简介：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 visiting Chief Scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences during 2008. Presently, he also serves as as an EMC endowed visiting Professor at Tsinghua University.

An IEEE Fellow, he specializes in computer architecture, parallel processing, Internet security, and distributed computing systems. He has published 8 books and over 210 scientific papers 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 Systems . He has lectured worldwide and performed advisory work for IBM, Intel, MIT Lincoln Lab., JPL in Caltech, Academia Sinica in China, ETL in Japan, GMD in Germany, and INRIA in France.