About me
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA
Phone: (914)784-7625
Email: hlei AT us DOT ibm DOT com
Research lab: Watson Research Center
Hui Lei is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and currently serves as the Strategy Consultant for two research areas - distributed computing and programming models & tools. He has been conducting research in mobile computing, e-business, and service-oriented computing, with an emphasis on software infrastructure and data management issues. As an experimental computer scientist, he focuses his work on inventing new ideas and validating those ideas via system design, implementation, measurement and deployment. His work has been incorporated into several products, including IBM's Websphere Business Monitor™, Websphere Business Modeler™, Websphere Everyplace Access™, and Mobile File Sync™. In terms of work style, he finds great inspiration in Buckminster Fuller's philosophy: "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. "
Hui Lei joined IBM Research in 1998, after he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. He also received an M.S. from Courant Institute, New York University, and a B.S. from Sun Yat-Sen University; both in Computer Science. Prior to his doctoral career, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Syncsort Inc.
Dr. Lei is a past chair of the Mobile Computing Professional Interests Community at IBM Research. He has served as conference co-chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2004), two-time program co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005 and ICEBE 2007), and program co-chair of the Ninth International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2008), the Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2007) and the Second ACM International Workshop on Mobile Commerce (WMC 2002). He has also served as a guest editor of IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, and ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). He has participated in numerous international conferences as an organizing committee member, program committee member, keynote speaker, or panel chair. He is a frequent panelist or proposal reviewer for govenment agencies, including the National Science Foundation of the United States and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.
Last updated 4 Jan 2008