Samuel T.CHANSON (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1975)

Professor and Director, Cyberspace Center

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    Prof. Samuel Chanson received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Hong Kong University in 1969, and his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 and 1975 respectively. He was an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, for two years. He then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where he was a full Professor and Director of the Distributed Systems Research Laboratory until 1993 when he joined HKUST. He remains an Adjunct Professor at UBC, and is also an honorary professor with the State Key Lab of Computer Software Engineering at Wuhan University, and the Institute of Information Economics and Technology at the State Information Center in Beijing, PRC.

    Prof. Chanson is an Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the Journal of Computing and Information, and also New Generation Computing. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Panel of Internet Asia and on the IFIP TC6/WG6.1 Committee.

    In the area of technical conference work, Prof. Chanson has served on numerous programme committees of international conferences on communication protocols and distributed systems (59 since 1987), including INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, FORTE/PSTV and many others. He was a founding member, organizer and co-chair of the first International Workshop on Protocol Test Systems in 1988 (the workshop was renamed IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communication Systems in 1999). He was the program co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) in 1996, the conference co-chair of the same conference in 1998, and workshop chair of the E-Commerce workshop held in conjunction of ICDCS in 1999. He was also the general co-chair of IFIP FORTE/PSTV in 1999. He received the IEEE Computer Society's Certificate of Appreciation "For excellent service and dedication to the objectives of the IEEE Computer Society as a Distinguished Visitor" in 1998.

    Professor Chanson concurrently holds the positions of Director of Cyberspace Center, a government funded project for research and development in Internet technologies, Chairman of the Information Security and Forensics Society (ISFS), and also Chairman of the Internet Business Consortium (IBC). IBC was inaugurated in January 1998 with a number of leading Internet technology providers (including Sun, HP, Netscape, Oracle, Informix, 3Com, Citibank, Andersen Consulting, PSINet, PCCW, and HKIE). IBC's mission is to improve local manpower readiness and to promote and expand business use of Internet technologies in Hong Kong and the surrounding region.

    Research interests:

    Computer communications (particularly protocols and high speed networks); multi-media communication; load balancing and web caching in the Internet environment; Internet technologies (especially security and e- and m-commerce). He has been widely consulted by companies and government institutes and agencies on the above areas in several countries.

    Selected publications:

    Prof. Chanson has published more than 160 technical papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. The following are some selected publications in recent years:
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