Jerry Gao
- Tuesdays: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Thursdays: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Jerry Zeyu Gao is a professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. Now, he is the director of SJSU research center on Smart Technology, Computing, and Complex Systems. He had over 27 years of academic research and teaching experience and over 10 years of industry working and management experience on software engineering and IT development applications. He has published three technical books and over hundreds (350) publications in IEEE/ACM journals, magazines, international conferences and workshops. His Google Scholar citation is over 10K+ and his ResearchGate reads is over 382K+. His current research areas include machine learning, smart cities, AI test automation, AI clouds and mobile clouds. In 2010, Jerry Gao was recognized by University of Texas at Arlington as a distinguished Alumna for College of Engineering at its 50th anniversary. In 2011, he was awarded as a KSI Fellow in SEKE2011. In 2013, Dr. Gao received the College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in scholarship, Dr. Gao served as an editorial board member and an associate editor for numerous international journals in software engineering, machine learning, and smart cities, such as IEEE Software, Journal of Smart Cities, Energies, and Agriculture. Dr. Gao has been included and listed in Marquis American Who's Who 2020-2022. In the last 10 years, Dr. Gao has played as one of the leaders in organizing many international conferences and workshops as a conference co-chair, program co-chair, and workshop co-chair. Now, he is the steering board chair for IEEE CISOSE congress and IEEE Future Technology Summit, and the steering board member for IEEE Smart World Congress. IEEE CISOSE congress includes IEEE BigDataService, IEEEAITest, IEEE Intelligent Mobile Cloud, IEEE SOSE, and IEEE DAPPS. In addition, he served as a chair for many other conferences, such as IEEE CAI2025, IEEE AITest2025, IEEE BigDataService*, IEEE MobileCloud*, IEEE Smart World Congress 2017, Smart City Innovation 2017, SEKE06-2016, IEEE SOSE2011-2013, ICYCS'05, TQACBS2005-2006, WMCS2004-2010, IEEE EMOBS07-08, TEST'07, and EECC2006. Recently, Dr. Gao has been invited by many international conferences as a keynote speaker to address topics in Ai Test Automation, Smart Cities, UAV AI cloud, Green Energy Ai Cloud, Smart Agricultures, and Intelligent Wildfire Platforms. 2025,
Current Research Interest:
- Smart Cities and Complex Systems
- Agriculture AI Cloud for Crop Farms, Livestock, and Fruit Ranches
- Smart Green Energy AI Cloud Platform and Machine Learning Models
- Smart Emergence AI cloud for wildfire detection, monitor, progression prediction & risk analysis
- Cloud Computing and Services, Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile Cloud Services
- AI Test Automation and Standardization
- Testing as a Service (TaaS), Test Automation, and Mobile TaaS
- Big Data Computing Service, Engineering, and Applications
Education
9/1992 – 8/1995 Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas At Arlington, Texas, USA
Ph.D. in ComputerScienceand Engineering
9/1986 – 12/1989 Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (Thesis)
02/1978 - 02/1981 Studied and graduated from Computer Science
Department Nanjing University and HoHai University
B.S. in Computer Science
Academic Experience
9/2007 – Present San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
Full Professor Computer Engineering Department
Full Professor Applied Data Science Department
9/2002 – 5/2007 San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
Associate Professor Computer Engineering Department
9/1998 – 5/2002 San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer, Information, and
System Engineering
6/1997 – 9/1998 San Jose State University, San Jose, USA.
