SCF 2020 Plenary Talks (Part 2)

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang received his Ph.D. on Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control from Tsinghua University. Currently, he is a Senior Vice President of Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited, which is a publicly listed company in Hong Kong Stock Market (0268). He has been leading the research and developments of enterprise applications based on latest digital technologies. Prior to this position, he was a research staff member and program manager of application architectures and realization at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Chief Architect of Industry Standards at IBM Software Group, where he led the R&D of the custom solution engagement cloud and service-oriented architecture solutions. Dr. Zhang has published more than 180 technical papers in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has 50 granted patents in the areas of e-commerce, Web services, rich media, data management, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and information appliances. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011, and in the same year won the Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to Application Design Techniques in Services Computing" from the IEEE Computer Society. He has served as the President of Shenzhen Big Data Alliance since 2013. Dr. Zhang is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR). He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) from 2008 to 2012.

Dr. Yi Pan is currently a Regents’ Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Georgia State University, USA and a Member of EU Academy of Sciences. He has served as an Associate Dean and Chair of Biology Department during 2013-2017 and Chair of Computer Science during 2006-2013. Dr. Pan received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. His profile has been featured as a distinguished alumnus in both Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter and University of Pittsburgh CS Alumni Newsletter. Dr. Pan's research interests include parallel and cloud computing, big data, and bioinformatics. Dr. Pan has published more than 250 journal papers with over 90 papers published in various IEEE journals. In addition, he has published over 150 papers in refereed conferences. He has also co-authored/co-edited 43 books. His work has been cited more than 10,000 times in Google Scholar and his current H-index is 53. Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial board member for 20 journals including 7 IEEE Transactions. He is the recipient of many awards including IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, several other conference and journal best paper awards, 4 IBM Faculty Awards, 2 JSPS Senior Invitation Fellowships, IEEE BIBE Outstanding Achievement Award, NSF Research Opportunity Award, and AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. He has organized many international conferences and delivered keynote speeches at over 60 international conferences around the world.

Calton Pu was born in Taiwan and grew up in Brazil. He received his PhD from University of Washington and served on the faculty of Columbia University and Oregon Graduate Institute. Currently, he is holding the position of Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software in the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He has worked on several projects in systems and database research. His contributions to systems research include program specialization and software feedback. His contributions to database research include extended transaction models and their implementation. His recent research has focused on automated system management in clouds (Elba project), information quality (e.g., spam processing), and big data in Internet of Things (GRAIT-DM project). He has collaborated extensively with scientists and industry researchers. He has published more than 70 journal papers and book chapters, 280 conferences and refereed workshop papers. He served on more than 120 program committees, including the co-PC chairs of SRDS'95, ICDE’99, COOPIS’02, SRDS’03, DOA’07, DEBS’09, ICWS’10, CollaborateCom'11, ICAC’13, CLOUD’15, BigData Congress’16, CIC’16, and co-general chair of ICDE'97, CIKM'01, ICDE’06, DEPSA’07, CEAS’07, SCC’08, CollaborateCom’08, World Service Congress’11, CollaborateCom’12, IEEE CIC’15, and ICDCS’17. He is a Fellow of AAAS and IEEE.