Prof. Kai Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of Internet and Grid Computing Laboratory at the University of Southern California. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Prior to joining USC in 1985, he has taught at Purdue University for many years. He has served as a distinguished Chair Professor during his sabbatical visits at the Univ. of Minnesota, National Taiwan Univ., and Univ. of Hong Kong. He has supervised the completion of 19 Ph.D. theses at Purdue and USC. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing . He is also an editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems .
    Dr. Hwang has authored or coauthored 4 books and 200 scientific papers in refereed Journals and conferences. His past teaching and research work on scalable multiprocessors and parallel processing has been summarized in two of his latest books, Scalable Parallel Computing (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and Advanced Computer Architecture (McGraw-Hill 1993), which are worldwide used and translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1986 for making significant contributions in computer architecture, digital arithmetic, and parallel processing. His work was ranked by the CiteSeer. Continuity in August 2006 among the top 0.25 % most cited authors in Computer Science out of 790,329 authors in the database. He received the K. S. Fu Award in 2004 from China Computer Federation for his outstanding achievements in high-performance computing research and higher education.
   Dr. Hwang has chaired numerous ACM/IEEE Conferences and presented over 20 keynote addresses in major international conferences. He has lectured worldwide and performed advisory work for IBM Fishkill, MIT Lincoln Lab., ETL in Japan, Academia Sinica in China, INRIA in France, and GMD in Germany. Dr. Hwang.s research was supported by numerous grants from the NSF, AFOSR, IBM, MIT Lincoln Lab, etc. Presently, he leads the NSF-supportedG GridSec Project at USC. His group develops P2P trust models, DHT overlay networks, reputation systems, and distributed defense systems against Internet worm outbreaks and DDoS attacks.