Adjunct Professor Dept. of Computer, Information, and
System Engineering
9/1994 – 8/1995 The University of Texas at Arlington
Instructor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Editorial Board Member for Journals
- Editorial Board Member for IEEE Software
URL: https://media.computer.org/images/test/editorial-board.html
- Editorial Board Member for Journal of Smart Cities (MDPI)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/sectioneditors/Cloud_Computing
- Editorial Board Member for Journal of Software (MDPI)
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/3242
Editorial Board Member for Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (Springer Nature
Link)
URL: https://link.springer.com/journal/11761/editorial-board
Editorial Board Member for Journal of Agriculture (MDPI)
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture/sectioneditors/Digital_Agriculture
Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering (World Scientific Publishing)
URL: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/ijseke/editorial-
board?srsltid=AfmBOoqZ1_5JPGyp8pNnNsT0lTKMFvdFo2zirNhykZ9BdSEaKJaAne-h
Editorial Board Member for Sage Journal of Smart Cities and Society
URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/editorial-board/smc
- Editorial Board Member for Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Technology
URL: https://ojs.istp-press.com/jait/editorialboard
Editorial Board Member for Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Intelligence
URL: https://jaiai.org/editorial
Editorial Board Member for Frontier Scientific Publishing
URL: https://jai.front-sci.com/index.php/jai/about/editorialTeam
Editorial Board Member for Sustainable Food Connect
URL: https://scifiniti.com/journals/sustainable-food-connect/editorial-board
Keynote speeches and Tutorials for International Conferences and Workshops
2024 – Keynote Speech in International AI Exchange Conference (November 2024)
Topic: Building Surveillance AI Cloud Platform with Intelligent Models
Location: Shanghai, China
2024 – Keynote Speech in IEEE Future Technology Summit (July 2024)
Topic: Smart Agriculture Machine Learning for Future Crop Farms
Location: Shanghai, China
2024 – Keynote Speech for UASACT-IEEE Future Technology – UAV Summit at Taiwan (July
2024)
Topic: UAV-Based Smart Surveillance Cloud Platform and Machine Learning
Location: Taoyuan, Taiwan
2024 – Invited Keynote Speech in (February 2024)
Topic: AI System Testing -Issues, Challenges, and Needs Online
2023 – Invited Keynote Speech for UASACT 2023
Topic: Smart City Traffic Drone AI Cloud Platform - Intelligence, Big Data, and AI
Cloud
Infrastructure
Location: Kaohsiung Exhibition Center, Taiwan
2023 – Invited Keynote Speech in (July 8, 2023)
Topic: Smart City Drone Cloud and Machine Learning IEEE Future Technology Summit -UAV
Track in Taiwan
2023 – Tutorial Speech in (July 2023) IEEE CISOSE2023
Topic: Quality Testing and Automation for Intelligent Chatbot Systems
Location: Athens, Greece
2023 – Invited Keynote Speech in (March 2023)
Topic: Smart Surveillance System -Cloud Infrastructure and Intelligence
San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
2023 – Invited Keynote Speech for IEEE ESCI 2023, India
Topic: Smart Agriculture - Big Data and Machine Learning
Location: Online Presentation
2022 – Invited Keynote Speech for CSCSG 2022
Topic: Intelligent Wildfire Platform – Big Data and Machine Learning for Wildfire
Location: Hangzhou, China
2022 – Invited Keynote Speech in (August 2022), IEEE CISOSE2022
Topic: Green Energy Cloud – Issues, Challenges, and Needs
2022 – Invited Keynote Speech in (July 2022), IEEE Future Technology Summit, 2022
Topic: Wildfire Intelligent Platform - Issues, Challenges, Big Data and Machine Learning
Location: East Bay of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, USA 2022
2022 – Invited Keynote Speech in (July 2022), International AI Symposium 2022
Topic: AI Testing Automation – Issues, Solutions, and Challenges
Location: INP, France
2021 – Invited Keynote Speech in (August 2021)
Topic: A Wildfire Data Analysis and Machine Learning Platform
Location: Online Presentation
2020 – Invited Plenary Speech in IEEE CISOSE2020 (August 2020)
Topic: Big Data and Machine Learning for Tomorrow
Location: Online Presentation
2020 – Invited Plenary Speech in (August 2020)
Topic: Testing Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAV) - Challenges and Needs
Location: Online Presentation
2020 – Invited Keynote Speech in IEEE Webinar in IEEE Delhi, India (June 2020)
