A Short Biography of Hong Jiang

Hong Jiang received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 1982 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; the M.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 1987 from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and the PhD degree in Computer Science in 1991 from the Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. Since August 1991 he has been at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, where from 2001 to 2007 he served as Vice Department Chair of and is Willa Cather Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He is currently on leave at National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the CCF Division of the CISE Directorate. At UNL, he has graduated 13 Ph.D. students who upon their graduations either landed academic tenure-track positions in Ph.D.-granting US institutions or were employed by major US IT corporations. He has also supervised more than 10 post-doc fellows and visiting scholars. 

His present research interests include computer architecture, computer storage systems and parallel I/O, high-performance computing, big data computing, cloud computing, performance evaluation.  He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He has over 200 publications in major journals and international Conferences in these areas, including IEEE-TPDS, IEEE-TC, ACM-TOS, ACM TACO, JPDC, ISCA, MICRO, FAST, USENIX ATC, USENIX LISA, SIGMETRICS, MIDDLEWARE, ICDCS, IPDPS, OOPLAS, ECOOP, SC, ICS, HPDC, ICPP, etc., and his research has been supported by NSF, DOD and the State of Nebraska. Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of ACM.

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