Author

Chengzhong Xu (Fellow, IEEE) received the PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong, in 1993. He is currently the chair professor of computer science and the dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau. Prior to this, he was with the faculty at Wayne State University, USA, and the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He has published more than 400 papers and more than 100 patents. His research interests include cloud computing and data-driven intelligent applications. He was the Best Paper awardee or the Nominee of ICPP2005, HPCA2013, HPDC2013, Cluster2015, GPC2018, UIC2018, AIMS2019, and HPBD&IS2020. He also won the Best Paper award of SoCC2021. He was the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing from 2015 to 2019.