History
A Decade of Collaboration: Looking Back, Looking Forward
3 - 5 December, 2009
Beijing, China
Speaker Biographies
Jun Bi, Ph.D.
Dr. Bi received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Currently he is a full professor and director of Network Architecture & IPv6 Research Division, Network Research Center of Tsinghua University, and Network Center of China Education and Research Network (CERNET).
His research interests include Internet architecture and protocols, next generation network architecture and IPv6 protocols, high performance routers/switches, source address validation, Internet routing, IPv4/IPv6 transition, etc. He had successful led tens of government supported or international collaboration research projects, published more than 60 research papers, filed tens of innovation patents, and received national science and technology achievement awards.
He serves as the member of editorial board of several international journals and chair/member of technical program committee of international conferences. He is the senior member of ACM, member of IEEE, senior member of China Computer Federation, China Institute of Communications, Secretariat Director and Steering Group Member of Asia Future Internet Forum (AsiaFI), Secretary of IETF SAVI Working Group.
Greg Cole
Greg Cole is the Principal Investigator and developer of the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD) and of the newly awarded GLORIAD-Taj effort. Greg has an extensive background in global advanced networking, having developed and managed the multi-national GLORIAD and predecessor US-Russia MIRnet and NaukaNet programs since 1997. His experience dates back 15 years and includes cross-cultural social networking, education, outreach and training, local community network infrastructure development, and global R&E cyberinfrastructure development and management. In addition to $10M+ funding from the NSF, Greg's global networking initiatives have been supported by NATO, US Department of State, USAID, Eurasia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, and others. Under his leadership, GLORIAD has developed and maintained a global, highly federated and decentralized management, and a vast public/private partnership connecting science communities around the world.
Steven Corbató, Ph.D.
Steve Corbató is the Director of Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiatives at the University of Utah. He is leading or supporting a number of critical research IT efforts, including the development of a new off-campus data center, the Research@UEN optical network in Utah, and the expansion of high performance computing and research storage capabilities for faculty and student researchers. He has collaborated with network researchers within the School of Computing developing the Emulab/protoGENI network/systems testbed and with computational scientists in the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. He serves as a member of the University's Campus Cyberinfrastructure Council and the Utah Education Network Steering Group.
From 2000 to 2006, he served in leadership positions at Internet2, a national higher education non-profit dedicated to promoting the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that facilitate the development, deployment, and use of revolutionary Internet technologies. In this capacity, he initially oversaw all national network infrastructure activities - including the Abilene Network, the MAN LAN exchange point in New York City, and the FiberCo dark fiber acquisition and holding vehicle. He later served as the Managing Director for Technology with responsibility for a portfolio including network research facilitation, network performance, middleware, and security.
Prior to joining Internet2, Dr. Corbató was the technical lead for the Pacific/Northwest Gigapop and manager of network engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He played a key supporting role in the development of the IP network within the Washington State K-20 Network.
He is board chair and treasurer of FirstMile.US, a non-profit organization supporting the development of community-based, 'big broadband' networks in the U.S. From 2003 until 2006, he served as a board member and treasurer for National LambdaRail (NLR), Inc. He currently serves in the same roles for the Avenues Baseball League, Inc. in Salt Lake City.
His academic background is in experimental astrophysics. He earned his B.A. cum laude from Rice University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He later was a post-doctoral researcher with the Cosmic Ray Physics research group at the University of Utah.
Steve Cotter
Steve Cotter has been the Department Head of the Department of Energy's award-winning Energy Sciences Network since 2008. Steve has an extensive background in developing cutting-edge networking systems that require a deep understanding of advanced technologies and business drivers. Prior to joining ESnet, Steve was responsible for building Google's network infrastructure in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in support of the company's cloud computing initiative. While at Internet2, Steve was responsible for the Internet2 Network, an internationally renowned high-performance hybrid network for the research and education community in the United States.
