Academic and Professional Achievements by Kai Hwang

August 26, 2011

Kai Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He has engaged in academic work, creative research and higher education for 40 years in computer science and computer engineering, after earning his Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1972. Highlighted below are his contributions in research, teaching and services. More details can be found in his CV or visit his home page http://GridSec.usc.edu/Hwang.html Summary of Major Contributions: Through dedicated scholastic work for 4 decades, Kai Hwang has made fundamental contributions to the areas of computer architecture, parallel processing, distributed systems, cloud computing, and Internet security. He has published 8 popular books and 220 scientific papers with a citation index exceeding 9,000 times. At USC faculty distinction report, he was rated the top 20 most cited researchers. His books have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean from the English editions and used worldwide by generations of students. Hwang is an IEEE Fellow and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing for 26 years. He received the IEEEIPDPS Founders Award in 2011 for his pioneering work in Parallel processing. He has delivered 34 keynote speeches in major IEEE/ACM Conferences. His comprehensive publications and high-quality Ph.D. students produced have upgraded the higher education community in computer science and engineering. His technical innovations in parallel computer architectures and distributed computing systems have demonstrated everlasting impact on the advancement of computer industry towards a user-friendly digital society. Academic Achievements and Publications: In 1986, the year after his joining USC from Purdue University, he was elevated by the IEEE Computer Society to an IEEE Fellow grade for his significant contributions in parallel processing, computer architecture and digital systems. Up to 2011, Hwang has published 112 SCI-indexed original papers and 125 EI-indexed conference papers. According to Google Scholar, his published work has been cited 9,244 times. He has a citation hindex of 40 and a g-index of 93, (http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~elm/cgi-bin/hindex.py). In the past 6 years, 20 high-quality Journal papers were published out of his research group at USC. He has written 4 research/textbooks: Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing (1083), Advanced Computer Architecture (1993), Scalable Parallel Computing (1998), and Computer Arithmetic (1978). These books are adopted worldwide and translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Thomason ISI Web of Knowledge has reported 3,700 citations of his Journal papers. His most cited paper (231 citations) deals with " Trusted P2P Transactions", appeared in IEEE Internet Computing. The "PowerTrust paper was ranked the most cited paper in 2007 at IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems. All of these achievements have put him at the top 20 most cited faculty researchers at USC. (http://www.usc.edu/about/ faculty/highly_cited_ researchers.html ). His latest work is represented by his new book: Distributed and Cloud Computing (coauthored with Geoffrey Fox and Jack Dongarra), published by Morgan Kauffman in October 2011. This new book covers distributed systems, computer clusters, virtualization, supercomputers, computing grids, P2P systems, Internet clouds, Internet of Things, and social networks. (See Preface in his home page, or visit the Publisher' website for contents, http://mkp.com/category/news/coming-soonb/page/2).

Research Grants, Awards and Honors: Hwang has led 25 funded Research Projects at Purdue, USC, Hong Kong Univ. and Tsinghua Univ. Supported by NSF, ONR, IBM, AT&T, MIT Lincoln Lab, Hong Kong Research Grant Council, and China's Ministry of Sci. and Tech., these projects have a total funding of $8M mostly through USC. His largest grant from NSF is the ITR Project ($2M) on Grid Security and Automated Intrusion Detection. Seven Ph.D. students graduated from working on this project in the past 6 years. In May 18, 2011, the IEEE IPDPS (Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium) awarded Kai Hwang the Founders' Award for his pioneering contributions in Parallel Processing. In 2004, he received the very first Outstanding Achievement Award from China Computer Federation for his leadership role in research and higher education on high-performance computer systems. In 1986, IEEE Computer Society has elevated Hwang an IEEE Fellow grade for making significant contributions in computer architecture, digital arithmetic, and parallel processing. Based on the above track records, the Cite Seer (http://Citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs) has ranked him at the top 0.18% computer scientists and professionals in the world (out of 873,888 in total by 2009). In the grid computing area alone, he was ranked ranks No. 6 out of 7,407 leading experts in the field. . Educational and Professional Services: In the last 25 years, Hwang taught the following courses at USC on a regular basis: Computer Architecture : EE 457 at Senior level and EE 557 at graduate level Parallel and Distributed Computing : EE 657 for Ph.D. students. (Updated recently) Wireless Internet and Pervasive Computing : EE 532 for graduate students (New course created) Hwang has supervised the completion of 22 Ph.D. students at USC and Purdue University. Most of his former Ph.D. students are engaged in academic and scientific/engineering work at research universities and in major computer and IT companies. Four of his best Ph.D. students: D. K. Panda, Joydeep Ghosh, Lionel Ni and Ahmed Louri are elevated to IEEE Fellow grade. His former student, Jian (Jane) Xu has been recognized as an IBM Fellow and honored by the WITI (Woman in Technology International) Hall of Fame in 2008. Dr. Hwang has lectured worldwide and performed advisory work for IBM, Intel, MIT Lincoln Lab., ETL in Japan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, GMD in Germany, and INRIA in France. Keynote Presentations and Leadership: Hwang has chaired numerous ACM/IEEE International Conferences. In 2011, he serves as the General Co-Chair of two major IEEE Conferences: the Third IEEE Int'l Conf. Cloud Computing Technology and Sciences (CloudCom-2011), Athens, Greece, Nov.29 - Dec.1, 2011. He also chairs the Int'l Conf. on Utility and Cloud Computing, Melbourne, Australia in Dec. 2011. Hwang has delivered 34 keynote addresses in major IEEE/ACM Conferences, including the IPDPS, ICDCS, IPSA, HPCA, ISCA, ICPP, Arith, HPCC, NAS, Cluster, PDCTA, PDCAT, SCC, Cloudcom, OTM, PDCS, ICPAD, Ubi-Media, NPC, Cool Chip, IPPS, CONPAR, etc. (see long list in his CV). During his sabbatical years, he has visited several research universities under the title of Visiting Chair Professorship at Tsinghua Univ. (2008-present), Univ. of Hong Kong (1996-1999), Univ. of Minnesota (1989), Univ. of Tokyo (1979), and National Taiwan Univ. (1979). Hwang has served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) for 28 years. In this capacity, he has recruited more than 250 distinguished scholars as subjectarea editors (SAEs) in the JPDC Editorial Board. Subsequently, four SAEs were elected into the National Academy of Engineering, including John Hennessy, John Rice, Jack Dongarra, and Ken Kennedy. Currently, Hwang serves also in the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Cloud Computing and in the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Networking. 2