Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as the world's largest scientific and educational computing society released the newly elevated Senior Members on Oct. 19, 2020. Two faculty members from Faculty of Information Technology, Associate Professor Tao Zhang and Associate Professor Hong-Ning Dai were conferred with ACM senior members due to their extensive experience and outstanding research achievement in software engineering and computer networks, respectively.
The Senior Members Grade of ACM recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and at least 5 years of Professional Membership in the last 10 years, who have demonstrated performance through technical leadership, and technical or professional contributions. There are only 2,632 ACM Senior Members, only 2.6% of the total number of all ACM members, revealing the high competition for the elevation of ACM Senior Members Grade.
Prof. Tao Zhang (IEEE Senior Member, ACM Senior Member, CCF Senior Member) has research interests in intelligent software data analysis and software security. He obtained his bachelor and master’s degrees from Northeastern University in China and had gotten his Ph.D. from the University of Seoul. Then he became postdoctoral research fellow at University of Malaya and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published more than 50 research papers in renowned journal and conference papers, including TSE, TIFS, ICSE, DSN, IEEE Software, JSS, SANER, ICPC, etc. He also served the guest editors for IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Systems and Software, IET Software. He was the publicity chairs of SANER 2019 and QRS 2019. He also served as PC members at the top-tier conferences such as ASE (Tool Demo Track) and ICSME. He is also reviewers for some top-tier journals such as TSE, TRel, EMSE, etc. He is the PI for a lot of research projects supported by NSFC, FDCT, etc.
Associate Prof. Tao Zhang
Prof. Hong-Ning Dai (IEEE Senior Member, ACM Senior Member) has research interests in Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Big Data Analytics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and D.Eng in Computer Application Technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in refereed journals and conferences, including ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE TII, IEEE T-ITS. He has 3 ESI highly-cited papers. He has also served as associate editors/editors for IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, Ad Hoc Networks and Connection Science; guest editors for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. He has also served as TPC chairs for International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems 2019 and 2020.
Associate Prof. Hong-Ning Dai
M.U.S.T. has put great effort into bringing in outstanding talents from home and abroad to boost the international profile of its faculty team as well as the development of science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. Faculty of Information Technology (FI) is one of the first four founded faculties at Macau University of Science and Technology. Thanks to faculty members’ efforts, FI has published many top-tier papers. According to the World University Rankings by Times Higher Education, M.U.S.T. ranked among the top 300 universities for two consecutive years in 2020 and 2021. It is worth mentioning that M.U.S.T. is ranked top 150 in computer sciences.