Biography – Ka Lok Man

Ka Lok Man holds a Dr. Eng. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a PhD in Computer Science from Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He has several years of industrial experience in integrated circuit design and has been involved in many industry-oriented research projects in Microelectronics and Computer Science, many of them in cooperation with STMicroelectronics, Synopsys and LG. He has a good publication record and to date has more than 200 published academic articles including books, edited books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

Over the years, he has received several best paper awards at international conferences, research awards and grants from the Italian government, Portuguese Research Council, Korean Research Council, Lithuanian Research Council, IEEE, and industry groups. He has been a committee member, reviewer, session chair, and workshop organizer of different IEEE, IASTED, FTRA and IAENG conferences. He is also the editor-in-chief/editor of over 50 international scientific and engineering journals.

Ka Lok Man is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at the ASIC Design Lab, Myongji University (South Korea), Adjunct Research Scientist at the Baltic Institute of Advanced Technologies (Lithuania), External PhD Examiner in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian School of Mines (India), and Adjunct Research Professor in the Faculty of Computer Engineering at the Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics (Ukraine).

Finally, he has established the Wireless Sensor Network Laboratory (http://datics.nesea-conference.org/WSN-Lab) of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as well as of the international DATICS (Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems) Research Group (http://datics.org).