Professor Jiannong CAO
曹建農
FHKEng [2022]
Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science and Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Fellow, HKAES, 2022
- Fellow, China Computer Federation (CCF), 2022
- Member, Academia Europaea, 2020
- Fellow, IEEE, 2014
- President’s Award for Excellent Performance / Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2022, 2009
- Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2020
- Gold Medal, China (Shanghai) International Exhibition of Inventions
- Research Innovation Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee in Cloud Computing, 2020
- Natural Science Award (Second Class), Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards, 2018
- Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award, China Computer Federation, 2017
- Bronze Medal, Brussels Innova 2009, 2009
- State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class), 2006
- Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, 2012-2014
Prof. Cao is an internationally renowned scholar in distributed systems, mobile computing and wireless networking and big data analytics. His’s distinctive contributions include distributed algorithms for mobile computing, wireless sensor networks for engineering applications, and big data analytics for real-world systems. His research has significant impact in engineering practices such as new paradigms, and models and applications for Internet computing, IoT, mobile cloud and edge computing, engineering innovation, and big data empowered urban resource management. Prof. Cao has also demonstrated strong leadership in research and innovation, establishing and leading university research institutes / centers and managing many interdisciplinary projects.
PhD
Washington State University
MSc
Washington State University
BSc
Nanjing University
jiannong.cao@polyu.edu.hk