Heidi Picher Dempsey
Heidi is responsible for planning, deploying, integrating, and operating the GENI suite of prototype infrastructure, working in close collaboration with the many academic and industrial teams who are creating and operating prototypes of GENI components and services. She coordinates yearly spiral development integration efforts and periodic GEC demonstrations, encouraging active and open communication among participants through the GENI Wiki and other tools that the GPO provides for the community. Heidi also chairs the Operations, Management, Integration and Security (OMIS) working group, which addresses common requirements, policies, and standards for operating and integrating GENI and managing its services, and coordinates GENI's long-term operations and integration plans with major research, regional, and campus infrastructure, as well as critical GENI project network engineering efforts.
Heidi has been a senior technical manager in communications networking for more than 20 years and is a deputy department leader at BBN. She was hardware project manager for BBN's first commercial IP router and was a project manager and engineer on the Terrestrial Wideband Network, the Defense Simulation Internet, the UK FatPipe, and other networks that served both research and government communities.
As a Director at Internet service provider Genuity (a BBN spin-off) until 2000, Heidi led development and fielding of new technology. She was responsible for creating multiple advanced services, including Genuity's first managed VPN service, named best in industry by Network Computing magazine. She led an organization of 150 systems and software engineers, distributed between D.C. and Boston.
Heidi is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and Internet standards meetings. She received her BS in Civil Engineering from MIT and completed the MIT Sloan School, Greater Boston Executive Program.
Kejun Dong, Ph.D.
Dr. Kejun Dong is Deputy Director of Collaboration Environment Research Center in Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received hi B.S. from Peking University in information science in 1999, his M.S. from CNIC, and his PH.D. from Institute of Computer Technolog (ICT) of CAS in computer science in 2003 and 2007 respectively. His current research interests include collaboration technology, grid computing, mass data storage, and grid visualization.
Dale Finkelson
Dale Finkelson joined Internet2 in May of 2009. He was previously with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) where he served for almost 25 years, most recently as Network Engineer for Information Services. He has also served as chair of the Engineering Working Group for Great Plains Network, and has been the chair of the Internet2 IPv6 working group since its inception. Dale was instrumental in building a fiber network between UNL and GPN in Kansas City to help establish a dynamic circuit network (DCN) connection between high-energy physics researchers at UNL and Fermi Labs in Chicago. To contact Dale, email him at dmf@internet2.edu
Randall Frank
Randy Frank is Chief Technology Officer at Internet2, a consortium of universities, colleges, and other educational and research institutions involved with ensuring that the evolving Internet continues to meet the needs of its member organizations. It operates one of the highest performance backbone networks that comprise the worldwide Internet, and develops and deploys technologies that ensure that the research and education community continues to have that highest quality and performance networks available to meet its needs. In his role as CTO at Internet2 Randy is a member of the senior Internet2 leadership team and has responsibility for the advanced development activities in areas such as performance measurement, security, authentication, and high performance networking. He works closely with the rest of the Internet2 management team in moving those and related technologies into the production networking environment operated by Internet2 on behalf of its members.
Randy joined Internet2 in the summer of 2009, after spending ten years as Vice President for Technology Research and Development at Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he was Chief Architect at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. There he led efforts in a wide variety of areas from advanced voice and media systems to advanced security systems, with a goal of accelerating the adoption of new and innovative technologies into Fidelity's operational systems.
Before Fidelity, Randy held various senior information technology leadership positions at both the University of Michigan and the University of Utah and was responsible for building the first high performance campus area networks at both schools, and built some of the earliest production digital library environments. Randy did his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan in computer engineering, and attended computer science graduate school at the University of Utah. Randy lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and two teenage daughters.
Dennis Gannon, Ph.D.
