Yi Deng

Dean and Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University http://www.cis.fiu.edu/ Home Page: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/faculty/deng/ Email: deng@cis.fiu.edu

Yi Deng received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992. He has been the Dean and Professor of School of Computing and Information Sciences at the Florida International University (FIU) — the State University of Florida in Miami and one of the largest urban research universities in the US.

He is the author or co-author of over ninety research papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings, and the PI or Co-PI of eighteen research awards over $15 million, most of which from premier US federal funding agencies. He has initiated and led many large scale multidisciplinary R&D projects and initiatives, founded and directed three research centers, including the Center for Advanced Distributed System Engineering, the NSF Center of Emerging Technologies for Advanced Information Processing and High Confidence Systems, and the IBM Center for Autonomic and Grid Computing at FIU. He has been an active contributor to the professional and research community in various leadership capacities. He co-founded and co-chairs the Board of Governors for the Latin American Grid (LA Grid) Consortium, with members include IBM, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and twelve universities in US, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain and Argentina, dedicated for collaborative research, innovation and workforce development in computing. He is the PI for the NSF sponsored Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) initiative, with partners from leading universities and industry research centers in China, India, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and France.

His research interests include software architecture, modeling and design, distributed computing, software security, multimedia communication and systems, as well as large-scale interdisciplinary computing research and their applications in healthcare, medicine, hurricane mitigation and disaster management, and other areas. The following are samples of large-scale efforts he is currently leading:

• Business Continuity Information Network (BCiN), which is aimed to achieve rapid business recovery in the aftermath of hurricane (and other) disasters. It is a unique example of integrating fundamental research, technology, and community partnerships. It involves a score of faculty members and scientists from computer science, earth sciences, atmospheric science, transportation engineering, business administration and sociology, many companies, industry consortiums and governmental agencies. This project will not only help to advance fundamental science and technology, but also result in economic impacts on the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars.
• PIRE — The goal of this project is, through collaboration with our international partners, to develop methodologies, platforms, and tools for creating cyber-infrastructure (CI) applications in a way that eases the application development process and makes the resulting applications more adaptive to future changes of CI. The approach is application-driven and is focused on: (1) supporting CI-enablement for carefully chosen critical application domains, e.g. hurricane mitigation, bioinformatics and healthcare, and (2) developing common methodologies, services and tools for CI-enabled applications in these domains. The technology and tools created by the partners have broad significance and utility to both scientific discovery and industrial/societal applications.