Research Interests:
Dr. Hwang has been active in research on scalable multiprocessors and parallel processing, which has been summarized in two of his books, Scalable Parallel Computing (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and Advanced Computer Architecture (McGraw-Hill 1993). These are research-oriented textbooks, which are worldwide used and translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions.
An IEEE Fellow, he has received numerous research grants from the NSF, ONR, AFOSR, IBM, AT&T, MIT Lincoln, Hong Kong RGC, etc. In recent years, Dr. Hwang’s research interest has been shifting toward network-based computing, Internet security, and clustered systems.
Presently, he leads a NSF-supported ITR Group Project on Grid security for Internet-based distributed computing. In this project, distributed security architecture and network monitoring tools are under development for ecurity-aware dynamic resource allocation and for automated intrusion detection and responses to malicious network attacks.
The ultimate research goal is to develop reliable, trustworthy, and highly available clusters and grid resources for pervasive, peer-to-peer, and Grid computing in both wired and wireless network environments.
Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1972, UC, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Kai Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of Internet and Grid Computing Laboratory at the University of Southern California. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972.
Prior to joining USC in 1985, he has taught at Purdue University for many years. He has served as a visiting Chair Professor at the University of Minnesota (1989) and University of Hong Kong (1996-99). He has supervised the completion of 16 Ph.D. theses in computer science and computer engineering at Purdue and USC over the years.
Dr. Hwang has received the Outstanding Achievement Awards from the PDPTA 1996 and PDCAT 2002 for his leadership roles in advanced research and higher education in computer engineering and information technology.
He has lectured worldwide and performed advisory work for IBM Fishkill, Intel SSD, MIT Lincoln Lab., ETL in Japan, and GMD in Germany. He has chaired the HPCA 1997, IPPS 1996, ICAPP-96, ICPP-86, and ARITH-7 conferences. He has given keynote addresses in a dozen of international computer conferences.