Dr. Gannon is the Director of Applications for the Cloud Computing Futures Group. Prior to coming to Microsoft, he was a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and the Science Director for the Indiana Pervasive Technology Labs and, for seven years, Chair of the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include large-scale cyberinfrastructure, programming systems and tools, distributed computing, computer networks, parallel programming, computational science, problem solving environments and performance analysis of Grid and MPP systems. He led the DARPA HPC++ project and was one of the architects of the Department of Energy SciDAC Common Software Component Architecture (CCA). Dr. Gannon was a partner in the NSF Computational Cosmology Grand Challenge project, the NSF Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery and the NCSA Alliance. He served on the steering committee of the GGF, now the Open Grid Forum and the Executive Steering Committee of the NSF Teragrid where he managed the TeraGrid Science Advisory Board. He was the Program Chair for the IEEE 2002 High Performance Distributed Computing Conference, the General Chair of the 1998 International Symposium on Scientific Object Oriented Programming Environments and the 2000 ACM Java Grande Conference, and Program Chair for the 1997 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing as well as the 1995 IEEE Frontiers of Massively Parallel Processing. I was the Program Chair for the International Grid Conference, Barcelona, 2006 and co-chair of the 2008 IEEE e-Science Conference. While I was Chair of the Computer Science Department at Indiana University, I led the team that designed the University's new School of Informatics. For that effort I was given the School's Hermes Award in 2006. I have published over 100 refereed articles and co-edited 3 books. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1980 after receiving a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Davis.
Xiangyang Huang
Prof. Xiangyang Huang is Director of the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also the legal representative of CNIC and a member of the Academic Committee of CNIC. Prof. Huang is responsible for strategic planning, scientific research, international cooperation, and industry development. He takes charge as General Director of the 11th Five-year Plan informatization project of CAS which was undertaken by CNIC. The responsibilities of the informatization projects are to ensure that every project is carried out and accomplished on time. These projects include construction and services for internet environment, super computing environment, data application environment, Academia Resources Planning (ARP) Phase II Project, CAS Network-based Information Issuance Platform, e-Science Virtual Platform for Research and Development, and Platform for Networked Science Dissemination.
Farnam Jahanian, Ph.D.
Farnam Jahanian is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Arbor Networks, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Farnam brings over fifteen years of R&D experience and leadership in networking and distributed computing to Arbor Networks. As a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Director of the Software Systems Laboratory at the University of Michigan, Farnam led the pioneering research on the Internet infrastructure scalability and security that formed the basis of Arbor Networks' technology. Cisco, DARPA, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, and the National Science Foundation are among the sponsors of Farnam's research work at the University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1993, Farnam was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he directed several experimental projects in distributed and fault-tolerant systems. The author of over 70 published research papers, Farnam has served on dozens of government and industry panels. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the University of Michigan Amoco Teaching Award, and an IBM Outstanding Technical Innovation Award. Farnam holds a Master's Degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Lintao Jiang
Mr. Lintao Jiang is CTO, China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) of the Ministry of Information Industry Technology (MIIT) of China. He also serves as Chairman of IP & Multi-media Technical Committee of China Communications Standardization Association, and Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG 13. Mr. Lintao Jiang graduated from the Radio & Electronics Department of Tsinghua University in 1970, and received M.E. from the Electronics Engineering Department of Tsinghua University in 1982. He has been engaged in R&D of multi-media, digital communications, IP technology and standardization for many years. He is member of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd session of Multi-media Expert Group of Communication Technology Area, High-Tech R&D Program of China (863 Program).
Xing Li
Xing Li is a professor with the Department of Electronics Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research activities and interests include statistical signal processing, multimedia communication, and computer networks. He has published a book and more than 160 papers in his research areas.
Prof. Li is the Deputy Director of China Education and Research Network (CERNET) Center and a member of the Technical Board of the China Education and Research Network Project. He is a fellow of the China Communication Institute, a senior member of the China Electronic Institute, and a member of Sigma Xi as well. Prof. Li is also the Chairman of the Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) and a member of executive council of Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).
