About author:Rui Cao (caoruibj@cn.ibm.com) currently is IBM Global Business Service consultant. She received a Bachelor degree in industrial design from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and a Master degree in engineering from The University of Hong Kong, with major in E-commerce & Internet Computing. In the past three years, she had been with IBM, working as a consultant in smart city, banking, telecommunication, and retail industries, with emphasis on applying advanced information technology into traditional industries.
Weidong Kou (kouwd@cn.ibm.com) currently is IBM Asia Pacific & Great China Group Chief Architect and Cloud Executive for Global Alliance. He has 30 years of IT industrial and academic experience, including over 20 years of IT practice in IBM and over 6 years of application software development in AT&T and Siemens. He was the dean of the school of computer sciences and engineering at Xidian University, and he has been a full visiting/adjunct professor in 17 universities around the global, including the University of Maryland in US and the University of Hong Kong. He has published 7 books and over 100 papers in journals and international conferences. Dr. Kou is the Laurent of the highest award from China National Government to the international experts in 2004.
