| Bio: | T. John Koo is Professor and Director of the Center for Embedded Software Systems, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Prof. Koo received the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, and the M.Phil. degree in Information Engineering and the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994 and 1992, respectively. Prof. Koo received the Nation Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2005 and the Distinguished M.Phil. Thesis Award of the Faculty of Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 1994. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and Sigma Xi.
From 1995 to 2002, he was the founder and project leader of the Berkeley Aerial Robot project. In 1998, he held a Consultant position at the Stanford Research Institute International, Menlo Park, CA. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. In 2001, he held a Research Specialist position in the Electronics Research Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley. He was a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. He was on the faculty of Vanderbilt University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) during 2003-2006. He was an Associated Faculty of the National Science Foundation ITR Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS). He was the Co-Director of the Tsinghua-STU Joint Laboratory on Future Internet Technologies and the Research Director of the Ministry of Education National Key Laboratory at Shantou University in China. He held a joint professorship in the Departments of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering and he was an Adjunct Professor and PhD Advisor in the Department of Mathematics at Shantou University. He was a Consultant of the ASM Pacific Technology Limited, Hong Kong, in 2007. Since June 2010, he has been a Consultant of the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI).
In US, Prof. Koo worked with major aircraft and automobiles companies and their suppliers on several projects including Information Technology Research (ITR), Software-Enabled Control (SEC), Model-Based Integration of Embedded Systems (MoBIES) with funding supported by NSF and DARPA. He has been invited to participate in several US/EU national strategic meetings on High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). His current research projects are supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation and Li Ka Shing Foundation. He has been a reviewer of NSF and Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. Prof. Koo has coauthored over 60 technical papers and book chapters.
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