John Liu, Ph.D.
Dr. John Liu is the Vice President of Sales of Google Inc. He joined Google in January, 2008. Dr. John Liu oversees Google's sales and business development in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Prior to joining Google, Dr. John Liu has served six years at SK Telecom as its CEO and President in China. Dr. Liu was awarded "Ten Outstanding IT Business Leaders of China" in 2006 and "Mundell World Executives Reward for Achievements in China" in 2007. Earlier, Dr. Liu held senior executive positions with FreeMarkets Inc. and Singapore Telecom.
Graduating from Beijing Normal University in 1983, with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Dr. John Liu taught at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, before venturing overseas to pursue advanced studies. Dr. Liu completed both his Master's degree in Operation Research in 1992 and PhD in Telecommunication Network Management in 1994 at the Technical University of Denmark.
Miron Livny, Ph.D.
Miron Livny received a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975 from the Hebrew University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Sciences, the director of the Center for High Throughput Computing and is leading the Condor project.
Dr. Livny's research focuses on distributed processing and data management systems and data visualization environments. His recent work includes the Condor distributed resource management system, the DEVise data visualization and exploration environment and the BMRB repository for data from NMR spectroscopy.
Yan Ma
Ma Yan works in at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China. He is responsible for the planning, construction, and operation of the computer campus network of BUPT. He also participated in the construction and operation of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) and is a Technical Board member of CERNET and CNGI/CERNET2, which is one of the backbones of the China Next Generation Internet project. Ma Yan is also an APNIC EC member, serving from March 2008 to March 2010.
José Muñoz, Ph.D.
Dr. Muñoz has over thirty-five years of experience in Federal service. He is currently Acting Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure where he was its Deputy Director. Dr. Muñoz has collateral duties in OCI as Program Director in the area of high performance computing and software. Previously, he was Director of the Simulation and Computer Science Office in NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASCI) program; Program Manager and Assistant Director in DARPA's Information Technology Office where he worked on Adaptive Computing Systems; Data Intensive Systems and Power-Aware Computing and Communications. Dr. Muñoz was at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) for over 20 years conducting research on sonar/signal and image processing as well as high-end computing in combat systems.
Dr. Muñoz received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut and is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He has several publications in the area of high performance computing (including a patent). He has served in various capacities in the Super Computing conferences. Dr. Muñoz Co-Chairs the federal government's High-End Computing Interagency Working Group (HEC-IWG) and served on various committees and study groups looking at various aspects of technology and science.
Guru Parulkar, Ph.D.
Guru Parulkar is Consulting Professor and the Executive Director of the Clean Slate Internet Design Program at Stanford University, a multidisciplinary effort with a goal to reinvent the Internet. In 20 years in the networking field, Guru has worked in academia, startups, a large company, and a top tier venture capital firm. He joined the NSF in 2003 in its then new Computer and Network Systems Division and also served as the GENI Program Director (www.geni.net) and received the NSF Director's award for Program Management Excellence. Prior to NSF, Guru spent several years in Silicon Valley at high-tech startups. He co-founded Growth Networks and served as its CTO and Director. Growth Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems and provided key technologies for Cisco's flagship router product line, CRS. He also co-founded a multimedia wireless company called Sceos Technologies that has since evolved to be Ruckus Wireless. He also played a key role in founding the network security company Nevis Networks. He continues to serve as an advisor to high tech startups. Prior to Silicon Valley, Guru was a Professor of Computer Science and Director of Applied Research Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis where he led research and prototyping of high performance networking and multimedia systems for over 11 years.
Guru received PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware (1987), M.Tech in EE from IIT Mumbai (1983), and BE in Electronics and Communications from G.S.I.T.S. University of Indore (1981). He is a recipient of Alumni Outstanding Achievement award and Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement award from the University of Delaware.
