The Wireless Networks Program at the National Science Foundation

Jie Wu

Program Director
CISE/CNS/NeTS
National Science Foundation

Speaker Bio

Jie Wu is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University and a Program Director at the US National Science Foundation. He has published more than 400 papers in various journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include mobile computing, routing protocols, fault-tolerant computing, and interconnection networks. He served as program vice chair for the 2000 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), program vice chair for the 2001 and 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), and general chair for the 2008 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). He is a program cochair for the IEEE First International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS '04). He was a coguest editor of a special issue in Computer on ad hoc networks. He was also an editor of several special issues of the Journal of Parallel and Distributing Computing (JPDC) and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). He is the author of the text Distributed System Design (CRC, 1998) and is the editor of the text Handbook on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks (Auerbach, 2005). He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and is currently on the editorial board of several international journals. He is a recipient of the 1996-1997, 2001-2002, and 2006-2007 Researcher of the Year Awards at Florida Atlantic University. He served as an IEEE Computer Society distinguished visitor and is the chairman of IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP).