, ICYCS, MP2P等等)，及擔任專家組成員。
曹建農教授並為本地﹑國內及國際政府組織和工業界作技術顧問提供相應的技術諮詢。現任創新科技署創新及科技基金研究項目評審委員會資訊科技組別委員(2017-2018) 、香港科技園科技創業培育計劃技術諮詢委員會委員(2014-2018) 、IEEE計算機學會教育獎項評選委員會委員(2016- )，以及IEEE通信學會獎項委員會委員(2017-2019)。在2010-2016年，曹教授擔任香港研究資助局工程學學科小組委員，參與評審香港各大學所屬的工程學學科的研究項目申請；並於2014-2016年擔任香港政府資訊科技總監辦公室中學資訊科技增潤計劃督導委員會委員，以及於2015和2016年擔任IEEE會士評審委員會委員。曹教授還擔任國內大學和研究機構學術委員會委員，包括南京大學計算機軟件新技術國家重點實驗室、中國科學院深圳先進技術研究院、陝西省嵌入式系統技術重點實驗室、貴州省電力大數據重點實驗室、和廣州暨南大學信息科學技術學院。曹教授長年以來都被中國國家自然科學基金委員會(NSFC)和國家科學技術部邀請評閱研究各類基金項目和獎項申請書。
Dr. Cao is currently a Chair Professor of Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He is also the director of the Internet and Mobile Computing Lab in the department and the director of University’s Research Facility in Big Data Analytics. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless sensing and networks, pervasive and mobile computing, and big data and cloud computing. He has co-authored 5 books, co-edited 9 books, and published over 500 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings. He received Best Paper Awards from conferences including DSAA’2017, IEEE SMARTCOMP 2016, ISPA 2013, IEEE WCNC 2011, etc.
Dr. Cao has directed and participated in over 90 research and development projects and, as a principal investigator, obtained over HK$43 million grants from funding agencies such as National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China (MOST), Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC), Hong Kong Construction Industry Council, The Society of Hong Kong Scholars, and industries like Huawei, IBM and Nokia. Professor Cao has also involved in the development of 13 patents.
Dr. Cao served the Chair of the Technical Committee on Distributed Computing of IEEE Computer Society 2012-2014, a member of IEEE Fellows Evaluation Committee of the Computer Society and the Reliability Society, a member of IEEE Computer Society Education Awards Selection Committee, a member of IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee, and a member of Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Dr. Cao has also served as chairs and members of organizing and technical committees of many international conferences, and as associate editor and member of the editorial boards of many international journals. Dr. Cao is a fellow of IEEE and ACM distinguished member. In 2017, he received the Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China Computer Federation.
On-going Projects
Research on Highly Accurate Indoor Localization Techniques for the Large-scale Warehouses -- Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR) Program by Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.
Demand Dispatching for Emerging On-demand Services: A Data Driven Approach -- HK PolyU HK RGC General Research Fund (GRF)
Dynamic Computation Partitioning for Multi-user Mobile Cloud Applications -- HK RGC General Research Grant (GRF)
Cross-disciplinary Big Data Processing and Analytics -- HK PolyU Project of Strategic Importance
Unconsciously Collaborative Crowd Intelligence Based Social Events Geo-Information Inference and Spatial Correlation Study -- NSFC Key Project Grant
AI3- A Layered-Federation Information Sharing Architecture -- Consultancy Project with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
