We are proud to announce that Prof. Jiannong Cao, Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science and Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing, has received the 2020 IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) Research Innovation Award for his contribution in task partition and scheduling in cloud and edge computing.
Prof. Cao has joined COMP since 1997. His research interests include Parallel and Distributed Computing, Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing, Big Data and Machine Learning, and Cloud and Edge Computing. In addition to publishing over 700 papers in major international journals and conferences, Prof. Cao has directed and participated in over 90 research and development projects and, as a principal investigator, obtained over HK$60 million grants from national and local funding agencies as well as key technology companies. For his exceptional research efforts, Prof. Cao has also been named Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished Member of ACM, Senior Member of CCF and Member of Academia Europaea.
The IEEE TCCLD Research Innovation Award recognises an individual or a group of collaborators for their outstanding technical innovations in the field of cloud computing. The contributors must have a long-term impact on advancing the theory and practice in cloud computing.
