Hui Lei

Hui Lei is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he manages the Messaging and Event Systems department. He is a past Chair of the Mobile Computing Professional Interests Community at IBM Research, and a past Strategy Consultant for IBM's world-wide research in Distributed Computing and Programming Models and Tools. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an M.S. from Courant Institute, New York University, and a B.S. from Sun Yat-sen University; all in Computer Science. Prior to his doctoral career, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Syncsort Inc.

Hui Lei's research has spanned the areas of application messaging, event processing, mobile computing, business process management, and service-oriented computing, with an emphasis on software infrastructure and data management issues. As an inventive experimental computer scientist, he enjoys conceiving innovative ideas and validating those ideas via system design, implementation, deployment and evaluation. His work has been incorporated into several products, including IBM's WebSphere Business Monitor™, WebSphere Business Modeler™, WebSphere Everyplace Access™, and Mobile File Sync™. His work has been recognized as IBM Research Accomplishments and an IBM Research Outstanding Accomplishment. His work has also been featured in news media such as New Scientist and ACM TechNews. He is a recipient of IBM's Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and a co-inventor of over thirty issued or pending patents.

An active member of the research community at large, Dr. Hui Lei 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.

Dr. Lei holds a Visiting Professor appointment at Sun Yat-sen University.