David Hung-Chang Du

Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

SHORT BIO

Dr. Du is currently a Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is the Center Director of a new established NSF multi-university I/UCRC Center on Intelligent Storage (joint with UC Santa Cruz). He was a Program Director (IPA) at National Science Foundation CISE/CNS Division from March 2006 to August 2008. At NSF, he was responsible for NeTS (Networking Research cluster) NOSS (Networks of Sensor Systems) Program and worked with two other colleagues, Karl Levitt and Ralph Wachter, on Cyber Trust (Internet Security) Program. In 2008 he was also assigned to CSR (Computer System Research) Cluster. Dr. Du receives a B.S degree in Mathematics from National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan) in 1974 and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Washington (Seattle) in 1980 and 1981 respectively. He joined University of Minnesota as a faculty since 1981.

Research Expertise: Dr. Du’s current research focuses on intelligent storage systems, multimedia computing, sensor networks and cyber physical systems. He has had research in high-speed networking, database design, and CAD for VLSI circuits. He has authored and co-authored over 200 technical papers including 95 referred journal publications in these research areas. He has graduated 49 Ph.D. and 80 M.S. students in the last 25 years. His research in intelligent storage systems focus on new storage architecture, that can handle semantic data and adaptive to long-term data preservation, and efficient power management for data centers. His research in multimedia computing includes video-on-demand server architecture, video and audio synchronization techniques, and efficient large scale video streaming over Internet. His research in sensor networks and cyber physical systems focuses on vehicle-to-vehicle communications, future intelligent transportation systems, next generation of air-transportation systems and security and privacy issues for cyber physical systems. His research in CAD includes physical layout, timing verification and delay fault testing for high-speed and very large scale circuits. His research in high-speed networking includes heterogeneous high-performance computing over high-speed networks, quality of service, parallel data archive for high-performance computing, and optical networks.

Professional Activities and Awards: Dr. Du is an IEEE Fellow (since 1998) and a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. He is currently a member of Advisory Committee to Institute of Information Science, Academic Sinica and a member of International Advisory Board to Korean Journal of Computer Science and Engineering. He was an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1993 to 1998. He was the US WEST Chair Professor at the University of Minnesota from 1994 to 2000. He is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of several international journals. He has also served as Conference Chair and Program Committee Chair for several conferences in multimedia, networking security and database areas. Most recently, he is the General Chair for IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium (Oakland, California) 2009 and Program Committee Co-Chair for International Conference on Parallel Processing 2009. He has had research grants from the National Science Foundation, DARPA, ONR, DOE and companies like 3M, Northern Telecom, Unisys, IBM, Seagate Technology, US WEST, Honeywell, Sun Micro, Intel, Cisco and etc.

Industrial Experiences: Dr. Du has served as a consultant to a number of companies in the past, including: Honeywell, NCR, Unisys, 3M and IXMICRO. In 1996, he spent 6 months in the Computer Communications Lab (CCL) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. His major function at CCL/ITRI was to plan several long term (5-year) R&D projects funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In 1998, he joined IXMICRO as the Vice President of Research and Development for one year. He led a team of 30+ engineers to develop products such as ATM network interface cards, ATM switches, Fast Ethernet switches, wireless mice, ADSL modems, and streaming video servers. He has co-founded a startup company called Streaming21 and also helped to establish another startup company called Baynacre with his former students. He has served as Chairman and CEO for Streaming21 in 2000 and 2001. During this period, he helped to raise $18M funds from VCs for Streaming21 and managed 60+ employees. Both companies are currently located in San Jose, California. Streaming21 is focused on developing streaming video products for carrier and entertainment markets. Baynacre is focused on static timing analysis software tools for nano-technology.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Degree

Institution

Year Completed

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Washington (Seattle)

1981

M.S. in Computer Science

University of Washington (Seattle)

1980

B.S. in Mathematics

National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan)

1974

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Position

Employer

Period

Program Director

National Science Foundation CISE/CNS

March 2006 - Present

Professor

University of Minnesota

1991 - Present

Chairman and CEO

Streaming21

2000 - 2001

US WEST Chair Professor

University of Minnesota

1994 - 2000

Vice President of Engineering

3CX, San Jose, California

Jan. 1998 – Dec. 1998

Senior Consultant

ITRI (Taiwan)

June 1996 – Dec. 1996

Associate Professor

University of Minnesota

1987 - 1991

Assistant Professor

University of Minnesota

1981 - 1986

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Multimedia Computing
Mass Storage Systems
High-Speed Networks
Sensor Networks
Cyber Security
Distance Education
Database Design
Parallel/Distributed Architectures/Systems
CAD for VLSI Circuits

 Professional Activities

 Grants

 Research Accomplishments

 Publications

 Student Supervision

Please mail your suggestions to du@cs.umn.edu