Professor Chunming Rong

We’d like to extend a welcome to Professor Chunming Rong to the GSENetwork family!

Prof. Rong brings with him an illustrious career in research and innovation in the areas of blockchain, security and privacy, cloud computing and data science where he has had extensive experience managing large-scale R&D projects that have been funded by both industry and funding agencies in Norway and EU.

Prof. Rong wears an impressive number of hats in the field of technological innovation and excellence. He currently serves in the following positions in IEEE, the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity:

Chair of IEEE Computer Society on Blockchain

Co-chair of IEEE Blockchain

Chair of IEEE Cloud Computing

Chair of Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

IEEE is the trusted voice for engineering, computing and technology information around the globe, publishing a third of the world’s technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. There are currently over 421,000 IEEE members in over 160 countries!

Aside from IEEE, Prof. Rong is also the Chairman of the Board at DataUnitoR, a research, technology and development company which focuses on data science and applications including data engineering, data management, data analytics, security and privacy. At the same time, he is the Head of Center for IP-based Service Innovation (CIPSI) at University of Stavanger (UiS), ranked 6th amongst Norway’s universities. CIPSI’s aim is to promote cross-fertilization between several research fields to facilitate design and delivery of large-scale and complex IP-based services required by many application areas.

Prof. Rong’s list of achievements doesn’t stop here.

He is a visiting chair professor at Tsinghua University, one of the best universities in the world known for engineering and computer programs.

He has been a guest professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and Sun-Yat Sen University since 2008 and 2009 respectively.

From 2005 to 2009, Prof. Rong was the Adjunct Professor at University of Oslo, the top university in Norway

From 2009 to 2010, he was a visiting professor at Stanford University, one of the world’s leading teaching and research institutions and top 3 universities in US and the world

Amidst all his career achievements, Prof. Rong also found time to co-found Cloud Computing Association and serves as Chairman, co-authored a book titled “Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks in 2009, became co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cloud Computing by Springer. In addition, he was awarded Editor’s Choice in Discrete Mathematics in 1999.

We’re incredibly honoured to have Prof. Rong on board as one of our advisors. His outstanding achievements and extensive experience will definitely steer us on the right path to build GSENetwork.

Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Prof. Rong!