Professor, Chairman of Steering Committee
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University, China

BIOGRAPHY

Chuang Lin is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University of China since 2000, where he served as department chair from 2003 to 2007. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Tsinghua University of China in 1994, and a MS from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981. Upon joining Tsinghua University, he was a professor and chief of Division of Information Technology, Information Economics and Technology Institute, State Information Center of China since 1981.

Lin has devoted his career to Quality of Services and security control of Internet and Computer networks. His research centers on modeling, simulation and performance analysis of computer systems. In these areas, he has published more than 300 papers in research journals and conference proceedings. He is also the author of three books. Lin led the project “Stochastic Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer System”, which is awarded the first place in the first prize of National Science and Technology Award in 2005 by the Ministry of Education of China.

Lin has been an ACM China Task Force Member since 2006. He is responsible for the ACM China Secretariat and Education Summit in China. In 2007, he was named ACM Council Member. In April 2005, he organized the ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop in Beijing China as the general chair and received the Recognition of Service Award from ACM.

Since 2004, Lin has been a Chinese Delegate in TC6 of IFIP and an IEEE Senior Member. He serves as a counselor for the key research project “Network and Information Security” of China National Science of Foundation since 2000. From 2006 to 2010, he is on the Advisory Committee on Elementary Undergraduate Computer Science Education of the Ministry of Education of China.

 
STATEMENT

China is growing faster. Its computing society, including both academia and industry is also growing faster. There are more than 100 universities in China which have Ph.D. programs in computer science. Almost all major multi-national IT companies, such as Microsoft, INTEL, IBM, Google, opened branches in China. The Chinese computing community is really large and still growing faster.

ACM is the "first society in computing".  Its journals and conferences are the publishing venues of choice for computer scientists, and the Digital Library is a fantastic resource. However, the presence of ACM in China is not satisfactory. There are only less than 1,000 ACM members in China.

I have tried to promote ACM in the past few years. In April 2005, I organized the ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop in Beijing China as the general chair and received the Recognition of Service Award from ACM. I have been an ACM China Task Force Member since 2006. I am responsible for the ACM China Secretariat to handle membership issues in China locally.  In 2007, I was named ACM Council Member.

If elected Member at Large, here are some issues I would promote on behalf of the ACM community:

• Create greater awareness of ACM in China and help increase membership among the computing community here, including both academia and industry.
• Draw on ACM's resources, talents, and SIGs to help China, especially to setup a team to translate some important English contents, such as Communications of ACM, into Chinese to attract broader readers.
• Organizing education summit to bring ACM's curriculum resources to China.