Topic: Smart City: Big Data and Machine Learning -Practical Solutions, Challenges,
and Needs
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
2019 – Invited Keynote Speech in (October 2019)
Topic: Smart City Artificial Intelligence -Practical Solutions, Challenges, and Needs
Northwestern University, Xian, China
2018 – Invited Keynote Speech for SEKE 2018
(International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering)
Topic: AI and Big Data for Smart Cities in Silicon Valley, USA
- Issues, Challenges, Solutions, and Needs
Location: The Hotel Pullman, San Francisco Bay, USA
2017 – Invited Keynote Speech in (June 22, 2017)
Topic: Smart City and Big Data Analysis for San Jose
Location: Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China
2016 - Invited Keynote Speech in (June 15, 2016)
Topic: Big Data Quality Assurance Challenges, Issues, and Needs
Location: Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
2016 - Invited Keynote Speech in (June 22, 2016)
Topic: Quality Assurance for Big Data and Application Systems
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
2015 - Invited Keynote Speech in (June 22, 2015)
Topic: Understanding of Mobile Cloud Computing and Services
Location: Taiyuan University of Technology, China
2015 - Invited Keynote Speech (December 27, 2015)
Topic: Big Data Analysis for California Drought
Location: Taiyuan University of Technology, China 2014
2014 - Invited Keynote Speech in (August 11, 2014)
Topic: Big Mobile Data Empowering Future Healthcare Services
Location: Beihang University, Beijing, China
2014 – Invited Talk by Chinese Computer Federation (CCF) (June 6, 2014)
Topic: Mobile Cloud Computing – Market, Trends, and Infrastructures
Location: Changsha, China
2014 – Invited Talk by Institute of Software Academy of Science (June 11, 2014) -
Software
Engineering Research center for Fundamental Software
Topic: Mobile Cloud Computing – Infrastructure, Challenges, and Needs
URL: http://english.is.cas.cn/ns/ue/201406/ t20140611_122593.html
Location: Institute of Software Academy of Science (Beijing, China)
2014 – Invited Talk in Taiyuan University of Technology (June 16, 2014)
Topic #1: Mobile Cloud Computing – Infrastructure, Challenges, and Needs
Topic #2: Mobile Big Data Application and Analytics on Clouds
Location: College of Information Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
2013 – Keynote Speech for AST 2013
Topic: Mobile Testing as a Service (TaaS) on Clouds
URL: http://2013.cise-conferences.org/documents/publicity/AST-WS-Gao-Tsai-slides.pdf
Eighth International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST’13), May. 18 ~ 19,
2013. in
Conjunction with the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’13)
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
2013 – Tutorial Speech for IEEE SOSE2023
Tutorial Topic: Testing as a Service
Panel Presentation: Testing as a Service in Clouds
Location: Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, USA. March 25-28, 2013
2012 (Invited Talks) – Northwest University
Topic #1: Mobile Cloud Computing and Services – Opportunities, Challenges, Issues,
and Needs
Topic #2: Testing as a Service – Opportunities, Challenges, Issues, and Needs
Location: Xi’an, China
2012 - Invited Talks in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Topic: Testing as a Service – Opportunities, Challenges, Issues, and Needs
Location: Beijing, China
2011 – Panel Presentation in IEEE SOSE2011 (December 20211)
Topic: Testing as a Service (TaaS)- Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs
Location: Irvine, CA, USA
2010 – Panel Presentation in IEEE SOSE2010
Topic: Cloud Testing – Opportunities, Issues, Challenges, and Needs
Keynote Talk: Model-based Software Testing and Automation
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2007 - ROSATEA 2007 - The Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis –
The
Federated Events (National Workshop) on Component-Based Software Engineering and
Software Architecture.
Keynote Topic: Component-Based Software Testing and Analysis – Architecture Perspectives
URL: http://www.di.univaq.it/muccini/Rosatea2007/
2007 – Keynote Note for the International Seminar on High Confidence of Software Engineering
(Summer 2007)
Topic: Testing Component-Based Software – Architecture Perspectives
Location: Beijing, China
2005 – Keynote Presentation in the 8th Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS’05) in Beijing,
China,
Sept. 20-22. 2005.
