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I am a Chair Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen and leading the Computer Networks (NET) Research Group. I was born in a small village (which was first electrified in May 2000 and had cellular signal coverage in July 2021) in Jiangxi, China and received my bachelor (1994) and master (with distinction, 1997) degrees from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, my Ph.D. (2000) degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (supervisor: Professor Yaoxue Zhang). Prior to joining Goettingen, I worked with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Adam Wolisz as a member of scientific staff at the Telecommunications Networks (TKN) group, Technical University Berlin  until September 2002. Between 2003 and 2005 I also served in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as an Expert in Specialist Task Forces in Internet Protocol (Version 6) Testing. I was/am a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (host: Prof. Jon Crowcroft) in 2005 and 2007, a DAAD visiting professor at Columbia University (host: Prof. Henning Schulzrinne) in 2008 and 2009, a Fulbright Scholar Visiting Professor at UCLA (hosts: Prof. Lixia Zhang and Prof. Mario Gerla) in academic year 2009/2010, and a ChangJiang Scholar Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University during 2010-2013. During 2010-2012 I served as Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and during 2011-2013 as Chair of the Internet Technical Committee of the IEEE ComSoc and Internet Society (ISOC). I am a member of Academia Europaea, an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, a Distinguished Member of ACM, a Fellow of IET, and a member of GI.

Selected media coverage, talks and publications.

·         ICDCS 2024, June 2024, Jersey City, NJ, USA (TPC Chairs: Yingying Jennifer Chen, Xiaoming Fu).

·         NoF 2023, October 4-6, 2023, Izmir, Turkey (TPC Chairs: Xiaoming Fu, Diala Naboulsi).

·         A new book Resource Allocation in Network Function Virtualization: Problems, Models and Algorithms has been published by Springer (authors: Song Yang, Nan He, Fan Li, Xiaoming Fu).

·         ACM MobiArch 2022, in conjunction with MobiCom 2022, Sydney, Australia, October 2022 (TPC Chairs: Lorenzo Bertizzolo, Stefano Secci, Yipeng Zhou; Steering Committee Chair: Xiaoming Fu).

·         ACM MobiArch 2021, in conjunction with MobiCom 2021, October 2021 (TPC Chairs: Sahar Hoteit, Simone Ferlin and Yunxin Liu; Steering Committee Chair: Xiaoming Fu).

·         IEEE NIPAA 2021, in conjunction with ICNP 2021, November 2021 (TPC Chairs: Cedric Westphal, Xiaoming Fu and Mohamed Faten Zhani).

·         IEEE ICAV 2021, in conjunction with ICNP 2021, November 2021 (TPC Chairs: Jianhua He, Alexey Vinel, Supeng Leng; Steering Committee: Xiaoming Fu, Lajos Hanzo, Yan Zhang and Markku Juntti).

·         IEEE Network Special Issue on Interplay Between Machine Learning and Networking Systems, November 2021 (Guest Editors: Xiaowen Chu, Xiaoming Fu, Baochun Li, Wei Wang, Hui Zang, Albert Zomaya).

·         The 5th ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet 2021), Shenzhen, China, June 24-25, 2021 (General Co-Chairs: Xiaoming Fu and Yunjie Liu, TPC Co-Chairs: K. K. Ramakrishnan and Minlan Yu).

·         IFIP Networking 2020, Paris, France, June 22-26, 2020 (TPC Co-Chairs: Xiaoming Fu, Silvia Giordano, Christian Jacquenet).

·         A new journal, Journal of Social Computing (by IEEE and Tsinghua University Press) (Editors in Chief: James Evans, Xiaoming Fu, and Jar-Der Luo), starting fall 2020.

·         Springer World Wide Web journal, Special issue on Social computing and big data applications (Guest Editors: Xiaoming Fu, Hong Huang, Gareth Tyson, Lu Zheng, Gang Wang), Nov 2019.

·         IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on ICN Security (Guest Editors: Xiaoming Fu, Sathyajayant Misra, Dirk Kutscher, Ruidong Li), Nov 2018.

