Sharing Experiences on International Academic Services and Research

IEEE Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer,
ONF Research Associate,
Distinguished Professor of National Chiao Tung University

Abstract:

Just like doing campus academic services on top of teaching and research obligations, a researcher could volunteer to international academic services after years of research, which gains one visibility and opportunities to co-work in all dimensions with other researchers. These services and co-work experiences could in-turn inspire and elevate one’s future research. But they were seldom discussed publicly in the society. In this talk, based on my 22 years of research and 7 years of international academic services, I’d share my personal humble viewpoints on why, what, when, and how of international academic services and research. The 1st part of the talk reviews incentives and logistics behind serving journal editorial boards, special issues, conference program committees, society technical committees, and other positions. Whether waiting to be invited or to volunteer oneself is compared. The 2nd part first compares research (big R or small r) and development (big D or small d), in academic (with Rd) and industry (with rD), to inspect their motivation. Then I compare the “criteria of survival” and “impacts of lifetime”, where the former and the latter are like basketball games and football games, respectively. In the long run, research should be campaigned as a football game instead of a basketball game. Next I share some logistics on (1) evolving independent work model to co-work model, (2) managing research processes from proposals to publications, (3) how to graduate your students on time, and (4) how to campaign for IEEE Fellow. At the end, I list lessons and skills I’ve learned so far and those yet to be learned by me.

Bio:

YING-DAR LIN is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1993. He served as the CEO of Telecom Technology Center in Taipei during 2010-2011 and a visiting scholar at Cisco Systems in San Jose during 2007–2008. Since 2002, he has been the founder and director of Network Benchmarking Lab (NBL, www.nbl.org.tw), which reviews network products with real traffic. NBL recently became an approved test lab of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). He also cofounded L7 Networks Inc. in 2002, which was later acquired by D-Link Corp. His research interests include design, analysis, implementation, and benchmarking of network protocols and algorithms, quality of services, network security, deep packet inspection, wireless communications, embedded hardware/software co-design, and recently software defined networking. His work on “multi-hop cellular” was the first along this line, and has been cited over 670 times and standardized into IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.15.5, WiMAX IEEE 802.16j, and 3GPP LTE-Advanced. He is an IEEE Fellow (class of 2013), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2014&2015), and a Research Associate of ONF. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Computer (Associate Editor-in-Chief), IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine - Network Testing Series, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Letters, Computer Communications, Computer Networks, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, and IEICE Transactions on Communications. He has guest edited several Special Issues in IEEE journals and magazines, and co-chaired symposia at IEEE Globecom’13 and IEEE ICC’15. He published a textbook, Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach (www.mhhe.com/lin), with Ren-Hung Hwang and Fred Baker (McGraw-Hill, 2011). It is the first text that interleaves open source implementation examples with protocol design descriptions to bridge the gap between design and implementation.