Hualin Qian
Prof. Qian has over 30 years experience in the computing industry, and has been responsible for many of the major technology projects in China. He has made important contributions to bringing the Internet to China since 1989, and finished the initial Internet connection in 1994. In the same year, he finished the construction and operation of the top-level domain of China (.cn). His team developed the first X.25 network in China 1984. As a chief designer, he finished the design of the computer network system for the 11th Asia Games 1990. He currently serves as Deputy Director at CNNIC Steering Committee, Vice Chair of ISC (Internet Society of China), Executive Committee member of APNIC, board member of APTLD, chief engineer and former deputy director at the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also serves as editor for journals such as JCST (Journal of Computer Science and Technology, English version) and Journal of Software. He was a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States from 1980 to 1982.
Don Riley
Donald R. Riley, Board Chair of the Internet Educatonal Equal Access Foundation, is Professor of Decision Information Technologies in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and Affiliate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. He is serves as I.T. Fellow, Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), Washington, D.C. Don served as VP and CIO at the University of Maryland from 1998 to 2003, and CIO at the University of Minnesota from 1992 to 1998.
Harika Tandra
Harika is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, and has been a GLORIAD graduate student since summer 2008. Originally from Hyderabad, India, she has expertise in not just networking, but also programming and database. Harika will be awarded an M.S. in computer science 11 December, 2009, and will begin working for GLORIAD in February with responsibility for measurement, monitoring, and security.
Paul Uhlir, J.D.
Paul Uhlir is director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC where he works on digital information law, policy, and management. He also directs the InterAcademy Panel's Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries. His recent international collaborations have included UNESCO, UN GAID, the International Council for Science, OECD, CODATA, and many other scientific and informatics organizations, as well as bilateral projects with China, India, Japan, Brazil, Chile, and South Africa.
Douglas Van Houweling, Ph.D.
Douglas E. Van Houweling, the founding President and CEO of Internet2, is also a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Van Houweling served as a member of the National Academies Panel on the Impact of IT on the Future of the Research University. With James Duderstadt and Daniel Atkins he authored Higher Education in the Digital Age. Van Houweling is the recipient of the EDUCAUSE 2002 Excellence in Leadership Award, and currently serves on the boards of Advanced Network and Services, Merit Networks, Altarum, and Adaptec.
Dr. Van Houweling played a major role in Internet development in the United States. He was Chairman of the Board of MERIT, Inc., a Michigan statewide computing network, when the National Science Foundation awarded it responsibility for operation and management of the NSFNET national backbone in partnership with IBM, MCI and the Michigan Strategic Fund in 1987. Van Houweling was also Chairman of the Board of Advanced Network and Services Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that implemented and operated the world's largest Internet backbone network from 1991 until 1995.
Van Houweling has long been active in inter-university initiatives, serving on the EDUCOM Board and playing roles in establishing numerous initiatives to establish cooperative information technology efforts among universities. He was a founder of EDUCOM's Networking and Telecommunications Task Force and the Inter-university Consortium for Educational Computing.
From 1984 until 1997, Dr. Van Houweling served as the Vice Provost for Information and Technology at the University of Michigan, where he was responsible for the University's strategic direction in the information technology arena. Between 1995 and 1997, he was also Dean for Academic Outreach with responsibility for extending the University's reach beyond its campus-based degree programs.
Van Houweling came to Michigan from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he was Vice Provost for Computing and Planning from 1981 until 1984. In that capacity, he initiated and directed Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew project to enable broad use of personal computer workstations in a networked environment. Before joining Carnegie-Mellon, Van Houweling was at Cornell University from 1970 to 1981 as Assistant Professor of Government. Starting in 1976, he took on the additional responsibilities for information technology leadership and became Director of Academic Computing and Central Computing Services in 1980.
Dr. Van Houweling received his undergraduate degree from Iowa State University and his Ph.D. in Government from Indiana University.
Feiyue Wang, Ph.D.