·         A book "Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies" has been published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (editors: Xiaoming Fu, Jar-Der Luo and Margarete Boos), in March 2017. (Listed as one of the top 10 best books on Social Network Analysis, by Sanfoundry Global Education & Learning Series – Best Reference Books)

Research:

My research interests lie in the architecture and applications of Internet-based systems; an overview of my work so far in these areas is briefly described in my curriculum vitae or research statement. I am currently involved in several collaborative research projects, addressing various aspects on the design, validation, implementation, simulation and analysis of new networked systems architectures, protocols, and AI-empowered systems and applications, especially QoE/QoS, transport protocols, network security and resilience, software defined networks, mobile, edge and cloud computing, IoT and smart cities, big data and social network analysis.

Projects:

My research team has been sponsored by European Commission, State Lower Saxony, Volkswagen, Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks, German Telecom, ETSI, Panasonic, Huawei, as well as German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), US Department of State, and Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). In addition, we work in close collaborations with many national and international institutions and industry partners.

Conjectures/In-Preparation/Interested:

• Smart Cities Initiatives (Göttingen, National, EU)
• Scalable measurement, compressive sensing, crowdsensing, social sensing
• IoT, smart transport and smart cities related
• Future Internet and Research infrastructure for future Internet experimentation
• A proposed German Internet Institute (PI)
• Proposed DFG Cluster of Excellence LUSci - Integrative Land Use Science for Sustainable Development (PI)

Current projects:

• EC Horizon Europe Project COVER - Cooperative and Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Emerging Response Applications, Jan 2023 - Dec 2026 (PI)
• EC Horizon Europe Project CODECO - Cognitive Decentralised Edge Cloud Orchestration, Jan 2023 - Dec 2025 (PI)
• EC H2020 RISE Project COSAFE - Cooperative Connected Intelligent Vehicles for Safe and Efficient Road Transport, Nov 2018 - Oct 2023 (PI)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Project Privacy Protection for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning, Dec 2021-Nov 2022.
• DAAD PPP Australia Project on smart health (partner: Deakin University), Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 (PI)
• DAAD PPP Hong Kong Project on COVID-19 vaccination stances analysis (partner: Hong Kong Baptist University), Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 (PI)
• Other research:
• Mobile social networking (collaboration with MPI-DS, U. Cambridge, T-Labs, Telecom SudParis, Aalto University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Tsinghua University etc), 2009-
• PlanetLab, an open platform for academic, industrial and government institutions cooperating to develop, deploy and access planetary-scale services
• OPNET University Program (collaboration with OPNET Technologies)

Completed projects:

• DAAD PPP Australia Project (partner: Victoria University) "Detection and prevention of insider data exfiltration in big data environments", Jan 2018-Dec 2019 (PI)

• EC H2020 EU-Japan ICT Collaborative Project "ICN2020 - Advancing ICN towards real-world deployment through research, innovative applications, and global scale experimentation", July 2016- June 2019 (EU Coordinator)
• EC FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network "CleanSky - Network for Cloud Computing Ecosystem", Sept 2014-Aug 2018 (Coordinator)
• EC FP7 EU-Japan ICT Cooperation Project (STREP) "GreenICN - Architecture and Applications of Green Information Centric Networking", Apr 2013-May 2016 (EU Coordinator)
• EC FP7 IRSES Project "MobileCloud - Linking Sino-European Research Institutions in the Mobile Cloud Computing Era", Jan 2014-Dec 2016 (Coordinator)
• Simulation Center (Lower Saxony Ministry for Culture and Education), 2013-2018
• "Social Networks in Multidimensional Data", 2016-2017 (sponsored by Lindemann Foundation, coordinator)
• "Function, Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks", 2011-2013 (sponsored by Lindemann Foundation, coordinator)
• DAAD/CSC PPP China Project Principles and Design of Next-Generation Internet Media Streaming, Jan 2011 - Dec 2013 (German coordinator)
• Mobile Cloud Computing (Microsoft Research)
• Fulbright Scholar Grant "Future Internet Routing and Mobility" (sponsored by US Department of State), Fall 2009.
• DAAD PPP USA Project NGSIG - New Advances and Applications of Next Generation Internet Signaling, cooperation with Columbia U., Jan 2008-Dec 2009/10 (coordinator)
• EC FP6 IST STREP Project MING-T - Multistandard integrated network convergence for global mobile and broadcast technologies, Jan 2007-Mar 2009 (PI, Project Steering Committee member)
• EC FP6 IST Integrated Project Daidalos II - Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimised personal Services II, Jan 2006-Dec 2008
• EC FP6 IST STREP Project ENABLE - Enabling Efficient and Operational Mobility in Large Heterogeneous IP Networks, Jan 2006- Feb 2008 (PI, Project Steering Committee member)
• ADVMM - Advanced Mobility Management in 4G Networks (industry-sponsored, PI), 2007
• Collaborative research project SIGNET - New Extensible Internet Signaling Protocols, 2002-2010
• EC EUREKA CELTIC/T-Systems project VIDIOS - Video Distribution over MPLS Networks, 2005-2006 (Project Coordination Committee member)
• EC eEurope/ETSI standardization project IPT - Internet Protocol Testing, 2003-2005 (an initiative of the eEurope program)
• Research collaboration project PTLS - Performance Study of Transport Layer Security, 2005-06 (PI) (industry-sponsored)
• Research collaboration project MobiAuth - QoS and Authentication Issues in IP Moblity, 2003-2004 (PI)  (industry-sponsored)
• Research collaboration project SeQoMo - Secure, QoS-enabled Mobility Support in IP-based Networks (also known as Handover in All-IP Mobile Networks), 2000-2002 (industry-sponsored)
• NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) research project Methods for Market-Based QoS Control in High-Speed Networks, 1998-2000
• 863 (China National High-Tech Program) research project High-Speed IP Router SED-08B, 1997-1998

