About Professor Laurence T. Yang

Dr. Laurence T. Yang’s research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence.

He has published around 300 papers (including around 80 international journal papers such as IEEE and ACM Transactions) in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chair and more than 300 conference and workshops as a program committee member.

He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), the chair of IEEE Task force on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence. He is also in the executive committee of IEEE Technical Committee of Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics, and of IFIP Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems, and of IEEE Technical Committee of Granular Computing.

In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of 8 international journals and few book series. He is serving as an editor for around 20 international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 25 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has won 5 Best Paper Awards (including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06)); 2 IEEE Best Paper Award, 2007 and 2008; 2 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, 2007 and 2008; one Best Paper Nomination, 2007; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Distinguished Contribution Award, 2004; Outstanding Achievement Award, 2002; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University Research/Publication/Teaching Award 99-02/02-05/05-07.

Distinguished FTRG Workshop 

ACSA 2009

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Joint Conference: 

CSA-09

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