Smart Cloud Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

Hong Shen is Professor (Chair) of Computer Science in the University of Adelaide, Australia, and currently also a "Thousand Talents" professor in Sun Yat-Sen University, China. He received the B.Eng.degree from Beijing University of Science and Technology, M.Eng.degree from University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.Lic.and Ph.D. degrees from Abo Akademi University, Finland, all in Computer Science. He was Professor and Chair of the Computer Networks Laboratory in Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST) during 2001-2006, and Professor (Chair) of Compute Science at Griffith University, Australia, where he taught 9 years since 1992.With main research interests in parallel and distributed computing,algorithms, data mining, privacy preserving computing, high performance networks and multimedia systems, he has published more than 300 papers including over 100 papers in international journals such as a variety of IEEE and ACM transactions. Prof. Shen received many honours/awards including China National Endowed Expert of "Thousand Talents", Chinese Academy of Sciences "Hundred Talents", National Education Commission Science and Technology Progress Award,and Chinese Academy of Sciences Natural Sciences Award. He served on the editorial board of numerous journals (incl.IEEE TC and IEEE TPDS) and chaired several conferences.