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Kai Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science and Director of Internet and Grid
Computing Laboratory at the University of Southern California. He
received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from
the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Prior to joining USC
in 1985, he has taught at Purdue University for many years. He has
served as a distinguished Chair Professor during his sabbatical visits
at the Univ. of Minnesota, National Taiwan Univ., and Univ. of Hong
Kong. He has supervised the completion of 19 Ph.D. theses at Purdue
and USC. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing . He is also
an editor of
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems .
Dr. Hwang has authored or
coauthored 4 books and 200 scientific papers in refereed Journals and
conferences. His past teaching and research work on scalable
multiprocessors and parallel processing has been summarized in two of
his latest books,
Scalable Parallel Computing (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and Advanced Computer Architecture (McGraw-Hill 1993),
which are worldwide used and translated into Spanish, Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean editions. He was elected an
IEEE Fellow in 1986 for making significant contributions in computer
architecture, digital arithmetic, and parallel processing. His work
was ranked by the CiteSeer.Continuity in August 2006 among the top 0.25
% most cited authors in Computer Science out of 790,329 authors in the
database. He received the K. S. Fu Award in 2004 from China Computer
Federation for his outstanding achievements in high-performance
computing research and higher education.
Dr. Hwang has chaired
numerous ACM/IEEE Conferences and presented over 20 keynote addresses
in major international conferences. He has lectured worldwide and
performed advisory work for IBM Fishkill, MIT Lincoln Lab., ETL in
Japan, Academia Sinica in China, INRIA in France, and GMD in
Germany. Dr. Hwang.s research was supported by numerous grants from
the NSF, AFOSR, IBM, MIT Lincoln Lab, etc. Presently, he leads the
NSF-supportedG GridSec Project at USC. His group
develops P2P trust models, DHT overlay networks, reputation systems,
and distributed defense systems against Internet worm outbreaks and
DDoS attacks.
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kaihwang@usc.edu