Digital Content Distribution over P2P Networks

               Professor Kai Hwang             

Dept. of EE-Systems, EEB-212

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA. 90089-2560, USA 

Biography

     Kai Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of Internet and Peer-to-Peer Computing Laboratory at the University of Southern California (USC). 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 visiting Chair Professor during his sabbatical visits of University of Minnesota (1989), National Taiwan University (1992), and University of Hong Kong (1996-99). He has supervised the completion of 20 Ph.D. theses at Purdue and USC in computer science and computer engineering over the years.

     He has authored 4 books and published over 200 scientific papers in refereed Journals, conferences, and book chapters. Most of his 70+ Journal papers appeared in IEEE/ACM publications. His popular books on Computer Architecture (1983, 1993), Computer Arithmetic (1978), and Scalable Parallel Computing (1998) were adopted worldwide and translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean from the English editions. He has also edited the Series of Annual Reviews in Scalable Computing (1999-present) and Parallel Processing for Supercomputers and Artificial Intelligence (1989).

     Dr. Hwang was awarded the IEEE Fellow in 1986 for making significant contributions in computer architecture, digital arithmetic, and parallel processing. He has served as a distinguished visitor of IEEE Computer Society. He received the very first K. S. Fu Award in 2004 from China Computer Federation for his leadership roles in advanced research and higher education on high-performance computer systems and Internet technology. He received several Outstanding Achievement Awards in these areas. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He is also on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed System and of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Networking.

     He has chaired numerous ACM/IEEE International Conferences and presented over two dozens of keynote addresses in various Conferences. He has lectured worldwide and performed advisory work for IBM Fishkill, Intel Scalable System Division, MIT Lincoln Lab., ETL in Japan, Academia Sinica in China, and GMD in Germany. Dr. Hwang has received numerous research grants from the NSF, ONR, AFOSR, IBM, AT&T, MIT Lincoln Lab. As a Principal Investigator, he has led the NSF/ITR $2M grant on Grid security in recent years. His research projects have developed scalable multiprocessors, distributed RAID for clusters, new trust management models, game-theoretic scheduling strategies, overlay networks, reputation systems, distributed intrusion detection systems, benchmark evaluation of supercomputers, and DETER experiments to prevent Internet worm outbreaks and DDoS attacks. For details of his prior and current projects, visit his personal web site http:GridSec.usc.edu/Hwang.html

    As of today, the citations of his work in Google Scholar are in 9020 entries, where the book Advanced Computer Architecture was cited 955 times and the book Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing 918 times (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&oi=qs&q=Kai+hwang). With 934 citations up to August 2006, the CiteSeer.Continuity ranked him at the top 1982 most cited authors out of 790,329 computer science authors (http://Citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs). The USC web site distinguishes him as the top 20 most-cited faculty researchers at USC campus. (http://www.usc.edu/about/faculty/highly_cited_ researchers.html). For details of his prior and current projects, visit his personal web site http:GridSec.usc.edu/Hwang.html