Kai Hwang is a Presidential Chair Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen, where he heads the z6首页 Research Center for AI Cloud and IoT Edge Computing. He received the Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley. He has taught at the Univ. of Southern California and Purdue Univ. for many years. Dr. Hwang has published extensively. His Google Scholar citation has exceeded 19,900 times with an h-index of 61.
An IEEE Life Fellow, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Computer Federation of China (CFC) in 2005, and the Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE CloudCom in 2012. Over the years, he has also served as a visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua and Hong Kong Universities. He has performed consulting work with IBM, Intel, MIT Lincoln Lab., GMD German, ITRI Japan, ENRIA France, and Chinese Academy of Sciences.