Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang's Short Bio

Dr. Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang is a Research Staff Member and the founding chair of Services Computing PIC (Professional Interest Community) at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is part of the Business Informatics research team with a focus on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services for Industry Solutions & Business Performance Management Services. He has 25 issued patents in lots of countries. Meanwhile, he has other more than 30 patent applications in the areas of e-commerce, Web services, rich media, data management, and information appliances, and he has published more than 80 technical papers in the Journals, Books and Conference Proceedings. He was presented with the "Best Paper Award" of The International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing in 1995 and the IBM "Outstanding Technical Achievement Award" for HotMedia Architecture in 1999. IBM HotMedia was awarded the CNET/PC Expo's "Best of Show Software Award" in 2000. He received IBM Seventh Plateau Creative Contribution Award in 2003. He was also presented with “The Who's Who New Century Medal” in 2000. Recently, he was presented with “The Outstanding Achievement Award” by the World Academy of Sciences in 2003 for his research contribution to the field of Web services and to the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’03).

Dr. Zhang and his team designed and developed a demonstration system of Web services and Web Services Integration for IBM Dynamic e-Business launch event in 2001. In 2001, as the lead researcher and architect of Web services based e-business solutions, Dr. Zhang and his team created the first federated Web services discovery technology, Business Explorer for Web Services (BE4WS). In 2002, Dr. Zhang and his team created the first business requirements driven and services-oriented business process composition technology (WSOM: Web Services Outsourcing Manager) based on discovery and global service selection algorithm. All these two technologies have been published on IBM alphaWorks. Then in 2002, as the lead author, Dr. Zhang was invited to write the first two articles on Grid Computing for IBM developerWorks. In these articles, Dr. Zhang proposed the idea of “Business Grid’ “Grid Solution Sphere” solution framework for creating Grid solutions.

Dr. Zhang is the Founding General Chair of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’03) and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR). He has been invited to be the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). He was the Program Co-Chair of the 2003 IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC’03).

Dr. Zhang is an IEEE Senior Member, Founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Steering Committee (a.k.a. Technical Community) for Services Computing (TSC-SC, http://tab.computer.org/tcsc), and Vice Chair for communications for IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce. Currently, Liang-Jie is the General Chair of the 2004 IEEE Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), General Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2004), and General Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004). At the same time, Dr. Zhang was invited to chair the 2004 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2004). As the representative of IEEE, Dr. Zhang is a member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Web Services Study Group.

Liang-Jie Zhang received a B.S. in EE at Xidian University in 1990 and then at Xi'an Jiaotong University an M.S. in EE in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Patten Recognition and Intelligent Control in 1996 at Tsinghua University. Since then he has been working on information technology and e-business solutions.