Topic: Engineering wireless-based application systems Markets, Issues, Challenges
and Needs
Location: Beijing, China
2004 – The 3rd International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (Feb. 4-8,
2004)
Tutorial Topic: Testing of Component-Based Software - Challenges and State-Of-the-Art
Solutions
Location: Redondo Beach, California, U.S. A,
2003 – Tutorial Talk for IEEE 18th International Conference on Automated Software
Engineering
(ASE2003) (Oct. 2003)
Topic: Testing of Component-Based Software – Issues, Challenges, and Solutions
Location: Montreal, Canada
Invited Talks For Industry
2024 – Keynote Speech for Real-Tech Summit, Organized by West San Gabriel Vall REALTORS
Community/Association (August 2024)
Topic: Ai-Powered Real Estate Industry for Today and Future
Location: San Gabriel, California, USA
2024 – Invited Keynote Speech in Shanghai Supply Chain Business Association (January
2024)
Topic: Smart-Supply-Chain and Reverse Logistics
Location: Shanghai, China
2022 – Invited Keynote Speech in Industry Green Energy Summit (July 2022)
Topic: Mobile Green Energy Cloud
Location: Los Angeles, USA
2017 – Invited Keynote Speech in Northwest Big Data Association in China (Summer 2017)
Topic: Smart City Big Data and Machine Learning - Issues, Needs, and Challenges
Location: Xi’An, China
2009 – Industry Keynote Talk for Huawei Technologies LTD. (June 2009)
Topic: Concurrent Software Testing – Models, Methods, and Solutions
Topic: Software Usability Testing
Location: Shenzhen, China
2008 – Industry Keynote Talk for Huawei Technologies LTD. (Summer 2008)
Topic: Model-Based Software Testing and Practice I and II
Topic: Agile-Based Software Testing and Practice
Location: Shenzhen, China
2006 – Industry Tutorial for Huawei Technologies LTD. (April 2006)
Topic: Design for Software Component Testability
Location: Huawei Technology LTD., Shenzhen, China
2005 – Industry Tutorial for Huawei Technologies LTD. (Summer 2025)
Topic: Software Reuse – State-of-the-Art
Location: – Huawei Technologies Ltd., Shenzhen in China
2005 - Industry Tutorial for UTStarccm (March 2005)
Topic: Component-Based Software Development and Management
Topic: Software Component Testing
Location: UTStarcom, Shenzhen in China
Invited Short Courses and Talks
2011 (Summer Short Course) – Tsinghua University, China Topic: Software Test Automation
2010 (Invited Talks) – Tsinghua University, China
Topic #1: Cloud-Based Software Testing – Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
Topic #2: Scalability Testing and Measurement for Cloud-Based Systems
June/2009 – Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, R.O China Invited Talk:
Topic: “Software Test Automation – Problems, Solutions, and Future Needs”
Invited Talk:
January/2009 – Huawei Technologies LTD, Shenzhen, China
Topic: “2D Barcode-Based Mobile Commerce Systems”
Invited Talk - – Peking University, Beijing, China
Topic: “Service-Oriented Software Testing – Challenges and Issues” 2007 (Summer Short
Course)
Topic: “Design for Mobile-Based Software and Applications”
2006 – Ming De College of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China
Topic: “Education, Training and Research in Testing and Quality Assurance in USA”
2004 – Computer Science Department, Naval Postgraduate School, California, USA
Topic: “Testing in the Component Age”
2002 – Cisco Systems
Topic: “Performance Testing for Web-Based Software Systems”
2000 – ASPECT Communications, San Jose.
Topic: “Performance Testing and Measurement for Web-Based Distributed Systems”
1999 – IEEE Industry Engineering Chapter at San Jose
Topic: Introduction to E-Commerce
1998 – San Jose State University
Topic: “Web-Based Software Engineering”
1997 – Fujitsu Limited in Japan.
Topic: “Web-Based Software Engineering Environment”
1995 – The University of Texas at Houston
Topic: “A Regression Testing Methodology for Object-Oriented Software”
1995 – The California State University at Fullerton
Topic: “A Regression Testing Methodology for Object-Oriented Software”
1995- Professional Industry Working Group in Dallas
Topic: “Object-Oriented Software Testing” Invited Keynotes and Technical
Industry Working Experience
1/2008 – 3/2009
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. China.
Contracted Expert Consultant for Testing & QA Service and Training in the following
areas:
Component Testing & Quality Control Methods and Processes for Platform-Based
Software Components and Middleware.
Evaluation and Analysis for Software Engineering Process and Engineering Practice
Identification and Analysis of Testing Problems
Propose Solutions in Component Development Process and Quality Control
Technical Training for Component Testing Team(s) and Software System Production
Teams on the following subjects:
Middleware architecture and testability
Model-based software testing and practice
Agile-based software testing and practice Test Methodologies for Domain-Specific
Software Components Model-based software testing analysis, methods, an d practice
Agile-based software testing, methods, and practice.
1/2008 – 2/2009 eBay, USA
Technical Consultant and Supervision for Student Collaboration Project – Software
Test and Risk
Analysis for Problem Resolution in QA Process.
• Automating Tools for Software Test and Risk Analysis for Problem Resolution.