Teaching:

As detailed in my teaching statement, I've been indeed enjoying a great deal of pleasure having the opportunity in delivery of my knowledge and experiences to the young elite, sharing their excitement and satisfaction in knowing what, how, why and more, as well as learning new things for myself. I am responsible for several courses in systems and networking area, may they be introductory, intermediate or advanced.

• Latest courses can be found in NET group webpage (new courses including Social Networks and Big Data; Smart Cities; Advanced Practical Course on Data Science; Advanced Networking; AI for Networking; SDN).
• Winter semester 2009/10: seminars Internet Technologies and Advanced Topics in Computer Networking, Practical Course Networking Lab, and lecture Telematik (Computer Networks).
• Summer semester 2009: Seminars Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications and Internet Technologies; Practical Course Networking Lab (new: based on Prof. Jorg Liebeherr and Prof. Magda El Zarki's book "Mastering Networks: An Internet Lab Manual!).
• Winter semester 2008/09: Praktikum-Advanced Networking, seminars Internet Technologies, Advanced Topics in Computer Networking, and lectures Telematik (Computer Networks) and Mobile Communications II.
• Summer semester 2008: Praktikum-Telematik, seminars Internet Technologies - Selected Topics on Multimedia and Peer-to-Peer Networking, Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications, and lecture "Mobile Communications II".
• Winter semester 2007/08: practical course "Praktikum-Telematik", lecture Telematik (Computer Networks) and seminar Advanced Topics in Computer Networking.
• Summer semester 2007: practical course "Praktikum-Telematik", seminars Advanced Topics in Computer Networking and Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB).
• Winter semester 2006/07: practical course "Praktikum-Telematik", lecture Telematik (Computer Networks) and seminar Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications.
• Summer semester 2006: Seminar Advanced Topics in Internet Research and practical course "Praktikum-Telematik".
• Winter semester 2005/06: Seminar Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications, Lecture Telematik (Computer Networks), practical course "Praktikum-Telematik". In addition I held one session on mobile overlay networking in lecture Mobilkommunikation II.
• Summer semester 2005: Seminar Advanced Topics in Computer Networking and practical course "Praktikum-Telematik".
• Winter semester 2004/05: Lecture Telematik (Computer Networks) and practical course "Praktikum-Telematik".
• Summer semester 2004: Seminar Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications.
• Winter semester 2003/2004: Lecture Telematik (Computer Networks).
• Summer semester 2003: Lecture Informatik II (Computer Science-II).
• Winter semester 2002/2003: Lecture Telematik (Computer Networks).

In most cases I am available in my office; to be sure please send me an email for making appointments with me. Also note the University of Goettingen's academic calendar (including ongoing and future semesters).

