Hong Shen

Mr Hong Shen

Professor

School of Computer Science

Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Professor Hong Shen's research interests include parallel and distributed computing, algorithms, privacy and security, data mining, high performance networks.

Main on-going research projects include the following lists: 

•   Privacy Preserving Computing (cloud, IoT, mobile devices, data mining, traffic classification)

•   Network Optimisation (path, topology, data distribution, barrier coverage)

•   Resource Allocation (cloud, data centre networks)

•   Social Networks (IR, diversified search, flow analysis)

•   Big Data Computing (stream data analysis, attribute reduction)

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  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2006 Professor of Computer Science University of Adelaide, Adelaide
    2001 - 2006 Professor and Head of Computer Networks Laboratory Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa
    2000 - 2001 Professor of Computer Science Griffith University
    1998 - 2000 Associate Professor Griffith University
    1995 - 1997 Senior Lecturer Griffith University
    1992 - 1994 Lecturer Griffith University
    1991 - 1992 Assistant Professor Åbo Akademi University
    1990 - 1991 Research Fellow Åbo Akademi University, Turku
    1988 - 1990 Research Assistant Åbo Akademi University, Turku

  • Awards and Achievements
    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2008 Achievement Sky-sea Scholar Dalian University of Technology — —
    2005 Research Award Best Paper Award, ICCNMC 2005 IEEE Computer Society — —
    2005 Award Hundred Talents Chinese Academy of Sciences China —
    2004 Achievement Outstanding Scholar — — —
    2003 Achievement Outstanding Scholar Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology — —
    2002 Research Award Outstanding Paper Award, HPSR2002 — — —
    1996 Achievement Outstanding Achievement Griffith University — —
    1994 Achievement Outstanding Achievement Griffith University — —

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    1988 - 1991 Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland Ph.D
    1987 - 1988 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei China Ph.D study
    1984 - 1987 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei China M. Eng.
    1980 - 1984 University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing China B. Eng. (Hons).

  • Certifications
    Date Title Institution name Country
    2010 China National Endowed Expert China Central Government —

  • Research Interests
    Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity Computation Theory & Mathematics Computer Communications Networks Computer System Security Distributed Computing

Project name

Funding Party

Grant amount

period

Effective Privacy-Preserving Traffic Classification in Large Networks (CI)

Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project

AUD340,000

2015-2017

Effective Video Streaming in Cloud Environments (CI)

National Science Foundation of China

CNY560,000

2012-2015

Big Data Processing for Smart Active Grid (Founding Project Leader)

 

China Bureau for Foreign Experts & Ministry Education

CNY4.5million

2014-2018

Smart Data Management for Safety Monitoring and Control in High-Speed Rail Traffic Systems (CI)

Central Funding for Fundament Research (China)

CNY500,000

2012-2014

Intelligent Data Analysis for Urban Rail Transportation Safety (CI)

National Key Laboratory Research Funding

CNY150,000

2012-2013

Privacy Preserving Computation in Multi-Party Resource Sharing (CI)

Central Funding for Fundament Research

CNY500,000

2011-2013

Network Management in a World of Secrets (with M. Roughan)

Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project

AUD315,000

2009-2011

Robust Multimedia Communication in Wireless Environments (CI)

National Science Foundation of China

CNY260,000

2008-2010

Enabling Technologies for Evolving and Trustworthy E-society (Project Stream Leader)

JSPS Center of Excellence

 

JPY6 billion

2005-2010

Optimizing Performance of Mobile Agents for e-Applications in Realistic Networks (CI)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

JPY14,500,000

2006-2008

Managing Mobile Agents in Agent-Driven Networks

Ministry of Education grant for Research in Special Research Domains

JPY5,800,000

2003

Design and Analysis of Scalable Web Servers

 

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

JPY13,600,000

2002-2004

Resource Management in Grid Environment

 

JAIST International Joint Research Grant

JPY1,350,000

2002-2003

Undergraduate courses taught

  1. Data structures and Algorithms (2nd year, Griffith & UGC);
  2. Databases and Information Systems (2nd year, Adelaide)
  3. Operating Systems (3rd year, Adelaide, NAACE (Singapore), Griffith, ÅA, WSU, SPSU & UGC);
  4. Computer Networks (3rd year, Griffith, HKBU & UGC);
  5. Compilers (3rd year, UGC);
  6. Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms (4th year, ÅA);
  7. Parallel Processes (3rd year, Griffith);
  8. Parallel and Distributed Computing (3rd year, Griffith, SYSU).

