Biography

Shui Yu (余水) received his B.Eng (Electronic Engineering) and M.Eng (Computer Science) degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China , P. R. China in 1993 and 1999, respectively. He also obtained an Associate Degree in Mathematics from the same university in 1993. He received his PhD (Computer Science) from Deakin University in 2004. He is currently a Senior Lecturer of School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Before joining Deakin University , Dr Yu was a Lecturer of Computer College in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has a good experience of industry, especially in network design and software development organization and implementation. His research interests include Big Data Theory and Application, Networking Theory and Application, and Mathematical Modelling. He dedicates himself in advance human understanding of networks and information, including their measurement, representation, analysis, and application. As a semi-mathematician, he targets on narrowing the gap between theory and application using mathematical tools.

Dr Yu is a Guest Professor of South West University of China, an overseas expert of the national 111 project at Beijing Jiaotong Univesity. Dr Yu is a Member of AAAS, ACM, and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Biography

Prof. Kurt Geihs is the director of the laboratory of distributed systems at the Department of Computer Science and Electronic Technology, University of Kassel, Germany. His research interest is distributed system and software. He is Prof. Geihs is the author (co-author) of about 150 scientific papers on distributed systems and software published in highly prestigieous journals and conferences, with the number of citations on Google Scholar of approximately 5000. He is also the PI of many research projects funded by the research institutes in Germany and the European Union (such as DFG, ERC, etc.) related to software (midleware) and distributed systems (as IoT).