Research Team:

Senior Researchers/Postdocs:

• Dr. Tingting Yuan (Sept 2020- )
• Dr. Yali Yuan (Sept 2018-Aug 2021)
• Dr. Mayutan Arumaithurai (Nov 2010 - June 2011, then NEC Europe, Heidelberg, then June 2014-now being back in NET group in Göttingen): technical coordinator EU FP7-NICT GreenICN project and H2020-NICT ICN2020 project
• Dr. David Koll (Nov 2014-Apr 2018): technical coordinator EU FP7 ITN CleanSky project, now Data Scientist at Continental, while partially affiliated with NET as adjunct researcher)
• Dr. Yang Chen (Sept 2009 - Mar 2011, now at Fudan Univ, China, while partially affiliated with NET as adjunct researcher)

Current Ph.D. students:

• MSc. Fabian Wölk
• MSc. Wanghong Yang
• MSc. Wenfang Wu
• MSc. Yanlong Huang
• MSc. Zhengze Li
• MSc. Yunxiao Wang
• MSc. Pablo Gutierrez-Marques

Publications:

• Selected recent publications:
• SDN, NFV, ICN, Edge/cloud computing, Internet of Things, data centers, distributed systems:

1.  Online Control of Service Function Chainings Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (early access), Dec 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2021.3135535
2.  Adaptive Fuzzy Game-Based Energy-Efficient Localization in 3D Underwater Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 22(2): 1-20, May 2022
3.  Deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Anisotropic Monitoring Tasks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 21(2): 495-513, Feb 2022
4.  SPIN: BSP Job Scheduling with Placement-Sensitive Execution. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 29(5): 2267-2280, Oct 2021
5.  A-DDPG: Attention Mechanism-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for NFV, The 29th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021)
6.  SRUF: Low-Latency Path Routing with SRv6 Underlay Federation in Wide Area Network, IEEE ICDCS 2021, revised version published as: Optimal Deployment of SRv6 to Enable Network Interconnection Service, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 30(1): 120-133, Feb 2022
7. Delay-Aware Virtual Network Function Placement and Routing in Edge Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 20(2): 445-459, Feb 2021
8. Scheduling Placement-Sensitive BSP Jobs with Inaccurate Execution Time Estimation, IEEE INFOCOM 2020.
9. Efficient Recovery Path Computation for Fast Reroute in Large-scale Software Defined Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37(8): 1755-1768, Aug. 2019.
10. OFM: An Online Fisher Market for Cloud Computing, IEEE INFOCOM 2019.
11. FastRule: Efficient Flow Entry Updates for TCAM-based OpenFlow Switches, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37(3): 484-498, Mar. 2019.
12. DCMPTCP: Host-based Load Balancing for Datacenters, IEEE ICDCS 2018, revised version published as: Low-Cost Datacenter Load Balancing with Multipath Transport and Top-of-Rack Switches, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 31(10): 2232–2247, 2020.
13. ISI: Integrate Sensor Networks to Internet with ICN, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 5(2): 491-499, Apr 2018
14. REINFORCE: Achieving Efficient Failure Resiliency for Network Function Virtualization based Services, ACM CoNEXT 2018, revised version published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020
15. Reliable Virtual Machine Placement and Routing in Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(10): 2965-2978, Oct. 2017.
16. NFVnice: Dynamic Backpressure and Scheduling for NFV Service Chains, ACM SIGCOMM 2017, revised version published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020
17. Crowd Foraging: A QoS-oriented Self-organized Mobile Crowdsourcing Framework over Opportunistic Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 35(4): 1-15, Apr. 2017.
18. D2D Fogging: An Energy-Efficient and Incentive-Aware Task Offloading Framework via Network-assisted D2D Collaboration. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 34(12): 3887-3901, 2016. (Clarivate Highly cited paper)
19. Efficient Multi-User Computation Offloading for Mobile-Edge Cloud Computing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 24(5): 2795-2808, 2016. (Clarivate Highly cited paper)
20. Crowdlet: Optimal worker recruitment for self-organized mobile crowdsourcing. IEEE INFOCOM 2016
21. Exploiting ICN for Flexible Management of Software-Defined Networks, ACM ICN 2014 (Best Paper Award)
22. Explicit Multipath Congestion Control for Data Center Networks, ACM CoNEXT 2013.
23. Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE ICNP 2012, revised in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2016
24. Scaling Microblogging Services with Divergent Traffic Demands, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2011.
25. COPSS: An Efficient Content Oriented Publish/Subscribe System, ACM/IEEE ANCS 2011.