Postgraduate courses taught

  1. Distributed Databases and Data Mining (JAIST, Adelaide, BJTU);
  2. Distributed and High Performance Computing (Adelaide, Tsinghua, BJTU)
  3. Wireless Communications and Networking (USTC);
  4. High Performance Networking (JAIST)
  5. Advanced Topics on Parallel Computing (Griffith);
  6. Advanced Topics on Parallel Algorithms (invited lectures at Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.);
  7. Advanced Topics on Parallel and Distributed Computing (invited lecture at Chinese University of Hong Kong);
  8. Advanced Operating Systems (invited lectures at Wayne State University);
  9. Advanced Topics on Data Mining (invited lecture at University of Montreal);
  10. Non-Numeric Parallel Algorithms (part, USTC);
  11. Computational Aspects of VLSI (part, USTC).
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  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2018 Principal Supervisor Efficient Methods for Energy Replenishment and Data Gathering in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Raveenpal Kaur
    2016 Principal Supervisor Deceptive opinion spam detection: Detecting fake online reviews and reviewers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zhigang Lu

  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Community Detection in Complex Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ba Dung Le
    2013 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Privacy Preserving Neighbourhood-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Zhigang Lu
    2012 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Correlation Management and Search for the Internet of Things Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ali Shemshadi
    2010 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Biomedical Literature Mining Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mario Fruzangohar
    2010 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Credibility-based Trust Management and Discovery of Cloud Services Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Talal Hashem H Noor
    2009 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Approximation Algorithms for Resource Allocation Optimization Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Kewen Liao
    2009 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Classifying and Clustering the Web of Things Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sujith Samuel Mathew .
    2008 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Enabling Traceability in Large-Scale RFID Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yanbo Wu
    2007 - 2009 Principal Supervisor Efficient Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Haibo Zhang
    2007 - 2008 Principal Supervisor Efficient Embedding of Meshes and Hypercubes on a Group of Future Network Architectures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yawen Chen
    2007 - 2009 Principal Supervisor Replica Placement Algorithms for Efficient Internet Content Delivery Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Shihong Xu
    2007 - 2011 Principal Supervisor Preserving Privacy in Data Publishing and Analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yi Li
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  • Board Memberships
    Date Role Board name Institution name Country
    2016 - ongoing Board Member IEEE Technical Committee for Parallel Processing IEEE Computer Society —
    1996 - ongoing Board Member IEEE Task Force for Cluster Computing IEEE Computer Society —

  • Committee Memberships
    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2008 - ongoing Chair Parallel Algorithms, Architectures and Programming Conference — —
    2000 - ongoing Chair Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Technologies Conference IEEE Technical Co-sponsorship —

  • Editorial Boards
    Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
    2016 - ongoing Associate Editor Computers and Electrical Engineering — —
    2014 - ongoing Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing — —
    2013 - 2015 Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems — —
    2012 - ongoing Associate Editor Human Centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer Open) — —
    2008 - 2014 Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Computers — —
    2008 - 2010 Associate Editor Frontiers of Computer Science in China (Springer) — —
    2008 - 2010 Associate Editor Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Springer) — —
    2003 - 2013 Board Member Int. J. of High Performance Computing and Networking (Inderscience Pub., UK) — —
    2003 - 2007 Board Member Journal of Interconnection Networks (World Scientific) — —
    1999 - 2015 Board Member Journal of Supercomputing — —
    1998 - 2005 Editor Parallel and Distributed Computing Practice — —
    1997 - 2005 Board Member Int. J. Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks and Applications (IASTED Pub.) — —
  • Position: Professor
  • Phone: 83135592
  • Email: hong.shen@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor 4
  • Room: 4 18
  • Org Unit: School of Computer Science
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