Keynote SpeakersAlphabetical

Dr. Junwei Cao, Professor of Research Institute of Information Technology

Tsinghai University, China

FIT Building 3-415, Tsinghua University
Beijing, 100084
P. R. China

jcao@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Title: Distributed Computing in an era of Clouds and IoT

Abstract

While Cloud Computing is gaining popularity and Internet of Things is becoming the next strategic direction of technology development in China, distributed computing, after several decades of development, is still one of kernel driving forces in the new wave of IT infrastructuralization from a technological perspective.

In this talk, new challenges of Clouds and IoT are summarized. How can traditional distributed computing techniques be used to address these challenges? How will distributed computing middleware evolve to meet new application requirements in the new era of Clouds and IoT? Prototype systems and applications under development at Tsinghua University are introduced to demonstrate our view of future trends in distributed computing.

Biography:

Junwei Cao is currently a Professor and Assistant Dean of Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, China. Before joining Tsinghua in 2006, he was a Research Scientist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Before that he worked as a research staff member of NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany. Junwei Cao got his PhD in Computer Science from University of Warwick, UK, in 2001, where his PhD thesis was focused on Agent-based Resource Management for Grid Computing. He got his master and bachelor degrees from Tsinghua University in 1998 and 1996, respectively.

Junwei Cao’s research is focused on advanced computing technology and applications. He recently participated in research projects on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things under the National 973 Basic Research Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Junwei Cao has published over 100 academic papers, cited by international researchers for over 2000 times. Junwei Cao is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society and a Member of the ACM and CCF.

Dr. Gang Chen , Professor of Computer Science,

Institute of High Energy Physics

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Computing Center, 19B YuquanLu, Shijingshan District, Beijing

Gang.Chen@ihep.ac.cn

Title:  Grid Computing in High Energy Physics in China

Abstract

High energy physics (HEP) has always been the pioneer on the development and applications of computer science. As the new generations of HEP experiments, LHC and BEPCII as examples, started to be operational in 2009, grid computing has become an integral part of the practice of high energy physics. A large scale grid computing infrastructure, namely WLCG[1] or Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, has been being built and is providing high performance computing services of data process and physics analysis. Institute of High Energy Physics is one of important grid sites of WLCG. The WLCG is so successful that it is not just used by HEP project but also adopted by large number of different disciplines of science activities. This work will present an overview of WLCG and status of HEP grid computing in China. The IHEP site consists of 1100 CPU cores as computing nodes and 600 TB disks as the storage resource. The high bandwidth dedicated links of 622 Mbps to the US and 1 Gbps to Europe were established for data transfer and job distribution. In 2009, the IHEP site provided more four million CPU-hours of computing service to HEP as well as cosmic ray research, bioinformatics and geodynamics.

Short Bio

1991-1994 he was the physicist of L3 experiment at CERN; since 1995-1996 he was post-doc at Peking University and member of BESII; 1996 he joined the AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) for the International Space Station. His main jobs were on detector developments and physics simulations.

Since 2003 he is the director of the Computing Centre of the IHEP; He is in charge of the provision of a high performance computing infrastructure for BESIII, ARGO-YBJ and LHC projects. He is the member of International High Energy Physics Computing Coordination Committee (IHEPCCC) since 2005. Starting from 2004, he has been leading a group to build the WLCG site in China for LHC experiments.

Dr. Yike Guo , Professor of Computer Science,

Department of Computing

Imperial College London

180 Queen's Gate

London SW7 2BZ, UK

Telephone: +44 2075948182

Fax: +44 2075818024

Email: yg@doc.ic.ac.uk

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~yg/

Title: The Essence of Cloud Computing
Abstract

Cloud computing has been viewed as a technical revolution or a synonym of some distributed HPC technique such as Grid Computing. In this talk, we argue a quite different view of cloud computing: the essence of cloud computing is to deliver computation as services. One key feature of a service is its quality. Higher quality services are paid with higher price. Also, as payment increases, a better service should be delivered. This service oriented business model provides cloud computing a new semantics where algorithm design and software building have very different principles compared to those in traditional computing. We present the IC Cloud development carried in our group and use it to illustrate some key concepts for building up a cloud based service market.

Bio

Dr. Yike Guo is a professor in computing science in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research is in the areas of large scale scientific data analysis , data mining algorithms and applications, parallel algorithms and cloud computing. He graduated in Computer Science from Tsinghua University of China and has a PhD in Computational Logic and Declarative Programming at Imperial College London. During his PhD study, he was one of the founding members of the field studying uniform declarative programming by integrating functional and logic programming languages. Later, his work on functional coordination forms established a foundation for structured parallel programming. Dr. Yike Guo has been working in the area of data intensive analytical computing since 1995 when he was the Technical Director of Imperial College Parallel Computing Centre. During last 10 years, he has been leading the data mining group of the department to carry out many research projects, including some major UK e-science projects such as: Discovery Net on Grid based data analysis for scientific discovery; MESSAGE on Wireless mobile sensor network for environment monitoring; BAIR on System biology for diabetes study. He has been focusing on applying data mining technology to scientific data analysis in the fields of life science and healthcare, environment science and security. He is the Principal Investigator of the Discovery Science Platform grant from UK EPSRC and he is also the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of InforSense Limited , an Imperial College spin-out company on enterprise platform for business and scientific intelligence.

Dr. Lican Huang, Professor of Computer Science,

Institute of Networking & Distributed Computing

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China, 310018

licanhuang@zist.edu.cn

Title: Semantic P2P Networks: Future Architecture of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things?

Abstract      

When more and more nodes and users are connected in the Internet in the cases of Cloud computing and the Internet of Things, centralized computing modes will be failed with the limit band width and privacies. P2P technologies may be the future architecture of Cloud computing and the Internet of Things.

This talk will introduce a different P2P technology: semantic P2P Network-- Virtual Hierarchical Tree Gird Organizations (VIRGO). Other than unstructured and DHT-based structured P2P networks, VIRGO keeps the semantic meanings of the nodes’ roles in the communities. In VIRGO approach, the nodes are identified as domain names classified by the semantic meaning of roles in the organizations. The nodes construct the VIRGO network according to their domains, which form a coalition of vertical virtual organizations. 

Bio

Prof. Huang works on challenges about Cloud Computing and P2P computing. He has worked on e-Science and Grid computing since the beginning of 2000’s. He was honored in Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2006, Marquis Who’s Who in the Science and Engineering 2006-2007, and  Marquis Who’s Who in Asia 2006-2007 due to his achievement of proposing Virtual and Dynamic Hierarchical Architecture for e-Science and Grid and VIRGO protocols. He serves as program committee member of many international conferences. He has contributed over 100 technical papers to various conferences and refereed journals.

Prof. Huang now is a Director of Network & Distributed Computing at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU). Prior to joining ZSTU, Prof. Huang worked as a Senior Research Associate in the School of Computer Science at Cardiff University since 2004. Before working at Cardiff University, he developed many large software systems in several companies, as technical leader or department manager. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in 2003, Bachelor's From Nanchang University in 1982, and Master's from Hangzhou University in 1984.

Keyuan Jiang, PhD

Purdue University Calumet

USA

Title: Biological Pathway Similarity Search – eScience with Distributed Computing

Abstract

Biological pathways are important determinants of living activities. Recent advances in laboratory technologies have driven an increasing accumulation of biological pathway datasets. This wealth of pathway datasets provides researchers with an opportunity to elucidate biological functions by performing pathway comparisons at the genomic scale against known pathways found in other organisms or within the same organism. A method has been developed to perform similarity searches using a scoring mechanism to rank the similarities of the pathway in question against those in the pathway repository. To achieve a reasonably good performance, the method is implemented using the Condor distributed computing resources spanning across several campuses. Leveraging the community-developed XML-based pathway data format, our method compares the pathway in question against those stored in a pathway database. A pair of XML documents is compared at each Condor node, and the result of all the comparisons are scored and ranked to indicate the similarity of each pair of pathways.

Bio

Dr. Keyuan Jiang is a faculty member at Department of Computer Information Technology & Graphics of Purdue University Calumet, U.S.A. He earned his bachelor degree from Nanjing Institute of Technology, and his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Jiang has been actively involved in the research areas of information technology applications in biomedical field, ranging from a knowledge-based system for gene design, semantic web in bioinformatics, and clinical research information technology. As a senior member of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

 

Dr. Yuanan Liu,  Professor of wireless networks

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

 

Title: Cognitive Radio, Algorithms and Applications

 

Abstract

This report will recall the background of cognitive radio technologies at first. Multi-band spectrum sensing, non-cooperative power control game for OFDMA-based secondary spectrum sharing and high power efficiency spectrum sharing algorithms are simply described. Also, simulation results showed in the report.

Bio

Prof. Liu received B.E., M.Eng and PH.D degree in electronic engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, ChengDu, SiChuan province, in 1984, 1989, 1992, respectively. Now, He is Dean of School of Electronic Engineering of Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsIEE Fellow, Vice-chairman of the ninth Technical Committee of China Communication Standards AssociationMember of National 863 Program.

He is interested in LTE and IMT-A mobile technology, next generation mobile network, sensors network, things of Internet, radio technology, and etc. He is the author or co-authors of more than 170 technical papers , five books and 24 patents.

He is recognized as the first person and leading person of IEEE802.16 in China by the Chairman of IEEE 802.16, Roger A Marks. He was the Conference Chairman of Broadband Wireless Internet Access, Beijing, July, Beijing Hotel, 2001; He was Technical Program Chairman of Joint Conference on mobile between China and Japan, Sci-Tec Building, in campus of BUPT, Feb.6, 2001; He was the Technical Program Chairman of International Conference on Telecommunications 2002; He was Conference Chairman of Wireless Multimedia Forum, Sci-Tec Building, in campus of BUPT, Sep. 5, 2003; He was the chair of Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Communication and Information, Beijing, June 26-28, 2005; Co-chair of China-Sweden workshop on communication, Beijing, Sep 23-24; Co-chair of International Conference on Communications Technology and Applications 2009, Beijing.