Prof. Laurence T. Yang from Canada St. Francis Xavier University Visits JPU

Prof. Laurence T. Yang from Canada St. Francis Xavier University visited JPU from Dec. 17^th to 22^nd, 2009. Prof. Yang is in charge of JPU-StFX joint program on StFX part and this visit aimed to provide examination and interview to students applying for international study in Canada in 2010. Prof. Yang also had discussions with directors of International Office and School of International Education and Exchange on international study qualification, transition connection of study, and keeping consistency of domestic and overseas academic study .
During the visit, Prof. Shi Guodong, Party Committee Secretary of JPU, and Prof. Pu Yuzhong, President of JPU, met with Prof. Yang separately. Prof. Pu extended warm welcome to Prof. Yang and appreciation for his hard working for JPU-StFX joint program. Prof. Pu said that the cooperation between the two universities has a bright future and both sides are certainly able to develop close cooperation further and widely. Prof. Pu also invited Prof. Yang to take part in the research projects of JPU so as to help JPU s research and teaching to promote to a higher level.

Resume of Prof. Laurence T. Yang

Dr. Laurence T. Yang is a tenured professor in Computer Science at Canada St. Francis Xavier University. His research includes high-performance computing, imbedded systems and ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence.

He has published around 300 papers (including around 100 international journal papers, SCI/EI indexed around 292 papers). 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. Since 2008, he has served as the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), and 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. He is also in the steering committee of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC-XY) conference series. 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 30 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)); 4 IEEE Best Paper Award; 2 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award; one Best Paper Nomination; 2 Distinguished Achievement Awards, 2005 and 2009; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003. He has been invited to give around 20 keynote talks at various international conferences and symposia.