Lionel Ming-Shuan

NI

倪明選

Professor Lionel M. Ni assumed the role of the President Designate of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) on 1 June 2021. He first joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in July 2002 and served in various capacities including Chair Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, and Special Assistant to the President. In January 2015, he became the Vice Rector (Academic Affairs) and Chair Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Macau. He rejoined HKUST as Provost and Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in May 2019.

Professor Ni earned his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1980. He was Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (1981 to 2002), the Microelectronic Systems Architecture program director at US National Science Foundation (1995-1996) and co-founder and CEO of CC&T Technologies, Inc., Michigan (1998-2001), and the Chief Scientist of the China’s National 973 Program on Wireless Sensor Networks (2006 to 2011).

Professor Ni’s research publications have received strong support with over 37,000 citations on Google Scholar. The winner of eight best paper awards, he has multiple achievements including ownership of 28 US/China patents and having supervised 73 PhD students

A Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, Professor Ni won the Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China Computer Federation in 2009, the First Class Award in Natural Sciences from the Ministry of Education, China in 2010, the Second Class Award in Natural Sciences for Research Excellence from the State Council, China in 2011, and the First Class Award in Science and Technology from the Guangdong Province in 2014.

倪明選教授於2021年6月1日出任香港科技大學（廣州）候任校長。他於2002年7月加入香港科技大學並擔任多個職位，包括計算機科學及工程系主任與講座教授、霍英東研究院院長，以及校長特別助理。在2015年1月，倪教授獲聘任為澳門大學學術副校長、電腦及資訊科學系講座教授。倪教授於2019年5月重返香港科技大學出任首席副校長、計算機科學及工程系講座教授。 

倪教授於1980年獲得美國普渡大學電機工程博士學位。他曾任密歇根州立大學計算機科學與工程系教授 (1981-2002)、美國國家科學基金會微電子系統結構項目主任（1995-1996）、CC&T技術公司聯合創辦人暨執行長（1998-2001），及中國國家重點基礎研究發展計劃（973計劃）中關於無線傳感網絡的基礎理論及關鍵技術研究項目之首席科學家（2006-2011）。

倪教授的學術著作大多發表在一流的學術期刊或會議，其著作被引用次數逾37,000次（據Google Scholar）。作為8個國際會議最佳論文獎的得主，他亦擁有28個美國／中國授權的專利，並曾指導畢業73名博士。

倪教授為電機及電子工程師學會(IEEE)终身會士，並榮獲中國計算機學會所授予的海外傑出貢獻獎（2009）、中國教育部所頒發的自然科學一等獎（2010）、中國國務院所頒發的國家自然科學二等獎（2011），以及廣東省頒發的科學技術一等奬（2014）。

Books 學術著作 

	Interconnection Networks:An Engineering Approach; Jose Duato, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Lionel Ni; first edition by IEEE Computer Society Press in 1997 and second edition by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers in 2002. (Google Citation: 3,075)
	Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing, by Pei Zheng Lionel Ni. Morgan Kaufmann. 2005 Book, 2006
	Professional Microsoft Smartphone Programming, by Baijian Yan, Pei Zheng, Lionel M. Ni. Wrox Press, 2007.

Top 10 Highly Cited Publications (According to Google Scholar, April 25, 2021)

1. L.M. Ni, Y. Liu. Y.C. Lau and A.P. Patil, “LANDMARC: Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID,” In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2003), Dallas, Texas, March 2003. (Google Citation: 3,674)
2. L. M. Ni and P. K. McKinley, “A survey of wormhole-routing techniques in direct networks,” in IEEE Computer, pp. 62-76, Feb. 1993. (Google Citation: 1,922)
3. X. Xiao and L.M. Ni, “Internet QoS: A Big Picture,” IEEE Network, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 8-18, March 1999. (Google Citation: 1,439)
4. C. J. Glass and L. M. Ni, “The turn model for adaptive routing,” in Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 278-287, May 1992, also appeared in Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 874-902, September 1994. (Google Citation: 1,282+550=1,832).
5. X. Xiao and L.M. Ni, “Traffic Engineering with MPLS in the Internet,” in IEEE Network, March/April 2000. (Google Citation: 699)
6. Yuxi Wang, Kaishun Wu, Lionel M. Ni, “WiFall: Device-free Fall Detection by Wireless Networks”, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 581-594, Feb. 2017. (Google Citation: 648)
7. F. Zhu, M. Mutka and L.M. Ni, “Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments,” in IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 81-90, October/December 2005. (Google Citation: 591)
8. Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni and Dafu Deng, “AnySee: Scalable Live Streaming Service Based on Inter-Overlay Optimization”, in Proceedings of INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona Spain, April 2006. (Google Citation: 467)
9. P. K. McKinley, H. Xu, A. H. Esfahanian and L. M. Ni, “Unicast-based multicast communication in wormhole-routed networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 1252-1265, Dec. 1994. (Google Citation: 440)
10. Kaishun Wu, Jiang Xiao, Youwen Yi, Dihu Chen, Xiaonan Luo and Lionel M. Ni, “CSI-based Indoor Localization,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 24, Issue 7, pp. 1300-1309, July 2012. (Google Citation: 392)