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 has authored or co-authored more than 160 technical papers, including 75 refereed journal publications, and in his research areas he has graduated 34 Ph.D. students in the last 19 years. He is a IEEE Fellow and a Fellow in the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. He is the editor of Parallel and Distributed Practices and International Journal on Cluster Computing, and was also an editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1992 to 1998. He has served as conference chair and program committee chair for several conferences in multimedia and database areas. Du received research grants from the National Science Foundation and companies such as 3M, Northern Telecom, Dell, IBM, Seagate, and Unisys. In 2004, the Digital Technology Center at the University of Minnesota awarded him the Outstanding Service Award.

Research

My research in the CAD area includes physical layout, timing verification, and delay fault test for high-speed circuits. My research in high-speed networking includes heterogeneous high-performance computing over high-speed networks, PC and workstation clustering, broadband connections to homes and desktops, and all optical networks. My research in multimedia applications includes video transmission over ATM networks, video-on-demand servers, distance learning using multimedia technologies, and mass storage systems for both video-on demand and Internet Web servers.

I have been working with Honeywell on a project called High Performance Services for Distributed Multimedia-Integrated Control Applications (supported by DARPA). I am a participating researcher in MAGIC (Multidimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium, funded by ARPA) gigabit testbed (working with the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute on networking activities). I am also working with physicians from the Fairview-University Medical Center and Mayo Clinic on healthcare delivery over the National Information Infrastructure (NII).