College Teaching Staff
Professor LUI John

John C.S. LUI (呂自成) was born in Hong Kong and is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at CUHK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. After his graduation, he joined the IBM Almaden Research Laboratory/ San Jose Laboratory and participated in various research and development projects on file systems and parallel I/O architectures. He later joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK.

He has been a visiting professor in computer science departments at UCLA, Columbia University, University of Maryland at College Park, Purdue University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Universit degli Studi di Torino in Italy. His current research interests are in communication networks, network/ system security (e.g. cloud security, mobile security, etc.), network economics, network sciences (e.g. online social networks, information spreading, etc.), cloud computing, large-scale distributed systems and performance evaluation theory.

John received various departmental teaching awards and the CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award. He is a co-recipient of the IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2005 and IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2006 Best Student Paper Awards. He is an elected member of the IFIP WG 7.3, Fellow of ACM, Fellow of IEEE, Senior Research Fellow of Croucher Foundation. His personal interests include films and general reading.

More information can be found on the departmental webpage.