1/2007 – 12/2007 eBay, USA
Technical Consultant and Supervision for Student Collaboration Project - Web-Based
Software
Test Automation project
- Test Automation for online system test automation – focusing on web-based system
GUI
test model, open-source-based test script generation, and test coverage analysis.
1/2006 – 6/2006 Intuit Inc., USA
Expert Consultant in Software Test Automation for Enterprise Solutions Major responsibility
in
Project #1- test automation for enterprise software:
Identify major issues and propose the solutions in test automation for enterprise-
oriented common-ware (platform, common architectures, and mid-ware)
Identify and define test models and test coverage criteria for enterprise-oriented
software
Identify and define a change and regression test process, methodology, and tool
for
enterprise- oriented common-ware (platform, common architectures, and mid-ware)
Lead and supervise a project team to develop the test automation solution and tool
Major responsibility in Project #2 – test automation for software installation
Identify major issues and propose solutions in automatic testing for software installation
and patches
Identify and define test models and test coverage criteria for software installation
Identify and define a change and regression test process, methodology, and tool
for
auto-testing for software installation.
Lead and supervise a project team to develop the required test automation solution
and
tool.
6/2005 – 9/2006 Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. China.
Expert Consultant in Software Component Testability
Expert Consultant in Component Controllability Project
Expert Consultant on Design for Testability and Maintenance for Component-Based
Systems
1/2002 – 12/2002 Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. China.
- Principal Consultant on Systematic Solutions for Enhancement of Testability and
Performance
Measurement of Real-Time Communication Systems.
Major Responsibility:
Define enterprise-oriented solution requirements for system testability and
performance measurement.
Design cross-product systematic solutions for tracking and monitor real-time system
behavior and performance.
Define product-oriented system environments and tools to support the solutions.
6/2000 – 10/2001 ASPECT Communications, Inc. San Jose
Principle Consultant on E-Business Performance Testing, Metrics, and Tools Major
Responsibilities:
Define enterprise-oriented performance test strategy and metrics
Develop product-oriented performance testing methodology for e-business products
on
the Internet.
Define performance testing environment and tools
Write requirements and functional specifications for performance tools
Write performance and reliability metrics
6/1999 – 5/2000 Fujitsu Network Systems, Inc. San Jose
Principle Architecture Consultant on Web-Based Software Engineering Environment
Major Responsibilities:
Define system infrastructure and architecture for integrated software engineering
environment over the Internet.
Define requirements and functions specifications for software tools
Write overall system architecture and infrastructure
10/1998 – 5/1999 Fujitsu Network Systems, Inc. San Jose
Principle Architecture Consultant on Re-Driven Software Engineering
Major Responsibilities:
Define reuse-driven software development process.
Define reuse-driven software development standards
Conduct and define network management, reuse framework architecture and
supporting environment
Write software engineering requirements for supporting reuse-driven projects.
2/1997 – 9/1998 Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., San Jose
Technical Manager, Project Lead and System Architect in Software Engineering Department
Major responsibilities:
Write project proposals and system requirements for new products.
Manage a team about 10 engineers for product line projects, and play as a project
leader.
Conduct requirement elicitation and write function and product specifications.
Conduct technology selection and evaluation for our products.
Conduct high-level and detailed design.
Lead component test, integration test, system test, and performance test.
Project: “A web-based global problem management system on Internet”
Technology used: JAVA J.D.K (1.02 and 1.1), HTML, CGI, CORBA (Orbixweb, Orbix),
C++,
secured web server, and ORDB (ILLUSTRA).
First three engineering releases are Java/CGI based web systems, and one product
release.
Lead the high-level design, detailed design and implementation.
Prepared and written the documents:
- “Product Specifications for Fujitsu Product Development Environment”
- “Requirements Specification for A Global Web-Based Problem Management
System”
- “Functional Design Specifications for PIMS”
Project: “A web-based global test management system on Internet”
Technology used: JAVA J.D.K (1.02 and 1.1), HTML, JavaScript, CGI, CORBA (Orbixweb,
Orbix), C++, secured web server, and ORDB (ILLUSTRA).
The first prototype release is a pure CGI-based web system using HTML, Java, JavaScript,
and CGI as well as C++ and ORDB. Working on a new product release.
The current product release uses CORBA and Java technology.
Prepared and written the documents:
“Requirements Specifications for A Web-Based Test Management System”
“Functional Design Specification for A Global Web-Based Test Management System”
Reuse Project: “Software Tracking and Analysis Toolkit for Software Reuse”
Wrote: a Project Proposal, and” Requirements Specifications for Software Tracking
and
Analysis Toolkit of Software Reuse”
8/1995 – 2/1997 Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA
Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Technical Leader of Software Engineering R&D group
Major responsibility:
Research on domain-specific test automation, software engineering methodology, and
applications of new technology.
Technical lead for the development of several R&D prototype systems using Unix,
C/C++, Java, WWW (HTML, JavaScript, and CGI), and OO Database (ILLUSTRA).
Prepared and written the following documents:
“Feature Specifications for TL1 Message Testing Tool”
“Basic Design Specifications for TL1 Message Testing Tool (Prototype)”
“Feature Specifications for Web-based Integrated Testing Environment”
“Basic Design Specification For Web-based Test Management System (Prototype)”
6/1992 – 8/1995 Software Center For Telecommunications
The University of Texas At Arlington, Arlington Texas
Manager of Software Lab., Research Associate, and Instructor
Key person and investigator in Founded Software Engineering Research Project on
Object-Oriented Program Testing and Maintenance Methodology.
Manage and supervise 15 master students to develop the first testing and maintenance
environment for OO software using C/C++, Motif and X lib.
Wrote research papers, high-level design documents and conduct review as well as
implementations.
2/1991 – 5/1992 IEX Corp., Plano, Texas Member of Technical Staff, Software Developer
Designed and developed several real-time telecommunication application systems using
Unix, C/C++, Sockets, X25, and TCP/IP.
An automated-call distribution system between AT&T switch and IBM mainframe.
The
features are call forward, call routing, conference call, etc.
A force management system for a call center, including call tracking, staff, scheduling,
reporting, statistical analysis, and optimization.
2/1982 – 8/1986 The Nanjing Research Institute of WR, China Assistant Engineer and
Software
Developer, in the Computer Center
Designed and developed a real-time data acquisition, communication & processing
system for water resource management applications (flood forecasting, water
evaluation, water monitoring)
Received Awards
Received and Listed as Marquis Who's Who 2020-2022 as one best researcher and
technology leader.
Received the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence
in
Scholarship in 2013.
Received the KSI Fellow from Knowledge System Institute in SEKE2011.
Recognized as a distinguished alumina by the College of Engineering of the University
of
Texas at Arlington at its 50th Anniversary in November
2009. http://www.uta.edu/engineering/features/feature.php?id=14)
Received the Best Paper Award from the Third International Conference on Multimedia
and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE2009), In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society,
June 4-6, 2009, Qingdao, China.
Selected as the Best Paper in the 8th International Conference for Young Computer
Scientists (ICYCS’05) in Sept. 20-22, Beijing, China
Named as Global Education Follower by San Jose State University in 2003
Received the Best Paper Award in the 13th International Software/ Internet Quality
Week (QW2000).
Received the Best Paper Award in The Third IEEE International Conference on
Requirements Engineering (ICRE1998), 1998, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
Received 1993-1994 Outstanding CSE graduate student research award
for outstanding research on the Ph.D. level.
IEEE International Conference Organization Leaders
Steering Board Chair and General Conference Chair for IEEE International Conference
on
AI Standardization and Quality Assurance 2025.
Steering Board Chair for IEEE CISOSE2019-Present – IEEE International Congress on
Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (CISOSE)
Steering Board Member for IEEE Smart World Congress 2017-Present.
Steering Board Chair and Conference Chair for the 1st IEEE International Workshop
on
Future Intelligent Technologies for Young Researchers (FITYR) July 16-18, 2024, |
Shanghai, China.
Steering Board Chair and General Chair for IEEE Future Technology Summit from 2016
-
2024
General Chair for IEEE MobileCloud 2024, Shanghai, China.
PC Chair for 2015 IEEE First International Conference on Big Data Computing Service
and
Applications (IEEEBigDataService 2015), Redwood City, CA, USA.
PC Chair for 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data Computing Service
and
Applications (IEEEBigDataService 2016), Oxford, UK.
General Chair for 2017 IEEE Third International Conference on Big Data Computing
Service and Applications (IEEEBigDataService 2017), Redwood City, CA, USA
General Chair for 2018 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Big Data Computing
Service and Applications (IEEEBigDataService 2018), Bamberg, Germany.
General Chair for 2020 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Big Data Computing
Service and Applications (IEEEBigDataService 2020), Oxford, UK.
General Chair for 2014 the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud
Computing, Services and Engineering (IEEE MobileCloud 2014), Oxford, UK.
PC Chair for 2013 the first IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing,
Services and Engineering (IEEE MobieCloud 20213), San Francisco, CA, USA.
General Chair for IEEE for CISOSE2023, Athens, Greece.
General Chair for IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services
and Engineering (IEEE MobileCloud 2023), Athens, Greece.
General Chair for IEEE International Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented
Systems Engineering (IEEE CISOSE2024), Shanghai, China.
General Chair for IEEE Third IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Testing (IEEE AITest 2021) held (virtually) in Oxford, UK.
General Chair for IEEE First IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Testing (IEEE AITest 2019), Fremont, California, USA.
Program Committee Chair for IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing
Service and Applications, San Francisco Bay, 2015.
International Workshop Chair for AST 2014, India, June 2014.
Conference Co-Chair of IEEE 2nd MobileCloud2014, Oxford, UK, April 7-10, 2014.
Conference Co-Chair of IEEE Seventh International Symposia on Service-Oriented
System Engineering (SOSE2013), San Francisco Bay, USA, 2013.
Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Symposia on Mobile Cloud Computing and
Service (MobileCloud2013), San Francisco Bay, USA, 2013.
Conference Chair of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering (SEKE2011), 2011, USA.
Program Chair of the IEEE Sixth International Symposia on Service-Oriented System
Engineering (SOSE2011), USA, 2011.
Workshop Chair of the IEEE seventh International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and
Healthcare Service (WMCS2011), Taiwan, 2011.
Program Chair of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2010), July 1-3, 2009, San Francisco, USA.
Co-Workshop Chair of the International Workshop on Software Test Automation,
Practice, and Standardization, Conjunction in SEKE2010, July 2010, USA.
Workshop Chair of the IEEE sixth International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and
Service (WMCS2010), Taiwan, 2010.
Co-Program Chair of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09), July 1-3, 2009, Boston, USA.
Co-workshop chair for the Fifth International workshop on Mobile Commerce and
Services (WMCS2009), Qingdao, China, June 4-6, 2009.
Co-Chair of the Second International Workshop on Engineering of Mobile-Based
Applications and Network Systems (EMOBS2009), Seattle, USA, July 2009.
Co-Organizer for A Special Program Track on Software Test Automation and Practice
for
Twentieth of International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering (SEKE’08), San Francisco, USA, July 2008.
Co-Organizer and Co-Chair of the Panel of Software Testing Practice and Automation
for
the Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering (SEKE’08), San Francisco, USA, July 2008.
Program Co-Chair for the Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering
and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’08), San Francisco, USA, July 2008.
Workshop Co-Chair for the Four International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and
Services, at Kunming, China, in May 2008.
Workshop Co-Chair for the First International Workshop on Engineering Wireless-Based
Systems and Applications (EMOBS2007), Beijing, July 2007.
Workshop Chair for the First International Workshop on Software Testing for Emerging
Technologies (TEST’07), Beijing, July 2007.
Program Track Chair for the Nineteenth International Conference on Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’07), Boston, USA, July 2007.
Workshop Co-Chair for the First International Workshop on Engineering Wireless-Based
Systems and Applications (EMOBS2007), Beijing, July 2007.
Co-Chair for the First International Workshop on Evaluation and Evolution of
Component Composition (EECC 2006), San Francisco, USA, July 5-7, 2006.
Session chair and PC member for The Eighteenth International Conference on Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’06) will be held in Hotel Sofitel, San
Francisco Bay, USA, July 5-7, 2006.
Co-Chair for the Second International Workshop on Testing and Quality Assurance
for
Component-Based Software (TQACBS’2006) in conjunction with COMPSAC 2006,
Chicago, USA, and September. 18-21, 2006.
Session Chair for the 2nd International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems,
NPU, Xi’an, China, December 16-18,2005.
Program Co-chair for the 8th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists
(ICYCS’05) in Sept. 20-22, Beijing, China.
Co-Chair and Session Chair for the First International Workshop on Testing and Quality
Assurance for Component-Based Software (TQACBS’2005) in conjunction with COMPSAC
2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 25-28.