• Big data mining and analytics, social networks, IoT and urban analytics, machine learning, as well as AI applications in smart vehicles, security and privacy:

1.  Coupled Social Media Content Representation for Predicting Individual Socioeconomic Status, Expert Systems With Applications, Elsevier, Volume 198, 116744, July 2022
2.  Cross-Site Prediction on Social Influence for Cold-Start Users in Online Social Networks, ACM Transactions on Web, 15(2): No. 6, 1-23, DOI: 10.1145/3409108, May 2021
3.  Core decomposition and maintenance in weighted graph. World Wide Web, 24(2): 541-561, 2021
4.  Temporal Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding. The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021)
5.  Hierarchical temporal-spatial preference modeling for user consumption location prediction in Geo-Social Networks. Information Processing & Management, Elsevier, 58(6): 102715, 2021.
6. RACE: Reinforced Cooperative Autonomous Vehicle Collision AvoidancE, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(9): 9279-9291, Sept. 2020.
7.  DatingSec: Detecting Malicious Accounts in Dating Apps Using a Content-Based Attention Network, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 18(5): 2193-2208, Sept.-Oct. 2021.
8. ADA: Adaptive Deep Log Anomaly Detector, IEEE INFOCOM 2020.
9. DeepScan: Exploiting Deep Learning for Malicious Account Detection in Location-Based Social Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Mobile Big Data for Urban Analytics, 56(11): 21-27, Nov 2018.
10. A Cross-Platform Consumer Behavior Analysis of Large-Scale Mobile Shopping Data, The Web Conference (WWW 2018)
11. Measurement and Analysis of the Reviews in Airbnb, IFIP Networking 2018
12. Identifying Topical Opinion Leaders in Social Community Question Answering, DASFAA 2018
13. Will Triadic Closure Strengthen Ties in Social Networks? ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 12(3), Jan. 2018.
14. Trajectory Recovery from Ash: User Privacy Is NOT Preserved in Aggregated Mobility Data, WWW 2017.
15. The Good Left Undone: Advances and Challenges in Decentralizing Online Social Networks, Computer Communications, 108(1): 36-51, 2017.
16. NCShield: Protecting Decentralized, Matrix Factorization-Based Network Coordinate Systems, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 10(2): 244-257, Mar. 2017
17. Cloud-Assisted Data Fusion and Sensor Selection for Internet-of-Things, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 3(3): 257-268, June 2016.
18. Spice: Socially-Driven Learning-Based Mobile Media Prefetching, IEEE INFOCOM 2016.
19. Triadic Closure Pattern Analysis and Prediction in Social Networks, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 27(12): 3374-3389, Dec 2015.
20. LIVE: - Lightweight Integrity Verification and Content Access Control for Named Data Networking, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 10(2): 308-320, Feb 2015.
21. Mining Checkins from Location-sharing Services for Client-independent IP Geolocation, IEEE INFOCOM 2014.
22. SOUP: An Online Social Network by the People, for the People, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2014.
23. On the State of OSN-based Sybil Defenses, IFIP Networking 2014
24. Fighting Spam Using Social GateKeepers, Networking Science, 2(1-2): 28-41, May 2013.
25. BotFinder: Finding Bots in Network Traffic without Deep Packet Inspection, ACM CoNEXT 2012.

• Full list of publications at NET group webpage, DBLP, and Google Scholar (#Citations: 9000+, H-index: 46+)
• Contributions to IETF standardization
• Contributions to ETSI standardization

Presentations:

