Wu Jianping Elected Chairman of APAN-Tsinghua University

By Li Han

Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center

Tsinghua Professor Wu Jianping, recently elected Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), officially assumed his new post on August 31, 2007. This is the first time a Chinese scientist has become chairman of an international internet academic organization.

APAN, a non-profit international consortium established on June 3, 1997, was designed and created as a high-performance network for research and development of advanced next generation applications and services. APAN provides an advanced networking environment for the research and education community in the Asia-Pacific region and promotes global collaboration.

Wu Jianping has been a professor of Computer Science at Tsinghua University Since 1993. He is also a director of Network Research Center at Tsinghua University. From 1994, he has been in charge of China Education and Research Network (CERNET) which is the largest academic network in China as a director of both Network Center and Technical Board. From 1999, he has been in charge of NSFCNET which is the first research network test bed forward to next generation Internet research. He is a member of Information Advisory Committee, Office of National Information Infrastructure, Secretariat of State Council of China, a member of Expert Committee for Information of the State High Technology 863 Project, and a vice president of Internet Society of China (ISC) . He was also vice chair of APAN and chair of APAN-CN. He was an AC of ICANN-ASO from 1999 to 2001. He had served as chairman or program committee member for many international conferences, such as chairman of CANS'1999-2002 and FORTE/PSTV'1999, and program committee member of INFOCOM'2002, ICNP'2001, FORTE/PSTV'1995-2002, and Co-chair of Program Committee of IEEE ICCNMC’2003 and IWCTS'1995-2002 etc. He is Co-chair of Program Committee of IEEE ICDCS'2008, Co-chair of IEEE ICNP'2007. His area of specialization includes high speed computer network, Internet and its applications, network protocol testing and formal method.