Director of Distributed Real-time Intelligent Systems Labotory (DRISL)
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 S. Morgan St., Rm 1120 SEO Chicago, IL 60607
e-mail tsai@cs.uic.edu
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is also the Director of the Distributed Real-Time Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He was a Visiting Computer Scientist in the U.S. Air Force Rome Laboratory and is a Senior Research Fellow of IC2 at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin. His current research interests include sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, services computing, intrusion detection, bioinformatics, knowledge-based software engineering, formal modeling and verification, distributed real-time systems, multimedia systems, and intelligent agents. His research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, USAF Rome Laboratory, Department of Defense, Army Research Laboratory, Motorola, Fujitsu, and Gtech.. He coauthored Knowledge-Based Software Development for Real-Time Distributed Systems (World Scientific, 1993), Distributed Real-Time Systems (Wiley, 1996), Compositional Verification of Concurrent and Real-Time Systems (Kluwer Academics Publishers, 2002), Security Modeling and Analysis of Mobile Agent Systems (Imperial College Press, 2006), and coedited Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Real-Time Systems (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995), Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering (WSP, 2005), Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (Springer, 2006) . He chaired the IEEE/CS Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing 2000-2003, served on the steering committee of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2000-2003, was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1994-1999 and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He served as the Conference Co-Chair of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, the 1st IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, and the 3rd IFIP International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. He is currently the CoEditor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. He has also served on the DARPA ISAT working group and on the review panel for NSF and NIH. He was an IEEE Distinguished Speaker, and received an Engineering Foundation Research Award from the IEEE and the Engineering Foundation Society, a University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois Foundation, an IEEE Technical Achievement Award and an IEEE Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Computer Society . He is a Fellow of the IEEE , the AAAS, and the SDPS.
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