Co-Chair and session chair for the second IEEE International Workshop and Mobile
Commerce conjunction with IEEE CEC 2005, Munich, Germany, July 18-19, 2005.
Session-Chair for the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications
Conference (COMPSAC 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 25-28.
Co-Chair of the First IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services,
conjunction with IEEE ECE International Conference, June 2004.
Program Committee Member for International Conferences and Workshops
• Advisor Board Member for SEKE2012 and SEKE2013.
• PC member for ICEBE2012/CEC2012, September 9-11, 2012, Hangzhou, China.
• PC member for IEEE CEC2011, 2011.
• PC members for 11th International Conference, ICA3PP 2011, Melbourne,
• Australia, October 24-26, 2011.
• PC member for SOC-MAS11, 2011.
• PC member for QSIC 2010 - Quality of Service-Based Systems, 2010.
• PC member for SOSE2010.
• PC member for IEEE CEC2009, 2009.
• PC member for The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software
• Test Automation (STA 2010).
• Program Committee Member for The Eighth International Conference on
• Quality Software, Oxford, UK, October, 2008.
• Program Committee Member for CEC'08/EEE'08, 2008.
• Program Committee Member for 4th Workshop on Advances in Model Based
• Testing (A-MOST 2008), in Norway, 2008.
• Program Committee Member for the Seventh International Conference on Quality
• Software, Portland, Oregon, October, 2007.
• PC Members for ROSATEA 2007 – The Role of Software Architecture for
• Testing and Analysis, Italy, 2007.
• Member of Program Committee for the 2nd Workshop on Advances in Model-based
• Software Testing (A-MOST’07), co-located with the 18th IEEE International
• Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering ISSRE 2007.
• PC Member for ROSATEA 2007 - The Role of Software Architecture for
• Testing and Analysis. The Federated Events (National Workshop) on
• Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture.
• PC Member for IEEE Joint 8th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology
• (CEC’ 07) and the 3rd IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-
Services (EEE’ 07), Japan, 2007.
• PC Member for IEEE 2007 IEEE International Conference on E-Business Engineering,
• (2007 IEEE ICEBE/SOAIC), 2007.
• PC member for The First IEEE International Conference on System Integration and
• Reliability Improvements, December 6-9, Hanoi, Vietnam (SIRI 2006).
• Member of Program Committee for IEEE 2006 IEEE International Conference on
• E-Business Engineering, Shanghai, China (2006 IEEE ICEBE/SOAIC), Oct. 24-26, 2006.
• Member of Program Committee for IEEE Joint 8th IEEE Conference on
• E-Commerce Technology (CEC’ 06) and the 3rd IEEE Conference on Enterprise
• Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE’ 06), San Francisco, CA, June 26-29, 2006.
• Member of Steering Program Committee for Third IEEE International Workshop on
• Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS’06) in conjunction with IEEE ECE 2006.
• Member of Program Committee for the 2nd Workshop on Advances in Model-based
• Software Testing (A-MOST’06), co-located with the 17th IEEE International Symposium
on Software Reliability Engineering ISSRE 2006, November 6-7, 2006 – Raleigh, North
Carolina, USA.
• Serviced as an Invited National Science Foundation (NSF) Review Panelist 2004-2005.
• Member of Program Committee for Third International Workshop on Advanced Issues
of
E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2001)
• Local Arrangement Chair for The Third International Workshop on Advanced Issues
of E-
Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2001)
• Member of Program Committee for IEEE Requirement Engineering (IEEE RE’97)
• Book reviewers for McGraw-Hill Higher Education Science, Engineering & Mathematics
in 2007.
• Book reviewers for book publishers, John Wiley and Sons in 2004
• Book reviewers for Artech House Publishers in 2003
• Technical Editorial Committee Member for Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic
Commerce Research (JTAER) (URL: http://www.jtaer.com/)
• Referee for IEEE Transaction of Computer
• Referee for ACM Transaction of Software Engineering Methodology
• Referee for IEEE Transaction of Software Engineering
• Referee for IEEE Transaction of Computer
• Referee for IEEE Mobile Computing
• Referee for IEEE Computer
• Referee for IEEE Software
• Referee for IEEE Internet Computing
• Referee for Journal of System and Software
• Referee for Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
• Referee for Journal of Information Systems Frontiers
• Referee for Journal of Information and Technology
