Short Biography
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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 in Computer Science from the University
of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida) in 2003. Dr. Tran's interests are in the areas of
networking and distributed
systems, particularly in support of information systems that can scale
with both network size and data size. His current research projects are focused on data management and networking designs for
decentralized networks (e.g., P2P networks, sensor 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 grants 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, Guest-Editor for the Journal on Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS) and the Journal on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IJPCC), TPC Chair for IRSN 2009 and GridPeer 2009, TPC Vice-Chair for
AINA 2007, TPC member for 30+
international conferences, and referee and session chair for numerous
journals/conferences. He is a member of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE).