Haibin Zhu - E-CARGO and Role-Based Collaboration: Modeling and Solving Problems in the Complex World

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Dr. Haibin Zhu is a Full Professor and the Chair (July 2019June 2021) of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Founding Director of Collaborative Systems Laboratory, member of the University Budget Plan committee, Arts and Science Executive Committee, and the Research Committee, Nipissing University, Canada. He received a B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Institute of Engineering and Technology, China (1983), and M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in computer science from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China. He was a visiting professor and a special lecturer in the College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (19992002) and a lecturer, an associate professor and a full professor at NUDT (19882000). He has published or been accepted over 200 research works including 30 IEEE Transactions articles, five books, five book chapters, three journal issues, and three conference proceedings. He is the most productive author in the category of Collaboration https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=Collaboration.

He is a senior member of ACM, a full member of Sigma Xi, and a senior member of IEEE. He is serving as Associate Vice President, Systems Science and Engineering (SSE), and cochair of the technical committee of Distributed Intelligent Systems of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, member of the SSE Technical Activity Committee, the Conferences and Meetings Committee, and the Electronic Communications Subcommittee of IEEE SMC Society, Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE SMC Magazine, and IEEE Canada Review. He has been an active organizer for the annual IEEE Intl Conf. on SMC since 2003, as Special Session Chair, Tutorial Chair, Area CoChair, Social Media CoChair, Web CoChair, Poster CoChair, Session Chair, and Special Session Organizer. He is the Publication Chair for the 1st IEEE Intl Conf. of HumanMachine Systems, Rome, Italy (Online due to COVID19), 79 September 2020 and a Poster CoChair for the annual IEEE SMC Conference, Toronto, Canada (Online due to COVID19), 69 October 2020, was the Program Chair (PC) for 16th IEEE Intl Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Banff, AB, Canada, 811 May 2019. He is a PC Chair for 17th IEEE Intl Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Dalian, China, 68 May 2020 (postponed due to COVID19), and was a PC Chair for 17th IEEE Intl Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Whistler, BC, Canada, 2729 June 2013. He also served as PC members for 120+ academic conferences.

He is the founding researcher of RoleBased Collaboration and Adaptive Collaboration. He has offered over 70 invited talks including keynote and plenary talks on collaboration topics internationally, e.g. Canada, USA, China, UK, Germany, Turkey, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. His research has been being sponsored by NSERC, IBM, DRDC, and OPIC.

He is the receipt of the meritorious service award from IEEE SMC Society (2018), the chancellors award for excellence in research (2011) and two research achievement awards from Nipissing University (2006, 2012), the IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant Awards (2004, 2005), the Best Paper Award from the 11th ISPE Intl Conf. on Concurrent Engineering (ISPE/CE2004), the Educators Fellowship of OOPSLA03, a 2nd class National Award for Education Achievement (1997), and three 1st Class Ministerial Research Achievement Awards from China (1997, 1994, and 1991).