• Conference oral presentations at: INFOCOM'06; ICNP'04, '09, '19; Networking'02, '05, '07, '19; GLOBECOM'08, ICC'09, ICCCN'11, '19, '21, SocialMeta'22, EWSN'17, VTC'19-Spring, BigScholar'17, IWCMC'08, PWC'05, etc
• Keynote at IFIP Networking'12, IEEE BigData'21, INFOCOM-ICCN'19, IEEE Global Internet Symposium'15, QShine'20, conference on social networks and social capital research in China'11 etc.
• Tutorial at Networking'06, ICCCN'11 and RUC media and communications summer school'11
• Panelist/chair at: ICNP'14, MICNET@MOBICOM'09; KiVS'09; MobiArch@MobiSys'09; EuroView'08, IWQoS'05 etc
• Colloquium talks at: Microsoft Research Redmond & Asia, Bell Labs USA & Germany, Ericsson Research, T-Labs, T-Systems, Telecom Italia Lab, Ranplan, Cisco, KDDI; China Telecom, Baidu, Alibaba, TAL Education Group; NICT, NII; UCLA, UCSB, USC/ISI, Columbia U., U. Oregon; RWTH Aachen, U. Tuebingen, TU Darmstadt, TU Braunschweig, TU Berlin; Adelaide U., Monash U., UTS, UQ, Victoria U; U. Vienna; UPMC/LIP6; LTU, Uppsala U., U. Stockholm, KTH; DTU; HUT/Aalto University, U. Helsinki; University College Dublin, Dublin City U.; U. Cambridge, UCL, Durham U., Leeds U., Lancaster U., Surrey U., Aston U., U. Derby, Glamorgan U.; U. Groningen; HKU, HKUST, CUHK, CityU-HK, PolyU-HK; Tsinghua U., Peking U., Renmin U. of China, BUAA, BUPT, Fudan U., Shanghai Jiao Tong U., Nanjing U., Southeast U., Nankai U., Tianjin U., Sichuan U., U. of Electronic Sci. & Tech of China, Northeastern U., Zhejiang U., Hangzhou Dianzi U., Zhejiang Sci-Tech U., USTC, Anhui U., Sun Yat-Sen U., South China U. of Tech, Jinan U., Shandong U., Huazhong U. of Sci. & Tech., Wuhan U., CAS-ICT etc.

Software:

• COPSS implementation (related paper: ANCS'11)
• SOUP implementation (related paper: Middleware'14)
• Linux implementation of XMP - eXplicit MultiPath Congestion Control (related paper: CoNEXT'13)
• Cuckoo implementation (related paper: Middleware'11)
• GONE implementation (related paper: NOSSDAV'06)
• NSIS implementation (related paper: INFOCOM'06/ToN'09, etc)
• Implementation of Context Transfer Using GIST (Internet draft draft-fu-cxtp-gist)
• Linux TCP/IP network kernel analyzer
• CASP implementation (related paper: ICNP'04)
• HMIPv6 implementation

Professional Services:

University Services:

• Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Goettingen: Dean for Academic Affairs - Computer Science, 2010-2012; Director for International Office: 2012-
• Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen: Board Member ("Vorstand"), Jan 2009 -

Society Memberships:

• ACM (Association of Computing Machinery): Distinguished Member
• SIGCOMM
• SIGMOBILE
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): Fellow
• Computer Society
• ComSoc (Communications Society)
• TCCC (Technical Committee on Computer Communications): Secretary (2008-2010), Vice Chair (2010-2012), Chair of Distinguished Lecturer TCCC Endorsement Committee and Chair of TCCC Awards Committee (2008-2012)
• ITC (Internet Technical Committee): Chair (2011-2013), Awards Committee Chair (2014-2016)
• CNOM (Technical Committee on Network Operation and Management): Young Professional Award Committee (2021-2022)
• TCGCC (Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing): Election Committee (2019)
• TCCSR (Technical Committee on Communications Switching and Routing)
• Vehicular Technology Society: German Chapter Co-Founder
• IRTF (Internet Research Task Force)
• GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V.): Member
• DHV (Deutsche Hochschulverband): Member
• Tsinghua Alumni Association in Germany: Board Member/"Vorstand"/Vice-Chair
• IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology): Fellow (2017- )
• Academia Europaea: Ordinary Member (2018- )

Editorial Services:

• Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Social Computing, 2020-
• Inaugural Editorial Board Member, Springer/Nature Computer Science (2019- )
• Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2013-
• Inaugural Editorial Board Member, IEEE Networking Letters, 2018-
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2019-
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Service and Network Management, 2011-
• Editorial Board, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2012-2015
• Area Editor, Elsevier Computer Communications, 2008-
• Guest Editor, World Wide Web journal, Special Issue on Social Computing and Big Data Analytics, 2018
• Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Security in Information-Centric Networking, 2018
• Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Mobile Cloud Computing, March 2015
• Guest Editor, Elsevier Computer Communications, Special Issue on Online Social Networks, 3^rd quarter 2015 (planned)
• Guest Editor, Elsevier Computer Networks, Special Issue on Measurement-based Optimization of P2P Networking and Applications, 2011-2012
• Guest Editor, IEEE Network, Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet, Sept/Oct 2008.

