About author:CAO Jiannong is currently a chair professor and head of the Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless networks and mobile computing, big data and cloud computing, pervasive computing, and fault tolerant computing. He has co-authored three books, co-edited nine books, and published over 300 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings. He is a fellow of IEEE, a senior member of China Computer Federation, and a member of ACM. He was the Chair of the Technical Committee on Distributed Computing of IEEE Computer Society from 2012-2014. Dr. CAO has served as an associate editor and a member of the editorial boards of many international journals, including ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Networks, Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, and Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. He has also served as a chair and member of organizing/program committees for many international conferences, including PERCOM, INFOCOM, ICDCS, IPDPS, ICPP, RTSS, DSN, ICNP, SRDS, MASS, PRDC, ICC, GLOBECOM, and WCNC. Dr. CAO received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, and the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.|RONG Chunming is the chair of IEEE Cloud Computing. He works as the head of the Center for IP-based Service Innovation (CIPSI) at the University of Stavanger, Norway and also as adjunct Senior Scientist leading Big-Data Initiative at IRIS. He is co-founder and the chair of the Board of Dataunitor.com—a new startup in Norway. He was the vice president of CSA Norway Chapter (2016-2017). His research work focuses on data science, cloud computing, security and privacy. He is an IEEE senior member and is honoured as member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) since 2011. He has extensive contact network and projects in both the industry and academic. He is also the founder and steering chair of IEEE CloudCom conference and workshop series. He is the steering chair and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), and co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Cloud Computing (ISSN: 2192-113X) by Springer. Prof. RONG has extensive experience in managing large-scale R&D projects funded by both industry and funding agencies, both in Norway and EU.
