Information Technologies Committee

Committee Chair Hua Zhu (Chair)

Biography
Hua Zhu received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas where he was a member of the Center for Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Services. He is currently with San Diego Research Center, Inc. Dr. Zhu had previously served as Director of Information Technology of ICST for several years.

Dr. Zhu's research interests include algorithmic and protocol design, modeling and simulation for wireless communications systems and networks. He have worked extensively on various wireless access technologies, including both commercial IEEE 802.11/WiFi, 802.16/WiMax, and tactical communication systems. As a CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), he also has substantial experience in areas of VoIP, network management and security. Dr. Hua Zhu is the recipient of Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium (TxTEC) Scholarship for his research in wireless multimedia streaming. He is the Co-PI and/or key personnel of several US Government funded projects on ad hoc and sensor networks.

Dr. Hua Zhu has served on the technical program committees of several international conferences, including the First and Second Int'l Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets), the Int'l Conference on Information Technology (CIT'06), IEEE Int'l Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC'07). He also served on the organizing committees of the Workshop on Optical Networking Technologies for Global SAN Solutions (ONSAN'03), the Int'l Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine'04), and the Int'l Conference on Broadband Networks (BroadNets'04).

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