Fei-Yue Wang received his Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 1990. He jointed the University of Arizona in 1990 and became a Professor and the Director of the Program for Advanced Research in Complex Systems (PARCS) in 1999. In 1999, he found the Intelligent Control and Systems Engineering Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, under the support of the Outstanding Oversea Chinese Talents Program. Since 2002, he is the Director of the Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is the Vice President for research, education, and academic exchange at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
His current research interests include social computing, web and services science, modeling, analysis, and control of complex systems, especially social and physical/cyber systems. He was the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems from 1995 to 2000, Editor in Charge of the Series in Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation from 1996 to 2004, EiC, Associate EiC, or Associate Editors of 10 IEEE Transactions and Magazines. Since 1997, he has served as General or Program Chair of more than 20 IEEE, INFORMS, ACM, ASME international conferences. He was the President of IEEE ITS Society from 2005 to 2007 and the President of Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST, USA) in 2005. Currently, he is the President of the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation.
Dr. Wang is a member of Sigma Xi and an elected Fellow of IEEE, INCOSE, IFAC, ASME, and AAAS. In 2007, he received the National Prize in Natural Sciences of China and was elected as the Outstanding Scientist by ACM for his work in intelligent control and social computing.
Jianping Wu
Dr. Wu Jianping is Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of Network Research Center of Tsinghua University, Chairman of the CERNET Technical Board, and Director of the CERNET Center, Vice President of China Internet Association, Member of the Expert Committee in the information field under the national 863 Program, and Chief scientist of the project under the national 973 Program "Theoretical Research on NGI Architecture", and Chairman of APAN.
He mainly pursues research and education in the field of Computer Architecture and Application, and took charge of completing more than 20 major national research projects. Being the pioneer of the national network, he was in charge of "China Education and Research Network (CERNET) Demonstration Project", and established the largest national academic network CERNET. He was in charge of the major joint project "China High-speed Network Testbed -NSFCNET" funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, and implemented the interconnection of China network and international network. As one of main initiators and promoters of NGI in China, he in is charg of the CERNET2 backbone which is one of the CNGI core networks, and completed the world's largest IPv6 Internet backbone, in addition, "CNGI-CERNET2" has been approved into the TOP 10 Chinese Scientific Research Developments. He has also made innovative achievements in high-quality routers and protocols.
Prof. Wu has received 3 second/third national awards for progress in science and technology, and 10 first ministerial awards for progress in science and technology, in addition to over 10 patents for invention, publishing more than 200 academic papers, and training over 100 post-graduates.
Awarded by the State the title of Young/Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions, he enjoys special government allowance, National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, Cross-Century Intelligent Training Planning Foundation. He is also the Honorary Professor of Chang Jiang Scholar Program.
Zhiwei Xu, Ph.D.
Dr. Xu is the Chief Engineer at Institute of Computing Technology. He led the development of China's first national computational grid, and was chief architect of Dawning superservers, which, as reported in the journal Science, were instrumental in helping bio-scientists to discover the draft sequence of the rice genome. Prof. Dr. Xu is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Research and Development and an associate editor of the Journal of Grid Computing. He earned a M.S. from Purdue University in 1984, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1987.
Baoping Yan, Ph.D.
Dr. Yan Baoping joined the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as Director and Supervisor of Ph.D. students in 1997. Prior to this, she served as Vice President of Dawning Computer Co., a famous computer high-tech company in China.
