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Duc A. Tran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he leads the Network Information Systems Laboratory (NISLab). He received a PhD degree from the University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida). Dr. Tran's general interests are in the areas of networking and distributed systems. His current research projects are focused on data management and networking designs for decentralized networks such as P2P networks,  sensor networks, and disruption-tolerant networks. Earlier, he had worked extensively on multimedia systems, specializing in scalable overlay techniques for multimedia multicast. The results of his work have led to research awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a Best Paper Award at ICCCN 2008, and a Best Paper Recognition at DaWak 1999. Also, his contribution on P2P streaming is widely-cited in this area (approaching 600 citations according to Google Scholar).

Dr. Tran has engaged in many professional activities, serving as a Review Panelist for the NSF, Editorial Board member for the Journal on Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems (2010-date) and ISRN Communications Journal (2010-date),  Guest-Editor for the Journal on Pervasive Computing and Communications (2009), TPC Co-Chair for CCNet (2010, 2011), GridPeer (2009, 2010, 2011), and IRSN 2009, TPC Vice-Chair for AINA 2007, TPC member for 40+ international conferences, and referee and session chair for numerous journals/conferences. 

Dr. Tran is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Professional Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).