Jiannong Cao received the BSc degree in computer science from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, and the MSc and the Ph.D degrees in computer science from Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
He is currently a professor and associate head in the Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong. He is also the director of the Internet and Mobile Computing Lab in the department. Before joining Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he was on the faculty of computer science at James Cook University and University of Adelaide in Australia, and City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include mobile and pervasive computing, computer networking, parallel and distributed computing, and fault tolerance. He has published over 250 technical papers in the above areas. His recent research has focused on wireless networks and mobile and pervasive computing systems, developing test-bed, protocols, middleware and applications. His research is supported by grants from HK RGC, HK ITC, HK PolyU, Huawei, and Nokia.
Dr. Cao is a senior member of China Computer Federation, a senior member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Communication Society, and a member of ACM. He is the Coordinator in Asia of the Technical Committee on Distributed Computing (TPDC) of IEEE Computer Society. He is also a member of the IEEE Technical Committees on Distributed Processing, Parallel Processing, IEEE Fault Tolerant Computing, and Self-Organization and Complex Distributed Systems.
Dr. Cao has served as an associate editor and a member of editorial boards of several international journals, including Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He has also served as a chair and member of organizing / program committees for many international conferences, including IEEE Percom, MASS, ICDCS, IPDPS, ICPP, RTSS, SRDS, PRDC, ICC, Globecom, WCNC, UIC, and EUC.