Conference Activities:

o    2020

§  TPC Co-Chair: IFIP Networking 2020

§  TPC Co-Chair: IEEE NewIP@INFOCOM 2020

§  TPC Member: IEEE INFOCOM 2020

o    2019

§  Poster Co-Chair: ACM SIGCOMM 2019

§  TPC Member: IEEE INFOCOM 2019

§  General Co-Chair: IEEE HotICN 2019

§  Co-Chair, Sino-German Workshop on Social Computing 2019

o    2018

§  TPC Chair: IEEE HotICN 2018

§  Workshops Co-Chair: ACM SIGCOMM 2018

o    2017

§  TPC Co-Chair: NetSys 2017

§  TPC Member: IEEE ICNP 2017

§  TPC Member: IFIP Networking 2017

o    2016

§  Steering Committee: IEEE Global Internet Symposium, ACM MobiArch

§  General Co-Chair: ACM ICN 2016

§  Workshops Co-Chair: IEEE ICNP 2016

§  TPC Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Future Internet (CFI 2016)

§  TPC Member: IEEE IWQoS'16

§  TPC Member: IEEE/ACM/VDE ITC'16

§  TPC Member: 1st IFIP Internet of People Workshop (IoP-W 2016)

o    2015

§  Steering Committee: IEEE Global Internet Symposium, ACM MobiArch

§  Track Co-Chair: IEEE CloudNet'15 Track on Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)

§  TPC Member: ACM CoNEXT'15, IEEE IWQoS'15

o    2014

§  Steering Committee Chair: IEEE Global Internet Symposium, ACM MobiArch

§  TPC Member: IEEE ICNP'14, IWQoS'14, IFIP Networking'14

o    2013

§  Steering Committee Chair: IEEE Global Internet Symposium, ACM MobiArch

§  General Co-Chair: IEEE ICNP'13

§  TPC Co-Chair: IEEE CloudNet'13

§  TPC Member: IEEE INFOCOM'13

§  TPC Member: IEEE IWQoS'13

§  TPC Member: IFIP Networking'13

§  TPC Member: SIAM SDM'13

o    2012

§  Steering Committee: HotPlanet'12@MobiSys'12, Global Internet Symposium'12, CCW'12

§  TPC Member: ICNP'12

§  TPC Member: IWQoS'12

§  TPC Member: INFOCOM'12

§  TPC Member: CloudNet'12

§  TPC Co-Chair: ICCC'12-Advanced Internet and Cloud (AIC) Symposium

§  TPC Co-Chair: HotSocial'12@KDD'12

§  TPC Co-Chair: MobiArch'12@MOBICOM'12

o    2011

§  Steering Committee: MobiArch'11 and HotPlanet'11@MobiSys'11, CCW'11

§  TPC Member: INFOCOM'11

§  TPC Member: ComsNet'11

§  TPC Member: WoWMoM'11

§  Publicity Chair: ICNP'11

o    2010

§  Steering Committee: MobiArch'10@MobiCom-MobiHoc'10 and HotPlanet'10@MobiSys'10

§  Co-Chair: ICCCN'10-ISAP Track, Sino-German IoT'10

§  TPC Member: INFOCOM'10

§  TPC Member: ICNP'10

§  Publicity Chair: IWQoS'10

§  Workshops Co-Chair: MobiCom'10/MobiHoc'10

o    2009

§  Steering Committee: MobiArch'09@MobiSys'09

§  Co-Chair: HotPlanet'09@MobiSys'09

§  TPC (Co-)Chair: GLOBECOM'09-NGNI, NVWS'09@KiVS'09, MP2P@IWCMC'09

§  TPC Member: INFOCOM'09, ICNP'09, WoWMoM'09, ICC'09-CISS, HSN@INFOCOM'09

§  Session Chair: INFOCOM'09, ICNP'09, CCW'09, Networking'09

§  Publicity Chair: ICNP'09, Web Chair: CCW'09

o    2008

§  Steering Committee: MobiArch'08@SIGCOMM'08

§  TPC Member: ICNP'08, GLOBECOM'08, SUTC'008, Autonomics'08, ON-MOVE'08@LCN'08

§  Session Chair:  ICNP'08 ("Congestion Control, Buffer Management and Transport Protocols")

