CS&E Profile: David Hung-Chang Du

High-speed networking, multimedia applications, high-performance computing over workstation clusters, and database design and CAD for VLSI circuits.

Ph.D. 1981, M.S. 1980, Computer Science, University of Washington

B.S. 1974, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan

About

Professor Du is currently the Qwest Chair Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He has served as a Program Director at National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2006 to 2008. At NSF, he was in charge of Sensor Network Program and worked with two other colleagues, Ralph Wachter and Karl Levitt, on Cyber Trust (Security) Program. He has authored and co-authored more than 240 technical papers, including 110 referred journal publications. He has graduated 51 Ph.D. and more than 80 M.S. students. Dr. Du is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. He is currently served on the editorial board of several journals. He has also served as Conference Chair and Program Committee Chair to several conferences in parallel processing, security, multimedia, networking and database areas. Most recently, he was the General Chair for IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium (Oakland, California) 2009, Program Committee Co-Chair for International Conference on Parallel Processing 2009, and Workshop Co-Chair and the General Chair for IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Research

Professor Du has made contributions in many research areas including cyber security, sensor networks, multimedia computing, mass storage systems, high-speed networking, database design and CAD for VLSI circuits.  He is the founder and Director of National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) in Intelligent Storage (CRIS). The goal of CRIS is to push the boundaries of file and storage systems by exploring and developing new technologies and techniques to improve the usability, scalability, security, reliability, and performance of storage systems.  In additional to the support from NSF, CRIS is currently supported by companies like Seagate, Symantec, NetApp, HP, Dell, Xyratex, and NEC-Labs. More information about CRIS can be found in http://cris.cs.umn.edu. Dr. Du’s research on computer networking is currently focused on sensor/vehicular networks.