Biography
Chunming Rong received his BSc, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Bergen in Norway in 1995, 1995 and 1998, respectively. Between 1995 and 1998, he was a research fellow at the University of Bergen. Between 2001 and 2003, he was a PostDoc researcher funded by Simula Research Laboratory. Currently, he is a Professor and director of the Center of IP-based Services Innovation (CIPSI) at the University of Stavanger. Between 2005 and 2009, he served also as an adjunct Professor at the University Graduate Centre / University of Oslo. His research interests include security and privacy, scalable and data-intensive computing, mobile computing, and semantic technology.
He received ConocoPhilips Communication Award (Norway) in 2007. His paper was also awarded as Editor's Choice 1999 by the Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier). He is an associate editor for International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (IJCSA), and served in the editorial board for International Journal of Smart Home (IJSH) since 2007, and International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC) between 2003 and 2006. He served as program chair (2007, Canada) and general chair (2008) of the IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SSNDS). For International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), he was award chair in 2007 (Hong Kong), general chair in 2008 (Norway) and award chair in 2009 (Australia). He was general chair of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2008) in Norway. Prof. Rong is founder and chairman of the Cloud Computing Association (CloudCom) and its associated conference and workshop series.
Prof. Rong was chairman of the Association of the Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK) in 2005-2007, and is board member of the Norwegian Information Security Network (NISNet) for 2007-2011, and member of the Norwegian National Academic Council for Computer Science. He was also a member of the board for the "ICT Security and Vulnerability (IKT-SoS)" Program at the Research Council of Norway.
To bridge industrial collaborations, he currently serves in the workgroup for Information Security in Integrated Operation at the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF). He is also appointed as the POSC Caesar Association (PCA) Research Coordinator for China.
He co-authored a book titled "Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" published by John Wiley & Sons in 2009.