Big Data

Kuan-Ching Li is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Providence University, Taiwan. He was department chair in 2009, has been special assistant to the university president since 2010, and was appointed vice dean for the Office of International and Cross-Strait Affairs (OIA) in 2014. He earned a PhD in 2001 from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Li is a recipient of awards from NVIDIA, the Ministry of Education (MOE)/Taiwan, and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)/Taiwan. He also received guest professorships at universities in China, including Xiamen University (XMU), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Lanzhou University (LZU), Shanghai University (SHU), Anhui University of Science and Technology (AUST), and Lanzhou Jiaotong University (LZJTU). He has been involved actively in conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chairman and in numerous conferences and workshops as a program committee member, and he has organized numerous conferences related to high-performance computing and computational science and engineering.Dr. Li is the editor in chief of the technical publications International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), and International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), all published by Interscience. He also serves on a number of journals' editorial boards and guest editorships. In addition, he has been acting as editor/coeditor of several technical professional books, published by CRC Press and IGI Global. His topics of interest include networked computing, GPU computing, parallel software design, and performance evaluation and benchmarking. Dr. Li is a member of the Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing (TACC), a senior member of the IEEE, and a fellow of the IET. Hai Jiang is an ass