Dr. Jerry Chou is a Distinguished Professor at the Computer Science Department, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). He completed his PhD studies in CSE at the UCSD in 2009 and worked in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for a year before joining NTHU in 2011 as an assistant professor. His research interests are in the broad area of distributed systems including high-performance computing, cloud/edge computing, parallel computing, and data management. Dr. Chou has published over 50 papers in various journals and top conferences and serves as a committee member for several of them, including HPDC, Supercomputing, HPCAsia, etc.