A key aim of the LINCS is to foster international collaboration and innovation in the world of networking and communication sciences. To this end, we are delighted to welcome a programme of first-rate visiting researchers of international renown. The following are the invited professors of 2015:
Professor Jim Kurose is currently Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science. of the University of Massachusetts, USA. He has been a Visiting Scientist at many different institutions (IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM , UPMC LIP6, and Technicolor Research Labs).
His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networkin,has been active in the programme committees for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, the advisory council of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation (USA) as well as numerous other scientific advisory boards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM.
Professor I-Hong Hou received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2004, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
In 2012, he joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Texas A&M University, where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include wireless networks, wireless sensor networks, real-time systems, distributed systems, and vehicular ad hoc networks.
Dr. Hou received the C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Silver Prize in the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad.
He will be visiting LINCS for three weeks July 2015.
Assistant professor Longbo Huang of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS)Â at Tsinghua University.
He received his Ph.D. from the EE department @ University of Southern California in August 2011 with Prof. Michael Neely as his advisor. He was then a postdoctoral researcher in the EECS department @ UC Berkeley from July 2011 to August 2012, working with Prof. Kannan Ramchandran and Prof. Jean Walrand. Prior to his Ph.D., he received my B.E. from Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China, and my M.S. from Columbia University, New York City, both in EE.
He has been a visiting professor at Bell-labs France and at the Institute of Network Coding @ CUHK, and a visiting scholar at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) @ MIT. His research interests lie in the areas of stochastic learning and optimization for networked systems, delay-efficient system control, mobile networks, data center networking, energy management and smart grid.
He will be visiting LINCS for a week May 2015.
Hamidou Tembine is an assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi since 2014. His main research interests are game theory and learning. In 2014, Tembine received the IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for his promising research activities for the benefit of the society. He was the recipient of 5 best paper awards in the applications of game theory. Tembine is a prolific researcher and holds several scientific publications including magazines, letters, journals and conferences. He is author of the book on “distributed strategic learning for engineers “ (published at CRC Press, Taylor & Francis 2012) which received the book award 2014 in the category of science and engineering, and co-author of the book “Game Theory and Learning in Wireless Networks†(Elsevier Academic Press). Tembine has been co-organizer of several scientific meetings on game theory in networking, wireless communications and smart energy systems.  He is a senior member of IEEE.
Tembine graduated in applied mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) in 2006 and received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from INRIA and University of Avignon in 2009. He was previously a faculty member at Ecole Superieure d’Electricite, France.
He will be visiting LINCS for two weeks in March 2015.
Assistant Kenneth Shum received the B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1995 and 2000 respectively. He is now a research fellow in the Institute of Network Coding, CUHK. His research interests include information theory, coding theory and cooperative communication in wireless network. He is also a member of Composers and Authors Socity of Hong Kong (CASH) and has Erdos number 2.
He will be visitng LINCS for two weeks in April 2015.