o    2007

§  TPC Chair: Mobiarch'07@SIGCOMM'07

§  TPC Member: INFOCOM'07, ICNP'07, ON-MOVE'07@LCN'07

o    2006

§  TPC Chair: Mobiarch'06@GLOBECOM'06

§  TPC Member: ICDCS'06, GLOBECOM'06, ICC'06-NGMN, P2PM'07, VTC'06-Spring, AINA'06

§  Session Chair: GLOBECOM'06 ("Routing Dynamics")

o    2005

§  TPC Member: HPSR'05, AINA'05

§  Session Chair: PWC'05 ("Mobile Networks")

o    2004

§  TPC Member: AINA'04, DARES'04@ICDCS'04

o    2003

§  TPC Member, CCW'03

Journal Reviews:

o    ACM/IEEE ToN, MC²R, IEEE PIEEE, TC, JSAC, CL, TPDS, TWC, TMC, TVT, IEE EL, Elsevier COMCOM, Wiley WCMC, Springer Telecommunications Systems...

Links:

Call for Papers:

• http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/conf/stats/ (Kevin Almeroth's Conference Statistics)
• http://dutetvg.et.tudelft.nl/~alex/CFP/ (Alex Slingerland's CFPs on Wireless and Mobile Networking)
• http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/~timm/netconf/ (Timm Moors' CFPs on Networking)
• http://www.afm.sbu.ac.uk/meetings/(Formal Methods Meetings)
• http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/cipher/cipher-hypercalendar.html (Cipher's Calendar on Security and Privacy)
• http://campus.acm.org/calendar/ (ACM Conference Calendar: SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGMETRICS, SIGOPS, SIGMM)
• http://computer.org/conferences/calendar.htm (IEEE Computer Society's Conference Calendar, CFPs)
• http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2008/confdate.html (IEEE ComSoc's Conference Calendar)
• http://www.ifip.or.at/cal_even.htm (IFIP Calendar of Events)
• http://www.usenix.org/events (USENIX Calendar of Conferences)

Miscellaneous:

• My PGP key.
• Some guidelines for foreign researchers and visiting students on how to locate in Goettingen. Potential newcomers may be also interested in looking at information about The University of Goettingen and the city of Goettingen more closely.
• English-oriented CS study programs at Goettingen: our Bachelor and Master programs in Computer Science are currently bi-lingual (German/English) but one has the option to study in our  Master in Applied Computer Science program completely in English (see example study plan); the new international Internet Technologies and Information System (MSc/PhD) program is completely in English and started from winter semester 2010/11 (basic requirement: bachelor degree of good grade and TOFEL/IELTS; GRE is not required).
• Other useful information: The recently established Georg August University School of Science (GAUSS) and its Ph.D. Program in Computer Science (PCS); a brochure on "How to obtain a Ph.D. degree in Germany": for this you need to have a university master degree or equivalent.
• For Chinese PhD applicants: If you want to apply CSC PhD scholarship for up to 4 years, 1) there is no tuition fee for PhD students here; 2) you need to apply through University of Goettingen’s China Office, by March 20 every year, in addition to applying to the CSC webpage.
• Mor Harchol-Balter's interesting essay on Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science; a few essays on Computer Science (see from Douglas Comer's homepage); Ahmed Helmy's note on How to Start Research in Computer Networks; Henning Schulzrinne's notes on Writing Technical Articles.
• I work closely with Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Internet Real-Time Lab, Columbia University in the context of Internet signaling and permission-based networking etc, where I was a visiting faculty. We set up a new Columbia-Goettingen Workshop on Internet Research and here is a first report published in our university's research magazine (in German).
• I also work closely with Prof. Jon Crowcroft, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge in the context of overlay networking and mobile networking, social networking, etc, where I visited in 2005 and 2007; more recently, we collaborate on a new project initiative on "A Million People".
• Tsinghua Alumni in Germany
• Me on the University of Goettingen press news. My entry in UniVZ.

Last Updated: Dec 2021
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