Vuong Thanh Son

Dr. Son T. Vuong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada where he was a lecturer and assistant professor in 1981-1982. Since 1983, he has been a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he was a founder of the Distributed System Research Group and is now Director of the Laboratory for Networks and Internet Computing (NICLab). He is an international renowned researcher on protocol engineering, distributed multimedia systems, and collaborative computing. His areas of research interest in recent years also include semantic search, p2p video streaming, ambient networks, security, eLearning and mobile agent technology and applications.

Dr. Vuong has (co) authored a US patent, over 180 papers and co-edited three books, including the book on “Recent Advances in Distributed Multimedia Systems” published in 1999. He has supervised thesis research of more than 70 graduate (PhD and MSc) students. He was a co-leader of the major $30M grant proposal to establish a new Network of Centres of Excellence in 1999, called Global Information Systems and Software Technology – GISST. Dr. Vuong served on many conference program committees and was (co)chair and (co)organizer of eight international conferences (Multimedia’08, DMS’08, NOMS’06, DMS'97, ICDCS'95, PSTV'94, FORTE'89, IWPTS'88). He served on the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Grant Selection Committee in 1999-2003, and also serves on the Board of Directors of two high-tech companies.