HAI JIN is a professor of computer science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He holds both a B.A. and M.S. degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in electrical and electronics engineering from the same University. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in addition to being a visiting scholar at the Internet and Cluster Computing Laboratory at the University of Southern California. Dr. Jin has coauthored three books and published more than 50 papers in international journals