Jiannong Cao#
| Membership Number: | 5254 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csjcao |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2725-2529 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017, 07 Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science, Chair Professor, Department of Computing Director, University Research Facility in Big Data Analytics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- 2011, 04 Chair Professor and Head, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- 1997, 06 Assistant Prof, Associate Prof, Professor, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- 1995, 06 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- 1993, 06 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia
- 1990, 06 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, James Cook University, Australia
Fields of Scholarship
- Cloud and edge computing
- Parallel and distributed Computing
- Big data analytics
- Wireless sensing and networking
- Mobile computing
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Natural Science Award, Second Class), Ministry of Education of China - for research on “Theoretical Models and Techniques of Distributed Computing in Wireless Network”
- 2017 Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award, China Computer Federation
- 2017 Distinguished Member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) – for scientific contributions to computing
- 2014 Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) – for contributions to distributed computing in mobile wireless networks
- 2013 Hong Kong ICT Awards: Certificate of Merit and Special Mention for Best Innovation & Research – for the project “A Practical Wireless Structural Health Monitoring System using Intelligent Sensor Network”
- 2009 Bronze Medal of Brussels Innova 2009 – for the project “HAWK: Heterogeneous Advanced Wireless Networks”
- 2006 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class), China State Council - for research on "Coordination in Object-Oriented and Agent-Oriented Software Systems: Technology, Platform, and Applications"
