Professor Wu Dapeng is currently Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Centre for Complexity and Complex Networks of City University of Hong Kong. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, the United States (US), in 2003.
Professor Wu was on the faculty of the US’s University of Florida from 2003 to 2022, and was the Director of the US’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Centre for Big Learning. His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, network science, communications, signal processing, computer vision, smart grid, and information and network security. He received the University of Florida Term Professorship Award in 2017, the University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award, and the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award in 2009, the ONR Young Investigator Program Award in 2008, the NSF CAREER Award in 2007, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award for the Year 2001. He also received the Best Paper Awards in IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, and the International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks 2006.
He has served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Editor-at-Large for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advances in Multimedia, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. He has served as Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012. He is also an IEEE Fellow, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.