Dr. Yan has long been engaged in the R&D and construction of computer network system engineering, large-scale scientific database technology and application. She has completed analysis and design of computer network system, research and implementation of industrial automation and CIMS network technology, ATM-based workstation cluster system, standard management of large-scale network and system integration, Internet/Intranet comprehensive information management system, etc. She has undertaken technology planning and consulting of several major network engineering and informatization projects at national, sector or regional level and achieved remarkable economic efficiency. In recent years, she has been in charge of some "863" projects such as the "Network management and information security system" and "Construction of large-scale scientific database in high-performance computing environment" and on behalf of CAS, she has been charged with overseeing research on the Internet 2 for the project "NSFCNet", a key project of the Natural Science Foundation of China. Currently, she is responsible for the planning and construction of the informatization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences during the 10th Five -year Plan period. Dr. Yan Baoping has published over 50 research papers at home and abroad, and graduated more than 30 Master and PH.D. students. She has in-depth research and understanding of the application and supporting technologies of large-scale scientific database. The government has granted her special allowance for her outstanding contributions.
David Yen, Ph.D.
David Yen serves as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group, for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the '90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year.
Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was a cofounder of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up. He also served in engineering roles at IBM Research and TRW, Inc. Dr. Yen earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1973, and received an MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980. He also completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. patents.
Kevin Yin
Kevin Yin has 20 year experience in telecommunication and networking industry. He started his industry career as a Software Developer in Motorola Corp U.S.A. and the Development Manager in Network General Corp U.S.A. Prior to joining Cisco in 1999, he was a Senior Staff Member of Bell lab at Lucent Technology U.S.A. He has been working in network architecture design, signaling and protocols development, such as PSTN, IN, 3G, Softswitch, IMS, IPTV and IP NGN (Next Generation Network), as well as some of emerging technologies in areas of IPv6, IP mobility, IP security, Cloud Computing, mobile internet, video & distributed multimedia system and Internet of Things.
As a SP solution architect, Mr. Yin has worked with the leading operators in China and Asia. A partial list of clients include China Telecom, China UniCom, China Mobile, China Netcom, Singtel, PCCW, Korea Telecom, ChungHua Telecom, PLDT, TOT, CAT, DTAC, VNPT. His project experience includes SP network architecture, technology strategy development and planning, solution and multimedia service design, as well as operation process implementation.
Mr. Yin is actively promoting future internet vision and experience visions for network technology. He authored more than 20 technical papers in telecom industry and is co-author of the book "Next Generation Network Technology". He is also a frequently requested speaker on various industry forums and conferences. He has participated in standard activities in CSSA, ITU, IETF, and is currently focusing on IPv6, cloud computing architecture & standards, multimedia application and some of the fundamental architecture issues of future internet.
Xiu-zhong Zhang
Xiuzhong Zhang was born in Shanghai, China, on August 21, 1947. He is the Head of the VLBI Laboratory of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO). He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and of the Chinese Astronomical Society. From 1970 to 1991, Prof. Zhang did research in Astronomical Technology at the Shannxi Astronomical Observatory. From June 1983 to June 1986 and from November 1989 to December 1990, he visited the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, to develop a board computer for x-ray satellite ROSAT. From 1991 onward, he has done research in the field of Radio Astronomical Technology at SHAO. As head of the VLBI Laboratory of SHAO he develops VLBI technologies to support the Chinese VLBI stations and the Chinese VLBI data processing center. Examples are a digital baseband converter for the Chinese VLBI Data Aquisition System and an FPGA-based 5-station correlator for the Chinese VLBI Network. Since 2001, he is heavily involved in the application of the VLBI technique in tracking lunar and deep space probes as one of the chief designers.
Jinzy Zhu
Jinzy Zhu, Manager of IBM Cloud Labs & HiPODS (High Performance On-Demand Solutions) Greater China, joined IBM in 2000 through the acquisition of Silicon Valley start-up Whistle Communications. She is currently on an international assignment to China to lead the IBM Cloud Labs & HiPODS Greater China team in a mission to accelerate the adoption of new IBM solutions in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Cloud Computing, a built-for-the next generation Internet data center platform, and Idea Factory, a Web 2.0 innovation solution.
Jinzy has been voted as a top Innovation speaker in IBM and was selected as one of the Smart People of IBM Software Group in IBM's 2009 campaign. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her Masters of Business Administration at Oxford University.