received the PhD degree in computer software from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1996. He is a fullprofessor and the director of Network Computing Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has published more than 350 papers in academic journals and international conferences. He was the chairman of Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) (2004-2016) and Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) (2005-2017), of IEEE Computer Society in Great China region. He served as a general co-chair of IEEE SCC, IEEE CCGrid, IEEE ICPADS, and IEEE IPDPS, and a vice chair of IEEE INFOCOM. He also served as a TPC member for more than 50 international conferences including IEEE INFOCOM 2009-2016, IEEE CCGrid 2008, etc. His research interests include vehicular networks, big data, cloud computing, grid computing, and wireless sensor networks.
Xuemin Shen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 1990. He is currently a University Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. His research focuses on network resource management, wireless network security, social networks, 5G and beyond, and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, a Royal Society of Canada Fellow, a Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Fellow, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and Communications Society.
Dr. Shen received the R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IEEE, Canada, James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2018 from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Joseph LoCicero Award in 2015 and Education Award in 2017 from the IEEE Communications Society. He has also received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006 from the University of Waterloo, and the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada. He served as the Technical Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair for the IEEE Globecom'16, the IEEE Infocom'14, the IEEE VTC'10 Fall, the IEEE Globecom'07, the Symposia Chair for the IEEE ICC'10, the Tutorial Chair for the IEEE VTC'11 Spring, and the Chair for the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Wireless Communications. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL and Vice President on Publications of the IEEE Communications Society.
