Dr. Lionel M. Ni earned the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1973, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1980. He is Chair Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at HKUST. He served as the Department Head from 2002 to 2008.

He also serves as Director of HKUST China Ministry of Education/Microsoft Research Asia IT Key Lab, Director of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School Digital Life Research Center, and Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) on Wireless Sensor Networks. Before joining HKUST in July 2002, he was a professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at Michigan State University, where he started his academic career in 1981. He has directly supervised 35 Ph.D. students and has published over 80 refereed journal articles and over 200 refereed conferences papers in the areas of sensor networks, parallel architectures, distributed processing, high-speed networks, VLSI design automation, operating systems, software tools, fault tolerant computing, parallel compilers, and benchmarking techniques. His research papers have been highly cited for over 5000 times. Here (http://www.cs.ust.hk/~ni/ref.htm) is the list of his top 10 highly cited papers according to Google Scholar.

Dr. Ni holds guest or adjunct positions at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, XinJiang University, Beihang University, University of Science and Technology of China, Hunan University, China Ocean University, and Asia University. He is a distinguished professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, an honorary chair professor at National Tsinghua University (Hsinchu), and honorary president of South China Institute of Software Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangdong, China.

More details about Dr. Ni could be found at: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~ni/